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Related: How do I prevent rats from eating a corpse that I left unattended? Also, is this a bad thing?

I have been playing compassionately and I know that when rats devour a body it counts as a kill against you, so I've taken the time to stash bodies in places that rat swarms can't get to.

I just knocked a Weeper unconscious. I know from the hints during the loading menu that summoned rats won't attack a Weeper, due to the advanced progress of the plague.

Does this mean I don't have to worry about rats devouring the bodies of Weepers I've knocked unconscious?

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You should stash unconscious Weepers, if you really want to make sure that they won't be eaten by rats. (Good hiding places are described in the answers to this question.)

I did some testing with the Devouring Swarm power, which spawns a swarm of rats (those rat swarms behave just like normal rat swarms):

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    Another victory for SCIENCE
    – Steve V.
    Commented Oct 25, 2012 at 2:55
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The rats will eat anything unconcious including weepers if you have summoned the rats using devouring swarm. Normal rats not summoned by Corvo will not touch weepers concious or unconcious.

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The rats should not attack the weeper because they are still considered living by the game. However it is rare to find any rat swarms around weepers in general.

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  • I'm not sure if I believe this...if that's true that they're still considered living, wouldn't that mean that unconscious non-infected humans would be safe from rats too?
    – Steve V.
    Commented Oct 24, 2012 at 2:47
  • I'm not sure that I understand. Why would non-infected humans not be attacked? The rats avoid the weepers because of their plague condition not the fact that they are alive.
    – A.C.M.
    Commented Oct 25, 2012 at 19:17
  • Then why did the rats eat the unconscious Weeper bodies in the screenshots in galacticninja's answer?
    – Steve V.
    Commented Oct 26, 2012 at 1:20

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