Disappearing Storage chest and other disappearing items

[dreadbreadheadsteadmedfed]

Built several storage chests (50 wood type) near the small pond. Mid-way through fall 1st year and 1 of my chests disappear. This chest had ALL of my rare fish catches

I did not do anything, no attacks with weapons or farm equipment to make it movable or anything... It was there right before i slept and when i wake up its gone

Is there a limit to how many actual items there are on the farm map?? I just recently started to try my hand at planting fruit trees. I have 2 recycling machines and several ore smelters near the lake as well as various crops, sprinklers and scarecrows.....

I havent upgraded my house or built the coop / animal stuff yet. I did make the cave into a mushroom place.




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UPDATE APRIL 12, 2016

Been a while since my last update, people are still reporting items disappearing. Keep posting here and try to contact the dev to make them aware this is still a problem.

Since twitter is prettty lively consider contacting them there to make them aware that this is still a problem ~


I think the only way to try to find a solution going forward is to contact the dev directly and email him save games where the 'disappearing act' is seeable or recreateable!


http://stardewvalleywiki.com/Saved_Games


WINDOWS:

the save game location is in the C:\Users\[USERID]\AppData\Roaming\StardewValley\Saves\

Each character has their own sub-folder in the save folder.

IF you encounter a dissappearing item or see it disappear and you quit and reload and it still happens PLEASE! quit the game go to your save file location and copy your character's save.

I can't find the dev's email and i don't want to post it even if i knew it. Please go to their website contact page below and send them your save file as well as brief them on what happened.


http://stardewvalley.net/contact/

OR

give them a tweet to contact and ask for where to send save files.

https://mobile.twitter.com/concernedape


Please also tell them to check this particular thread since more people are posting about item problems here.


Thank you for reading my lengthy update and I hope we can give him enough saves with item problems. Also please continue posting who what where when and how your item disappeared, weather, date, year, etc, anything and everything that can be remembered is still valuable for bug hunts!

As frustrating as it sounds the best thing we can do is contact the dev and make them aware that items are disappearing otherwise they may think the problem is solved or very minor since only a few people are reporting.






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UPDATE March 29 2016

So a week or so after my last posted update the dev/s saw our post here and got someone's save file to look at. From that file a quick patch was made and uploaded for everyone. We all were glad and hoped the problem was solved however.......


Its been a while since that patch and it seems like our collective problem of disappearing chests now extends to any placeable item ANYWHERE in the game world NOT just the farm. These include common mats,rare items (singing stones etc), and even buildable/ purchase-able items (lighting rods, tappers, honey, etc)

Early speculation and what I also initially thought of as "creep" damage from weeds [why fences were implemented into the game] or environmental damage (lighting, earthquake, new season) has since been debunked. Players still continue to have items disappear.

Another theory that maybe our pet cat/dog was the culprit is still up in the air. Consider that any time you arrive or load the farm map screen there is a random chance that our pet will spawn anywhere on screen and may or may not choose a tile location that is already occupied by an object you placed there.









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UPDATE March 12, 2016

I have updated this portion of my first post in case this topic becomes pages long...

So far it seems like storage chests are NOT the only things to vanish from a player's farm. NOTE: this includes items inside houses or buildings caves etc as well as anything outside on the farm proper.

Other people on this forum and other forums have also spoken about other items disappearing. To help in figuring out what or how this is occuring please post here and indicate the condition of your farm (what items, plants are on it, farms/ house upgrades, weather condition the last time item was seen etc).

In short anything you can remember / write down will be valuable in finding the root cause. The more people post here the more common things we might all share and this could help id the culprit (if there is one)!

Thank you for reading and please continue posting vanishing items here, any and all information you can remember/ write down is helpful for the entire community!

[Stuffin]

Originally posted by Neviren:

No mods used, running on Windows 7, and I believe Steam games are legit, haha!
Thanks for responding although it doesn't sound too promising if it's just a glitch. I guess I'll just keep trying. I do know not to put them on a path or a tile where something grows. Also, I did verify my files just in case it helps. If anyone can think of anything else, please let me know. Thanks!

Maybe a fresh start is a good idea reinstall the game? ive put over 600 hours in this game and never heard about or seen this happen. are you in the beta version?

[Weizen1988]

Near completely pulling this out of my ass, but could animals do the same "destroy when path goes through object" thing? Maybe a dog, cat or farm animal is pathing through the chests and stuff disappearing? Doesnt explain indoor things, unless spouses and children also do it, and even then its kinda iffy. This is the first ive ever heard of this problem, so I really dont know what im talking about.

[Neviren]

Thank you everyone for your replies, but I finally figured out the problem. Haha, it wasn't game error, it was operator error (me). I did not correctly know how to do it. Apparently, you can't just craft something and place it. It has to go into inventory first and be placed from there.

I placed the chest directly on the farm from the cursor after crafting. The first one didn't quite place exactly where I wanted it. I didn't realize it was just an image of it, even though it still appeared on my character's head. When I clicked on the stones to add to it, the chest never opened, the rocks just disappeared. I thought they must be in there but I couldn't open the chest to see if they were. Deciding I would figure it out later (time is passing!), I went to refill the watering can. Of course, when I went back to it, the chest (with my stones?) was gone.

The second chest didn't even give an image when I tried to place it down. It just disappeared (my inventory was full). Yes, the game constantly told me my inventory was full while I was clearing and collecting more wood to make this second chest. Yes, I already knew this so I didn't connect the dots (inventory clue) that crafting an item also needed an inventory slot.

So day 4 was a great learning experience (third time is a charm) but I thought I'd let everyone know in case there are other noobs like me who are a little slow on the draw. I really wish there were a few more instructions on 'how' you do certain things (time passes so quickly), but I guess that's what makes this fun and challenging. It really is a busy game! I'm lovin' it!

[Xursian]

i woke up after a save point and my chest was gone, along with my full stack of stacks of gold star items... /sigh

[Devilizer]

Just had a chest with 8 refined quarts disappear, along with the recycling station next to it. Both placed in the Bus Station-area.

[Hina]

i'd hate to say it but it's back. Though i experienced it with items disappearing from my inventory not a whole chest.

[fallacy]

My furnace disappeared overnight (10th summer of 1st year - so it should not be "old")
Can the lighning have somethin to do with it?

[MarcAFK]

I had my drum block disappear, it was placed directly left of the doorway inside the unupgraded house. Vanished after a couple of days.

[Atalie]

Just had this happen to me. Chest disappeared in Year 1 Late Winter (somewhere around day 20-23. I don't check this chest often). Weather for the past few days has been either Sunny or Snowing.

Chest was near the river by Leah's house. I have some crab pots there and the chest I had there had some bait, trash and my old Bamboo's Pole that I don't use.

Overall, not a huge loss for me but definitely sucks and I'm worried about losing some of my more important chests.

[Zhalardian]

I haven't had an entire chest disappear, but in the last two "days" on the game, stuff from inside the chest disappeared:
milk pan
copper hoe
shears

The chests are all in my shed.. I did have a furnace vanish when a rock took its place outside, so those are in the house now. Don't know why the tools vanished though...

[Stuffin]

Originally posted by Atalie:

Just had this happen to me. Chest disappeared in Year 1 Late Winter (somewhere around day 20-23. I don't check this chest often). Weather for the past few days has been either Sunny or Snowing.

Chest was near the river by Leah's house. I have some crab pots there and the chest I had there had some bait, trash and my old Bamboo's Pole that I don't use.

Overall, not a huge loss for me but definitely sucks and I'm worried about losing some of my more important chests.

I believe its a pathing issue when a npc walks through the chest it may disapear.

[Teraterrier]

I know this thread if from a long time ago, but I'd like to let people know that it has been happening to me and my friend, too. My friend once caught a pufferfish, but then it disappeared. Later, their beehouse they placed down also disappeared. For me, I once got lucky enough to get 2 fire quartz and a diamond from a fishing treasure chest, but the next in-game day, they were gone, too!