Game mode: Online official Type of issue: Bug Server type: PvE #1016 Region: EU
My character died in jungle biome (near Penitent’s crossing, rhino reptile launched my dead body in the water)
Grave marker appeared in the north near Trapper’s Cabin.
There was no corpse at neither places.
Couple of days later, I got crash and report screen when raiding the Black galleon. After relaunching the game my character was dead. Grave marker again in the north near Trapper’s cabin.
No corpse at neither places.
I hope this is not going to be a pattern.
Please provide a step-by-step process of how the bug can be reproduced. The more details you provide us with the easier it will be for us to find and fix the bug:
It’s a known issue. At least I assume that "Body Vanishing After Death’ refers to this. The issue status is ‘Ongoing Fixes’.
Nasty bug, as you lose all your gear despite making the obligatory trek back to where you died, even if only in hope. Awful if you’ve just spent ages farming something, or are on the way back home full of precious loot after an epic adventure. Wouldn’t want it to strike while transporting a bunch of named thralls to a new base…
I’ve reported it too. The more they hear of it from players and the more details we can give, the better as far as I’m concerned.
If it’s any consolation, it’s only happened to me once so far, though I’ve only been playing a couple of weeks.
Ya, its an ongoing issue and fix parade for it. Basically, the devs found several causes and have fixed some but not all. Until it can be fully patched, one of the ways to recover your body is to head over to where your body is supposed to be, and log out and back in. That often will reveal your corpse. Or at least this trick used to work back in the day, I haven’t played with anybody else since November of last year.
Ya I lost my body woth 3000 hardened brick 4000 insulated wood along with couple t3 thralls and all my gear
Was transporting my stuff to chests lagged clipped through an elevator couldn’t find my body not could my 3 clan mates
I’ve had success logging out and back in but didn’t work this time
Although body does appear alot more than it used to and usually of you log out and back in if it doesn’t work clan mates usually see your body even if you don’t
There was another workaround out there…I’m sorry for the mostly useless post because I can’t remember what it was. But there was some other trick people do.
Did you and your clan mates randomly “harvest” (eg try to skin) the ground/wall close to where you think you fell to your death?
Even in PvE you can harvest a players body for hide for example and it will spawn a loot bag containing everything that was on them … but only the player who’s corpse it was will be able to access that bag. Of course the loot bag will despawn quicker than your corpse … so only have your clan mates help when you are close to collect the loot bag.
I agree it is a known and very old bug, also been “fixed” many times.
Because of this bug, since launch, I have had my PvE-C server set to respawn players at their bed with all their belongings. This makes the game a bit too easy, but it’s better than having to search for missing bodies in every game.
We have it happen to us often too - many times you die there is no death marker either until you relog or get to higher ground and the corpse then spawns
