Does anyone know if there’s a decay time on chests once you put them down? Some times if I see a ship coming at me me I like to hide my chests on the island and come back for them latter. I know I have hid a chest for some where around 20 min before and it didn’t despawn.
Chest decay time?
Right. What happens to chests out at sea when a ship sinks and no one claims them? Do they just float there till the server ends? Could some one just come apon a bunch of chests floating from a wreck?
@zelemon37 said in Chest decay time?:
@sergent-c****r I remember seeing barrels in the water randomly one day... either there was a recent ship wreck or they just didnt despawn
Barrels are quite common. Seagulls will be flying above them. They contain consumables.
@sergent-c****r said in Chest decay time?:
Right. What happens to chests out at sea when a ship sinks and no one claims them? Do they just float there till the server ends? Could some one just come apon a bunch of chests floating from a wreck?
Chests in water will eventually sink. So if it's in the middle of the ocean it will go away, but if it is close to land it will settle on the bottom of the ocean.
@andrew175151 said in Chest decay time?:
I left chests on an island and forgot about them for hours and they were still there...I threw chests into the water next to an island, came back about an hour later...they were still there but could not be picked up.
It should have been on the bottom of the ocean. I had the same situation and the actual chest had floated to the bottom of the ocean even though it looked like it was still floating.
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Due to first hand experience, i don't think so.
I had just returned to an outpost, to offload my chest when a ship started to come into port. I was forced, to hid one the chest in a bush.I managed to sink the ship and return to the outpost this took about 15 mins or so since it was a galleon and i was playing single player. Anyway when i returned the chest was right where i hid it. I don't know if it being on an outpost is relevant or not.
I am seriously hoping that Rare set up something where chests never de-spawn. Or at least if they do, it's over a couple of days. That would really add to the immersion of finding the treasure that is left behind or lost by other players. And if that is the case, it would be kind of neat to see a pop-up of who originally found it, or held it last that way you could either get it back from them or tell them you stole it xD Maybe even show a message of how they died or lost it. I know that would be a LOT of background work and a LOT of things to store on a server, but it would be pretty awesome!
@zelemon37 said in Chest decay time?:
@sergent-c****r Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that chests don't have a despawn time, if there is it's very long. I believe it depends on your server. So if you leave the chest on one server, and then change for some reason, chest will not be there.
Im not so sure, during one of our plays last scale test, we boarded a galleon, stole 2 chests and hid them far deep in the water (we had no boat to take it with us).
One stayed with the chests while the other scuttled the ship and brought the ship. By the time the ship was back, the chests were still there, but not moving or able to be interacted. I am not sure if this was a bug, or it was in the process of despawning.
I never lost my chests but I was just curious if there was an actual time limit on chests.
“Touch my chest better be to tickle me or you’re going to lose a hand.”
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@senilegold Believe so too although I've also had the occasional disappearing chest while on water. The supply barrels from recently sunken ships do seem to always disappear after a few minutes though, or maybe it was just server overload during the tests.
One thing I'm certain is chests will always float up at first and then start to sink after a few minutes (2 to 5 minutes maybe) and I've also heard somewhere from the devs they wouldn't despawn ever.
There was also some sort of mention in the patch notes of one of the scale tests, about chests washing up on shore.
I assume that is an intended result of chests from a sunken ship, when the floating timer has expired, they will respawn on a shore somewhere.
I have zero acurate information on how long they float (others have said 3-5 minutes, which may be right, and could go along with the very few times it seemed to me that a floating chest went missing), and whether or not the washing up on shore thing worked at all - and how that works (where they appear on the island, which island, etc.).Yo all..... So I parked up with my boat with sail fully up but no anchor dropped...as I was exploring a very large island with riddle to solve I came back only to find the mermaid man in the water... Where's my boat Im sure I parked it there lol...darn must have had a sneeky hole somewhere I didn't know about. Or the skeletons must have cannoned it when I was on the other side of the island. I had stored 3 treasure chests on the deck not inside. So I swam to where I thought my boat sank and sure enough I could see my chests floating few feet from the sea floor. Oooo thats ok I thought then when I swam near them I was not able to pick them up.... grrrr this needs fixing ASAP a chest surely would have sank it seems to be a bug. This is the 2nd time I have seen a floating chest and not been able to pick it up. I wish they could be either collected from where they are or make them sink to the sea floor to be collected.
I hope Rare read this and fix the floating chest bug.
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