What it's even worth

[WeylandYutani]

Why am I doing anything in this game if stuff constantly disappears, my iron gone, my meat on the drier gone, items out of my storage container gone. But we have 1.0 with bugs still there for as long as I can remember. How about a fix ? Finally ?!?!

[stormcottage]

Ive just been noticing stuff disappearing out of the chests too... came on here to see if anyone else had.,

[Virago]

Some objects laid on the ground will decay over time. That's one more reason for building a storage container and racks.

[DaLagga]

Originally posted by Virago:

Some objects laid on the ground will decay over time. That's one more reason for building a storage container and racks.

Nope. Stuff still decays while in storage boxes although the rate seems to be a bit slower than if it were on the ground.

In any case, this is one of my biggest problems with the game. In most survival games you have to spend the majority of the early game scavenging just to stay alive. But eventually you progress by building farms, creating preserving bins/fridges, forging better tools and ultimately finding ways to meet your basic needs far more easily and quickly so that you can spend more time fighting and exploring or whatever else the game has to offer.

In Green Hell, there really is no progression to speak of in the survival mechanics because nothing you do really allows you to gather resources faster than you can 5 minutes into the game. You can't even go out and hunt a dozen animals or whatever to stock up because 90% of that meat will just spoil and there's no way to stop it. As a result, you spend the majority of your time just trying to survive throughout the entire game which gets repetitive and tiring.

In short, we need some kind of simple farming system so that we can grow fruits and herbs as well as some kind of long term preservation method so we can stock up on goodies. That way there's a sense of progression and we can spend more time in the later game doing other things besides desperately gobbling up everything we can find.

[Virago]

DaLagga i understand what you're saying but if you can stock up doesn't that make the game easier as it is?

[DaLagga]

Originally posted by Virago:

DaLagga i understand what you're saying but if you can stock up doesn't that make the game easier as it is?

If I have the ability to harvest far more than I can use at the time, then I've already mastered the survival mechanics. So stocking up just reduces the tedium, not difficulty.

[Virago]

Ok i get it now but.. if you can stock up then that means putting you more in the comfort zone than what developers want to. That way you have one less thing to worry about for a long time hence making it easier in a sense. If they'll ever implement something like food preservation (like a root cellar) it would need to be balanced with a scarcity meter that forces you to venture farther from home for example. That would be a good compromise.

[WeylandYutani]

Why then even have a storage box to begin with... My iron, obsidian, coal etc disappears out of the storage box, meat from the dryer disappears before it's even done and again why having it in the first place. I don't care about the meat or anything else except iron and obsidian, that shouldn't disappear no matter what.

[Fundayz]

I think its probably a bug. The disappearance of non-decay items is meant to stop the ground from getting cluttered by coconuts, palm leafs, etc.

It's not mean to make stored items disappear.

[DaLagga]

Originally posted by Virago:

Ok i get it now but.. if you can stock up then that means putting you more in the comfort zone than what developers want to. That way you have one less thing to worry about for a long time hence making it easier in a sense. If they'll ever implement something like food preservation (like a root cellar) it would need to be balanced with a scarcity meter that forces you to venture farther from home for example. That would be a good compromise.

But I'm not really worried. Survival has become a breeze. I run across more medicinal plants than I can use, have a small forest of banana trees behind my home for unlimited carbs, a pasture of Peccaries t hat spawn about 20 meters away for unlimited fats/protein, a river a few feet from my bed for unlimited fish/crabs and enough coconut halves and water purifiers to supply a small army. Despite all this, I still have to tediously spend several minutes each ingame day collecting supplies because everything decays too quickly to stock up.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Checkout the the changes. Focusing on one>
# Items left on the ground are now disappearing over time,<<< this one is bugged a bit and devs are aware of it. Seems the code is changing the decay time globally instead of just on the ground. The reason they introduced this was to help reduce frame drops and clipping in the game. Less clutter :).
https://greenhell.gamepedia.com/V.1.0

[NeoSono]

I wonder if thats a survival exclusive bug because Im playing story and I have 4 storage containers and nothing ever disappeared. my drying rack is always full and again nothing ever disappeared, it only instant spoils once you take it if its timer is up.
all that is under a roof too, maybe thats important?

[WeylandYutani]

Not everything in storage boxes does disappear, coal, obsidian, iron ore and bones do disappear after 3 days and I've already lost over a dozen of iron ore so it's no imagination. Maybe there are other factors as well like loading the game, leaving the area etc and btw I do talk about story mode not survival. But there's a trick though, just touching those items like lifting them up with left click and putting them back does seem to reset it.

Edit: There you have it, I loaded up the game and all my melted iron is gone, 7 pieces just gone out of the storage box, this is just ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up.

[Propagandalf]

i think as long as your storage boxes, drying racks etc are under a roof they are save from vanishing. trying to test this theory

[Virago]

Originally posted by Little Timmy:

i think as long as your storage boxes, drying racks etc are under a roof they are save from vanishing. trying to test this theory

Intended mechanic?