u/Competitive-Peanut79

I've seen a lot of players asking about the best way to deal with the huge, smelly piles of dead corpses, so a quick tip for everyone.

As of build 42, you drag corpses around instead of stowing them in your 2-handed inventory like a generator. But if you manage to drag them to a dumpster or any other container with at least 20 free capacity, you can use the context menu (right-click) to "dump corpse into container". And if you've enabled it in your sandbox settings, you can delete everything from a garbage container. This includes wastepaper cans, regular bins, dumpsters, and these beauties which our lovely John Zomboid is modelling for you now.

I used to use the recycling bin on the left. 20 capacity, but 10 encumbrance if you try to pick it up. But the green barrel on the right only has 0.5 encumbrance. Pick one up and stow it in your fannypack! See a corpse? Place the barrel, drag and dump the corpse, delete the contents, stick the barrel back in your fannypack!

Brought to you by the John Zomboid Foundation for Making the Apocalypse a Little Easier

Edit: in single player, "delete all" is always available. When hosting a server, navigate to "Players" and look for the "TrashDeleteAll" option 😉