my sword is suddenly stolen

[Mad★Paladin]

i found my st. george longsword in the chest in the forest garden. i've been using it forever, and now suddenly it has a stolen marker on it.
any easy way to get rid of that? and why did this happen?

[Dexter]

Post screenshot please.
Are You sure this is just not a marker for blood on weapon?

[Starwing]

The same thing happened to my husband with a metal plated battle axe from a chest near Skalitz. I advised him to put the axe in his 'Everywhere Chest' to cool it off, if a restart didn't fix the problem. When he checked the axe again after putting it there, it was no longer tagged as stolen.

It's a strange bug. I wonder what would happen if a guard searches you with an incorrectly marked "stolen" item.

[Phyrric]

Originally posted by Starwing6:

The same thing happened to my husband with a metal plated battle axe from a chest near Skalitz. I advised him to put the axe in his 'Everywhere Chest' to cool it off, if a restart didn't fix the problem. When he checked the axe again after putting it there, it was no longer tagged as stolen.

It's a strange bug. I wonder what would happen if a guard searches you with an incorrectly marked "stolen" item.

Most likely the guard would just react the same way if he caught you with any other stolen item.

[theo]

I guess those chests are someone's hidden stashes

[Mad★Paladin]

it looks like training with bernard is the problem. i trained with him, and my sword was no longer stolen, but my arrows were. putting them in my storage chest removed the stolen tag.

[Lieste]

Originally posted by Starwing6:

The same thing happened to my husband with a metal plated battle axe from a chest near Skalitz. I advised him to put the axe in his 'Everywhere Chest' to cool it off, if a restart didn't fix the problem. When he checked the axe again after putting it there, it was no longer tagged as stolen.

It's a strange bug. I wonder what would happen if a guard searches you with an incorrectly marked "stolen" item.

While nothing in your stash has the stolen icon, note that items which are recognised as stolen are still 'stolen' and will have 'steal' rather than 'take' on them until this status clears.

A common culprit for a stolen tag is accessing something which changes your inventory while you have items equipped. I find this is reasonably common with the Pribyslavitz arena for example, where a seemingly random selection of weapons were marked as stolen after each access - if this affects your highest grade weapon, you can grab some disposable one and retry - it may swap the stolen tag.

Storing the best item onto the horsey may prevent this being a large (expensive) problem, but I didn't test extensively, just shrugged and moved on.

[theo]

Yeah I remember couple of times guards/shops recognized some item as stolen while it's already lost (or didn't have in the first place) stolen mark.
For example when I took some food and booze from Lubosh's house after he was murdered, which obviously was stealing but somehow didn't count as - and I tried to sell some at the local inn they recognized it as stolen.
At first I thought it's supposed to be like that lol, like Henry just forgot or didn't know he stole it.
Btw, storing stolen loot onto the horse won't fool the guards since one of the latest patches, they check horse inventory too if they catch you

[Lieste]

It wasn't to 'fool' guards, but to remove the stuff you care about before playing the 'stolen lottery' by entering the arenas. It might, or might not be helpful, but it is certainly worth experimenting with.

[Starwing]

Originally posted by Wyatt Mann:

Originally posted by Starwing6:

The same thing happened to my husband with a metal plated battle axe from a chest near Skalitz. I advised him to put the axe in his 'Everywhere Chest' to cool it off, if a restart didn't fix the problem. When he checked the axe again after putting it there, it was no longer tagged as stolen.

It's a strange bug. I wonder what would happen if a guard searches you with an incorrectly marked "stolen" item.

ok? ur a girl??? noooooot

What's your problem? Women can't play KCD? Grow up.

[crazyorse]

Originally posted by Wyatt Mann:

Originally posted by Starwing6:

The same thing happened to my husband with a metal plated battle axe from a chest near Skalitz. I advised him to put the axe in his 'Everywhere Chest' to cool it off, if a restart didn't fix the problem. When he checked the axe again after putting it there, it was no longer tagged as stolen.

It's a strange bug. I wonder what would happen if a guard searches you with an incorrectly marked "stolen" item.

ok? ur a girl??? noooooot

and probably a helluva lot better at gaming than you LOL

[Erik McAwful]

I just had everything in my weapons tab register as stolen. That includes my trusty mace, my trusty sword, my trusty-though-hardly-used-bow, my arrows, dagger and torch. For absolutely no reason. Armor tab seems fine, however.

[Jeff]

This happened to me after I trained with Bernard.

I suspect the game gave me replacement wooden gear for training, and then when I got my stuff back it was "stolen" because it appeared back in my inventory and the game didn't understand why.

In previous versions of the game when this bug showed up, the newly stolen stuff can be "permanently stolen" and must be sold and repurchased to remove the tag.

[Anatolius]

Happened to me just now, dunno what caused it but i load the game, then suddenly notice my bow and half of arrows are tagged as stolen(bow was legit bought from huntsman)

[CloudSeeker]

Originally posted by Purple Flame:

Happened to me just now, dunno what caused it but i load the game, then suddenly notice my bow and half of arrows are tagged as stolen(bow was legit bought from huntsman)

Did you train with Bernard or did you do something where your items were removed and given back?
I think that happens when the game takes your items away and store them somewhere, but when given back it gets flagged as stolen for some reason as the game think you stole your own stuff.

[Erik McAwful]

I can confirm that my items getting flagged as stolen had nothing to do with Bernard. It happened while I slept in Uzhitz.