Dropped items. How long before they're gone?

[1ostcat]

I had my first experience with a Warper the other day. In all the confusion I somehow right-clicked my stasis rifle and dropped it while above a ~150m deep, but self-contained cave.

I tried searching around for it, but with the Warper still in the area, I didn't do a great job. After licking my wounds at my base (about 600m away), I came back and thoroughly searched the cave. The rifle was nowhere to be seen.

What typically happens with items that are dropped? Do they de-spawn? And if so, how much time goes by? I dropped a rotten melon outside of my base once, and it saw it there for quite a while as I entered and exited my base.

[Lauleyhn]

Magnetite is found in the jellyshroom cave. Also, maybe the scanner room can find lost items.

[bongerman85]

depending the scanner room can. but i will tell you this. depending on where the dropped object is. and how far u venture away as well as how far your computer saves the terrain. its possible for the items to fall through the map and off the worldspace. also something else here that is possible for despawning that i wonder about sometimes is that there is a barrier at the bottom of the worldspace. for which if u cross the barrier yourself you will suddenly stop swimming and begin falling from the sky and land approx 50m from lp5 its possible items may do this too?

[Lauleyhn]

But if the scanner room works and can't detect it, at least you know it's not there anymore.
I had a seadragon try grabbing my prawn and it flinged me through the walls. The game still has serious wallglitch and noclip problems. On the other hand - i'm still playing in experimental.

[Viԏas LoШang CZ]

Hello. So I have just been playing Subnautica for 2 days and because there is never enough space until you can make bases I wonder where to put stuff. I noticed that those coral samples and creature eggs seem to lay on the seafloor forever, so I dropped my seaglide there because I built a seamoth. But WTH? After some time I see the seaglide has disappeared. That's just great. So either Stalker took it or the game makes expensive items despawn and garbage stay...

[Cougarific]

The Seaglide may have glitched into the map when you reloaded your save - it happens - which is why I never leave anything valuable (including the Prawn Suit and Seamoth) on the ground when I quit the game.

Making a small, one-compartment base and building a storage locker is pretty easy tho - you should make that a priority.

If you need more help may I suggest watching some of my tutorial series:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1342946019

[1ostcat]

引用自 Viԏas LoШang ░CZ░：

Hello. So I have just been playing Subnautica for 2 days and because there is never enough space until you can make bases I wonder where to put stuff. I noticed that those coral samples and creature eggs seem to lay on the seafloor forever, so I dropped my seaglide there because I built a seamoth. But WTH? After some time I see the seaglide has disappeared. That's just great. So either Stalker took it or the game makes expensive items despawn and garbage stay...

You can build storage chests immediately. They can be deployed outside of the lifepod at any depth and they will stay in position (unless nudged around). They will not despawn, and they will store a small number of items.

[miklkit]

Some things are supposed to drift under the ground, like stalker teeth. Otherwise they would collect by the hundreds and cause performance problems.
This also causes some other things that should not drift underground to do drift underground. Therefore do not leave anything you value just laying around. Excess titanium or lead can be left laying around safely but not much else.

[phoenix45718]

引用自 1ostcat：

Interesting. They don't despawn. So somewhere out there is my stasis rifle...I was inside the mouth of a vertical cave when I dropped it, so the only place it could have fallen was into the cave. And the cave's bottom isn't very big, so I've gone over it very carefully. It's a mystery.

Maybe the Warper is now armed with my stasis rifle.

It probably clipped into the floor

[Ray Robertson]

I think it has actually corroded away by now.

[1ostcat]

引用自 Ray Robertson：

I think it has actually corroded away by now.

Just went back with a flashlight and found it! Sweet! Finally, I can finish the game.

[Ez Duzit]

引用自 1ostcat：

引用自 Ray Robertson：

I think it has actually corroded away by now.

Just went back with a flashlight and found it! Sweet! Finally, I can finish the game.

Now that was funny (5 years later)

[dreamrider]

So, that was ~5 years RT.
How much elapsed time, roughly, in game time?

(Assuming you weren't kidding about finding it...)

[1ostcat]

引用自 dreamrider：

So, that was ~5 years RT.
How much elapsed time, roughly, in game time?

(Assuming you weren't kidding about finding it...)

Well, technically it wasn't my original character that found it. It was that characters great grandchild, who is actually 1/4 Garryfish.

[Dakados]

You had sex with a fish or fertilized its eggs?

[1ostcat]

引用自 Dakados：

You had sex with a fish or fertilized its eggs?

A gentlemen never tells.