Ok. It was just a guess.

@VitaKaninen, my mod doesn't affect the actual state of the corpse or spawn anything new. It just reports a hidden value attached to it. Those guinea pigs may have been hungry (or even starving), but they were still fully alive. Pawns can only be in four stages: Alive -> Fresh -> Rotting -> Desiccated. There is no inherent countdown toward rotting or desiccation until the corpse actually reaches the appropriate stage and each stage lasts approximately 2.5 in-game days at normal temperatures. Since scaria infected pawns have a high chance to immediately begin rotting upon death, some other mod is interfering with the transition and causing rotting corpses to automatically desiccate.

To troubleshoot this, you can create a save gave where this problem is about to happen (like right before the guinea pigs attacked) and then disable individual mods until you find the one that is causing it.

Ok. One last thought. In my playthrough, I let them remain on the map for a full day or more. If you saw in the video, when I selected some of them, their hunger bar was almost at empty.

This made me think that the desiccation timer started as soon as they entered the map, and by the time I killed them, your mod would have cause them to spawn desiccated corpses, since it had already been more than a day since the timer started. I could be wrong, though.

@VitaKaninen, I just tested your scenario using 1.6 dev mode. I spawned several guinea pigs and other animals, infected them with scaria, and then set their mental state to manhunter. Upon death they either became rotting corpses or remained fresh. None turned into skeletons. It must be another mod causing that problem.

This is the first time it had happened. I thought it was due to their small size, and maybe since it only affected the ones with Scaria, the desiccation timer had already started running as soon as they entered the map, since they were already considered to be rotting. It might not be this mod that is doing it, but since they changed the way Scaria works, it made me think that maybe this was the cause.

@VitaKaninen, that is strange. My mod only brings forth the hidden variable of "rot time" for the player. It should not affect the actual desiccation process itself. My guess is that another mod is causing this problem. Is this happening with everything you kill or just with manhunter packs?

I had a manhunter pack of guinea pigs, and I let them run around for a couple days, and then when I started to kill them, a lot of them instantly turned into desiccated corpses upon dying.

https://youtu.be/H703G48A5hM

Who cares about an AI thumbnail? Shut up. The mod is great. God you all suck.

EWWW SHITTY AI YUCK REPORTED FOR TERRORISM

@Arnovitz oof.

ai thumbnail

AI

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@Bash Arkin, ChatGPT specifically.

ai is the artist lol

Whos the aritst?

I didn't wan't to feel sad today while looking for 1.6 mods to test. :( +1

Bruh the first art alone adds so much dept to this mod! Wish more mods would use art like that, it so cool.

Thanks!

I've tested the mod on the 1.6 beta and it is still functioning correctly. Tags have been updated, enjoy!

@JoeOwnage, the process toward rotting and, subsequently, desiccation cannot be reversed. This way you know how long is left even if the corpse is temporarily frozen. It may be useful if you plan to transport the corpse or anticipate power outages.

In your image why does it say 2 days to dessication if she is frozen?

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