How do I get to weapon under blue trailer?

[vfxtodd 125]

i go prone and crawl as close as possible but can't select it.

[ToySmokes 116]

Press tab and see if you can pick it up via the inventory system. Item are currently bugged sometimes so you can't pick them up at all. There are several tricks for that to. But try tab first!

[BeaverProductions 441]

If you already have something in your hands, put it away or drop it and use the dot on the screen to pick up items

Edited March 11, 2015 by Beav

[pilgrim* 3514]

i go prone and crawl as close as possible but can't select it.

 

Crouch is a good option. The other two above have the right ideas too...

But sometimes you just cant get that thing. If you ever get bored trying to catch loot from under the blue van, go in the bus garages and take the boots or the jacket off the top of the locker.

I don't think anyone ever got those boots.

 

Also on the ground floor of the school, right in from the main entrance, there's a chair with usually something lying almost underneath it.. a hat, a shirt, pants.. maybe a gorka jacket?.. No one can pick it up.. don't worry about it...

 

BUT - hey! - NEVER put your gun down in a bush, OK.. or you stand a GOOD chance of it staying there forever (or any gear you really want to keep). it will be hanging in that bush for a week unless you're really cunning.

If you want to get a second weapon out of a bush, and you can see it in your inventory.. exchange it for your first weapon.. that works.. the new weapon you put down will be further in front of you than where the first one was, crawl forward, repeat.. gradually you can work your way out of the undergrowth moving the weapon forward each time, until you can shoulder one weapon and pick the other up in your hands.

 

once I was crawling around like a fool trying to get my gun out of a bush and I could NOT.., and a guy suddenly turned up with an axe, (heh).. So I stood up and said "hi friend, here's an SKS I don't want, you can have it - and it's loaded too" ... so he put his axe away.. ...

 

xx

Edited March 12, 2015 by pilgrim

[vfxtodd 125]

Thanks, everyone.

[BeaverProductions 441]

Crouch is a good option. The other two above have the right ideas too...

But sometimes you just cant get that thing. If you ever get bored trying to catch loot from under the blue van, go in the bus garages and take the boots or the jacket off the top of the locker.

I don't think anyone ever got those boots.

 

Also on the ground floor of the school, right in from the main entrance, there's a chair with usually something lying almost underneath it.. a hat, a shirt, pants.. maybe a gorka jacket?.. No one can pick it up.. don't worry about it...

 

BUT - hey! - NEVER put your gun down in a bush, OK.. or you stand a GOOD chance of it staying there forever (or any gear you really want to keep). it will be hanging in that bush for a week unless you're really cunning.

If you want to get a second weapon out of a bush, and you can see it in your inventory.. exchange it for your first weapon.. that works.. the new weapon you put down will be further in front of you than where the first one was, crawl forward, repeat.. gradually you can work your way out of the undergrowth moving the weapon forward each time, until you can shoulder one weapon and pick the other up in your hands.

 

once I was crawling around like a fool trying to get my gun out of a bush and I could NOT.., and a guy suddenly turned up with an axe, (heh).. So I stood up and said "hi friend, here's an SKS I don't want, you can have it - and it's loaded too" ... so he put his axe away.. ...

 

xx

Just for future ref:

 

For items on top of lockers, like boots, you have to remove your currently equipped boots first, then use the dot to take the.  Same goes for items in the school under chairs.

 

But I agree there are some items you just cannot take as they are bugged out.  Often in the cirrent patches, its a dsybc issue and leaving a building and returning will help.

 

If you drop your weapon in a bush/tree.  Chop it down and it will be available.

[pilgrim* 3514]

Just for future ref:

 

For items on top of lockers, like boots, you have to remove your currently equipped boots first, then use the dot

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If you drop your weapon in a bush/tree.  Chop it down and it will be available.

 

ok Im amazed. I never tried this. If I have no coat on I can pick up the coat, if I have no boots I can pick up the boots.

 

For the cutting down tree - maybe sometimes. Or the tree falls on top of your gear and then its hidden and gone until the tree recycles. If you put loot on the ground and then dig a garden square, the loot vanishes under it and you can't pick it up. You can see it if you crawl around but you cant target it etc. Then if you wait long enough until the garden square vanishes, you can pick up your loot again (if you're there at the right time).

 

But I never tried taking my boots off to pick up a pair of boots. Makes sense.

Edited March 14, 2015 by pilgrim

[BeaverProductions 441]

ok Im amazed. I never tried this. If I have no coat on I can pick up the coat, if I have no boots I can pick up the boots.

 

For the cutting down tree - maybe sometimes. Or the tree falls on top of your gear and then its hidden and gone until the tree recycles. If you put loot on the ground and then dig a garden square, the loot vanishes under it and you can't pick it up. You can see it if you crawl around but you cant target it etc. Then if you wait long enough until the garden square vanishes, you can pick up your loot again (if you're there at the right time).

 

But I never tried taking my boots off to pick up a pair of boots. Makes sense.

Ive never had the unfortunate even of the tree falling on top of my gun and it being inaccessible.  In my experience the tree doest remain a solid object once its cut down and you can access anything under it.  

[pilgrim* 3514]

Ive never had the unfortunate even of the tree falling on top of my gun and it being inaccessible.  In my experience the tree doest remain a solid object once its cut down and you can access anything under it.  

 

In the quoted case it was an axe I put down to pick up firewood, and couldn't recover, but was definitely a shotgun I put down to dig a garden, and it stayed on the ground under the earth squares, you could crawl into the earth far enough to see the whole gun, and part of it was sticking out of the earth square but I couldn't target it or pick it up. After I harvested the garden, I noticed the protruding gun had vanished, so I thought that was the end of it .. but passing by a while later I saw the garden square vanish, went to look and the shotgun was on the ground. 

 

I've observed on persistent servers, that if you move something directly from your inventory to the ground, it can vanish immediately - for quite a while - but eventually comes back if you wait around. this with a good ping, say 45.

Edited March 14, 2015 by pilgrim

[pilgrim* 3514]

Ive never had the unfortunate even of the tree falling on top of my gun and it being inaccessible.  In my experience the tree doest remain a solid object once its cut down and you can access anything under it.  

 

i just came back to say - more I think about it, more the things you mention in this thread make sense, Beav

i guess I have this idea that there are trees good for "hiding in", and trees good for "cutting down".. so I never tried cutting down a tree that is good for hiding in, if I want to cut down a tree I just go where they are tall and have no low branches. I guess this is an irrational habit. -  I'm slow, but I'm seeing the advantages of what you're saying.

Edited March 19, 2015 by pilgrim

[emuthreat 2837]

i just came back to say - more I think about it, more the things you mention in this thread make sense, Beav

i guess I have this idea that there are trees good for "hiding in", and trees good for "cutting down".. so I never tried cutting down a tree that is good for hiding in, if I want to cut down a tree I just go where they are tall and have no low branches. I guess this is an irrational habit.

Those trees are good for more than just hiding yourself.  I routinely use them as storage space and car alarms.  Park a truck outside a village, but right up touching a tree, and it will take a very steady-handed thief to survive opening your door.  If you get right up on the trunk and drop a bag or a gun, the tree will hold onto it for you, and it won't be visible in vicinity inventory until tree is cut.