Item/Corpse Decay Bar Question?

[Granny Pannies]

I haven't really played since the update that added a lot more customizable game play settings to the game. One of them was Corpse and Item decay, which is set on 0.0 by default. Does this mean that your body/items will disappear instantly when you die? All I've heard was that setting it to a higher number might make your items/body disappear slower?

I've tried to do research on this and cannot find a definite answer... I'm really only asking because I've died twice since this update (with these settings on the default 0.0) and when I went back to find my body, there was nothing there. The first time I figured perhaps I was just looking in the wrong area and gave up, but the second time I was 99.99% sure I was looking in the right area and could not find my body or items at all, and I took less than a minute or two to get back to where I died. I was looking on the ground everywhere close to where I died and there was nothing... Am I missing something?

Please, I just want to know if I've simply gone blind or it it's the settings messing with me! I've honestly looked around and can't find a definitive answer for this... Plz help? :(

[Desertworld]

So first you delete your old toppic where someone gave you the link to the xbox section of the game (because we have no idea how the game works on xbox... the versions are totally different. even 2 different teams work on that) now you create a new topic and avoid the word xbox while everyone can see that you don't own the game on pc. We really can't make it much more simple for you. This is the xbox section of ark: https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/forum/13-xbox/
ask your question there, we don't know what could have happend on xbox. on pc the timers still exist but some servers of course can change them to whatever they want to since we can change nearly anything here with mods. Also i don't know if things can glitch trough the map on xbox like it happens to some low end pcs..

[ByteNinja]

I don't know anything about the settings, but by default your body/death cache will take 15 minutes to despawn. Thought they could have fallen through the world, which is pretty common if you die from fall damage.

[Granny Pannies]

Regardless of platform, the settings should work the same way. Yes, console and PC may have different glitches, but I'm mostly just asking how the Item and Corpse decay settings work. Not much more than that. I don't have an account on that website and don't feel like making one at this moment, so forgive me for asking here. Whether I play on PC or console shouldn't make a difference. Yes, my body may have glitched out somehow, but that doesn't tell me how the settings themselves work. That's really all I'm wanting to find out for my own peace of mind. I'm playing solo, not on any server where an admin could have changed things. Does that make things more clear for you?

[Desertworld]

in this case go to http://ark.gamepedia.com/Server_Configuration and search the things you need. GlobalItemDecompositionTimeMultiplier=<value> Default = 1.0
Scales the spoiling time of perishables globally. Higher values prolong the time.

[beepdebeep]

For anyone stumbling across this post, 2 years after the fact, setting Decomposition Time to 0.0 has the same effect as 1.0. Everything above 1.0 scales the time-to-decay up.

Example: Decay timer for Raw Meat dropped from inventory.
0.0 = 2:00
1.0 = 2:00
2.0 = 4:00
5.0 = 10:00

[Sukotto82]

Originally posted by beepdebeep:

For anyone stumbling across this post, 2 years after the fact, setting Decomposition Time to 0.0 has the same effect as 1.0. Everything above 1.0 scales the time-to-decay up.

Example: Decay timer for Raw Meat dropped from inventory.
0.0 = 2:00
1.0 = 2:00
2.0 = 4:00
5.0 = 10:00

Thanks. Many more years later this is still helpful.
Thank you Beepdebeep for this.

[Mike]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.