Chests and other placeables lose stability after picking up foundations

Chest decay timers are not resetting. I have observed that when I am at the building, most of the building is reset immediately. However, the chests that are decaying do not reset their decay timers and are still counting down from the last time they were reset.

So for example, one of my buildings was reset 102 hours ago. So the building and everything in it would be at 66 hours to decay. When I went to the building, I watched the decay timer reset on the foundations, and everything reset as you would expect, except a bunch of the chests and one Khitan Folding Screen. I held TAB and watched the chests that were not reset, and they continued to count down while I stood in front of them, even though the building and the other chests would reset every minute just as they should.

I watched for several minutes and the building continued to reset its decay timer and so did all the chests placed nearby, however the chests that didn’t reset, continued to stubbornly count down.

For example,

A chest that isn’t resetting:

A chest that is resetting:

As I stand here, every minute the top chest doesn’t reset. The other chest is resetting every minute.

Adding logs of other items that are decaying even though the rest of the building is reset.


At another building, I have 5 distinct decay timers on chests:

  1. Most of the building is reset to 168 hours.
  2. Some pieces are counting down from 143 hours.
  3. Some pieces are counting down from 64 hours
  4. Some pieces are counting down from 40 hours
  5. Some are counting down from 15 hours, 40 mins.

It seems to depend on what got reset the last time I visited the building.

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