My tombstone has disappeared from the game

[Icebess]

My tombstone has disappeared from the game and I haven't picked it up.
I died in Mistlands and when I returned to get my equipment at the point indicated on the map there is nothing, nor can I see anything around.
Has something similar happened to you?

[RagnCharran]

You probably have a synchronization issue between your player save and your world save, which are two different things.

When you die, the game immediately autosaves your character (now without any inventory, reduced skills, and back at your bed or spawn). The tombstone is not part of your character save, it is part of the world save. If you closed the game before the world save updated, then your world save does not have the tombstone in it.

In other words, this can happen if your character save is from after your death, and the world save is from before your death.

If that is the case, the only fix is to go into Manage Saves at the launch screen, and restore the last character and world backups that have the same timestamp. Even doing that can cause issues because your restored files will put your character back at bed/spawn, regardless of where they were (such as on another island, or in the middle of the ocean on a boat) when those saves were made.

[Mr Felidae]

My brother once experienced something similar. When we were ambushed in the Mistlands, we fled to higher ground using the steep cliffs. He died and we returned to retrieve his equipment. Unfortunately, we couldn't find the tombstone even though he pointed me to where his marker led him.
Eventually, I found his tombstone enclosed in between some rocks a few feet below where he died. Apparently, there are tiny "cracks" in the rock formations here and there. They're hard to see but they look like a seam with a little discolouration on both sides of the line. When being unlucky enough to die exactly above one, the tombstone will fall through the crack a few feet down and seem to have disappeared.
The solution is to remove the top layer of the rock on which you died to reveal your tombstone.
Hope this helps. GL in getting your gear back!

[Icebess]

Thank you for both answers, they have been very useful.
In this case, it has to do with the world save, since the game crashed minutes after dying and was not saved. That's it, since the changes were not saved in a Dvergr base that I eliminated, because when I returned to get my team at the death point, the Dvergr base also appears completely restored and with the enemies that I already eliminated. I think I'm going to try using a world backup, although I don't know how restores work.

[Icebess]

Finally I decided to restore the character and the world to 48 hours before the crash occurred after dying.
I'm not in favor of making Valheim easier with help because the essence of the game is lost, but I think that in this case it made no sense to lose entire days of farming due to an error in the game itself.
Thanks for everything community.

[RagnCharran]

Yes, it sucks sometimes how far back you have to go in the world saves. I don't know what triggers the game to make and save a backup, but it can be several hours between them.

[Maviba]

Maybe another player looted it?

[Galadhlinn]

Prior to Mistlands, there were reports of wolves in the mountains attacking and destroying tombstones. It seemed quite rare from the number of posts, but perhaps there is a Mistlands mob who will attack tombstones.

[Gold Dragon]

My suspicion would be the Gjall. it has a massive blast.