placed camp items keep disappearing?

[mothballer]

EDIT: FIXED! i ended up going FARTHER back on my save and it seems it was a file issue. i have continues to place more and more camp items with no issues! thank you replies for no help and telling me the game wasnt built for what the game is built for

i decorate my camps. like seriously decorate. i have over 4 hours decorating my end game baldur gate camp. everything has been fine for over the 50 hours ive put into act 3. but now since loading the game a random day, no matter what i seem to do, what quests or whatever, the next time i load my camp over 1000 items have just disappeared. not reput/moved into my camp-storage chest or anything, just GONE. this includes almost all unique items from the game. i reload the save with my camp intact, try to play at all and come back to camp and everythings gone again.

anything i can do? is it hopeless? if i have to pick everything up and replace it down i just might let it all get deleted. i really wanna keep playing with my camp like it is

edit: not every item disappears. it randomly picked a handful of weapons, food, chest, and random gems and whatnot to vanish while leaving a few items here and there

[Quacksalber]

Normally the stuff warps to your chest. This is because there are different camp locations and to avoid people losing stuff along the way (I assume, anyway). The game isn't designed for you to decorate your camp beyond what the game itself offers.

[mothballer]

well. i said it didnt warp to my chest and i havent changed camp locations and it HAS let me have this many items for 50 hours. so thanks for nothing

[Quacksalber]

Yeah I said "normally", meaning if it's not doing that, it's probably a bug,

No need to be so hostile just because I tried to explain why I think this happens.

[Calculus]

Honestly... you might have overflow the amount of items on the ground if its truly a really big number...
Now, the question is the nature of overflow. From experience i know in some games you can cause it by simply not having enough space on the disc, but it's also likely it's an engine or save file limitation.
This game isn't designed for that.

[mothballer]

i havent added anything new to my camp in a long while and my computer is pretty decent and this game is on a practically empty drive. so i doubt its disk space

[mothballer]

oh also, its not every item? it just picks a ton of them to vanish. its the same items everytime i reload my save

[Metallicus]

Originally posted by mothballer:

well. i said it didnt warp to my chest and i havent changed camp locations and it HAS let me have this many items for 50 hours. so thanks for nothing

Rude.

[Bufnitza]

Might be a red herring, but a very similar bug occurred in Skyrim many years ago and the reason was that there was a limited number of objects which could exist in an area. Some "home decorators" managed to exceed that number and when that number was exceeded, it caused items to randomly disappear.

Depending on how they structure areas/savegames, it might be the same kind of bug. It's got nothing to do with the disk space, but with how items in a location are represented within your savegame file. I don't think anyone at Larian thought about people decorating their camp, so it's not something they could've tested/foreseen.

[EricHVela]

Some patches ago, Larian had to increase the save file size. I'm guessing that there's still a size limit when it starts to get rid of things it's determined to be a lower priority. Something's gotta give if your save starts to get huge.

Just a guess, though.

[Moonbane]

Theres no permanency for items you place in the camp, you have the travellers chest for it.