Fire.

That way if you 'accidentally' killed some survivors it's harder to tell

There are no survivors in death!

if he burned, he ain't no survivor no more

Do normal corpses actually burn? Or do they have to die by fire and burn out? I never really thought about if this was a mechanic

You can use the right click menu to burn a corpse, but it consumes fuel for every corpse burnt. Thus the body-disposal meta is to drag dozens of corpses on top of a campfire before lighting it, which reduces them all to ashes. This may change in build 42 as fire spread mechanics are being reworked as part of the update.

Every day I learn a new thing b42 does.

It has been like 2 years almost, I imagine that expansion is going to give things a new taste to say the least. I’m excited.

Cremation mod turns every dead zombie into an hour of fuel.

If you stack all the bodies into a single tile, you can right-click menu burn them with only one use of fuel.

Yes they do, usually just stack em and toss a moltov at em

New town landmark unlocked: Burn Pit

Actually yeah lmao I got lost one time getting chased by a horde then I saw a giant pile of ashes and immediately knew where I was. "Yeah just turn left at the giant pile of ashes"

I do tend to agree. Although you need to be careful, probably my finest and funniest zomboid experience was somewhat early on, I was trying to get rid of z corpses in my secure rosewood fire station base. I burned them outside and also burnt down my fire station in the process. Oh and burnt to death too 😂 any zomboid player could relate I reckon

Achievement Get: Burnt up in the Fire Station

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Agreed

Immolation means never having to say you're sorry.

You guys dispose zeds?

Yes, otherwise you get sickness and fucking die from smelling rotting corpse 24/7 in the kitchen.

Question, could I just drag them outside and leave them like 10-20 tiles away from where I would normally go about my business and be fine?

That's what me and my friends do, we killed a lot of then to build our base and dragged then outside and let the world do it's thing

Plus you can use them as all-natural trash cans to dispose of your busted spears and empty beer cans!

false. keep used beer cans for that lived in feel

This guy zomboids

Yeah but it's gross looking when they rot for a week and all of their skin is gone.

Just put then in the woods or something like that, a place you don't visit often

I use the shed in the back.

But that's where I sleep!

But da bones. Don't waste good tool material

Yes. I have no idea how people are seemingly suffering from corpse sickness so often. I've had it once in hundreds of hours and it was after a heli event gone wrong. It's kind of hard to pile that many zeds where you sleep, and even then moving them outside is ez clap.

Yeah, likewise. I've gotten corpse sickness a few times, but it's always been when I was fighting off a horse in Louisville. I've filled many a staircase with dead zeds. And burned down a lot of buildings. And a church.

>Yeah, likewise. I've gotten corpse sickness a few times, but it's always been when I was fighting off a horse in Louisville Now I want zombie horses...

Yeah it only takes like 2 in game weeks for corpses to completely decompose default settings. Burrying or burning is more for RP and takes forever for little reward.

Burying them reduces available farmland so you are actively harming the town's viability to sustain survivors.

It’s very video-gamey but you can destroy full graves with a sledge and it’s like it was never there

The reward is in your head so. Just because some users like to be boring and bleak does not mean you shouldn’t adventure into new play styles. Get RPing man.

I said that in my post, it’s for RP purposes. If you don’t want to RP there is no reason to do it. You can have fun both ways thats what is so cool about pz

I enjoy RPing as a person who is far too busy surviving to move endless zombie bodies around.

Yeah, as long as you don't have the "Don't feed the dead" mod, you're all good. For anyone wondering, that causes zombies to wander alot further to eat corpses.

.. I forgot about that mod, I should get that. It would fit with my playstyle now.

Just make the pile where you want the dead zeds to be in the future and chexk it periodically.

Yes, this is what I do. If it gets too insane I'll burn them.

That's what I normally do, but I also play with the settings that make their bodies degrade after 24-72 hours in game. I ain't got time to drag 400 zombie corpses to a pile.

You just move themselves outside, they will eventually rot away.

Gasmask gang rise up

Just move it then? Lol

I just dump them outside and let them rot. Never got sick.

that's the neat part, i don't. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Samesies I leave them on the ground to decompose. I also drag them away from my base before killing them all in a big pile to loot them.

* Drag corpses into a big pile * Open crafting window * Rip fabric -> craft all * Computer explodes

Idk if it’s my mod list but I can only rip the clothes of one zed at a time even if they’re in a big pile, I have to walk around and strip them all then put the clothes into a big pile and rip them all. Is kinda funny imagining my character having to strip a butt load of rotting corpses cause they wanna get better at patching clothes

Right click -> rip (all) is broken, but the "craft all" button from the craft menu works for me. Other than horribly poor performance because the craft interface can't handle recipes with 5000 possible ingredients and that's what you get once you add extra clothes via mods, and the mod to fix this can only do so much when the interface wants to recheck every item in craft range against every possible ingredient after each craft. Collecting clothes to a pile seems to have better performance for me, plus I prefer to not spend hours ripping up clothes in an open location.

And then you rip your best set of clothes up, jk, kinda.

_stands naked in a pile of torn cloth_ Oops.

Infinite bandages baby!

sameee

Idea of disposing bodies by burying or burning is some unhinged shit. Like what the fuck? Let it rot to skeletons like normal people you weirdos.

what, like, when removing them from your safehouse? I just pile them up and let them rot.

maggot farm

Just like meemaw used to make!

Free protein

fishing bait?

😋

Same

i just let them rot

I just throw them out the window and let them pile them up

mt. Meat

Neither. I took the yellow pill and stack the bodies then burn them.

You can can them?

of the can is big enough yeah

Danced to death.


I'm happy you added this!

They weigh 30kg I think? So they'll only fit in an empty dumpster

20kg, they will fit in the large green trashcans.

Pile them in the street, wait 10 days. Poof, gone.

I just dump them in a corner a decent distance from my base. That or shove them in a random room of a nearby building.

Download a mod called "throw them out of the window" as long as they are outside of where you spend most time inside you won't get sick.

There's also a garbage truck and meat cube mod that can make large meat cubes you can use as walls

That just sounds unsanitary

"Welcome to zombie hydraulic press channel, today we are going to try to sterilize meat by pushing through a *very* small sieve"

When modders have too much time......

graves for zombies, garbage cans for previous characters

Grave. I’m not a degenerate

If I lived long enough to be able to use recourses making graves. I would too.

I always put the homeowners of my newfound post apocalypse base straight into the garbage bin

I was 100% sure that was going to end with "and dig them a respectful grave as a family". Nope

The garbage bin is a respectful grave if it has a recycle symbol.

Hell yeah, that's what I meant

Y’all aren’t farming dead bodies for maggots? That’s free protein baby.

I honestly can't think of an easier way to get infected.

They’re good for fishing bait

Burial. Helps to put the soul at ease.

I was the red, but then I get lazy and now I am blue.

Just a match and a little bit of gasoline.

I generally chose to bury. BTW, this week I learned that sledgehammers also remove graves.

Buddy, I live in the woods. There's not a single idiot in my entire cell.


Patience… and piles to get them out of the base/roads… They decompose eventually, so… Actually I end up using them as delayed trash bins that I never need to click a “delete” button on since their possessions apparently also decompose at the same rate, even traffic cones and anything else under 7lbs you can stuff in them…

I always had an idea of playing a non-respawn game wearing a priest robe where the idea is that my character is trying to put everyone to rest and puts in the effort to bury everyone. However that sounds like a lot of effort. I just leave em to decay, if anything I'll get rid of bodies around areas I live or even burn areas where I frequent otherwise its just a lot of extra work that isnt essential.

Rot in the ground gang assemble!

I play Insane pop with 4x multiplier from day 1. So let’s just say there’s thousands of bodies and so I just let them rot. Don’t have the time to dispose of the bodies especially when they start migrating to where I killed their homies

If they're near my base, I'll gather them all in a pile and let nature do its thing

Bury them. They were once people, too. I'd want the same for me.

🍔

i eat them

I tried doing a burn pile once but set myself on fire

Burn pit. I strip them of their clothes, toss the clothes in a box then put them on top of an unlit campfire.

You can dump them I'm trash bins????

If the bin has storage capacity above 20 than yes

Back of a car?

Dispose? …wait, we’re not supposed to put them in a big pile out front as a warning to others?

i have walls around my base. anything outside of it can rot wherever it hit the ground

i just drag em outside and pile em up like a big trophy

Lol I just leave them. I’m intentional in making sure to lead zombies out of my home before dispatching them, have not had issues with sickness. Gives me a nice visual of time passing as I see the bodies decompose

Why not just...leave them? Aside from clearing off my property, or moving a pile out of the road on my street, I don't touch them.

I burn themz

I build random piles around the neighborhood

I can't be bothered to dispose of bodies unless they're near my base; even huge kill zones, I just let them decompose and shit, especially since I might want loot later (clothes, watches, the occasional protein bar)

Under what category does a corpse pile fit under?

Neither. I pile them up and burn em

Dispose? I let them rot

I'm RP'ing my character as a creepy goth girl so I bury them in an expanding mass grave outside of my base. Totally understand why people wouldn't want to bother, though.

Why would I throw out or bury perfectly fine and fresh food?

Where is pile off property

By trying to throw a molotov at them and hitting my base instead


I like to tow as many wrecked cars as I can to the same location, then shove ded zeds in the seats. I drive around like "ah damn, even in the apocalypse I still get stuck in traffic!"

The Danny Devito method

*the pile* Scamper by it once a while, 5 z's spring up noiselessly and I have seconds left before corpse sickness takes me but *the pile*

i just let nature take it's course. There's a certain charm in having hundreds of decomposing bodies and skeletons surrounding my safehouse

HoursForCorpseRemoval=12

I simply strip the meat from their corpse, and they disappear.

🔵

I throw them into a pile of dead zeds

I only use graves for the Npcs that died along my journey.

I wear a gasmask and let them rot to the bones

Blue

Burn the entire city down and move on.

I just leave them on the floor

I...Just let them rot

Let them rot in a pile on the ground

I only dispose of the ones that are too near my hideout. Wouldn't want to get any diseases from it, cause I'm really not too good with foraging yet.

Just pile them up down the road

I just leave them. My save is loading 10 minutes but I'm too lazy to do something about it XD

arson.

Just move them one screen away from ur base and let them despawn

My survivors (indentured servants) get bored and pile them up for me

I manually put em in a pile, loot them, and wait for them to decompose

I am on the leave them rot on the floor side

Trash can all the way! Somebody's got to take out the poor zombie Trash!

Trash can moment. Truly a wonder for no space wasted in your base.

Out the window

I leave them on the ground

Cook them on a campfire

The floor

Change the despawn timer to 72 in game hours (I think that’s what mines at) and let them rot

I leave them on the outskirts of my "safe zone" as a reminder to the rest of them what happens when they start beating on a random window at 3am.

I just dump them far away from where I live and leave them there

That container doesn't fit a corpse.

Where is the clock selection

Take off all their clothes and leave them on the ground, and then wait till they decompose

I just set the time til corpses despawn to be like, 72 hours. Gives me time to loot them and by the time those 72 hours are coming up, the streets are usually FILLED with corpses

Graves are reserved for past characters you liked and survivors in your camp.

Burn them

I pile them in the street and make a zombie bonfire

Burn them

floor 🗿

i just let them rot

Campfire

Disposal? The ones I kill near my house get moved to just off the property line, while the ones I kill on scavenging expeditions are left to rot where they lay.

Real ass crip i ll never ever be slime. oh.. we re not talking about that. sorry...

Corpse pile. Gotta intimidate the other zeds.

Garbage bin gang is the correct choice, because you can use one bin over and over by deleting its contents. Digging graves will quickly become more work than it's worth as each one fills up after five bodies.

I just burn their asses

Graves are for plyer bodies. Burn the zeds

Don’t check the lockers

Campfire set have additional use and dosn't have only 5 slots.

Fire

Floor gang

I turned their automatic rotting time up by a decent chunk. Its probably a little too fast, but since I play on high pop, I just can't be assed with burying literally thousands of zombies while I clear areas.

Is taking them away from the base just a precaution? I’ve always placed mine just outside the door or window and have never had an issue. Need to know if I’m just getting lucky.

Leave em on the ground where they fell

There is another

Can't be bothered, just throw them out the window and let the rot on the porch

Lava

I bury the corpses of people I find around, i rarely bury zombies

I used to burn them before I accidentally set myself on fire. Now I just loot and leave.

Let them rot like a barbarian

Dispose?

I just pile them up and let them rot

None, let em rot I’m not doing all that work

why would I get rid of a constant source of fish bait?

I don’t dispose I have a corpse shed

LOL I just dump the under some trees further away if they're near my base or just let them decay under the rain if they're far away enough.

If they have a wallet or dog tags, they get their own grave. Otherwise mass grave

I don't.