Got the same Issue
New player here, played for quite a few hours after buying the game, almost 10 hours and I'm in autum, I guess.
The first time I lost all the baskets, basically having to start anew.
Second time I lost two baskets with my spare copper tools in it.
I was killed by a bear that camped at my base and lost them then.
What I also noticed, after a few hours of gameplay the game music seems to stop randomly and the entire hotbar gets scrollable, even the basket slots.
I don't know if it correlates, but it could be a lead?
I hope this issue gets resolved so that we don't have to rely on mods to fix everything.
Until then I'll use the corpse mod like another one here proposed.
