The weirdest thing happened tonight. I was at my Mom's house playing VV on her computer and she had a few deaths and I saw 3 or 4 skeletons in the middle of town. All of a sudden all 44 of her villagers had a skeleton in their hands headed for the graveyard. I shrugged it off as a glitch. I just got home and logged into my games and I have a village of 86 and I noticed one little skeleton in the middle of town. But the strange thing was that every one of my adults were carrying a skeleton to the graveyard and it was over 60 at once with a skeleton. This has never happened before. I know with a population of 86 I could only have had up to 4 deaths so it must be a glitch. Anybody know what the deal is? It is especially weird to me since it just happened on someone else's computer about 2 hours ago and 3 miles away from my computer. What are the odds that would happen to someone?

Wow...Thanks for any feedback in advance!

Oh yes, one thing to add...I am playing the Thanksgiving Mod version and my Mom is playing the regular version of VV. Thanks!

mine have done something similar on occassion...i think if multiple villagers pick up the skeleton at the same time it will appear in everyones hands...after the first villager deposits the remains in the graveyard, the rest should disappear, similar to the magic fish....

Does this occur even for the villagers that didn't physically make it to the center of town yet? I had villagers that were very elderly that moved slowly and were headed from the direction of the beach and by the time they were up near the research table had skeletons in their hands too. They were no where near the remains when the skeletons were in their hands. It was really a cool sight. I am going to open my game in just a sec and see if it happens again this morning. If it does I will post. Thanks!

I've had that happen, but usually when I leave the game after they start "burying the dead" but before he's actually buried and then come back quickly (like when I was only checking on my other game for a second)

I neglected to ask one important question about this glitch. Did having everyone go to the graveyard with a skeleton mess up my statistics? Will it change the number of deaths? Wait... I just went back and looked and apparently it will only give you credit for 50 deaths. I know there is only enough room for 50 graves but why not give the information accurately? Why not tell us how many deaths we have had during a game? I was worried this glitch would mess up my numbers but now I see that 50 is all there will ever be in the stats. I have had this game running for almost 3,000 hours and I am really curious as to how many deaths have occured but now I will never know. Would LDW consider changing this in the next game?

You will probably be interested in Arthur's comment on that subject in this post.

It happens to me all the time when I have been away from the game overnight. When someone dies they all head off to bury them and keep trying to pick the bodies up to bury after someone else has already gathered the bones.

Thanks!