No airdrops or car loot respawning on private server

[Cosmic Cat]

Hey everybody, on my friends private server that we are renting, we have the airdrop setting to every 8 hours, and loot spawn up to 200% every 4 days. nomatter what we change our airdrop or our loot spawn settings to, still no loot ever respawns in cars and still no airdrops ever fall from the sky. This is super frustrating. I carry several guns on me at all times incase of dogs, hornets, hordes or players, however now that nearly all the cars have been looted, lead is even MORE rare!!! this is ludicris. How am i supposed to manufacture all my bullets without car batteries? mining is useless, and this seems to be the only two methods of obtaining any lead! Is this a bug anybody else is experiencing? If so, please lend some support because we are really stumped on this one.

[Cosmic Cat]

ok so i now understand that there are also lead fishing weights that can help me. but still, the cars should be respawning. Is this a glitch on all private servers? or is it on all online files? are our settings messed up? i just want to know that this issue will be addressed at some point in the future

[wsiegel]

Cars are considered entities as are pigs, stag, rabbbits and zombies. Because of the way the code is they do not respan loot. Maybe they will change this in the futre but as long as they are entities and not loot containers it will remain this way. And since they plan on making cars drivable, I doubt this will change. It will be more of a mobile storage container.

[Raginmonkey]

i read something about loot not respawning near players not sure if that has anything to do or if it is map wide

[Nykara]

It's map wide that cars aren't respawning loot now.

Also, no more Coffee beans?! I haven't looted any since the patch

[Cosmic Cat]

oh man! i really hope not. a far better solution would be to make it a container and then if driven, an entity. i mean cmon, that way it spawns loot until you can actually drive it. or an even easier solution would be to just allow car batteries to spawn in garbage, or boxes. (as far as i know it only spawns in cars, which never respawn loot) and is the best method of getting lead which is already super rare

[shantigilbert]

Maybe this isn't the awnser you want, but lead is not that rare on 8.7 I have digged on 2 places and found a LOT of it (I now have about 2 stacks of lead ingots and I didn't get all the ores) get a pickaxe and do some digging, you will get a LOT of lead, sometimes you can even see it on the surface. try diggin straight down on the basement of the farm house (the one with lots of corn) I've read there is a big chance there are always ores there.

[Cosmic Cat]

no no, thats a very nice boost! I appreciate that greatly. anything to keep my munitions workshop running. haha never know when a war will strike up =P

[Pops]

Dont waste time on lead sinkers either - they are severely bugged and immediately disappear from the forge when used with no lead ingot output. The ammo is all over if u know where to look, last time I looked, I had near 1000 rounds of each and I've only been in for 10 game-days. Shotgun shells are harder but mining helps with that.

[Cosmic Cat]

i mean i already have a gun farm using lots of gun safes.. so i do manage to get lots of ammo anyway, but i dont like to leave my ammo production up to chance, i enjoy crafting it myself. and the lead fishing weights, those are fine for use within a forge?