What happens to lost belongings

[Zirbiss]

When you die you lose the stuff you have gathered. What happens to those things? Are they deleted from the game world never to return, or do they respawn somehow?

I lost a large amount of one of the rarest materials, and that got me asking that question. I like that resources are limited though.

[caesar_andy]

They will just stay, where they are. Ressources do not despawn until you manually reset the map by fiddling around with the save-game files.

Ressources are limited, yes. But they still are plenty. There is nothing really rare in the game. Some Ressources are rare in specific biomes but will spawn in larger amounts in others.

[kwong20287]

I thought they implemented when you die, your stuff drops to the ground. That said, I haven't died in a looong time....

[Zirbiss]

What happens to the stuff in the storage compartment of your vessels when they get destroyed?

[miklkit]

When your seamoth or prawn gets destroyed everything in them goes "poof". Gone.

When your cyclops gets destroyed it may be torn to pieces so there is nothing but some scrap metal left, or it may be left mostly intact. That happens if you manage to bail out before it is destroyed. If it is mostly intact, then you can go back in and salvage quite a bit.

[theresejesu]

Originally posted by kwong20287:

I thought they implemented when you die, your stuff drops to the ground. That said, I haven't died in a looong time....

It mostly just floats in the area it was dropped in.

[theresejesu]

Originally posted by miklkit:

When your seamoth or prawn gets destroyed everything in them goes "poof". Gone.

When your cyclops gets destroyed it may be torn to pieces so there is nothing but some scrap metal left, or it may be left mostly intact. That happens if you manage to bail out before it is destroyed. If it is mostly intact, then you can go back in and salvage quite a bit.

i've recovered items from my seamoth when a reaper destroyed it.

[Pembroke]

Just adding that when you die you lose those items from your personal inventory that you added after your last "save point", which in this case include you entering your lifepod, base, or cyclops. That will also be your respawn point. As said above, the stuff lost this way will be dropped at the location where you died.

[miklkit]

I've recently died two times when I forgot to check the timer and ran out of air 50-80m down. Went back and there was nothing there both times.

Then there were the times when I died inside a wreck when I got lost. Went back and everything was there.

Yesterday a reaper wrecked my prawn directly under the moonpool. I killed it and then went looking for loot, and there was nothing but a dead reaper. I had just gotten back from the lost river with a load of special sulpher and it was all gone.

I don't know how the system works anymore.

[toinkertoy]

Originally posted by miklkit:

I've recently died two times when I forgot to check the timer and ran out of air 50-80m down. Went back and there was nothing there both times.

Then there were the times when I died inside a wreck when I got lost. Went back and everything was there.

Yesterday a reaper wrecked my prawn directly under the moonpool. I killed it and then went looking for loot, and there was nothing but a dead reaper. I had just gotten back from the lost river with a load of special sulpher and it was all gone.

I don't know how the system works anymore.

It’s possible some of your items collected dropped through the ground. I’ve had a hell of time with table coral doing that, I usually have to cut 3 to 5 pieces off just to get 1. I’ve also quartz disappear into the ground when trying to pile it outside my Lifepod (due to storage space issues before building a base).

[miklkit]

For whatever reason I do not have that issue. I too pile stuff up under the lifepod and the stuff I never used is still there. The only time I had that problem was when I built a base right next to a geyser and the game went wacky bonkers. When I dismantled that base the game returned to normal. I can beach the seamoth and everything with no problems now.

[theresejesu]

Originally posted by miklkit:

For whatever reason I do not have that issue. I too pile stuff up under the lifepod and the stuff I never used is still there. The only time I had that problem was when I built a base right next to a geyser and the game went wacky bonkers. When I dismantled that base the game returned to normal. I can beach the seamoth and everything with no problems now.

A reaper throws your seamoth down violently onto the sea floor to destroy it. That downward force could continue with your loot and send it below the map. Different than just laying someting on the sea floor.