No backpack after being killed by an animal? (A18 and A19)

[vokin]

I've found that ever since A18 I seem to have about a 30-50% chance to have my backpack not be there if I'm killed by an animal. Don't believe I've ever had the issue from a zombie death, though I could be mistaken. I'm playing single player, no mods, drop everything on death. The backpack indicator will still be on the compass and it will lead me to exactly where I died, but there will be no bag there. This has happened with a boar, a dog/wolf, and most recently with a bear. I've dug down, looked up to see if it was floating, no luck.

 

I will note that I did have a multi-death run in with a mountain lion (or whatever the big cat is) in A19, and the bag was always there for those. 

 

Side-note: If there is some command to force my backpack/items back into my hand, would love to know it! I'm not above using a "cheat" to get around a bug.

[Liesel Weppen]

Interesting theory. I haven't been killed often by animals, but the only death where i lost my backpack since inclusive A18, was by a bear...

And i can still repeat: The backpack was shown on the compas, but not the 3D marker of A19.

[SylenThunder]

If you check your logs, it tracks backpack data.

[Liesel Weppen]

I have asked in a thread especially if there is any way to backtrack. Nobody answered on how to backtrack nor any other help. Now it's too late, the savegame is already gone.

[vokin]

16 hours ago, SylenThunder said:

If you check your logs, it tracks backpack data.

Not sure what you're saying here? I can use the logs to just give myself every item that was in my backpack one at a time? Or I can use that data to give myself everything at once? If it's the former, that could get real tedious, especially if it's pretty full.

 

Or are you saying that the log should show some bug of why I see it correctly on the compass but not in the world?

[SylenThunder]

You can look in the log, and it will show the actual coordinates of the bag, and if it was destroyed it will show that also. It is a known bug that the backpack does not always get spawned in the correct position, and that is why the tracking was added.

[vokin]

Below are a few of the lines from my log. Can you let me know if I'm missing something? I've used teleport to go directly to where it says and it's where the bear killed me (and it's where the compass points). But again, no bag. Is the issue the OnDestroy()? Does that mean the bag got destroyed somehow? 

 

2020-07-10T03:11:14 19845.076 INF GMSG: Player 'vokin' died
2020-07-10T03:11:14 19845.077 INF Entity vokin 171 killed by animalBear 1671
2020-07-10T03:11:14 19845.087 INF 383360 EntityBackpack id 1685, plyrId 171, items ?, OnEntityUnload (-1650.1, 60.9, -1281.5), markedForUnload False, IsDead False, IsDespawned False
2020-07-10T03:11:14 19845.099 INF 383360 EntityBackpack id 1686, plyrId 171, items 31 ammo9mmBulletBall, meleeWpnBladeT0BoneKnife, Start (-1650.1, 60.9, -1281.5)
2020-07-10T03:11:14 19845.100 INF 383360 EntityBackpack id 1685, plyrId 171, items ?, OnDestroy (-1650.1, 60.9, -1281.5)
 

2020-07-10T03:11:27 19858.073 INF 1. Spawn pos: sleeping bag SpawnPoint (-1686.5, 58.0, -1891.5)/0.0
2020-07-10T03:11:27 19858.186 INF 383781 EntityBackpack id 1686, plyrId 171, items 31 ammo9mmBulletBall, meleeWpnBladeT0BoneKnife, OnEntityUnload (-1652.0, 59.0, -1281.3), markedForUnload False, IsDead True, IsDespawned False
2020-07-10T03:11:27 19858.222 INF 383781 EntityBackpack id 1686, plyrId 171, items 31 ammo9mmBulletBall, meleeWpnBladeT0BoneKnife, OnDestroy (-1652.0, 59.0, -1281.3)
2020-07-10T03:11:34 19864.633 INF PlayerSpawnedInWorld (reason: Died, position: -1686, 58, -1891): localplayer

[maceman121]

I have had this exact same issue. Just again happened to me. I look at my logs and cannot make sense of them myself.

 

2020-07-10T21:59:36 3815.059 INF Time: 62.61m FPS: 95.38 Heap: 2529.3MB Max: 2881.3MB Chunks: 549 CGO: 322 Ply: 2 Zom: 11 Ent: 15 (59) Items: 0 CO: 7 RSS: 2038.7MB
2020-07-10T21:59:37 3815.929 INF [DECO] written 0
2020-07-10T21:59:37 3816.066 WRN No chunk for position 2673, 59, 1578, can not add childs to pos 2671, 58, 1578! Block cntCar03SedanDamage2v02
2020-07-10T22:00:05 3843.656 INF GMSG: Player 'marissa.b.hannan' died
2020-07-10T22:00:05 3843.673 INF 416879 EntityBackpack id 942, plyrId 189, items 15 resourceRockSmall, ammoBlunderbuss, Start (2562.3, 59.9, 1688.1)
2020-07-10T22:00:06 3845.065 INF Time: 63.11m FPS: 78.92 Heap: 2557.8MB Max: 2881.3MB Chunks: 549 CGO: 325 Ply: 2 Zom: 13 Ent: 19 (64) Items: 1 CO: 7 RSS: 2044.6MB
2020-07-10T22:00:19 3857.609 INF GMSG: Player 'Maceman121' died
2020-07-10T22:00:19 3857.612 INF Entity Maceman121 171 killed by animalMountainLion 932
2020-07-10T22:00:19 3857.615 INF 418127 EntityBackpack id 951, plyrId 171, items ?, OnEntityUnload (2575.5, 60.5, 1700.5), markedForUnload False, IsDead False, IsDespawned False
2020-07-10T22:00:19 3857.624 INF 418127 EntityBackpack id 952, plyrId 171, items 30 resourceRepairKit, resourceWood, Start (2575.5, 60.5, 1700.5)
2020-07-10T22:00:19 3857.624 INF 418127 EntityBackpack id 951, plyrId 171, items ?, OnDestroy (2575.5, 60.5, 1700.5)
2020-07-10T22:00:22 3860.850 INF PlayerSpawnedInWorld (reason: Died, position: 2231, 49, 1674): EntityID=189, PlayerID='76561198118790592', OwnerID='76561198118790592', PlayerName='marissa.b.hannan'
Calling Animator.GotoState on Synchronize layer

 

 

But it too was to a mountain lion that I died. What is interesting is that suddenly there was a Red Mountain Lion Icon on my compass and map, located at the trader. Not sure why, and when I went there, nothing special happened, so maybe something to come? Regardless, seems annoying to have the bag not where it was meant to be, and even dug down into the snow some just to check. My wife (also died to the same lion) had her bag where it was supposed to be, so not actually sure why sometimes it does get 'eaten' and other times, not.

[Liesel Weppen]

Died once, backpack was there:
 

2020-07-11T16:16:12 16224.318 INF GMSG: Player 'finalfantasy' died
2020-07-11T16:16:12 16224.323 INF Entity finalfantasy 171 killed by animalDireWolf 723
2020-07-11T16:16:12 16224.331 INF 955913 EntityBackpack id 769, plyrId 171, items ?, OnEntityUnload (1255.1, 60.4, 49.1), markedForUnload False, IsDead False, IsDespawned False
2020-07-11T16:16:12 16224.341 INF 955913 EntityBackpack id 770, plyrId 171, items 26 resourceWood, woodFrameBlockVariantHelper, Start (1255.1, 60.4, 49.1)
2020-07-11T16:16:12 16224.341 INF 955913 EntityBackpack id 769, plyrId 171, items ?, OnDestroy (1255.1, 60.4, 49.1)

 

Got killed some minutes later... again direwolf... 🤪 Backpack lost... 😭

2020-07-11T16:23:12 16644.532 INF GMSG: Player 'finalfantasy' died
2020-07-11T16:23:12 16644.538 INF Entity finalfantasy 171 killed by animalDireWolf 792
2020-07-11T16:23:12 16644.546 INF 981078 EntityBackpack id 797, plyrId 171, items ?, OnEntityUnload (1198.5, 61.9, -206.8), markedForUnload False, IsDead False, IsDespawned False
2020-07-11T16:23:12 16644.555 INF 981078 EntityBackpack id 798, plyrId 171, items 33 resourceWood, woodFrameBlockVariantHelper, Start (1198.5, 61.9, -206.8)
2020-07-11T16:23:12 16644.556 INF 981078 EntityBackpack id 797, plyrId 171, items ?, OnDestroy (1198.5, 61.9, -206.8)

Position seems right, but it is not there.

[Liesel Weppen]

Anoher observation: The animal that kills you don't seem to despawn. At least the last 3 dire wolfs that killed me were still there. Without cheating it's nearly impossible to get you backpack back, even if it didn't vanish.
If killed by zombie, everything sourounding seems to despawn. At least i lately was killed by a zombie and a bear nearby. In this case the bear did also despawn (what was bad, because i already pumped like 20 arrows into it).

[vokin]

9 hours ago, Liesel Weppen said:

Anoher observation: The animal that kills you don't seem to despawn. At least the last 3 dire wolfs that killed me were still there. Without cheating it's nearly impossible to get you backpack back, even if it didn't vanish.
If killed by zombie, everything sourounding seems to despawn. At least i lately was killed by a zombie and a bear nearby. In this case the bear did also despawn (what was bad, because i already pumped like 20 arrows into it).

Yup. I couldn't remember exactly how it was in earlier versions, but I don't recall it being this hard to get your stuff. As I mentioned above, I did have the backpack showing up when the mountain lion was killing me, but I died 3-4 times in a row (with a long run back each time) because the thing was just sitting on my bag. I do remember there were also some lumberjack zombies nearby and at least for one death/backpack they had killed me, or been involved, and they seemed to hang around as well. Maybe an issue of indoor vs outdoor kills? Not sure.