Hearses not Spawning

Symptom

You might see one or more of these symptoms:

• Lots of dead people all over city

• No hearses spawning form cemeteries or crematoriums

• Hearses spawn but immediately despawn (disappear)

Causes

There are several causes for these issues, including:

• Water pollution causing mass deaths

• Cemeteries are full to max capacity

• Hearses unable to reach dead people

• Mods preventing hearses from spawning

Solutions

If there are huge numbers of dead people:

• Check that you don't have polluted drinking water

  • This is the most common cause of large scale death

  • If a water tower is on polluted land, it will produce polluted water = mass deaths

  • If a water pump is in a polluted river, same problem

  • Some mods hide pollution colours making it really hard to see where problem is

  • You can still see pollution on the pollution info view

  • Watch this YouTube video tutorial to see how to deal with pollution

• Make sure your cemeteries aren't full

  • Full cemeteries can't accept any more dead people

  • You have to empty them in to a crematorium:

    • Click cemetery to show its building info panel

    • Click the "Empty" button to start emptying cemetery

  • You need at least one crematorium to empty the bodies in to

  • Once empty, you need to manually switch back to normal mode:

    • Click the "Empty" button again to turn off empty mode

    • Cemetery will start collecting dead people again

  • You can automate this process using the Empty It! mod

  • Alternatively only build crematoriums, and you won't need to worry about emptying cemeteries

• Note that crematoriums can also fill up if you send too many dead people there

  • If this happens, you'll need more cemeteries or crematoriums

• If problems persist, it might be problem with hearses...

If hearses aren't spawning, or despawning quickly afterward, or there are just not enough of them:

• Make sure there isn't a road blockage causing a massive traffic jam

  • Do you have a train jam on a level crossing?

  • Is there a flooded road causing a traffic jam?

  • Is there a collapsed road that needs repairing? (Natural Disasters DLC)

  • Is there a fire or collapsed building next to a road? (causes road to be marked blocked until resolved)

• If you use a Hearse AI mod:

  • Disable it (in Content Manager)

  • Exit to desktop, then restart the game

  • Are things any better?

• Hearses should have capacity of 2-10 corpses:

  • Any more will confuse the AIs leading to big problems

  • You can check capacity using Advanced Vehicle Restrictions (AVO) mod

  • See Vanilla Capacities for detailed explanation

  • If in doubt, unsubscribe any custom hearse assets and see if that fixes problem

• Check that you don't have any mods which prevent deaths:

  • No deaths = no hearses.

  • Some mods which cause problems:

    • Pollution, Death, and Garbage Remover

    • No Deathcare

• Don't use "Hearse AI" mods:

  • At the time of writing (July 2019) they are all horribly broken

  • Unsubscribe them completely and then exit to desktop to flush them from RAM

Was it Fixed?

If still problems with hearses, see this guide: Vehicles not spawning

Other problems? See: 👉 Troubleshooting