Bug is what the title says. I mentioned this on the discord and was told by one of the mods to report this as a big.
2 Likes
I see there is a salvage site nearby. Are you sure you didn’t mark it for salvaging? Maybe villagers are trying to do this task.
I’ve had Laborers that decided a shortcut through the armed bandit camp was a good idea, but I’ve not had a problem with people trying to gather their corpse. Definitely either a bug or you have something weird going on, map-wise. Lowland Lakes and related maps get weird in how Villagers know the quickest paths even if you can’t see them.
Without saying that it’s a good thing, I think what’s happening is that the villagers crest the hill and suddenly find themselves deep within the range of the raiders, at which point they can’t actually run away quickly enough. The fact that they keep trying is definitely frustrating.
(It probably doesn’t take more than two dozen light infantry to overrun it, though, and horsemen are basically light infantry who actually do appreciable amounts of damage, for these purposes.)