suggestion

Often items are not easy to see/find .. can I suggest a map marker shown only to the person who items are lost show them where their items are. Maybe a timer on the map marker showing how long until they despawn ?

On 3/13/2025 at 1:22 AM, MrLiquid said:

Often items are not easy to see/find .. can I suggest a map marker shown only to the person who items are lost show them where their items are. Maybe a timer on the map marker showing how long until they despawn ?

Thanks for the suggestion!

I'm not saying no, I just need some information on "why" beforehand.
If an item, weapon, bag etc. glitches through the ground, i will be teleported back up onto the surface but will not move in any x or y direction.

So you'll find it where your corpse (or when it already despawned: your loot bag) is.
That's exactely where Rust adds the "death marker" on your map.

I know, when you die again, the "old" death marker gets deleted / repositioned to the last place of death.
But this plugin was not designed to keep a marker on the map after multiple deaths.

The timer is kinda hard to do since (as I learned some days ago) there is not "THE ONE" despawn time for your loot, bags, corpse etc.
Rust calulcates the despawn time dynamically depending on the item values. But there are exceptions so the despawn time will differ, depening on where the item is contained in:
- corpse --> which will despawn into a loot bag
- backpack
- container (when you exchange items and put some in a crate, barrel etc.)
- dropped on the floor by the player


Examples:
your loot bag will despawn instantly if the "best" item in your inventory is a torch,
it will stay there for 40 minutes when the best item is a SAR,
it will stay for 1 hour if the best item is an M249.
cou can find the "despawn time" on rustclash, for example https://wiki.rustclash.com/item/m249