This was an extremely annoying thing that came along with the use of Energy Weapons in F3 and its back again in FNV. Basically if you turn anything into a Goo/Ash pile that pile will be there for the rest of the game. If its a respawning enemy the inventory on the Goo/Ash will be linked with the living enemy. I regularly go to a certain place to round up some dog meat to cook into dog steaks. Once I went there with a Plasma weapon and now there are 5 Goo piles that arnt despawning.

I wanted to try out Energy Weapons in FNV but I didnt for a long time because I had a large suspicion this problem was still around. I dont want to open the console to remove all these Goo/Ash piles every time.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that problem is still around. I haven't really looked into it, but I've noticed accumulating ash-piles...

from time to time an area completely resets and ash piles and goo puddles poof when that happens.. happens at the same time critters change positions and such.

They need to be disabled/marked for delete OnReset style.

http://www.mediafire.com/?6h8l76xffmotb2n.