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Carcasses are the dead bodies of creatures. Besides the Koalefant Carcass, all of them appear after killing a certain mob under certain conditions. They can be burned to avoid their respective spawn.
Some carcasses can be mutated and turn to the other mob.After death, their body has a 50% chance to leave their remains behind. After a couple of seconds, it will start shaking and burst out into their Mutated form; if certain additional conditions were followed: was killed on a specific land like:
Hounds killed by a Possessed Varg's frost breath will be guaranteed to leave behind corpses, and soon mutate into Horror Hounds.
Wurt with the Lunar Mutated Merm skill can feed loyal Merms or Merm Guards a Moon Shard/Infused Moon Shard to convert them into their mutated form. With the Terra Mutation skill, Wurt can cast a spell using the Brilliant Mudslinger to do the same.
This content is available only after activating the 
Lunar Rift
When Crystal-Crested Buzzards are nearby (indicated by their shadows), the corpse of the mob will stay until it is eaten by them. Some will be mutated by the birds. Mob loot will not drop unless all the mutated Buzzards are gone, unless it was eaten by them, then the amount of items will be reduced and some will be spoiled immediately.
If there is no Crystal-Crested Buzzard around, then the carcass will drop all items that should be dropped from original mob. If it was eaten by Crystal-Crested Buzzards then the drop will change:
That works with all mobs.
This content is available only after activating the Lunar Rift
It seems as though these strange entities that emerged from the rifts are in search of living hosts... or perhaps once living.”
When a Lunar Rift is active in the world, killing some mobs will leave their respective Carcass on the ground. After some time, an Incursive Gestalt will appear and float to the Carcass. Afterwards, it enters the Carcass and reanimates the fallen Mob.
| Creature | Dead Variant | Mutation condition | Mutation |
|---|---|---|---|
 Hound  Varglet |
 Dead Hound |
Common Mutation condition |  Horror Hound |
 Pengull |
 Dead Pengull |
Common Mutation condition |  Permafrost Pengull |
 Merm |
 Dead Merm |
Common Mutation condition |  Mutated Merm |
 Loyal Merm Guard |
 Dead Loyal Merm Guard |
Common Mutation condition |  Mutated Merm Guard |
 Crow |
 Dead Crow |
Common Mutation condition Incursive Gestalt condition (Only if dead mob falls from Lunar Hail) |
 Moonblind Crow  Misshapen Bird  Bright-Beaked Bird |
 Redbird |
 Dead Redbird | ||
 Snowbird |
 Dead Snowbird | ||
 Canary |
 Dead Canary | ||
 Puffin |
 Dead Puffin |
Common Mutation condition | Misshapen Bird |
 Spider |
 Dead Spider |
Common Mutation condition |  Shattered Spider |
 Spider Warrior |
 Dead Spider Warrior | ||
 Spider Warrior |
 Dead Cave Spider | ||
 Spitter |
 Dead Spitter | ||
 Dangling Depth Dweller |
 Dead Dangling Depth Dweller | ||
 Nurse Spider |
 Dead Nurse Spider | ||
 Sea Strider |
 Dead Sea Strider | ||
 Spider Queen |
 Dead Spider Queen |
Common Mutation condition |  Shattered Spider Hole |
 Buzzard |
 Dead Buzzard |
Incursive Gestalt condition |
 Crystal-Crested Buzzard |
 Deerclops |
 Dead Deerclops |
Incursive Gestalt condition |
 Crystal Deerclops |
 Bearger |
 Dead Bearger |
Incursive Gestalt condition |
 Armored Bearger |
 Varg |
 Dead Varg |
Incursive Gestalt condition |
 Possessed Varg |
All Clockworks mobs, plant mobs, stone, clay and cookie made mobs can't leave carcasses. Rock Lobsters can leave corpses though.
Tracking a Suspicious Dirt Pile with a Hound's Tooth on it will eventually lead to a Koalefant Carcass surrounded by a Varg and some Hounds which will progressively eat from the Carcass. The Carcass will disappear once the Varg and Hounds have been defeated or after the Varg bites its bones once it's done eating.
The Koalefant Carcass will have 2 Meat and 1 Koalefant Trunk dropped around it. The Varg and its Hounds will not eat them as long as the Carcass still has meat on it.
The Koalefant Carcass has four stages as it is being eaten: it is fully intact in the first stage; in its second and third stage, its top half will disappear, revealing the Koalefant's spine and ribcage, and in the fourth stage all meat will be gone from it, leaving only some bones behind.
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