# Spawning with a corpse

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spawning-with-a-corpse/11605>\
**Category:** The Bunker\
**Created:** [March 24, 2016, 4:17pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spawning-with-a-corpse/11605 "2016-03-24T16:17:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Caplin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/caplin/32/3065_2.png) [@Caplin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Caplin)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 4:17pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spawning-with-a-corpse/11605/1 "2016-03-24T16:17:30Z")

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So… My latest character, a randomly-generated, schizophrenic psychopath of a priest, spawned in the shelter with the corpse of what seems to have been a chemistry student. I did a couple double takes before snagging his backpack and chemistry textbook, which I unfortunately lack the intellect to understand.

I was just wondering if this might have been thanks to my traits, or if you stand a non-zero chance of spawning with a dead body regardless? I thought it both appropriate and hilarious.

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**Author:** ![Arek\_PL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@Arek\_PL](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Arek_PL)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 4:22pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spawning-with-a-corpse/11605/2 "2016-03-24T16:22:42Z")

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[quote=“Caplin, post:1, topic:11605”]So… My latest character, a randomly-generated, schizophrenic psychopath of a priest, spawned in the shelter with the corpse of what seems to have been a chemistry student. I did a couple double takes before snagging his backpack and chemistry textbook, which I unfortunately lack the intellect to understand.

I was just wondering if this might have been thanks to my traits, or if you stand a non-zero chance of spawning with a dead body regardless? I thought it both appropriate and hilarious.[/quote]  
dead npc? old character?

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**Author:** ![Caplin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/caplin/32/3065_2.png) [@Caplin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Caplin)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 4:28pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spawning-with-a-corpse/11605/3 "2016-03-24T16:28:59Z")

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> [@Arek\_PL](#):
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> dead npc? old character?

Neither, as far as I know. Both NPC spawn options are false, and I never had a character like this that I remember. It’s possible I had a randomly generated student at some point, but I would have committed suicide with him pretty quickly, and didn’t think that left a corpse.

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**Author:** ![Litppunk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/litppunk/32/409_2.png) [@Litppunk](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Litppunk)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 4:34pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spawning-with-a-corpse/11605/4 "2016-03-24T16:34:37Z")

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I am pretty sure it does.

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**Author:** ![Taraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@Taraq](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Taraq)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 5:26pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spawning-with-a-corpse/11605/5 "2016-03-24T17:26:00Z")

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It does. It’s possible to find the corpses of your three-year-awesome survivors with all their loot, too, assuming you don’t reset the world. Oh, and savescumming often produces duplicate corpses because the corpse + items is saved before the fact that you die, just as a nice reminder that savescumming is dirty cheating dammit.

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**Author:** ![Litppunk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/litppunk/32/409_2.png) [@Litppunk](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Litppunk)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 6:10pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spawning-with-a-corpse/11605/6 "2016-03-24T18:10:18Z")

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^ rage quitting (exiting the game when the memorial screen pops up) is a known source of body duplication, keeping your old character while simultaneously finding your old body where you died with all its loot/armour/ weapons etc…

The extreme side of same scumming being a dirty horrid habit.