Loot respawns

[Jamietomp]

How often does loot respawn on the official servers? I was playing last night and I walked through all of woodhaven, but the most i could find was a crossbow. It seemed like all the good stuff had been looted already a long time ago. But I never met a single player

[oochy_coo]

around about 15 minutes but you also need to leave the immediate area - for instance if you loot at hayward distributors then run back to sultan to the petrol station then wait then go back loot is likely to have respawned.

If you just run up to the entrance gate and back its less likely (highly unlikely)

Notice I say likely as it is a little unpredictable - there is also a relation between loot spawn and player numbers - forget exactly how it works but the intention is to make you move around the map looting, not camp out specific spawn points - eg Hayward PD

if you can visualise it like a loot rain clouds drifting around the map - thinning out where there are fewer players and "raining loot" every 15 minutes or so

works something like that - figuratively speaking

Also places like the checkpoints and hayward tend to be more "loot dense"
Woodhaven is kind of a backwater now whereas it used to have more

its a popular spot for bases above it though so that may explain it - also a good go to place for vehicled players for a quick quiet loot (food and fuel)

you may have just been unlucky coming in after a team had looted by car

[Rambler]

Everything oochy_coo said matches my understanding of loot. I just wanted to add two things that I have noticed. 1. When nobody is in an area, loot doesn't spawn or spawns very rarely. So I usually run into an area and "Trigger" the loot spawns, then leave for about 15 minutes and come back. 2. If people are in an area, loot does not respawn until they leave.

[Out2SmokeU]

One of the main reasons I havent been playing the game. Havent played it in months. I would walk around for hrs, and only find a hand gun or 1-2 bullets for another weapon. Backbacks were even hard to find. So I jus stopped playing. I love this game, and the performance is way better than dayz. Graphics is crazy good, and love the realism of the world. Walkn on sand to see your footprints. The weather,water,rain,thunder ect.. all amazing. Was just bored walking around for hrs not finding anything, and the times that happened I was on an empty server. Was trying to learn the maps while trying to loot, but still don't know the maps, and didn't find anything good at all.

[oochy_coo]

like i said - loot spawns less regularly in the south and is also population dependant to a degree (not entirely)

Not sure of the exact mechanic but essentially if you spawn on to an empty server there is likely (that word "likely" again) to be less loot around than in the same set of circumstances on a populated server - and you currently will mostly spawn in the southern half of the map - unless you are lucky and are at brighmoor. It wont be like that every time on every empty server but it is more likely - and the spawns around lumbercamp, sultan, horseshoe can be particularly sparse - but again you might get lucky.

its to do with the mechanics of the engine and how it detects players - I'm not sure if this is a side effect from the cryengine and how it works or whether its been deliberately coded into the game - but the intention is that it drives the player on to search more of the map

as mentioned it is also to prevent camping particular spawn points.

my own personol experience is that I can usually find a back pack within 15- 20 minutes of proper searching - that doesnt include travelling - to a suitable search location though

For example if I am at horseshoe I will always check out rocky ripple caravan park - and its rare in the whole park not to find either a pack or enough rags to craft one

pine parks (Pinecrest) its extremely rare not to find a pack

if you loot all of sultan or all of pinecrest and dont find one then I would suspect you missed one

and so on

I have never found it hard to loot - as long as I move around - you get a feeling pretty quickly if an area has been looted out already - walk into a supermarket and if there is no food on the shelves at all then expect it to be difficult to find loot in the houses, at the very least be prepared to run into someone else.

[lux3y]

Looting basics guide: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=671331413
Loot spawning/respawning guide: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=827776490
Use the resources given to u. Good luck.

[BanditWarBoss]

WoodHaven is one of the worst spots to be in. Plus, there are player spawns anywhere near.

[BanditWarBoss]

Loot respawns every 15 mins. You have to leave the area, but you don't have to go far. I was on one side of the military base one time, and loot started respawning on the other side. Also loot in quite easy to find. Probably in the wrong spots.

[KITTYKO]

not true.. i play on 50/50 player servers all the time and find nothing!!!! lol.. this game just spawns nothing... theyr eally need to up the rates of items on this game... its killing the population... running around for 2 hrs to find an apple and a helmut? like come on this feels like work rather then a fun video game.... its just frustrating.... and when u finally do find somthing good.. a hacker just comes along and 1 shots you. so it ruins everything. we really need to get these guys to raise the rates a bit... more ppl wll play the game this way thats for sure