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This body seems to be at most half a year old. The cause of death seems to be a hit with a .

The body in question was produced with a crossbow, and on a road, but I don't know if either of those matters.

To my experience it never says the weapon, no matter what it was or where it happened.

Ditto. This has been brought up before, so I think it's a known issue. I'm unsure as to whether or not this is by design or a bug.

While we're about it, can I pick fault with that "This body appears to be no more than half-a-year old " phrase. I've been thinking "Ah, another newspawn" whenever I read that. Then I saw it on the body of a woman whom I knew to be much older(I tried to check her age, but couldn't fnid any way of doing that, but she was in her fifties, I think. Certainly not a newspawn) )and it finally struck me that it means "This body has been lying around for less than haf-a-year". Well, either that, or that part is buggy as well....?

That's not a bug, that's just unclear language. You can see how old the body is from spawning...it'll be called "Body of a (man/woman) in his (twenties /thirties/fourties/...)"

Of course, it could be called a bug that a "Body of a man in his thirties" could be a newspawn killed 10 years ago. Unless that's changed now?

Maybe if it said corpse instead of body, because bodies can be living too but corpses usually not.

The Industriallist wrote: You can see how old the body is from spawning...it'll be called "Body of a (man/woman) in his (twenties /thirties/fourties/...)"

You only see the age if you don't know the name. If you do know the name It shows you that instead; and if you've forgotten their age, well it's too lateto find out. Most bodies are of people on their twenties anyway, usually newspawns, so that's the first time I saw anything to contradict my misreading of the phrase.

The (highly annoying) solution to finding out everyone's age while you know their names is placing (<CANTR CHARDESC>) after their names. That way, when they die, you can tell how old they were. On the note concerning the 'half-a-year old' thing, and this is merely speculation, of course, -- I could be and most likely am wrong -- but I believe that simply means, as stated earlier, that the person was killed/died/starved within the past half year or so.

Sorry, I never thought of that because I always include the 'cantr chardesc' tag someplace.

Seko wrote:bodies can be living too but corpses usually not.

Usually? I haven't seen corpses in Cantr OR in RL get up before...
You're looking at a dead body and not just a body but I think changing it to corpse is more ... politically correct (is that right?)

Maybe this is a good time to bring up the dead bady dynamic naming again?

Well in Brunoi the dead tend to die a second time sometimes... Though you can't see them when they're just wounded, but when someone kills them then a new body appears even if the fella had been buried before.

NIGHT OF THE REPRODUCING DEAD!