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Un-emptied Treasure Chests
Muzza45
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Whilst tip-toeing through the daisies collecting mats & chests in Rivenspire yesterday, I came across a chest that some ingrate had partially harvested leaving junk inside. I couldn't help myself and had a bit of a whinge in zone chat berating those lazy/selfish folks... anyway I would like to find out exactly how long the junk remains in the unlocked chest before re-spawning? Apologies if this has been asked before.
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Hapexamendios✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭iirc the junk will remain until someone takes it. But I'm not positive on that.1 -
VoxAdActa✭✭✭✭✭The chest (or resource, or thief's cache, or fishing hole) won't respawn until someone empties it completely.2 -
joerginger✭✭✭✭✭No, the chest respawns normally as has been said whenever this topic comes up here.Edited by joerginger on October 16, 2020 9:33AM24
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thegreat_one✭✭✭✭If you get that excited when you see a overland chest.......
Like seriously, nothing really good comes out of those u cannot find in a trader.
It would be annoying if u had to pick the lock agan!
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The chest (or resource, or thief's cache, or fishing hole) won't respawn until someone empties it completely.
not true, i definately experienced new chests spawning right ontop of a not completely emptied one in more than one occasion
B2T: I guess the not-emptied chest will despawn but it takes a long time. It's not that long ago where we had a huge discussion in this forum. Jk, was on the german forumEdited by kajanzaru on October 16, 2020 6:35AM1 -
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✭✭✭✭I tested this again on 10/10, since it had been a few years. A chest with items left in it despawned in 10 minutes. If you wonder about this, go and test it out yourself. It is easy to do.Edited by BigBragg on October 16, 2020 6:32AM19 -
Muzza45✭✭✭I tested this again on 10/10, since it had been a few years. A chest with items left in it despawned in 10 minutes. If you wonder about this, go and test it out yourself. It is easy to do.
Good onya mate, appreciate the answer. I suppose I'm as lazy as those fine folks who don't empty the chests in the first place as I really couldn't be bothered to wait... Having said that, 10mins is indeed a long time to wait, especially if you're busting for a pee.0 -
BigBragg✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭I tested this again on 10/10, since it had been a few years. A chest with items left in it despawned in 10 minutes. If you wonder about this, go and test it out yourself. It is easy to do.
Good onya mate, appreciate the answer. I suppose I'm as lazy as those fine folks who don't empty the chests in the first place as I really couldn't be bothered to wait... Having said that, 10mins is indeed a long time to wait, especially if you're busting for a pee.
It is indeed when you are doing the pee pee dance. Fortunately I had a hot cup of tea [snip] while waiting.
[Edited to remove Baiting]Edited by ZOS_ConnorG on October 16, 2020 1:19PM0 -
pihlaja✭✭✭Thanks very much for the info; I’ve also been wondering if they respawn or not. Nevertheless, I consider emptying the chests as a polite thing to do so no one has to kill that random mammoth/giant/troll/gang/etc all over again or try to find a way to a difficult chest location for a half empty chest. I know it’s not a big deal for many of us, but for some people it might be. Personally I’ve also been slightly annoyed when trying to collect some overland set (briarheart, mother’s sorrow, spriggans, necropotence..) and climbing up or jumping down to some chest, just to find out it has one glyph or a pair of rubedite gloves left.Edited by pihlaja on October 16, 2020 7:19AM8 -
MKintr✭✭✭It's another legend that partially emptied chests hurt anybody. Like the legend of "the servers" causing lag in cyrodiil. Easy answers for lazy people.
A opened chest is registered as farmed. The chest disappears when another chest spawns in the same place or another place in the same zone. The onliest disadvantage is, that you think you can open a full chest and find only crap, but that it was already opened can be spotted even without dismounting. So it remains a only minor inconvenience.
If you want to blame something for it, then blame the storage system, that is designed to produce scarcity so you can't pickup every crap you find. It's the same with partially farmed mats and furniture, but no-one complains about that?6 -
zaria✭✭✭✭✭
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This, now its still a bit annoying if you dismount and fight some mobs and then find the chest with some junk in it.I tested this again on 10/10, since it had been a few years. A chest with items left in it despawned in 10 minutes. If you wonder about this, go and test it out yourself. It is easy to do.
Still say its rare as in might be years since last time.
I uses auto loot myself simply to save time.Grinding just make you go in circles.
Asking ZoS for nerfs is as stupid as asking for close air support from the death star.1 -
Everstorm✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭I tested this again on 10/10, since it had been a few years. A chest with items left in it despawned in 10 minutes. If you wonder about this, go and test it out yourself. It is easy to do.
Good onya mate, appreciate the answer. I suppose I'm as lazy as those fine folks who don't empty the chests in the first place as I really couldn't be bothered to wait... Having said that, 10mins is indeed a long time to wait, especially if you're busting for a pee.
Well, the chances of a new one popping up in the same place are pretty small.0 -
Vildebill✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭If you want to blame something for it, then blame the storage system, that is designed to produce scarcity so you can't pickup every crap you find. It's the same with partially farmed mats and furniture, but no-one complains about that?
I don't agree at all. Everyone knows that exactly no one likes to come up to a chest just to find it half-emptied with only junk remaining. If you still choose to leave stuff in the chest, that says a lot about you as a person.Edited by Vildebill on October 16, 2020 9:09AMEU PC17 -
rpa✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Storage system in this game is pretty generous for a MMO. The problem with storage is because itemization (or lack of it) which is inherited from single player games with practically unlimited space for save data.0 -
AyaDark✭✭✭✭✭So, if chest do respawn in 10 minutes, it is the same as no chest at all.
You get some junk, why so unhappy
You can just get nothing at all.3 -
Kaliki✭✭✭✭
Of course you can pick up everything. If I go chest-farming, I empty my inventory and open lots of chests. Once my inventory is full, I vendor everything I don't need and continue. Takes no more than a couple of minutes.If you want to blame something for it, then blame the storage system, that is designed to produce scarcity so you can't pickup every crap you find.
Leaving crap in chests is a crappy move because you make others pick up your crap und having to get rid of it.
That alone should be enough reason not to leave stuff in chests.
Also: 1 person leaving stuff in chests ruins the entire farming route for themselves and every other person coming there in the next 10 minutes.
To be clear: I am not talking about the occasional unlooted chest here but entire zones filled with partially looted chests.
Edited by Kaliki on October 16, 2020 11:01AM- Templars: Slower by Design® -11 -
Kaliki✭✭✭✭Donny_Vito wrote: »
Maybe not forever. But I would assume that as long as the unlooted chest is there, no new chest can spawn at that location.- Templars: Slower by Design® -1 -
zaria✭✭✭✭✭
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Yes but the single player games did not have items sets outside a couple.Storage system in this game is pretty generous for a MMO. The problem with storage is because itemization (or lack of it) which is inherited from single player games with practically unlimited space for save data.
ESO pretty good storage for an MMO but it also has loads of sets, say WOW had pretty one bis level set for class and role at least then I played, yes you had an easier to get set with worse gear level.
Edited by zaria on October 16, 2020 11:17AMGrinding just make you go in circles.
Asking ZoS for nerfs is as stupid as asking for close air support from the death star.0 -
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✭✭✭✭Donny_Vito wrote: »
Maybe not forever. But I would assume that as long as the unlooted chest is there, no new chest can spawn at that location.
No every container, node, and chest sits on a timer.2 -
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✭thegreat_one wrote: »If you get that excited when you see a overland chest.......
Like seriously, nothing really good comes out of those u cannot find in a trader.
It would be annoying if u had to pick the lock agan!
I made a small fortune selling Buoyant Armiger style pages and Telvanni paintings, but yes, you're right, nothing good ever comes out of the chests. Please ignore them as much as you can
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daemondamian✭✭✭✭I tested this again on 10/10, since it had been a few years. A chest with items left in it despawned in 10 minutes. If you wonder about this, go and test it out yourself. It is easy to do.
Unless of course you have one of those lovely friendly members of the ESO community who see someone next to a chest & not actively interacting with it & decide to take whatever is in the chest regardless of what the player next to the chest is doing or intends upon doing
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✭✭✭Hopefully after the Item Collection system is live everyone will have lots more inventory space and will be able to fully loot those chests. I myself always have autoloot on, but sometimes I can’t pick up everything because my inventory is just too full.0 -
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✭✭daemondamian wrote: »I tested this again on 10/10, since it had been a few years. A chest with items left in it despawned in 10 minutes. If you wonder about this, go and test it out yourself. It is easy to do.
Unless of course you have one of those lovely friendly members of the ESO community who see someone next to a chest & not actively interacting with it & decide to take whatever is in the chest regardless of what the player next to the chest is doing or intends upon doing
You can't expect that they know what you intend to do3 -
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✭meh, who cares? I usually don't leave stuff in chests...but if I have a full inventory, I am certainly not going to feel bad about it.1 -
ghost_bg_ESO✭✭✭✭I'm more surprised with players leaving this week half emptied rune stones and nodes with eso+ free week...2
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✭✭Sadly we cannot put items INTO the chests. Now that would be fun. Zone Chat" I just placed 10K in a chest happy hunting!8 -
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✭✭✭Elvenheart wrote: »Hopefully after the Item Collection system is live everyone will have lots more inventory space and will be able to fully loot those chests. I myself always have autoloot on, but sometimes I can’t pick up everything because my inventory is just too full.
For me personally, it's not a lack of inventory space that prevents me from looting everything. It's a lack of desire of wanting to decon/vendor a Rubidite Maul of Flame.BawKinTackWarDs PS4/NA1 -
allhailskippy✭✭✭✭✭After interacting with a few people I've outright caught behaving this way. The general response is that they just don't care. I have been told that since they don't have ESO+ that they don't have infinite bag space, so they just leave what they don't want because they're 'not made of money'.
But what I've come to realize is that it's just selfish people doing selfish things.
They believe that their time is more valuable than yours. Period. It doesn't matter about the respawn time. It doesn't matter that the could take the item and destroy it. They just don't care.
These are most likely the same people who queue as fake tanks because "normal doesn't even need a tank".
It used to bug me more than it does now. Now, I just grab whatever garbage is left, and move on. There is no point in trying to convince people that what they are doing is wrong, since they simply couldn't care less.Hireling Wanted! - An Elder Scrolls Tale https://hirelingwanted.com27 -
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✭✭✭allhailskippy wrote: »After interacting with a few people I've outright caught behaving this way. The general response is that they just don't care. I have been told that since they don't have ESO+ that they don't have infinite bag space, so they just leave what they don't want because they're 'not made of money'.
But what I've come to realize is that it's just selfish people doing selfish things.
They believe that their time is more valuable than yours. Period. It doesn't matter about the respawn time. It doesn't matter that the could take the item and destroy it. They just don't care.
These are most likely the same people who queue as fake tanks because "normal doesn't even need a tank".
It used to bug me more than it does now. Now, I just grab whatever garbage is left, and move on. There is no point in trying to convince people that what they are doing is wrong, since they simply couldn't care less.
Nobody should care, it's not a big deal. I don't get bent when I go to loot a chest and there's nothing but trash in it.BawKinTackWarDs PS4/NA10
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