diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_tooltip/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_tooltip/mod.rs
index 6d2f1f0b..8c476393 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_tooltip/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_tooltip/mod.rs
@@ -566,6 +566,22 @@ pub(crate) struct HoverMemo<'s> {
     last_lines: Local<'s, crate::ui_script::VmMemo<Option<UnitState>>>,
     /// The hover probe's last trace line, so a stationary probe logs it once.
     trace: Local<'s, String>,
+    /// The last `(corpse guid, reason)` the corpse plate gave up on, so a hover that cannot draw
+    /// one says why **once** instead of every frame it is held.
+    corpse_miss: Local<'s, Option<(u64, &'static str)>>,
+}
+
+/// Report a corpse plate this hover could not build, once per corpse and reason.
+///
+/// Each of the three ways out below is a silent `return` on a path a player can see: hovering a
+/// grave and getting nothing. "Mousing over player graves provides no tooltip" could be any of
+/// them and the log said nothing at all, so the first thing to fix was the silence.
+fn note_corpse_miss(last: &mut Option<(u64, &'static str)>, guid: u64, why: &'static str) {
+    if *last == Some((guid, why)) {
+        return;
+    }
+    *last = Some((guid, why));
+    info!("corpse plate: {guid:#x} draws none — {why}");
 }
 
 fn lines_view(s: &UnitState) -> UnitState {
@@ -692,9 +708,17 @@ fn drive_mouseover_tooltip(
         }
         // A corpse carries `CORPSE_FIELD_OWNER`, not a name; the plate waits for the name query.
         let Some(owner) = store.0.corpse_owner() else {
+            note_corpse_miss(&mut memo.corpse_miss, guid, "CORPSE_FIELD_OWNER is empty");
             return;
         };
         let Some(name) = names.resolve(owner, &commands).map(str::to_string) else {
+            // Normally transient — the query is in flight and the next frame has it. Logged once
+            // per corpse all the same: if it never answers, this line is the whole diagnosis.
+            note_corpse_miss(
+                &mut memo.corpse_miss,
+                guid,
+                "the owner's name has not answered a CMSG_NAME_QUERY yet",
+            );
             return;
         };
         // `CORPSE_TOOLTIP`, the builder's key; no string, no plate.
@@ -703,6 +727,11 @@ fn drive_mouseover_tooltip(
             "CORPSE_TOOLTIP",
             &[Arg::S(&name)],
         ) else {
+            note_corpse_miss(
+                &mut memo.corpse_miss,
+                guid,
+                "the CORPSE_TOOLTIP global is missing from this chain's FrameXML",
+            );
             return;
         };
         // No object id: a corpse is not a GameObject, it only borrows this plate's one gold line.