When I die, my things are not where the death marker is, and sometimes they arent locatable at all.

[Kirstenly]

The ten minute grace period has not lapsed. at all. I know it hasn't, so I will get that out of the way now. But almost every time I have died in this game, my death marker is slightly off from where I actually died. and my stuff is EXTREMELY far away from where i died. and sometimes in two or three separate piles. Why is this? What is causing my death marker to be upto 10 blocks away from where I actually died, and my stuff to be within 30 blocks of the death marker.. sometimes making them spawn underground... or on top of a tree. its very frustrating. sometimes I get back to where I was and I cant find my stuff at all. like its completely lost. And its frustrating cause the one time it was a bear who spawned directly in front of me while i was walking that i died to and lost my stuff to. 

hell at first I thought "maybe my stuff is hidden in the snow" and then bulldozed the snow from an entire chunk... and still didn't find my things. 

Is this normal?

Edited January 14 by Kirstenly

[LadyWYT]

Welcome to the forums(and the game)!

2 minutes ago, Kirstenly said:

Is this normal?

No, it's not normal. Your stuff should be at your death point, unless there was a water stream to carry it away, and shouldn't despawn unless the timer is up or you quit the game. 

If you're playing with mods, it's most likely mod interference, but if it's the vanilla game then it's more likely a bug of some kind. Are you playing singleplayer or multiplayer? I'm not sure how likely it is, but if the client/server is struggling to keep up with the game's demands that could be causing some odd behavior to occur.

[Kirstenly]

3 minutes ago, LadyWYT said:

Welcome to the forums(and the game)!

No, it's not normal. Your stuff should be at your death point, unless there was a water stream to carry it away, and shouldn't despawn unless the timer is up or you quit the game. 

If you're playing with mods, it's most likely mod interference, but if it's the vanilla game then it's more likely a bug of some kind. Are you playing singleplayer or multiplayer? I'm not sure how likely it is, but if the client/server is struggling to keep up with the game's demands that could be causing some odd behavior to occur.

It was on a flat stone surface, no water, we are playing fully vanilla multiplayer. I wonder if the server is having issues. I am gonna talk to the owner and see if we can't have inventories kept on death cause its been a constant issue for me. Thank you. 

[LadyWYT]

7 minutes ago, Kirstenly said:

It was on a flat stone surface, no water, we are playing fully vanilla multiplayer. I wonder if the server is having issues. I am gonna talk to the owner and see if we can't have inventories kept on death cause its been a constant issue for me. Thank you. 

Gotcha. Hopefully you can figure out what the exact cause is. If it's server issues, I would think someone would have noticed rubberbanding or other laggy behavior. In any case, turning the keep inventory rule on is probably the best solution in the short term.