"The Citizen ragdoll has 18 bodies and 16 joints, countable offline"

• You are sizing a ragdoll density or physics budget and need the body count of a Citizen-scale ragdoll.
• The number you carry from memory or folklore lands near 9 to 13 bodies.
• That estimate is roughly half the real count, so every per-body and joint-solve cost you derive from it is low.

The Citizen ragdoll rig ships as two prefab files. Both are plain KV3 text, so you read the exact counts without an editor.

addons/citizen/Assets/models/citizen/prefabs/citizen_physicsshapelist.vmdl_prefab has 18 shapes. That is 17 capsules plus 1 cylinder.

addons/citizen/Assets/models/citizen/prefabs/citizen_physicsjointlist.vmdl_prefab has 16 joints. That is 12 PhysicsJointConical ballsockets plus 4 PhysicsJointRevolute hinges.

A guess of 9 to 13 bodies comes from picturing the major limbs and skipping the smaller shapes. The rig carries close to twice that, so a budget sized off the guess undercounts simulation cost per body and constraint cost per joint.

Count the rig from the source files instead of estimating.

1. Open citizen_physicsshapelist.vmdl_prefab and count the shape entries. The Citizen rig has 18.
2. Open citizen_physicsjointlist.vmdl_prefab and count the joint entries. The Citizen rig has 16.
3. Use 18 bodies and 16 joints as the per-ragdoll reference when you plan crowd density or a physics budget.

Both files are greppable KV3 text, so you script the count in a build step or a headless check with no engine running.

The prefab files are the rig the engine loads, so their entry counts are the counts the physics solver pays for at runtime. A folk estimate models the limbs a person pictures, not the shapes the file lists. Reading the file replaces the estimate with the number the solver actually sees, which is what a density or perf budget has to be sized against.