Despawn timer?

[John Wrick]

What is the despawn timer of bodies?

[Bunny]

It should be around 20 minutes, but they will despawn if the player dies again before reaching the first " death " location and getting his gear back. Only the latest corpse will remain in the world.

[JimmyZ]

Oh good to know, i wondered why my stuff was gone within the twenty min. Any chance of getting a longer timer. With only twenty min there is very little time to get back. Although it seems like a lot of players are destroying loot they dont take.

[cj]

Originally posted by JimmyZ:

Oh good to know, i wondered why my stuff was gone within the twenty min. Any chance of getting a longer timer. With only twenty min there is very little time to get back. Although it seems like a lot of players are destroying loot they dont take.

On this score, it's kind of worth noting that a youtuber demonstrated it takes about 1/2 hour to walk a sector, with jogging being about twice that, and full running - depleting stamina - about twice even that, 20 min. puts you right on the edge of despawn if you respawn two or more sectors away from your body, and that's assuming you're not delayed by puppets, attacking animals or players, or terrain. (I'm not suggested it be 45 min or anything, perhaps 25-30, or a variable that can be controlled by server admins or the player in SP)

[marktkm]

Originally posted by cj:

On this score, it's kind of worth noting that a youtuber demonstrated it takes about 1/2 hour to walk a sector, with jogging being about twice that, and full running - depleting stamina - about twice even that, 20 min. puts you right on the edge of despawn if you respawn two or more sectors away from your body, and that's assuming you're not delayed by puppets, attacking animals or players, or terrain. (I'm not suggested it be 45 min or anything, perhaps 25-30, or a variable that can be controlled by server admins or the player in SP)

If you choose a sector spawn you can be back at your body in about 7-10 minutes. That includes making a knife, then a spear to defend yourself with. (I have to do this far more than I'd like, to be honest.) The current time is fine for vanilla (just imho), but I can see a server setting.

[cj]

Originally posted by marktkm:

Originally posted by cj:

On this score, it's kind of worth noting that a youtuber demonstrated it takes about 1/2 hour to walk a sector, with jogging being about twice that, and full running - depleting stamina - about twice even that, 20 min. puts you right on the edge of despawn if you respawn two or more sectors away from your body, and that's assuming you're not delayed by puppets, attacking animals or players, or terrain. (I'm not suggested it be 45 min or anything, perhaps 25-30, or a variable that can be controlled by server admins or the player in SP)

If you choose a sector spawn you can be back at your body in about 7-10 minutes. That includes making a knife, then a spear to defend yourself with. (I have to do this far more than I'd like, to be honest.) The current time is fine for vanilla (just imho), but I can see a server setting.

I had forgot about sector spawn, so fair point. (And I hear ya!)

[Jesse]

if you died, close to your spawn point, and get back to your death spot and dont see the body, re log back and you will see it. Happened to me today.

[John Wrick]

when i died it took me 21 minutes to run 1 sector and a half back to my body. Im new so i'm negative 300 points. I cant respawn in the same zone. I feel like this is a broken mechanic that should be fixed.

[Ron]

Originally posted by Nova:

when i died it took me 21 minutes to run 1 sector and a half back to my body. Im new so i'm negative 300 points. I cant respawn in the same zone. I feel like this is a broken mechanic that should be fixed.

It's a survival game. There should be even more penalty for death. Atm, death is only a minor inconvenience. With sector spawn,
A player can easily reach their dead body and gear unless you have really bad luck

The whole point of survival is "stay alive." But I get it, they need to try and please everyone and that's not easy. Still early in development too.

[Nova]

False. My friend died. I ran to my base nearby. Dropped my loot. Immediatelly went back to grab his stuff. Everything but his holster was gone. Running in this game is extremelly time consuming. That should be the penalty not losing our gear like that

[marktkm]

Originally posted by Nova:

False. My friend died. I ran to my base nearby. Dropped my loot. Immediatelly went back to grab his stuff. Everything but his holster was gone. Running in this game is extremelly time consuming. That should be the penalty not losing our gear like that

I've run from adjacent sectors back to my body and haven't had this happen. Not saying it didn't happen, just pointing out that that's not the norm. Did you happen to try logging to the menu and back in to see if the body respawned? Sometimes the 'cleanup routine' glitches.

Would be curious to hear from a dev what the diameter is of this area around a player.

[John Wrick]

yes thats the first thing i do when my loot or friends loot despawns or goes invisible. Ive also had several instances in the last two days where i drop items in my base and they dissapear instantly.

[Swiftspirit]

And where is the configuration setting for a private mp server? I´d like to have our players keep theyre body somewhat longer on the ground if they died. I cant find a setting for that situation. Is it an internal hardcoded timer?

[Deathwhisper]

Originally posted by Swiftspirit:

And where is the configuration setting for a private mp server? I´d like to have our players keep theyre body somewhat longer on the ground if they died. I cant find a setting for that situation. Is it an internal hardcoded timer?

There is no direct setting option for this in the server settings.