Food disappearing from drying racks.

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This didn't used to happen, and when it did start happening I assumed the cannibals were stealing it, but they aren't. I just sat and watch from a short distance and about three minutes after placing food on a rack, a couple pieces despawn for no reason. No animals or cannibals around. Is this happening to anyone else?

[Morocka]

yea i had the same issue come back from venturing and half my meat is gone

[Justinyl]

Kelvin eating

[MeGa]

My racks dont seem to dry. You use raw or cooked meat?

And fish or limbs?

Idk but id say I tried all kinds and they didnt change for days

[-=3D=- Duckumz 31]

Originally posted by MeGa:

My racks dont seem to dry. You use raw or cooked meat?

And fish or limbs?

Idk but id say I tried all kinds and they didnt change for days

Toss a fire under the drying rack, dunno if its required or not because i do it out of habit anymore to be able to cook on the fire on the fly while other meat is drying along with burn bodies to keep things in one place to multi-task but a buddy built just the rack and it never seemed to dry the fish...

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I figured it out. There's a hard limit for how many items you can have on drying racks and it seems to be per unique item. So for example I was filling racks with fish, and ONLY fish were disappearing. I think I was able to have 18 or so before they started despawning. None of the arms, legs or regular meat was disappearing.

[Surgeon]

Yeah I'm having that issue as well. How would we increase the server memory so that this doesn't happen?

[Valen Logan]

I have an eagle near my base that steals food and body parts. Just swoops in and takes off with it.

[ericknirvana]

Originally posted by PrometheusN:

I figured it out. There's a hard limit for how many items you can have on drying racks and it seems to be per unique item. So for example I was filling racks with fish, and ONLY fish were disappearing. I think I was able to have 18 or so before they started despawning. None of the arms, legs or regular meat was disappearing.

same for logs

i wonder if stick/rock containers are affected also

[-66th- Sparky]

I noticed birds are also eating off the drying rack, hence building scarecrows

[Mydas]

Originally posted by PrometheusN:

I figured it out. There's a hard limit for how many items you can have on drying racks and it seems to be per unique item. So for example I was filling racks with fish, and ONLY fish were disappearing. I think I was able to have 18 or so before they started despawning. None of the arms, legs or regular meat was disappearing.

I think you are right. I was finding the same thing happening to wood logs.

[MeGa]

Originally posted by -66th- Col. Sparky:

I noticed birds are also eating off the drying rack, hence building scarecrows

Wow the scarecrows are for birds?

I thought they served as a basic version of head in a spike, to scare cannibals

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Originally posted by ericknirvana:

Originally posted by PrometheusN:

I figured it out. There's a hard limit for how many items you can have on drying racks and it seems to be per unique item. So for example I was filling racks with fish, and ONLY fish were disappearing. I think I was able to have 18 or so before they started despawning. None of the arms, legs or regular meat was disappearing.

same for logs

i wonder if stick/rock containers are affected also

I have about ten stick containers filled with sticks and they hold 80-90 each, so I think they're safe.

[Andy Mil]

Dang. I didnt know there is hard limit. I have like 10 dying rack and got all kind of meat and leg and arms and few fishes but none disppear without I can see bird eat them away. Well, U can stack meat on shelf if u wish for now it holding more than 7 meat

[IamLoco]

I have my base at the lake above the huge waterfall. There are often 20-30 fish at one spot which you can easily all kill at once with a handgranade. I put them all up on drying racks and when I was done, the fish on the first racks had already despawned. ALL of them. Not eaten by birds, not stolen by Kelvin or the canibals. This is just sad :(

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Originally posted by IamLoco:

I have my base at the lake above the huge waterfall. There are often 20-30 fish at one spot which you can easily all kill at once with a handgranade. I put them all up on drying racks and when I was done, the fish on the first racks had already despawned. ALL of them. Not eaten by birds, not stolen by Kelvin or the canibals. This is just sad :(

Yeah my guess is engine limitation.