Where did I park the gyrocopter?

[rikkitikki]

After getting to Day 70 and having built up a nice fortress for myself, I got bored and put the game aside for a month. Got the itch to play again today and came back to find myself at my base pretty much as I remembered but my copter was gone. There are no icons on my HUD or on the map, and I checked all my storage bins. If I recall I think I left it parked outside my base after my last mission. Is it possible that it can get jacked by zombies without my knowing? Should I have left it in a "secure" storage box?

[Crater Creator]

When you pick up your gyrocopter, it converts from an entity to an item. And anecdotally, items seem to have fewer problems. Entities physically interact with the world, whereas an item is just an element in a list of a container's contents.

With that said, the game simulation doesn't run unless somebody's in the game. And even when the game is running, zombies won't target vehicles; they'll only target you.

Anyway, you can open the console with F1 and enter le for list entities. If there's a gyrocopter in the area, it should be listed. If it's not in that list, then it's either far away or it's no longer in the world at all. You could enable creative mode (cm in console) and open the creative menu with U if you want to restore a lost gyrocopter or other lost item.

[rikkitikki]

All good info, thanks Crator. Alas, I am on a mac and for some reason I am not able to open the console with F1 or any other key that I can find despite it being listed as F1 in the binding. (This has been a long-running problem that I've raised before but no one seems to have a solution.) I usually just leave my vehicles in the driveway outside my base rather than pick them up and take them in. From what you're saying, though, it sounds like theft is not a thing in this game (even though I seem to recall a post about things going missing?) At any rate I guess I will have to build another copter and try to be better at remembering where I left it next time. :/

[Crater Creator]

I also play on macOS, and I can access the console with F1. You may need to go to System Preferences->Keyboard->Keyboard tab and select "Use F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys." Or if you don't want to do that, hold down the function (fn) key when pressing F1. You could try other function key commands, like F8 to toggle the frame rate counter, to see if your function keys work in game in general.

Vehicle theft could only be a thing in multiplayer. It's conceivable that would change with the addition of bandits, but we'll see.

[MoistGamer]

Originally posted by rikkitikki:

After getting to Day 70 and having built up a nice fortress for myself, I got bored and put the game aside for a month. Got the itch to play again today and came back to find myself at my base pretty much as I remembered but my copter was gone. There are no icons on my HUD or on the map, and I checked all my storage bins. If I recall I think I left it parked outside my base after my last mission. Is it possible that it can get jacked by zombies without my knowing? Should I have left it in a "secure" storage box?

Question... will be hard to recall given you last played a month ago: Did the game exit normally last time you played? Are you on a laptop and the battery died, or did it go to sleep, or did your PC crash, or ALT F4 (whatever mac equivalent is)? Any of those?

A few months back I lost a gyro and I was flying when the power went out. Another time I had just landed it, same end result w/ a PC crash, and lost it there as well.

Just some possibilities!

[rikkitikki]

Originally posted by MoistGamer:

Originally posted by rikkitikki:

After getting to Day 70 and having built up a nice fortress for myself, I got bored and put the game aside for a month. Got the itch to play again today and came back to find myself at my base pretty much as I remembered but my copter was gone. There are no icons on my HUD or on the map, and I checked all my storage bins. If I recall I think I left it parked outside my base after my last mission. Is it possible that it can get jacked by zombies without my knowing? Should I have left it in a "secure" storage box?

Question... will be hard to recall given you last played a month ago: Did the game exit normally last time you played? Are you on a laptop and the battery died, or did it go to sleep, or did your PC crash, or ALT F4 (whatever mac equivalent is)? Any of those?

A few months back I lost a gyro and I was flying when the power went out. Another time I had just landed it, same end result w/ a PC crash, and lost it there as well.

Just some possibilities!

No, nothing like that, really. I reappeared in my base home just as I remembered, but couldn't remember if I had left the gyro outside or put it in my pocket to store inside, which I occasionally do. So I checked all the lockers but nada, hence my post. But thanks for offering that possibility. Interesting to hear of your experience.