Mounts dying and the loot they are carrying disappears/ leveling system for mounts

[Zelda But As A Girl]

I was bouncing from cave to cave, on the horse mount (whatever it's actually called) and as I entered a cave a bear came up and killed my mount. I promptly disposed of the bear, and check on my horse, to grab my ore i had stored on it, however there was nothing on it's corpse or on a "crate" near it's body. which sucks because i had exotics and titanium, but it is what it is.
So, a few things. does this always happen or did i get unlucky?
Also I feel like there should be a leveling system for mounts (kinda like ark), so they can be more optimized for specific task. I.E. traveling across map, defending the base/ other animals, or just carrying ore. I understand there's different types of mounts that already kinda fulfill those rolls, but the base animals post tame are just garbage. their stats are super low compared to the wildlife.

[КрендельФигов]

1) Unfortunately this problem is known
Buffalo Cart and contents completely disappear after buffalo gets killed
https://icarus.featureupvote.com/suggestions/371018/buffalo-cart-and-contents-totally-disappear-after-buffalo-gets-killed

2) You can try to 'roll back' the save. Mini instructions at the link (automatic saves are made every half hour)
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1149460/discussions/0/3875967397723071447/#c3875967397724100870

[Trip]

My Hog Horse was in my stilt base above water. A bear kill it through the floor. Hog Horses corps fell through the floor into the water and poof, was gone. Along with all the platinum I just brought back.
RIP Hog Horse.

[Astral]

Yeah, this happened to me earlier horse died after I died to a polar bear when I came back to retrieve both our loot I was able to open the loot window of the horse but it was empty.

[william_es]

I've seen this happen once before, where myself and my mount got nuked by an orbital laser in one mission. I didn't understand how big the area of effect was going to be. All the contents of the mount disappeared.

If I had to guess, it's an issue with the lootbag falling through the mesh when it dies.

The entire mount system is already being worked on for revision. It was mentioned earlier in some patch notes. No details yet, it's just wait and see what they do.

I highly recommend for the future, that you carry around enough building parts to quickly build a small hut. 1 x 1, 1 x 2, or 2 x 2. It's up to you. But I always slap down a small building, then park my mounts inside to keep them safe. The worse that happens is I find a wolf or something attacking the walls. Many times I bring enough fortification walls, and walls spikes to build a little encampment around the temporary building. Then I come back to find nothing but dead bodies. Love the spikes. They're like chainsaws.

[Astral]

Originally posted by william_es:

I've seen this happen once before, where myself and my mount got nuked by an orbital laser in one mission. I didn't understand how big the area of effect was going to be. All the contents of the mount disappeared.

If I had to guess, it's an issue with the lootbag falling through the mesh when it dies.

The entire mount system is already being worked on for revision. It was mentioned earlier in some patch notes. No details yet, it's just wait and see what they do.

I highly recommend for the future, that you carry around enough building parts to quickly build a small hut. 1 x 1, 1 x 2, or 2 x 2. It's up to you. But I always slap down a small building, then park my mounts inside to keep them safe. The worse that happens is I find a wolf or something attacking the walls. Many times I bring enough fortification walls, and walls spikes to build a little encampment around the temporary building. Then I come back to find nothing but dead bodies. Love the spikes. They're like chainsaws.

Hedghogs? Have been thinking of using those on a radar to see how it works.

[varkoog]

Is this still an issue? Just got the pets DLC for us. Got back to base, one horse stuck underground and the other one disappeared.

[Verlia]

Originally posted by varkoog:

Is this still an issue? Just got the pets DLC for us. Got back to base, one horse stuck underground and the other one disappeared. :lunar2019madpig:

Unfortunately yes, my borse (boar horse) also had this happen recently.

[psopro2]

sucks rip archibald my first tame... disappeared :((((

[Rekal]

Originally posted by psopro2:

sucks rip archibald my first tame... disappeared :((((

Like КрендельФигов said, you can roll back to one of your autosaves.

C:\Users\[WindowsUserName]\AppData\Local\Icarus\Saved\PlayerData\[SteamID#]\Prospects\

Your prospects and 10 auto-saves 30 minutes apart are in that folder. If it was in your open world then you should be able to tell immediately which file is your open world prospect and which are the auto-saves.