non-orthodox

From all the experience that I had in 0.58 and the many guns and binoculars that I have lost, it looks like the source of the bug (not the gun holstering, that seem to be a network issue and players around you) has to do with changing items in your hands while in an animation. From reports of friends and mine, if you are in the middle of an animation and decide to change items in hand, or if you do it right after completing the animation (but due to desync the server thinks you are still in the middle of it), you get 2 items in your hand, one of which you can't see and the other that you can see (when you open your inventory) but not interact with it (like putting it on the ground or on your inventory). Since then, I have been taking a couple seconds between each action (like drinking, eating, putting my gun or any item away, or cutting trees). I also stopped using the hotbar to switch items, I first open inventory, press X to remove item/gun from hands and only after a second I press the hotkeys to get the other item I want. I have not lost anything else after adopting that behaviour.

Yes, I was inside the same house for about 10 minutes before it happened, it was just gone... I checked everywhere and had friends checking as well...

Worst part of DayZ is bugs that make you loose your gear permanently. There are a few atm in EXP. Everything else is pretty manageable.

Play on experimental servers. They fit the description.

Lost two AK 101s to the inventory bug. Don't open food lying on the ground if you don't have inventory space for it and with your gun in your hand, that is how I lost my first AK (and I was not double carrying). My second AK I lost by pressing the X in the inventory, to get it off my hands... I haven't tried to reproduce that though because I need to find another gun now. Everytime I go meet a friend or a group of them while carrying my gun in hands, it gets holstered by itself when I am about 600-700 meters from them. It is a player detection mechanism atm... From all the times I had it holstered, only twice I couldn't find a player near me, but probably because I was passing through small cities and someone might have been running in the woods as well. I am yet to find someone without my weapon not being holstered by itself 1-3 minutes before. Cooking still isn't working, I need to try tanning pelt and I haven't had the chance of testing the hypothermia bug, had been wearing a full ghillie until I died yesterday due to a server crash and spawning in the middle of the tents in the NWAF... People have been crashing the hardcore servers every couple hours.

Probably fixing the hypothermia bug, the dupping with cooking pots and a bug that crashes the server.

Just two days ago, in experimental, I shot a bandit from about 90m away with my blaze, his friend charged towards me, I ran to the building next to me and took my pistol out. My first shot landed on his arm, which made him sway and miss an entire RAK mag on me... He was just 25m away, on the street, shooting me through a window while I was crouched in the middle of the room. Hit him about 3 more times, but he still ran away and combat logged inside another building, panicking... After that incident, I always carry a secondary, it is certainly worth it, even if your primary is close range.

Regarding boats and netting spawns, some people don't know this yet, but the boats that spawn loot are now dynamic. This means that all the boats that you see on DayZ Map, showing their locations, they are all static boats, part of the environment now, and they don't spawn loot. Dynamic boats spawn throughout the coast, not sure how many spawn per server, I heard someone saying 10, but I don't know where they got that number. They are not marked on any maps, just run through the shoreline and you will eventually see a boat with a bunch of loot around it. Don't bother server hopping, they are dynamic. I found 3 boats on a single run from Kamenka to Solichiniy before a server restart. After 5 boats, I finally had the netting for a full ghillie.

As far as I know, just put it on the grass near a city and wait (like, 80m away from the closes building). It takes a while... Check to see if the trap disarmed itself every once in a while. It can take anywhere between a few minutes to half an hour to get a rabbit. I will get more information from him when I see him online.

I have a friend who constantly catches rabbits on the latest patch, so, confirming, they are working.

Can any dev please confirm any of this?

If you are skinning something, place the knife in your hands, start the skinning and hold W. Don't do the F11 trick, it will say there was nothing of value in the carcass, if you do so (at least that has been my luck lately).

I have been playing on a private shard server for 20 days now. Today I was having some lag issues because of a thunderstorm around me (it's summer here, lots of thunderstorms), but I decided to play regardless. Half an hour later, an admin banned me from the server. I was on their teamspeak server, so after the ban, the admin came to my channel and told me that my ping was fluctuating too much (reaching about 700ms for a few seconds at a time), and that such thing caused issues with server wide desync, and for that reason, he decided to outright ban me. He actually said that my lag caused other people to not be able to eat canned food, make splints and so on. I come here to ask you devs, can that be true, or is just an invalid argument that a single player lagging can cause massive desync issues with players all over the map? Shouldn't the lag affect only the player lagging?

Been alive for 10 days now in a private shard, 4 hours restart, persistence disabled server. Fully geared, smersh vest, ttsko clothing, full ghillie (the top, not the unpaintable full body one), ak101 with all attachments (found my first supressor 10 minutes ago, yay!), double high cap vests inside my inventory for even more space, survival tools, cr75 with a couple mags (dying to find a pistol supressor...), etc. I have never had this much fun in any of the past updates, congratz devs on 0.52! Lost a few lifes to stairs and glitched buildings since the release, but I stopped climbing them and now it's a non-issue.

I have had absolutely no problems finding mags. In fact I got more mags than I need and have been trying to find someone to give an ak101 with a couple mags... It is in a private shard, that's the only reason I can't give it to you. Just go to the military base southeast of Pavlovo, look in the 4 long barracks there and you should find one. If not, move to Zelenogorsk and hit the other two barracks there. If you haven't found any, wait for a restart and do it again (assuming a persistence disabled server).