Tent questions

[bofadeez 2]

So in my week of playing I've found a few tents. First one I found I spent like an hour finding a good hiding spot. When I came back, it was dark and I spent like half an hour looking for it and couldn't find it. I then realized I'd forgotten to save it. It was only a couple of hours since I'd pitched it.

Did it poof or was I just unable to find it in the dark? Does the "Save" action save the tent itself or the items inside, or both?

Another question. On a later life I found another tent. Remembering the last time, I found a not-very-hidden but off-the-beaten-path place to put my tent, so I could find it again. Put a bunch of food and soda in it, made sure I hit "Save" like three times, then went off and did my thing for awhile. Came back about 24 hours later and my tent was empty.

I know your items are not totally safe in a tent and they may poof sometimes. When this happens, does everything disappear, or just a few items? Or did someone just find my tent?

Also... just how likely is it that your stuff will disappear? And is it by design that they are not totally safe, or just a limitation of the alpha?

[Metamence 9]

Are you logging into the same server that you pitched the tents in?

[bofadeez 2]

Lol, yes. I'm not that much of a noob.

[JorisK 3]

You always need to save them. If a server restarts all unsaved tents including loot will be gone.

I recently noticed about 10 tents, only 2 of them actually had some loot in it.

[4L4N 276]

You wouldn't believe just how unsafe your tents are and how easy it is to spot them from a distance, even if you hide them in the middle of the woods in the middle of nowhere.

There is dedicated teams of "Tent Hunters"

If your Items actually stay in your tent for more than 2 days in a row i would consider that lucky.

[bryantc2000 0]

Aren't items in your tent suppost to be only accisible to you?

[ephargy 1]

Aren't items in your tent suppost to be only accisible to you?

no

[sarlac 10]

Nope, anyone can take things from any tent.