Despawn Gremlins

[Excanto 336]

So I run through this town and there are no zombies, which is odd. I'm relaxed and alone on the server and hit every house. I grab all the stuff I can use and leave the rest untouched and leave town. About an hour later, there is 20 people on the server and a couple hours later it settles down to about 3 people and I am on my way back to my water pump and then to my camp and I decided to check the zombie population at the same town and still there are no zombies. I decide to hit every house again and see if some awesome item has spawned or maybe something was dropped. The town is spotless as if someone vacuumed the town. I believe that players are picking up every item and then dropping them to trigger despawn. For what reason I am not sure. If you leave the item untouched it will stay there forever, pick it up and drop it and it will vanish in some unknown to me amount of time.  All the hard hats, welding hats, stun rods, sweaters, down jackets etc were gone. Everything was gone. There wasn't even a wrench left. Did the Grinch steal Christmas?

[Death By Crowbar 1213]

Keep in mind they reverted back to the old loot system temporarily. You could be in an area where all of the loot is in a Christmas style pile all in one place and there's absolutely nothing anywhere else for a large area. That's likely what you're seeing.

[Excanto 336]

Keep in mind they reverted back to the old loot system temporarily. You could be in an area where all of the loot is in a Christmas style pile all in one place and there's absolutely nothing anywhere else for a large area. That's likely what you're seeing.

Hmm looks like you only read one line in my post. Tons of stuff, a couple hours later, absolutely nothing in the same place.

Edited April 22, 2015 by Excanto