Villagers are losing their weapons！

[Realdreamer]

I found my villagers losing their weapons, including bows and shields, when they served as workers with those things armed.

I am sure they are lost but not been put into any chest or storehouse. And all my villagers do not have the negative effect about dropping goods.

Wish to be solved quickly!

[W1NTER_SOLD1ER]

it's annoying AF - Have a weapons rack and use it to arm your followers before setting out with them as companions

[Sandheim]

Having this issue as well - have lost at least 4 shields and lots of crafted/bought weapons from them just disappearing randomly from villager inventory - very annoying. Will just equip before companioning but needs fixing. Sullying an otherwise good time atm.

[chadzTheDonkey]

we think that there is indeed a bug here in some combinations. we're looking into it

[Zap Brannigan]

I had it pop up when i dropped a bow into the original hunter guys inventory and he was already holding a hoe in the 2h slot. bow just disappeared after a few seconds. was mildly infuriating, have turned off raids until this gets fixed.

[Ronnie]

Originally posted by Zap Brannigan:

I had it pop up when i dropped a bow into the original hunter guys inventory and he was already holding a hoe in the 2h slot. bow just disappeared after a few seconds. was mildly infuriating, have turned off raids until this gets fixed.

Good one. Might do that as well indeed. These kind of bugs are game breaking to be honest. It might get me upset and stop playing for a while lol

[Victarion]

I think they lose everything in their inventory when they die. Equipping a tier 2 backpack over a tier 1 made a ton of items reappear in my inventory... so I'm guessing the items are still in the npcs inventory array they just don't show in the inventory slots. Refresh npc inventory slots when player inspects?

[Redhalo]

I haven't tried this yet, but someone said in another thread that they quit having the issue with 1 handers after putting their weapons in the middle slot. But, that doesn't solve the issue of 2 handers and archers dropping their weapons, or the shields of 1 handers getting dumped everywhere. I have disabled all weapon storage so that they will use the racks, but that doesn't help with the shields getting tossed, or with them dumping weapons in areas I can't block them from. I have found it's easier to just disarm them after a fight, and place all their weapons where I can find them easily later.
All of this contributes to the massive amount of micromanagement currently required to play this game. Enabling the ability to put shields in weapon racks would be a bit nicer..

[yai200439]

Sometime they would drop the weapon in the work area. For instance, they would drop shield,bow inside the mud camp to take out the shovel. However, when they're done with their duty, they would not take back the shield,bow. It will stay there.

[Vayna Reka]

Normally they have to keep the tools, weapons and clothes we give them. It is annoying to deal with each attack one by one like dressing children.

[Tony_Man]

Has anyone had any recent issues with this? I’m brand new to the game and it seems like my villagers have lost every shield, sword, and battle axe I have them. Of course I didn’t discover this until a raid is incoming.

[Ketamarine]

Originally posted by mansonanthony:

Has anyone had any recent issues with this? I’m brand new to the game and it seems like my villagers have lost every shield, sword, and battle axe I have them. Of course I didn’t discover this until a raid is incoming.

This was my number 2 issue when I stopped playing like 4 months ago.

After the combat being insanely unbalanced and difficult for no good reason...