appearently if you sell someone into slavery the slavers will rip their heart out.

if you drop them on the ground, fogman hearts (from what ive seen) have a random redish rock texture

I didn't get the smuggling heart notifications for a while but they cropped up recently, so it's gotta be a mod from the last 3 months or so that's the conflict. Doesn't narrow it down enough to help, but it does rule out a lot of the 16,000.

I don't know if it's conflicting with another mod, but seems like hearts and foul hearts are considered ilegal goods but also food for animals and such, and I keep getting notifications of random (unique I guess) characters getting caught for "smuggling heart"

Added this mod just now to my save to take care of some manhunters.
No items appeared in their inventory :\
Does this only work with new saves/imports or do manhunters have no death items?

Works fine. Doesn't work for my intended purpose though. I was just raided by 400+ cannibals and would like to rip their hearts out... sadly the kenshi dev was too lazy to add a auto-loot feature for humans (yes.. Chris was and is lazy.. isn't that obvious.. the code is already there..) ...if that changed this mod would be amazing - sadly out of our hands.

how's the current state of this mod?

I think this mod is why there are so many dead slaves in Bark (a UC city with no police station, so anyone arrested is enslaved instead) a whole bunch of cages are filled with dead NPCs like drifters, united hero leagues etc

Can i add it to a save game ?

@Kjulo Thanks for the swift reply, I think alot of people who are
considering using this mod will find this information useful.

This mod does not do any changes to AI, as that would make it incompatible with most mods, unlike now where it's safe to use with any mod list.

The npcs with specific AI packages will still strip them of items.
However, It's important for this mod to not apply to NPC's where they would risk dying in a gameplay significant way. So many npcs are left out intentionally.

The only time items get stripped are during enslavement, this means the npcs likely to be enslaved (without weird bugs) do not have death items.

In summary:
In gameplay you won't notice it, but this means that random nameless bandits being enslaved will eventually lead to their death.
This only really happens in the great desert, and since those NPC's can't even be bought by the player when enslaved, I find it a nice bonus to avoid UC cages full of buggy softlocked slaves.

@Kjulo I know you've probably heard this one before but I have to ask anyway;

Do any of the various Npcs in kenshi loot death items off of downed npcs?
I'm asking if ANY npcs loot death items, rather than one type of npc such as slavers.

I think one or two other people also asked this question but i couldn't find an answer anywhere
so I figured I'd ask you myself in the hopes of getting an answer.

Also could you please write in the mods description whether or not npcs loot death items off of other npcs?

Those are an option of the mod too, yes :)

oh i found a way. You can use storage barrel for Vitals.

They are edible for all animals and some hivers. Most non-major faction stores will also be willing to take them off your hands.

The easiest way to delete items in the game in general however is putting them into a general storage box and dismantling it.

is there a way to get rid of hearts? i always pick it up from bandits inventory and throw it to the ground. but in time my base is filled up with hearts so i would like to know if there is a way to get rid of them

Nice!

Update way faster than I do for sure lol

Finished up the second half of the update and quite happy with it already, so I'll just make the update public for good measure.

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Added unique descriptions for some more items.

"Vital Chip" is now "Vital Innards", and chips are reserved for unique items.

Hearts, Foul Hearts, and Vital Innards are now stackable.

Hearts and Foul hearts are now also edible for Hivers (all tribes) and cannibals (both variants).

Lower Servants no longer have death items, as they are very often added to a squad as slaves.

Cleaned out remaining "Skeleton" npcs (the greenlanders ones) to also have proper death items.

Oni's heart is no longer edible, like all other unique hearts.

Fixed "Parasite Rich Liver" not using its unique graphic.
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Great update, can't wait to check it out

Just launched up rebirth again, so far no mass graves, you are amazing getting that out so fast

All "Slave Masters" now have noble items as well, instead of only some.

Sand Ninja Oni and the Thrall Masters now has unique death items.

Changed "skeleton bandits" to no longer have a vital chip instead of a heart, no matter how funny that was.

Fixed oversight with some slaves still having death items.

Good timing, just released a patch.

Hey I wanted to report a issue of NPCs looting these items, specifically in the rebirth start im watching holy nation paladins filly barrels with human hearts and now im the only slave left lol

one of the challenging thing about bounties is that they can be far from where you are to collect on them, only way to get around this is to mark it up in certain territories where they are wanted but that means any faction change that happens fucks with it, lots of micromanagement

Probably easiest way to do it is jut make the item worth their dead bounty.

I like that idea as well @Pode

Dunno if it's doable, but identifiable things like Dust Kings head would be cool to turn in to collect their bounties

Looking forward to it @Kjulo

I remember the thing we were talking about which might be a good idea, but up to you how you want to do it lol

@wop Thank you :)
I do plan on adding values to all items, I'm anticipating making an general update to generally polish it more and re-add pricing

pls make organs be worth something this could be the kenshi mod of the year

now i can fulfil my dreams of starting an organ harvesting business

Awesome! Glad you finally released it

Oh i hope i can only Vanquish those PESKY FUCKING 30 STACK OF DUST BANDITS!

Want to make this personal and don't need some Random Shek to steal their hearts.

Do slavers leave these in their victim's inventories or will they kill them when looting them?

Awesome mod, thank you!