Cause of death label bugged

[The Industriallist]

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.

[SekoETC]

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

[cpkangaroo]

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.

[julie2]

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....?

[The Industriallist]

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?

[SekoETC]

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

[julie2]

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.

[Remnant]

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.

[The Industriallist]

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

[Snake_byte]

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?

[SekoETC]

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.

[Snake_byte]

NIGHT OF THE REPRODUCING DEAD!