It is IMPOSSIBLE for provisioning items to be "looted by everyone". All containers that spawn those items are instanced to the player, and not lootable by anyone other than yourself. If they are "open", they were spawned that way, not looted by another player.

Provisioning supplies are EVERYWHERE! It took me just 10 days to level mine to 50.

seanolan wrote: »

It is IMPOSSIBLE for provisioning items to be "looted by everyone". All containers that spawn those items are instanced to the player, and not lootable by anyone other than yourself. If they are "open", they were spawned that way, not looted by another player.

What @seanolan said.. containers (barrels, crates, bookcases, cabinets, etc.) are instanced to player, whereas chests. nodes and heavy sacks are open to all.

If there is an indoor area with containers, try relogging there and seeing if any respawn closed. If not, then it's an intentional thing for that area. Try it in a populated town and everything should randomly respawn with stuff in it (not ALL of them, some will be randomly already open).

Good luck.

Seriously, there's so much provisioning lying about I stopped bothering with it after lvl3!
I'll go back when I really feel I need to level cooking. (There's also a lot of food lying around to be eaten)

I'm experiencing this too. I've made a bunch of new characters today over on Daggerfall and there was not a single lootable chest, nightstand, wardrobe or trunk in any of the buildings, including the castle, for any of the characters I made.
(not including sacks, barrels and crates)
Nothing respawns no matter how many times I relogged although the contents of bookcases changed.

Try making a new character and just ransacking through the tutorial, loot all chests, barrels, bags, urns, whatever isn't nailed shut. then, finish the tutorial, go to the bank, looting the stuff in town along the way, deposit, log delete, repeat, took 8 runs to get enough mats to hit 50.

Grapes, wheat, broth, drippings, aged meat, pork. anything else is superfluous for general leveling. 500 inspiration per combine, and I dunno total exp to hit 50, but it was close to 8 runs through tutorial. ( AD side )

tordr86b16_ESO wrote: »

theyancey wrote: »

Provisioning supplies are EVERYWHERE! It took me just 10 days to level mine to 50.

It took me 1.5 hour to level from 1 to 50... Provisioning is a joke, they obviously just slapped it together.

really? how did you get the recipies so quickly?

I dont see how people are reaching 50 provisioning in a couple hours (unless they are using the logging cheat to reset) I cook all mats I get and I loot everywhere. You still need to have the higher recipes and lvls in order to get that good exp. My own exp is staying in starter zones looting will only get you starter recipes and mats. sure you can make 200 lvl 1 recipes and get two bars of exp for it, or you can go to higher zones and work those high exp recipes in a much shorter time.

that has been my exp, im at 47 now but its taken me 2 weeks. for the original poster, try going to a new area with rich looting, like mines, small towns etc. I have more luck with finding motiffs and good recipes and full chests there

seanolan wrote: »

AlexDougherty wrote: »

seanolan wrote: »

It is IMPOSSIBLE for provisioning items to be "looted by everyone". All containers that spawn those items are instanced to the player, and not lootable by anyone other than yourself. If they are "open", they were spawned that way, not looted by another player.

Um, I don't think they are, especially when I have tried to loot a barrel and had the contents disappear before my eyes.

Pretty sure the chest, barrels, sacks, and wardrobes are accessable to all players there (including some in apparently another instance), and sometimes the contents just haven't respawned.

You are wrong. Sorry, but that's just fact. You are wrong.

According to this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkWFyNoMl-E

I entered the house and EVERYTHING was empty! Relogged - still empty!

JadeDarkstep wrote: »

seanolan wrote: »

AlexDougherty wrote: »

seanolan wrote: »

It is IMPOSSIBLE for provisioning items to be "looted by everyone". All containers that spawn those items are instanced to the player, and not lootable by anyone other than yourself. If they are "open", they were spawned that way, not looted by another player.

Um, I don't think they are, especially when I have tried to loot a barrel and had the contents disappear before my eyes.

Pretty sure the chest, barrels, sacks, and wardrobes are accessable to all players there (including some in apparently another instance), and sometimes the contents just haven't respawned.

You are wrong. Sorry, but that's just fact. You are wrong.

I entered the house and EVERYTHING was empty! Relogged - still empty!

I've seen that a few times recently. While ZOS haven't said it, I believe they changed it last Friday because before that I'd never seen this situation at all.

All saying you can simply log and rerun areas are just out of date (or if it's a bug, uneffected)...the way ZOS deals with containers has been amended (by design or as a bug) since launch. In early access players could sit a character in one location, loot all furnishings, log out, log in, repeat.

wardrobes/dressers/nightstands etc. now refresh less often and not just on a relog. It appears a more complex algorithm is being used that decides to refresh containers based on a much wider set of variables to prevent farming. Containers are still instanced (if you play with a friend this is obvious).

To test, yesterday I created and logged into a new character, cleared lootables in Daggerfall. logged out, logged in, lootables had not reset. Wayshrine my main character to Daggerfall found three lootable items in the whole city. Relogged to newbie alt and found no lootable items. Waited 24 hours real time logged in alt, lootable items had still not reset. After an hour or two playing main character in Cyrodil returned to Daggerfall and found several containers had reset but it was not close to the initial level of containers on the 1st run.

It certainly seems the reset algorithm works account wide but is applied differently to each character, is no longer based on a simple log out and is staggering the reset of containers over time.

In all honesty, there are still so many locations to loot, cities, dungeons, ships etc. that you don't really need to farm. The only exception is when trying to find motifs early in the game, before you can afford to buy them.

EDIT: @nudel points out correctly this was changed pre launch and effected higher level players farming lower level zones. I tried using a second alt character (level 3) in the same location (Auridon, VH Bank) and this did indeed result in a larger percentage of containers being reset.

EDIT2: I just tested this again...this time just in Daggerfall Castle. The containers will not reset regardless of character level/logging/etc. the containers were empty when I arrived with a new character and have stayed that way, all of them, despite 7 or 8 character switches using 2 level 3 characters.
This is seeming more and more like a bug with an unpredictable nature.

I would love to know if othrs can 'farm' daggerfall castle with two low level alts?

Not many actually dealing with provisioning just for the fact there are so many ingredients just lying around. Friend stopped all together because he was tired of his bank being filled with crafting ingredients. Can't really blame him, as you can find any level cooking mat any time you really want. The only ones I even bother keeping when I find are tomatoes and oats, as they are extremely rare and needed for high end recipes.

seanolan wrote: »

It is IMPOSSIBLE for provisioning items to be "looted by everyone". All containers that spawn those items are instanced to the player, and not lootable by anyone other than yourself. If they are "open", they were spawned that way, not looted by another player.

Not true, they are open to everyone. A lot of houses in VR zones are looted, when I enter them the first time.

I haven't managed to find much fully lootable houses if any at all in my veteran zones... well, I only recall one tiny house, during one quest. Even if I enter new zones for the first time, new houses, then everything is already empty.

So, I've been running around last hour or two and I ported back to Auridon, my faction zone, and I was able to find few filled wardrobes, which hardly ever happened to me in any veteran zone.
And when I went back to Windhelm, then everything was empty again.