Vanishing Robotic Sledge?

[Profile Name]

I've been building a horde base in the wasteland but haven't really used it yet. I tend to have a sledge on a ledge near the opening that I defend from (not sure what the term is, the place you stand where there's something blocking them from reaching you and you can hit/blast them) so that it can knock them off and prevent it from getting too crowded there. I set up a robot sledge there in this new base, leave for a few days or maybe a week.

I show up at this base later to find the sledge is missing, and the concrete blocks in its vague vicinity were slightly damaged (no more than 10 pts) and a nearby window was broken. It's like a very very weak explosion went off?

I just want to know what happened to the sledge. Can objects of that kind just vanish from the game? I thought it was in the same category as vehicles where it's permanent.

I think zombies can attack the sledge but i'm not sure if they do it consistently enough to destroy it. And I hadn't been around much, and I don't really see why they would be up there if I was nearby doing something else. (I assume nothing actually happens if there's no-one around to see it, like a tree falling in the woods.)

(Single player game btw, so nobody stole it.)

[Mardoin69]

Yes... they can destroy it. It might not be their intention--they're just randomly swinging at the wall / obstacle blocking their path toward you. They do not actually 'target' the device. When you are away from that spot--meaning far enough away to not have that area loaded into games buffer--nothing 'should' be happening there. It maybe possible you were still close enough to the device that the area was currently loaded and some wanderers were spawned in and going toward the device--which then became an obstacle in their path forward. Usually, they'll beat away at things in their path and then change their path to go around said obstacles if they do not give way easily. So, theoretically... they shouldn't destroy it when you are not behind it and the focus of their attention. However, if it were an enemy type that does damage when dying (like exploding cop) and the device killed them prior to moving around obstacle, it could destroy it. That's 'probably' what happened in yer case.

[seven]

I've never lost one from a zombie damaging one, but that area block damage does sound suspicious. I have lost some from just falling through the map and vanishing. I don't know if that can still happen though, I got in the habit of picking them up when not in use.

[God Bless The Dead]

I have seen them randomly fall through the blocks they are place on in the past, I dont know if that's still a thing, seen it a few times, but it could happen, maybe that is your issue, maybe not.

[Profile Name]

Neither theory seems to work then. A cop exploding would have done more damage than that done to those blocks, and in any even the damage was minimal. The autosledge may have fallen through the object it was on, but there were spaces below it would have landed on, so it would have had to have fallen through two additional 'floors'. Seems astronomically unlikely that it would have happened three times.

Well, I guess this mystery will just haunt me in my sleep until my dying day.