It kind of bothers me that you can only knock NPCs unconscious with the assassination skill. I mean, it's really useful, but I ran into this hilarious and pathetic problem the other day where, despite having an unconscious NPC at my mercy, I could NOT get that NPC to die.

I had to carry that NPC all the way out of town (it was Lord Shiro at Catun) and aggro a leviathan onto them. And then? The NPC still didn't die. The heck sat right back up and started walking away after eating 4 hits. I had my recruit beat the NPC up. They lived. I tried this multiple times, but each of my failed attempts only served to raise their toughness. Eventually I carried the unconscious NPC to another biome and placed them right next to a Beak Thing nest. Three separate attacks later... still alive. The Beak Things wouldn't eat their body for some reason. The Beak Thing nest was eventually destroyed by Skin Spiders. I had to move the NPC to ANOTHER nest where, over the course of several in-game days and two vitals well beyond -100, they FINALLY bled to death.

And I really feel like this could've been avoided if the people in Kenshi had the technology to slit throats.

There already exists mods for this issue, but all of the ones I've been able to find use items. Items don't work with modded NPCs most of the time, and are prone to causing issues if the items are somehow affected in ways that weren't expected.

So, I'd like an action. An option you could take on an unconscious body to just... snap your opponent's neck or something. Wild animals? Unique NPCs? Recruits? Anything that's made the mistake of passing out undefended in your presence. Heck, just being able to target and attack enemies that are playing dead or have fallen unconscious would be fantastic.

Food for thought for any aspiring mod devs out there.

A mod for using your assassination skill to knock out wild animals would also be funny. Unbalanced, surely, but funny.