Dead animals/humans fly like baloons when harvesting

Game mode: [Singleplayer]
Problem: [Bug]
Region: [Anywhere]


When I kill an animal or NPC/human and try to harvest them with an axe/pick/pickaxe/skinning knife/butcher cleaver, the dead body flies away like a half filled balloon. I have to run after it to fully harvest it.

Looks weird to see a giant elephant die and I hit it, it flies around a long distance away from me like it’s an empty plastic bag in the wind.

When I run to the body after the first hit, the hits after that don’t cause it to fly around. It’s only the first strike that causes it to fly away.

I noticed this doesn’t seem to happen to people on live streams (youtube/twitch on live servers), might be a single player issue.


Steps on how to reproduce issue:

  1. Kill an animal or NPC
  2. Try to harvest with any tool
  3. Watch the dead body fly in the air and away from you like it weighs nothing.

don’t kill, run, and skin.
Kill, count 1, 2, 3, slowly, now skin, less flying animals and corpses. They mostly fly away while still jiggling in the dead-move.
Simple physique problem.