# Dissecting corpses eats stamina like crazy, even caused pain, although minimal

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**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [May 3, 2020, 4:16pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/dissecting-corpses-eats-stamina-like-crazy-even-caused-pain-although-minimal/23524 "2020-05-03T16:16:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![draghi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/draghi/32/11781_2.png) [@draghi](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/draghi)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2020, 4:16pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/dissecting-corpses-eats-stamina-like-crazy-even-caused-pain-although-minimal/23524/1 "2020-05-03T16:16:09Z")

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I don’t think dissecting something is really such a physically intense task as to consume stamina. Perhaps this was unintended?

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**Author:** ![Ragno](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/ragno/32/5935_2.png) [@Ragno](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Ragno)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2020, 6:09pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/dissecting-corpses-eats-stamina-like-crazy-even-caused-pain-although-minimal/23524/2 "2020-05-03T18:09:15Z")

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Just to clarify, it was one corpse?, and what size did it have?, and i think is a bug, since when you drop to 0 stamina, the game automatically stops the butchering to get to half stamina again

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**Author:** ![draghi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/draghi/32/11781_2.png) [@draghi](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/draghi)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2020, 6:14pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/dissecting-corpses-eats-stamina-like-crazy-even-caused-pain-although-minimal/23524/3 "2020-05-03T18:14:56Z")

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It was a single zombie scientist corpse. Yes I did get the you stop to catch your breath message repeatedly except the stamina stagnated at half until the task was done and I did get a minimal pain at some point.

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**Author:** ![draghi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/draghi/32/11781_2.png) [@draghi](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/draghi)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2020, 6:19pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/dissecting-corpses-eats-stamina-like-crazy-even-caused-pain-although-minimal/23524/4 "2020-05-03T18:19:48Z")

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I also had plenty of mouth encumbrance since I had the Rivtech Power Armor equipped but turned off. That seemed to cause the weird results. Anyway I don’t think dissecting a corpse for 45 minutes (that time seems to long also) with a gas mask on should render you so tired that a dangerous zombie would threaten you in a melee(since low stamina is a lot more punishing in melee these days).

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**Author:** ![Hdstaskr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f19dbf/32.png) [@Hdstaskr](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Hdstaskr)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2020, 7:09pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/dissecting-corpses-eats-stamina-like-crazy-even-caused-pain-although-minimal/23524/5 "2020-05-03T19:09:44Z")

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Yeah, my chars also got out of breath after dissecting zombie humans at mouth encumberance 30.

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**Author:** ![Trigon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/trigon/32/2668_2.png) [@Trigon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Trigon)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2020, 8:20pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/dissecting-corpses-eats-stamina-like-crazy-even-caused-pain-although-minimal/23524/6 "2020-05-03T20:20:16Z")

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Yeah extremely high mouth encumbrance is pretty rough. It kinda makes sense. I’ve done a lot of dissections in my day and it gets pretty rough if you’ve got a respirator on. (I had to do that once because the shark’s liver had exploded and it was just the absolute worst smell I’ve ever been afflicted with.)