We sank and when we returned to our floating loot the treasure chest with three skulls in it sank. The rest of the loot stayed up for some time (some skulls, storage crates, and a ammo crate).
Why do Treasure Chests sink faster?
Why Do Treasure Chests Sink Faster Than Everything Else?
When your ship sinks and you have a large crew have at least two stay in the water and stay alive as long as they can and touch each item to help keep it float longer. Sharks are your biggest threat at this point. If only 1 player stays he/she won’t survive long.
Row boats are the most important item when this happens. Make sure you leave food in it. You can grab loot and let it stay in the row boat as well. If your solo the row boat will sink unattended when you leave but the treasure will float for 3-5. Minutes after the row boat sinks. If your ship spawns across the map the row boat won’t stay alive but their is a chance to recover some of the loot. You may decide to stay on the row boat and row to the nearest outpost and sell treasure...
But that is another story for you to tell your friends.Also quick note. If you find part of your loot on the seas. Quickly sword jump below the water line. Sometimes you will see loot sinking. If you swim to the deepest one grab it and release it the Loot rises up to the top of the ocean.
Resurrected lost skeleton fleet loot more than a dozen times as the captain ship was sunken 1st but had to beat the the remaining fleet ship to prevent us from being sunk. Same can happen with your sunken ship loot.@johnhp1 said in Why Do Treasure Chests Sink Faster Than Everything Else?:
When your ship sinks and you have a large crew have at least two stay in the water and stay alive as long as they can and touch each item to help keep it float longer. Sharks are your biggest threat at this point. If only 1 player stays he/she won’t survive long.
Row boats are the most important item when this happens. Make sure you leave food in it. You can grab loot and let it stay in the row boat as well. If your solo the row boat will sink unattended when you leave but the treasure will float for 3-5. Minutes after the row boat sinks. If your ship spawns across the map the row boat won’t stay alive but their is a chance to recover some of the loot. You may decide to stay on the row boat and row to the nearest outpost and sell treasure...
But that is another story for you to tell your friends.I have had rowboats stay in place for well over 30+ minutes, so I'm not sure what you're going on about with rowboats sinking when you leave... That's simply not true from my experience.
As for why treasure chests may sink faster, I imagine it's because it carries more loot. If the game can despawn more loot at once, it saves a burden on the server load, removing up to 4 items at once instead of just 1.
My personal theory is that it remains floating enough for the crew that sunk you to pick it up, not for you to return to reclaim it. I see it as if you sunk, you don't deserve a do-over. If it truly irritates you, grab a rowboat.
For the reason why merchant items remain floating, because animal crates are such a pain in the butt to replace, the animals will die, but at least the empty crates could be recoverable. Rare instead of just making that change for the animal crates, they applied it to all items that are Merchant related. Those include storage and ammo crates.
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They become damaged.
From battle with skelly sloops, meg attacks, and hits from canons from skeleton on islands. Mine always have some wear and tear. When your at Kracken Falls and your ships respawns at Smuggler bay usually my rowboat is no longer floating when I return.The row boat wood looks dry rotted.
Your rowboat has never been damaged that when you drop it into the water it from the back of your ship it immediately takes on water and won’t hold your or any loot you place on it? You never had one just fall off the back of your ship when bit by a meg? You my friend are truly blessed by the Pirate Lord.
I sometime have sessions more than 5 hours and I now routinely rotate my rowboats.
@johnhp1 Rocks, docks, shocks, shots, bombs, ships, and megs (when unattached to a ship) are the only things I have ever seen break them.
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