How to use tents without them glitching away items?

[Langdal 1]

The following just happened:

My group have some tents, with some relatively good items. Yesterday I raided the barracks and found myself an MK48 (very rare) and a DMR, as well as 8 STANAG SD magazines. I went back to camp and found that all of our tents were pretty filled up, so I set up a new one, and moved all my stuff into that one. In addition I moved some other items into this tent to tidy up the other tents.

Today, a server restart later, this one tent was completely empty, but other tents were untoutched. The tent had way more items than one guy could carry, so unless a group of players came by and decided to empty JUST this one new tent, then the items glitched away. I am now a sad panda because of all the work I did yesterday is gone. I am 100% sure I saved the tent multiple times.

Do you guys have any precautions to safely set up a new tent? Do I need to wait for the server to restart before I put items in it? Have anyone else experienced this?

[Dancing.Russian.Man 1631]

There's no way to do that. The mod is too buggy.

[BossFi 90]

Safe way I use works ever time:

Place new tent, save then wait for server restart, then put your loot in and save.

[WeedFoXx 7]

happened to our group soooooo often like 50 % of all tents are wiped ...... sometimes we come back and there is some new stuff or mixed up stuff and and and ..... just too bugyy right now :( we use busses they are 100000% save others just 50 50 but busses are 1000%

[Langdal 1]

happened to our group soooooo often like 50 % of all tents are wiped ...... sometimes we come back and there is some new stuff or mixed up stuff and and and ..... just too bugyy right now :( we use busses they are 100000% save others just 50 50 but busses are 1000%

Speaking of busses: I once found a bus and I couldn't for the life of me find out where to aim to find the "Gear" choice. Where do you need to point?

[vile. 38]

Speaking of busses: I once found a bus and I couldn't for the life of me find out where to aim to find the "Gear" choice. Where do you need to point?

Get in the drivers seat, then switch to back seat and you can access it.

[andb52 12]

Get in the drivers seat, then switch to back seat and you can access it.

Even in the driver's seat, if you pull up your map and click on "units" you can click on the gear button from there.

Anyway, regarding tents: it seems that they won't save anything until the server has restarted once.

[walkerbait421 19]

Agree with waiting until a restart before saving items in a tent. I like to test it first, i.e. throw a bandage or something low-value to make sure it saves a full 24 hours before I use it.

Today however I had a strange issue on the new patch... Weapons got eaten (with plenty of room left in tent) as well as a hatchet, compass and GPS. Also had some (4) unrelated pistol ammo disappear when the primary weapon went away. But got 2 extra ammo of something else entirely. Something is strange, hadn't seen this with 1.7.1.5, but I am not trusting tents at all right now.

[RoamingMedic 0]

when i logged back in Samething happen to me Mp5 Ak bunch of ammo medical supplies food water all gone ... strange thing when i was placing this tent i picked it up and moved it several times when i logged back in everywhere i had put that tent there was a tent so i had 5 tents i could pack up and move... idk what happen but i have 4 tents one of the 5 i couldnt pick up :(

[Wüstenfuchs (DayZ) 105]

Tents seem to be wiped empty during the first server restart after tent placement. After the first restart, they seem to be working. Sometimes, though, they don't save new items and revert to old items that they had in. Some tents even go into completely bugged state and always spawn the items that were in them at some point, no matter how many times you remove them.

[RoamingMedic 0]

Tents seem to be wiped empty during the first server restart after tent placement. After the first restart, they seem to be working. Sometimes, though, they don't save new items and revert to old items that they had in. Some tents even go into completely bugged state and always spawn the items that were in them at some point, no matter how many times you remove them.

Good to know ... place a tent leave it for a day let server restart then your good to go ??

[ken@thekab.com 37]

Safe way I use works ever time:

Place new tent, save then wait for server restart, then put your loot in and save.

That actually makes sense. So far I've only had a tent eat items once and it was when I put them in there right after placing it.