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Do intentionally dropped items despawn?

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The scenario I am thinking:

I have been playing for a few hours now, I got a nice bag, good tools, enough to survive on my own in the wild.

Say I need to make a run to a village or town and I don't want to lose anything.

Can I, for example, drop my bag somewhere, go get whatever I wanted to get, and retrieve it? Will it despawn after a set time?

I'd love to know this.

Oh, and how long do dead players's bodies stand there to be looted? Forever? Or do they also have a set time until they disappear?

Thanks!

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For the bag thing, I have no clue. But I know for a fact that dead bodies only stay around for about fifteen minutes before they despawn. It's in the changelog somewhere, I could find it for you if you want.

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Changelog:

* [FIXED] Bodies being deleted immediately (now will stay around for 15 minutes)

I'm not sure if this applys to bags as you mentioned, hopefully someone in the know will be able to give us the details as i have thought about doing this as well

might test it later after i have died again ..

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I've dropped my pack several times when picking up another for a teammate or before I go into Hostile Territory and don't want to lose my "Good" gear. It's never despawned quickly for me. Always stays for a long time.

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If loot has been dropped (items) and is left alone, they seem to dissapear after awhile. i have confirmed this while cycling barracks.

Bags however, i dont think do this

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Well, thanks for the part of the dead players's bodies :P

I also thank for players to try and answer my question, but I'm still reluctant in leaving my bag :o

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New player here, but earlier today I had died falling off a wall at Devil's Castle. Could be because one group member waited for me, but it took me an hour and a half to run from the coast to Devil's Castle. Maybe it was because my friend was waiting by my body, or the server was buggy, but it never despawned.

Friends pulled most of my important gear off my body, but I was still able to get to my body and collect my pack, and other stuff still on my corpse.

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New player here' date=' but earlier today I had died falling off a wall at Devil's Castle. Could be because one group member waited for me, but it took me an hour and a half to run from the coast to Devil's Castle. Maybe it was because my friend was waiting by my body, or the server was buggy, but it never despawned.

Friends pulled most of my important gear off my body, but I was still able to get to my body and collect my pack, and other stuff still on my corpse.

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As long as you do not disconnect from the server you are playing on (ie. go to the server selection screen) and respawn, you're corpse and loot will remain. I confirmed this yesterday when I died from a severe fracture from crawling under a fir tree. Fortunately I knew the general location of where I'd died, and was able to recover my pack contents after an hour or so of searching. I had A LOT of good equipment so it was worth the attempt and paid off.

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