Item Persistence

[Mr. Moose]

So I joined an item persistence ON server but I have a few questions...

1. Is there a chance if I drop stuff off in a log cabin in a remote area that they will despawn or is the system completely working?
2. Have other people had problems with item persitence?
3. Do I have to always play on the same server?

[Breitmacher]

1. items on the ground will disappear after 10 hrs i think
2. not on persistence: on servers
3. you can play on all persistence:on servers ... only if you have a tent hidden in the woods you have to come back to this specific server to find your tent again

[SystemiK]

As I understand it, dropped items remain in place until either a server restart, or until the number of dropped items in the world reaches a certain number at which point the server starts deleting dropped items. I'm willing to be wrong about that however.

Item persistance generally refers to tents and items placed in tents. Item persistance is close to being ready but I think they may have disabled it in the last week and it will get hotfixed soon.

You never have to play on the same server but as server rules are allowed to change, you may find new reasons to play on the same server.

Hope this is all accurate, I've been away for a few months and still trying to catch up myself....

[jspaceman]

from what i have done...i have stockpiled 2 backpacks full of extra
food, meds, and ammo and 3 weapons out in the woods and they
have been there since thursday morning. they have not despawned yet.

i have been looking for a tent since wednesdays update to stable
with no luck at all.

as far as persistence goes i am starting to see some patterns that
i will have to make adjustments to if persistence is working as intended.
meaning, loot doesnt seem to be refreshing after server restarts. for
example, i have searched 3 different bases since wednesday and the
loot at these bases has not refreshed after server restarts. it is the
same items...in the same location...every day. i am going to be moving
my area of search to a different region of the map now to see if other
bases and cities are performing like this as well. currently, it seems
that server restarts are not refreshing untouched/undropped loot and these
items are just sitting there...for days.

[jspaceman]

well after a long night and morning of testing some ideas on the nature
of persistence here are my observations as of saturday morning.
*official servers with persistence on only*
loot does not despawn. seemingly ever. my stockpile has remained
safe and sound out in the forest since thursday morning. this is great
news for the survival players out there! but...this doesnt just mean the
loot you are stockpiling somewhere that seems to be safe from despawning
and server restarts. this seems to mean all loot. i tested my theory out
on a second server through 3 restarts yesterday and into the early morning
hours and noticed the same patterns. untouched loot is not despawning.
what this seems to indicate is if persistence is working as intended then
what we have here is a kind of "loot locked" server environment. in my
searches across 3 bases on 2 different servers the loot is not refreshing.
it is the same loot in the same spots as before after every restart.
if i notice any changes to loot in the areas that i patrol i will report it here.