Item respawning

[GmanUK1965]

How long do I have to wait until items respawn?
Microscopes at Charleston Medical?
Military Duct Tape and Ammo Bags at Camp McClintock?
Lead weights at Charleston Fire Dept?

[Sirius]

Open world spawns and container spawns 24 hours.

However, there seems to still be this obscure personal loot table - if you looted a certain amount of items of a kind, that kind won't spawn anymore until you've "cleared" out your loot table - the general consensus seems to indicate 200 unrelated items are needed to be picked up before those 'locked' items spawn again for you.

This is why people like to loot for example the Summerville (?) house with tons of burned books, it's the first house after you fast travel there, you *should* be pretty much done if you manage to hit it when it's pristine.

No idea if the countdown then starts or things spawn right away, there are more effects at work I think, but not sure - it's intentionally obtuse I guess.

[globefish23]

Originally posted by Sirius:

Open world spawns and container spawns 24 hours.

However, there seems to still be this obscure personal loot table - if you looted a certain amount of items of a kind, that kind won't spawn anymore until you've "cleared" out your loot table - the general consensus seems to indicate 200 unrelated items are needed to be picked up before those 'locked' items spawn again for you.

This is why people like to loot for example the Summerville (?) house with tons of burned books, it's the first house after you fast travel there, you *should* be pretty much done if you manage to hit it when it's pristine.

No idea if the countdown then starts or things spawn right away, there are more effects at work I think, but not sure - it's intentionally obtuse I guess.

The exact number is:

2⁸-1 = 255

The maximum value of an 8-bit integer.

[Aztec501]

I looked this up as well yesterday and if i remember correctly things don't respawn until after you collect the max limit. Then those items go on a 10 min cooldown before respawning again. However the way to get around it seems to be server hopping or at least that's what people said in what i read.

[Sirius]

Originally posted by globefish23:

The exact number is:

2⁸-1 = 255

The maximum value of an 8-bit integer.

Thanks for the correction.
So FF in hex format eh. Makes sense.