Tents after death

[Spielburg 1]

So I figure this forum would be the proper place to ask this, if you die and have a tent, I know that the tent becomes "temporary" and will despawn after a fairly long period.

But if you then make it back to your tent and use it and save it, does it restore the tent to being "permanent" as it was before death?

[sherlock (DayZ) 31]

I'm not sure but I would speculate that it will not stay permanent since when you die you lose the ownership of the tent (you cannot pick it up again). Due to the fact that it doen't belong to anyone, I'd say it will be deleted after a while.

If I'll ever find a tent, I'll give this experiment a try and will update in this post once I'm certain.

Hope this helps.

[cutzero 5]

I would think when you save a tent it should be there permanent (though it can disappear after a server restart)

[BomboFlash 0]

(though it can disappear after a server restart)

Hehe then it is hardly permanent...I would say you have your precious tent for a day no more.

Since servers are instable as fuck right now and keep crashing.

Does anyone know if its worth the risk to actually try and store stuff in the tents?

[eegore 23]

I temporarily store items, like food when I go into a town so I have moe inventory space.

I never leave good items in a tent.

Also when I steal from other tents I love to dump whiskey bottles in them.

[zeru 5]

They're pretty reliable in my experience. I've had tents last weeks at a time, with top tier items such as lmgs intact.

There's only 2 quirks you need to watch out for: they don't always show up on each server restart, and you sometimes lose ownership of em even if you haven't died.