Sadly, I lost 6 villagers in my crop field due to starvation in the winter. After they died, their corpses have laid there for about 10 years now and no one will come and pick them up. I can’t click them in any way. They’re swarming with rats and I set up a Ratcatcher and assigned the work area over the rats, but it’s worker remains idle saying there is no work to do. I deleted the crop field underneath the corpses wondering if that would help, but it didn’t change anything. Has anyone had a similar issue?
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Welcome to the forum. 
Rat catchers will only work when buildings show they’re infested with rats.
Do you have a graveyard for burials?
Yes. Sorry, forgot to mention. I have a graveyard, which 5 people have been buried in already.
Maybe it’s too far away from the town. I had a villager die on top of a mountain yesterday and no one came to get it.
Hmm, maybe it’s too far away from the graveyard? I’ll try to build one closer.
Yeah a closer GY did not work. So the corpses are still out in the open and swarming with rats with everyone ignoring them. Problem is I can’t farm where they are because the farmers won’t touch that field.
So, they finally got picked up. Probably around 10 years or so after they died. I did build a closer Graveyard, but they still weren’t picked up for another few years after building it. It appears some were buried in the closer one and another in the further one.
Some tasks don’t appear to get prioritized correctly. Lay down a section of wall to be built and see what happens (or doesn’t in this case).
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¿Tenías jornaleros suficientes? A lo mejor les tenías muy ocupados con construcciones.
Thanks for the info. Would be nice to be able to select the deceased villagers and “prioritize” them. A closer GY did seem to help though.
Hi! I had the same problem in the beginning. It turned out that my fences around the fields (to keep wild animals from eating the crop) was what caused my farmers to get stuck in the fields and then die from starvation and cold. They apparently could get in but not out.
Their bodies were not picked up until I removed some of the fences.
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Ahh. Maybe that was it. They had an opening, but it might not have been wide enough maybe. Thanks for the info!
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