Lost everything I stored in Act 1 Camp...

[AssassinZX]

So this is a really stupid facet of the game because it doesn't tell you that anything you don't store in the traveller's chest will be inaccessible by the time you get cut off from Act 1 areas by the end of Act 2.

I stored a whole bunch of special equipment (armour, weapons, rings) and more importantly bodies of slain important enemies (gut, minthara, drogzlin) in one of the chests in an Act 1 camp, thinking I could always access it. (Playing as Dark Urge lol, thought it would be useful to keep bodies of slain enemies around).

The traveller's chest is horrible for organization so I kept things in different boxes around the camp. All lost now. We should have the option to get 2-3 different colored travellers chests so we could organize all the ♥♥♥♥ you pick up easier.

But by the time I start Act 3, none of those items are accessible and there's no way for me to get back to Druid Grove where the Act 1 starting camp is accessible (with the boxes that contain my equipment).

The game doesn't even warn you that stuff you keep in the boxes that aren't the traveller's chest will not be accessible later on.

Does anyone have a solution or fix for this?

[Ruffio]

So, you assume stuff you store in a box at a random campsite.... will keep follow you around to other locations. The travellers chest indicate... IT TRAVEL WITH YOU.... a random box/barrel in the camp does not...

[katzenkrimis]

When you advance in the game, a popup warns you.

If you don't read, then it's not the game's fault.

If you have zero experience with Larian's games, that doesn't help, either.

Their previous two games work the same way.

You should always have your main camp chest.

[AssassinZX]

Originally posted by Ruffio:

So, you assume stuff you store in a box at a random campsite.... will keep follow you around to other locations. The travellers chest indicate... IT TRAVEL WITH YOU.... a random box/barrel in the camp does not...

It actually did follow me around. I kept the bodies of minthara etc in a normal wooden chest, and for many other camps in Act 1 and 2, that chest got automatically added INTO the traveller's chest. At some point I must have taken the chest out and kept it on the ground at a Act 1/2 camp, assuming it would automatically follow me around like it did in Act 1, but it didnt.

[John Cena]

I don't think you have a solution other than reloading a save right before going into act 3 and moving your items.

I store stuff in pouches, backpacks, chests, and keep those in my traveller chest for organization.

The good news is that in Act 3 there is plenty of stuff to pick pocket. If you have Astarion as a thief with some sleight of hand items he can get to +16 sleight of hand and you can rob several merchants blind with little to no risk. If you include guidance, enhance ability, and bardic inspiration you can easily steal 10k+ raw gold per long rest just pick pocketing vendors with almost no chance to get caught. You can also steal some scrolls for lvl 6 spells that will make fights much easier and easily make up for lost items. For example I stole 3 scrolls of disintegrate that had a DC of 13 before including bardic inspiration, guidance, and enhance ability.

EDIT: I think there should be an auto save right before entering act 3 unless you went around and did a bunch of other stuff.

[John Cena]

Originally posted by Ruffio:

So, you assume stuff you store in a box at a random campsite.... will keep follow you around to other locations. The travellers chest indicate... IT TRAVEL WITH YOU.... a random box/barrel in the camp does not...

I'm not sure why you assume the box will follow you. The assumption is that the party will take the box with them because y'know that makes sense. How did you come up with terrible assumption?

[KingOfFriedChicken]

Well you can load back a bit to the area you have that camp, pick up those boxes and load them into the traveler's chest, then they will move with you. In fact you can shift click and move a ton of stuff at once, so you can load everything into the travelers chest then shift click drag it into the storage you want, just dont use the chest of mundane it's bugged in act 3

[Ruffio]

Originally posted by Luke Skywalker:

Originally posted by Ruffio:

So, you assume stuff you store in a box at a random campsite.... will keep follow you around to other locations. The travellers chest indicate... IT TRAVEL WITH YOU.... a random box/barrel in the camp does not...

I'm not sure why you assume the box will follow you. The assumption is that the party will take the box with them because y'know that makes sense. How did you come up with terrible assumption?

Some campsites throughout the game have tons of boxes, barrels, rotten baskets, and what not. You assume they will carry all that crap around from camp site to camp site? The Travellers chest is assigned for safe storage, as it will travel with you regardless of what camp site you end up in. That rotten basket down by the docks, next to the barrel of fish. wont... regardless of how much stuff you put into it.. see?

[KocLobster]

Originally posted by AssassinZX:

I kept the bodies of minthara etc in a normal wooden chest

you sick ♥♥♥♥ LOL

[AssassinZX]

Originally posted by cookie!:

Originally posted by AssassinZX:

I kept the bodies of minthara etc in a normal wooden chest

you sick ♥♥♥♥ LOL

Lol yes I am a real sick ♥♥♥♥. Was gonna do things to her later on. Dark Urge role play ya know.

[Ruffio]

Originally posted by cookie!:

Originally posted by AssassinZX:

I kept the bodies of minthara etc in a normal wooden chest

you sick ♥♥♥♥ LOL

I put her underwear on gale, for well.. reasons... I left her dead body on the ground though.. -)

[teksuo]

i had left a bucket of fish filled with bedrolls as trash somewhere random in the camp.
it appeared in stash out of nowhere. weird that it doesnt do it with everything.

[John Cena]

Originally posted by Ruffio:

Originally posted by Luke Skywalker:

I'm not sure why you assume the box will follow you. The assumption is that the party will take the box with them because y'know that makes sense. How did you come up with terrible assumption?

You assume they will carry all that crap around from camp site to camp site?

No, I assume that they will take the boxes they use.......

Originally posted by Ruffio:

The Travellers chest is assigned for safe storage, as it will travel with you regardless of what camp site you end up in.

I agree.

[Ruffio]

Originally posted by Luke Skywalker:

Originally posted by Ruffio:

You assume they will carry all that crap around from camp site to camp site?

No, I assume that they will take the boxes they use.......

Originally posted by Ruffio:

The Travellers chest is assigned for safe storage, as it will travel with you regardless of what camp site you end up in.

I agree.

The boxes they use, or the boxes you use? -)

[AssassinZX]

Originally posted by Luke Skywalker:

I don't think you have a solution other than reloading a save right before going into act 3 and moving your items.

I store stuff in pouches, backpacks, chests, and keep those in my traveller chest for organization.

The good news is that in Act 3 there is plenty of stuff to pick pocket. If you have Astarion as a thief with some sleight of hand items he can get to +16 sleight of hand and you can rob several merchants blind with little to no risk. If you include guidance, enhance ability, and bardic inspiration you can easily steal 10k+ raw gold per long rest just pick pocketing vendors with almost no chance to get caught. You can also steal some scrolls for lvl 6 spells that will make fights much easier and easily make up for lost items. For example I stole 3 scrolls of disintegrate that had a DC of 13 before including bardic inspiration, guidance, and enhance ability.

EDIT: I think there should be an auto save right before entering act 3 unless you went around and did a bunch of other stuff.

Yeah I have plenty of saves I could go back to but don't want to re-play like 5-8 hours of gameplay. And I know if I really wanted to I could just use the cheat engine item spawner to get any equipment I lost from Act 1/2, so the lost equipment isn't a big deal for me.

The only thing of importance I lost is the dead bodies that I can't get back, sadly.

Just annoyed the game doesn't tell you explicitly that stuff you keep in other camp chests won't be accessible later on (it makes this confusing because some of those chests automatically get added to your travellers chest, making you think that any chest you stored stuff in will come along with you).

[Forblaze]

Originally posted by Ruffio:

Some campsites throughout the game have tons of boxes, barrels, rotten baskets, and what not. You assume they will carry all that crap around from camp site to camp site? The Traveler's chest is assigned for safe storage, as it will travel with you regardless of what camp site you end up in. That rotten basket down by the docks, next to the barrel of fish. wont... regardless of how much stuff you put into it.. see?

I don't know why you're being a ♥♥♥♥ about it when the party clearly does carry some things with them. It's not like there's anything special about the traveler's chest. The traveler's chest itself is already a gameplay convenience so it's not some huge leap of logic to assume the game would match up other containers to containers that exist in other versions of the camp. It's not a mistake I made, but I don't see the point in chastising OP for trying to have fun with the camp.