[quote=“Coolthulhu, post:7, topic:11246”]Corpses do rot. They take 10 “rot days” do despawn. Most of the spring has low temperature meaning that corpses may last through all of the spring and start despawning in summer.
Ice labs should preserve corpses like they preserve food, because corpse rot uses same functions as food rot.
However, unlike food items that spawn at mapgen, corpses spawn fresh. This may be considered a bug, I think.
This means that despite 10 years having passed from the start of the cataclysm, you may still see fresh corpses of junkies, hitchhikers and the like.[/quote]
Corpses definitely do rot - if you butcher them after a certain amount of time, they give rotten meat. Also, unbutchered corpses (of all kinds, including pulped zombie corpses) do not leave bones when they fully rot away.
At least in experimental, the only places I’ve been able to find “fresh” corpses after the start of the game is hospitals and labs - the corpses in them are generated fresh (and yes, naked, for some unknown reason) when they are spawned, but druggies, scientists, soldiers, etc, that you find dead will have no corpses left, no matter how quickly you get to them after they are generated.
As to why they are naked… yeah, I think that’s dumb. They should basically be like the corpses you find generated on the map - basic zombie drops, plus the occasional other useless thing.
What I find quite a bit funnier than those, though, is when you kill a zombie, and they drop some kind of fresh food that should have rotted away years ago.
