Three main ways of getting rid of corpses:
1. Save and reload game.
✓✓ Easiest, especially in early game. No crafting required.
✗ Gets more annoying later on when you have lots of NPCs and buildings and it takes a while to load.
✗ Also annoying if you don't want to reset other stuff yet like Boss HP or an ongoing raid or uncollected loot on the ground.
2. Use the Blood Sword's heavy attack (craft at the Meat Workbench)
✓ Removes corpses up to 3 at a time and heals you for 5% of your health.
✗ Crafting requires a trip to the Bottom of the Earth to get bloodstones and some digging in the Desert to get strong bones.
✗✗ Slow and cumbersome when you need to remove a lot of corpses.
✗✗ Does not work on severed body parts.
3. Use the Flesh Collector (craft at the Meat Workbench)
✓✓ Collects corpses and severed body parts in a huge AoE.
✓✓ Converts the above into flesh which can be used for crafting. (Useful when spamming raid horns.)
✗ Needs 10% of your health to activate. If you don't have enough health it just kills you without activating.
✗✗ Crafting requires a bit of grinding at the Bottom of the Earth to get 10 madness orbs, then some time getting a native pregnant and going through a miscarriage/abortion to get a life orb.
Overall, use save and reload early on, then the Flesh Collector once you have a base running, especially if you are spamming raids. Blood Sword is more niche and either for small-scale corpse disposal or to tide you over until you get a Life Orb.
Note that all the above methods will also destroy anything in the corpses' inventory/equipment, so make sure you loot them first, or use a Ruck's vacuum ability. (and a Maid Ruck if you want the equips too.)
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