losing items from shelf storage

[Happy840]

I have added items to my shelf's for storing and when I log back into the game. The shelf has less items then it had when I saved and logged out of the game. Is any one else having this issue? Is it due to my placement of the shelf's?

[deet]

Wall shelves despawn items, the big ones don't seem to as far as I've seen

[Happy840]

Originally posted by deetis:

Wall shelves despawn items, the big ones don't seem to as far as I've seen

That has been the opposite of what I have experienced. The wall shelve's have kept their items, and the big ones seem to be de-spawning items.

[blazha]

Originally posted by Happy840:

Originally posted by deetis:

Wall shelves despawn items, the big ones don't seem to as far as I've seen

That has been the opposite of what I have experienced. The wall shelve's have kept their items, and the big ones seem to be de-spawning items.

That's not what I have experienced, none of the shelves are despawning items in my game.

Any particular sort of items despawn or is it random? I remember cannibals used to steal your meat from drying racks in the first game. Maybe Kelvin and Virginia are eating from the shelves if food items are missing

[Happy840]

Originally posted by blazha:

Originally posted by Happy840:

That has been the opposite of what I have experienced. The wall shelve's have kept their items, and the big ones seem to be de-spawning items.

That's not what I have experienced, none of the shelves are despawning items in my game.

Any particular sort of items despawn or is it random? I remember cannibals used to steal your meat from drying racks in the first game. Maybe Kelvin and Virginia are eating from the shelves if food items are missing

So far I have noticed, Molotov's, bottles of alcohol, C4, tarps, rope, shotgun ammo, and 9mm ammo all missing from my shelf.

[Doppleman]

I also found that some items on my big shelf disapeared.
I put on all the stuff that I couldn't really use without items that I don't have yet. So, ammo, C4, watches, electronics, batteries, zipline ropes, ... I can't remember which ones disapeared, but I haven't build a shelf since then.

[ericknirvana]

could be item limit, how much are you hoarding? i got a few around different areas nothing has depswaned but im not hording. only got 5 total

[Doppleman]

I know I had a lot of some, mostly batteries and watches since they keep respawning at reload. But I'm pretty sure the watches stayed on the shelf.

[Kryten]

I haven't noticed this with shelfs yet, but I noticed that very often stuff gets missing from my drying rack.

[deet]

Originally posted by ericknirvana:

could be item limit, how much are you hoarding? i got a few around different areas nothing has depswaned but im not hording. only got 5 total

Bruh, if the game doesn't want you to hoard then why add shelves? lol

[shmodzilla]

Weve got a bunch of items its definitely not a "hoarding" issue but yeah every time we logged on a bunch of the 9mm dissapeared

[Happy840]

Originally posted by ericknirvana:

could be item limit, how much are you hoarding? i got a few around different areas nothing has depswaned but im not hording. only got 5 total

This would be wild if the inventory in your bag will de-spawn items from your storage shelve. I didn't think of this being a possibility.

[Happy840]

Originally posted by Kryten:

I haven't noticed this with shelfs yet, but I noticed that very often stuff gets missing from my drying rack.

I have left a full drying rack for 10 days and have not lost anything. The drying rack is out in the open and nothing is stopping any one from going up to it. I will def be keeping an eye on this moving forward.

[Noble Six]

Originally posted by Kryten:

I haven't noticed this with shelfs yet, but I noticed that very often stuff gets missing from my drying rack.

*Looks intensely at Kelvin* lmao

[HazePhase]

I lost hundreds of shotgun shells and buckshot... At 3 different stages of the game I filled up a bookshelf with ammo and 10-20 days later, I noticed all but, 2 stacks of stun gun and 9mm remained. I theorized that it may have been enemies stealing stuff but, that's not possible. I think what's causing it, is placing a bookshelf or something of the kind in the vicinity.

[Kryten]

Ok the solution to things disappearing from my drying rack was indeed that there is a maximum amount of fish that can exist. I always had Kelvin gather fish, and when that maximum was reached, the fish on the drying rack was deleted. I now stop Kelvin when the rack is full and since then no fish have disappeared again. I guess that is also the reason why they now changed him so that he automatically stops gathering fish after a while.
I also could imagine that this is a thing for all other items and that other things can disappear from shelfs as well if more than the maximum amount have been gathered/looted in total.