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Item cleanup bugged: Dropped items inside a military building on Experimental hotfix test server dont despawn
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Description

I have a theory, which I am trying to reproduce right now.
Will items be cleaned when you are dropping/swapping your items with spawned items inside a building?
I looted the NWA on several servers and saw in every hangar 4 items. But some was civilian items. Visited them again after a while and they seem not to change to military gear. Why didnt the server clean these items up?

Details

Legacy ID
649494381
Severity
None
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
Always
Category
General
Steps To Reproduce

I picked 2 buldings at the NWA.
I shot picture 2 and left the server.

After 30 minutes I was connecting back and cleaned the building on the left (picture 1) and dropped some stuff like a sks and a smersh backback and some helmets behind the building.
In the other building I found several items: 2 pilot helmets, 3 berets, 1 tanker helmet, 1 boat cap and 1 pistol flashlight (pictures 3, 4, 5)
I switched some items to berets (Picture 6)

Left the server for about 30 minutes again.

Now on my 3. visit there was new items spawned on the left building.
The items behind the building was cleand up (intentional?).
And the interesting part was happening in the building on the right:

  • new items was spawning right when I was arriving
  • 3 items I had not touched was still there
  • 2 items was not cleaned up which I had dropped (dropped berets are on the ground, spawned berets are under the floor)
  • in total there was 5 berets, 2 pilot helmets, 1 SVD mag, 1 boat cap, 1 mp-133 shotgun in this bulding (2 more items than expected)

I cant attach another file so here is an imgur link of picture 7. Compare it with picture 6.
The arrows are pointing at the dropped items which are not cleaned up in this moment!
http://imgur.com/bFRKgWD

My dropped berets was still there after an hour on my 4th visit.

3 hours later 5. visit: The SVD mag is gone and an AK-47 is spawned under the pilot hellmet. My berets are still on the floor. http://imgur.com/iogY5H0

Additional Information

My theroy is:
Swapping an item from your inventory to another item (of this kind?) at the item spawn location seems to break the cleanup.

DayZ UK 1 Experimental Public Hive 3rd Person 109.169.60.28:2502

Event Timeline

andro edited Steps To Reproduce. (Show Details)Sep 13 2015, 11:30 AM
andro edited Additional Information. (Show Details)
andro set Category to General.
andro set Reproducibility to Always.
andro set Severity to None.
andro set Resolution to Open.
andro set Legacy ID to 649494381.May 8 2016, 11:45 PM

Are you sure the items you dropped which weren't cleaned up haven't been interacted with players since you dropped it?

andro added a subscriber: andro.May 8 2016, 11:45 PM
andro added a comment.Sep 13 2015, 4:31 PM

After 3 hours and compared the position - yes im very sure.

i can totally see how this strange bug could be possible given the way the devs work.

I have no idea how the way the item gets on the ground could possibly influence the way the cleanup/garbage collection handles it, but apparently they found one...

is there even cleanup for items that have been droped indoors?
i thought, that it was meant this way (for some reason)

Hi andro,

the items you dropped behind the building are indeed supposed to be removed/cleaned up.

We'll test your theory if untampered items swapped with similar items from a player inventory breaks the CLE.

Regards,
JStewart