How long does dropped items hang around?

[Cocoa-Jin]

I keep seeing this axe I dropped a while ago at my shelter. I’m surprised it hasn’t disappeared. Is it bugged, duplicating, is there a despawn safe zone around the shelter for gear?

[YOGI]

Not long...when yer Raidind a Parachute and Pulling stuff onto the GROUND for Others to Take...when some "Dumass" runs up in Basic Orange and Start Fist Fighting ya for things? (WOW, talk about Aggressive?lol) Cant carry all the LOOT....so I figured to DRAG it onto the Ground before the Para Drop "Blew Up" and Call Others to Share the Wealth?(YEP....should be made a Non Fight Zone I figure, but thats just my opinion as I'm DONE with PVP anyways?

[aaron.also]

If there are players in the sector dropped items will hang around for quite a while. If the sector is empty is is 20-30 min I think. Unless this has changed recently.

[Cocoa-Jin]

Interesting, this axe has been herd for a couple days at least...

[Bunny]

Originally posted by Cocoa-Jin:

Interesting, this axe has been herd for a couple days at least...

Singleplayer or multiplayer ? Can you tell me which axe in particular are you reffering to ? Quite possible that it was spawned by a server admin if on a private server.

[Bunny]

Originally posted by Wingnut:

I am playing offline and quit the game in a building with several items lying on a table, but when i reloaded the game later they all those items were gone. Is this as intended?

If not stored in a container then it's normal for items to despawn. It should be around 30 minutes for items to despawn, they will not despawn if a player is in a 100 - 200 m radius.

[Cocoa-Jin]

Originally posted by Bunny:

Originally posted by Cocoa-Jin:

Interesting, this axe has been herd for a couple days at least...

Singleplayer or multiplayer ? Can you tell me which axe in particular are you reffering to ? Quite possible that it was spawned by a server admin if on a private server.

Multiplayer. It’s the big axe, the 8 slot one.

[D-Dub]

Originally posted by Wingnut:

The 30 min despawn timer counts down even after the game is shut down?

For single player, I'd seriously doubt it, given that it wouldn't be running off of a dedicated server's time. Unless it uses the system's clock. I play multiplayer, but there have been times where I've logged in fully healed, and other times my health is still low, so I'm not sure what continues on once you log out. that's an interesting question.

For multiplayer, it would remain with the server's time. If it is a private server, those numbers might change if despawned items are controlled by the same variables in charge of loot spawn probability (which Bunny did mention that 100m-200m radius, so I'm assuming so).