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Right now there is an issue i am having when I die.
-I try to grab my body but since i am not wearing armor my body has more inventory that I can pickup.
-While attempting to pickup my body my armor is at the bottom and it doesn't equip the armor most of the time because it can't put it in my inventory.
-When I have multiple armors it equips the oldest armor before the newer types.

Like almost 100% of the time with a full inventory in my dead body i can never pickup my armor. As most time I am trying to retrieve my body from a combat situation it is not great when I can't pickup my armor or my weapons.

What i expect to happen: When I pickup my corpse the game should equip the highest tier armor (Power armor MK2 > Power armor > Modular armor) on the body then attempt to pickup the rest of the stuff. I would even say that the armor should not need a free space in your inventory to be able to be equipped. I think this can easily be done by sorting the inventory backwards (or at least while attempting to mine your body to calculate it as backwards)

Sorting the inventory backwards would have another positive effect as it would equip other guns before pistols.

Body before pickup


Body after pickup

I can't be the only person who has this issue

I had this happen just now! Luckily the massive worm had buggered off by the time I got back, also it ATE my super expensive imported-ingredient miners! I shot my machine gun at it to little avail, and in fact it seemed to telepathically explode me from a distance. Weird. Not looking forward to expanding this territory. Be careful out there folks.

Mining the corpse gave me some chests so was able to jiggle inventories and the armour did auto-equip when I got to it. It does seem it should equip first so everything fits and you get your guns back quick. I wouldn't like this happening in biter territory.

I've been encountering this issue as well. In my case this has been happening a lot due to the trains in my base but it's still annoying to deal with.
A simple workaround that I found is opening my body first, picking the armor manually to put it in the slot and only after that breaking the entire corpse.

But it would still be nice if this intermediary step wasn't needed, especially in a more dangerous environment.