Bug? Cannot pick up dropped items

[vinyblaster]

A pretty annoying bug: I randomly dropped 2 detonators and a few flares on the floor in my base, and now I can't pick them back up. There's no prompt with the name of the items, nothing.

I tried deconstructing the room in which they were. It did deconstruct, but the bug remains. And now, to add to the stupid, I can't rebuild the room because these non-interactible items are in the way.

I've been dropping things all over the place during this whole ~20h playthrough and it's the 1st time I'm seeing this bug.

Is it known? Any workaround?

[Robirda]

I've had such things happen occasionally - have you tried exiting and reloading? Sometimes the game just has a - well, I call 'em 'brain farts' - don't know what the technical term is, lol!

But if that's the cause then often a quick exit and reload will do the trick.... you will find sometimes things like the tree or plant spreaders didn't load or some such too, such things all seem to be related little 'oops' that happen on occasion. Less commonly that when in EA, but it does sometimes still happen, just much more rarely now.

Oh, and, I almost forgot to mention, even if you still can't pick them up, try deconstructing them, at least that way you can get back the materials and clear the obstacles...

[Meewec]

i've never been able to pick up a detonator i dropped but i just deconstructed them and made new ones.

[Druinthor]

Originally posted by Meewec:

i've never been able to pick up a detonator i dropped but i just deconstructed them and made new ones.

same with flares. They can only be deconstructed and remade

[vinyblaster]

That's good to know! And yeah, exiting the game didn't help. How do you deconstruct those items though? With the handheld device? I've tried and it didn't do anything.

[SmokedHalibut]

Yes as long as you can deconstruct stuff, you should be able to deconstruct flares and explosives. Perhaps it's possibly to not have the higher tier deconstruction tool, yet get a drop of a flare or explosive and be unable to deconstruct it? Or perhaps you just forgot to update the deconstruction tool?

Flares are a great source of components btw, so it may be worth deconstructing any excess you get from portals in the recycler (but you can light them and deconstruct them manually too which might actually be faster if you have a bundle and drop them outside since the recycler is so clunky to use).

[Robirda]

Originally posted by vinyblaster:

That's good to know! And yeah, exiting the game didn't help. How do you deconstruct those items though? With the handheld device? I've tried and it didn't do anything.

Sorry to hear that the exit/reload didn't help. Ah well. Sometimes you have to move around a little, back and forth and such, to get the durn things to highlight so you can deconstruct them... if you can't get them to highlight there might be a clipping problem, in which case the only way out I know of involves editing the save file, which I've not been quite brave enough to attempt... yet, at least! Maybe somebody else will chime in, or you can search the comments, it's been discussed a fair bit....

[Robirda]

Originally posted by Meewec:

i've never been able to pick up a detonator i dropped but i just deconstructed them and made new ones.

If you drop them you can pick them up, but if you right-click them you have to deconstruct them to get the materials back - either that or trigger the thing...

[Meewec]

Originally posted by Robirda:

Originally posted by Meewec:

i've never been able to pick up a detonator i dropped but i just deconstructed them and made new ones.

If you drop them you can pick them up, but if you right-click them you have to deconstruct them to get the materials back - either that or trigger the thing...

ahh, that'd be my problem then. i was always accidentally dropping them with right click