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As long as the item is within visual range (even through buildings) the object will not disappear. As soon as the immediate area is left, a timer starts; if you enter the immediate area again, the timer stops.
Unfortunately, I don't remember exactly what the times are.
I'm currently configuring my server rented from Gportal. The server is only for a maximum of 10 players - costs me €12.70 for 30 days. I don't take any money from the players and I don't sell anything for real money. It's really just private - for a few real-life friends and myself - strangers aren't accepted - I handle that with the Steam ID.
As I can't afford to run any bots, I have to provide a few additional incentives myself.
I can do that, for example, by announcing:
"Next Saturday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. there will be boxes in garages in quadrants B2, B3 and B4 that anyone who finds them can take. The boxes will then contain x..y..z, which the finder can keep or sell as they wish." I can then vary that and say "it will mainly contain food and medical items" or I can say "in 2 days at the same time there will be tools & weapons" and so on.
At the announced times I then teleport around invisibly and spawn the boxes with the announced contents.
That's why it would be interesting to know approximately or exactly how long a box like that stays there when I'm no longer in the detection range. It wouldn't be good if I organized an event like that myself and nobody found anything because it disappeared after 10 minutes.
That's why I'd like to know. Or is there - since I can edit the configuration files on my server myself - a setting in which I can set the despawn of discarded items myself? That would also be a solution.
With a box it's a different story. BB elements last as long as the server settings specify. This means that within the server settings you can determine the "lifespan" of BB elements.
Generally, boxes last 10 days if I'm not mistaken and only if they aren't used/maintained within that period. So if you create a box event it's pretty certain to last for a longer period.
Only loose items would despawn.
How about actually displaying the despawn time in each items tooltip? Simple solution so that everyone could check for themselves. Once the tooltip is shown the countdown resets to start time and if you weren't the previous person who checked the item last you won't get shown that previous timer, only the new one that you caused. And yes this would mean you would be able to see if someone else than you had interacted with the item (but not HOW long ago and you wouldn't be able to distinguish between a fresh item that no one had touched before, because that will also not display current despawn time, and it will update the time to start time when you look), which isn't too bad a thing in itself, it could even be kinda creepy but in a fun way imo. But I think it shouldn't be hard to mask this a little with some inaccuracy of each item say when item interacted with set current despawn time to start time but modify the start time some minutes with random number between +-3 as well as the current countdown; meaning you won't know the EXACT start time of the item or the exact current countdown, they could both be off by up to 6 min each. This way you can't know when someone else had touched the item, and you won't EXACTLY know when it will despawn, but you certainly will get a more than close enough estimate for how long it will take for it to despawn.
Now do the same with corpses (but much smaller random ranges of course) and how about disabling corpse despawns while your in the process of looting or skinning the corpse? Really silly, and annoying, to see the corpse just disappear while you are skinning it.
They will remain on the ground if you are within a 200 meter radius.
If you leave that radius the timer begins.
If you are in single player then the items on the ground will disappear if you logout regardless of the timer. If it did not happen you got lucky-real lucky!
Base elements like the gas stove, frying pan, pot, small refrigerator, propane tank will remain the lanterns will not...
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Additional information to assist:
You have 20 minutes to return to your corpse to retrieve gear.
Official timers on vehicles is 10 days-you must interact with that vehicle or it and all contents will despawn.
I searched to see if I could find correct data on chests and it was ridiculous to try.
The last I can remember is the wooden chest duration is 10 days, the improved wooden is 12 days and the improvised metal chest is 15 days. There is a timer that you can see on the chests that confirm duration...
Buried chests despawn faster I believe. It's been a long time since I buried one as a player.
body campers only have to wait 20 mins and the player will sector spawn in. It forces a second stupid player interaction. (nothings forced but he will wait 20 mins coz its not long. killed player will sector spawn and try scout (especially if they have stash) because, its not far.
No one is gonna wait 1.5 hours camping a body, they will just loot it and move on. Killed player will know this and probably wont bother to return.
I was just killed by wolves on a hardcore server with no sector respawn. you might get lucky on random spawn but its 500 per roll on that server and I had $0, first few hours in. Its why a longer than 20 mins to body could be nice.. but I Know.. its performance now.
DayZ looks terrible but it can do such things because of the low system demand created from the visuals, I guess
By the way, the information I gave (1 hour and 50 meters) sounded familiar to me... and searching I found the old post from where I got that information back in the day... someone asked about the option in ServerSettings "SpawnerGroupsExpirationTimeInMin" and a developer who is no longer active on this forum answered that. When I bought the game that post was already old... so it's probably no longer correct, and it also refers to the objects that spawn in the world, not those dropped by the player... sorry about that.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/513710/discussions/0/1814296273120259147/
Originally posted by Siamese:
Originally posted by xKiCkx:
Then that is a bug that needs to be resolved since it's intended to disappear after 15 to 20 minutes.
In any way thank you for letting me know about it, it will be fixed.
A bug? funny its been over a year and you didn't know until now?
I just tested it out and you're wrong. Items disappear after 20 minutes whether there's a flag or not. You are likely not doing two things: 1) going far enough away and 2) engaging with the local wildlife while out of range.
Weren't you just saying something about casual observations?
Back when I played last, like 8-9 months ago, my car dissappeared because I had not moved it; I did interact with it everyday, just not moved it; transferring items to/from it etc was not enough to prevent despawn. Has this changed?
I don't know I always moved mine slightly backward and then forward or at least nudged them.
Items that don't disappear are usually collectors, chests, cooking stuff, etc.