Yeah, this has happened numerous times to me (I notice nirnroot is especially prone to this, but it's not limited to nirnroot). I have been told it is related to it being harvested in another instance, but I do not think this makes much sense. You go through the motions of harvesting it (not like if a bot were getting it first; you have full animation of harvesting) and you get no pop-up to collect it. Frustrating to say the least

Fairydragon3 wrote: »

I've sen this, best way to tell is get the keen eye perk, the ones that work will glow. However i did find a few glowing spots with Nothing there in Greeshade. not even an object there's just glowing crap coming out of the ground

I have had this problem as well with glowing spots. I have found that they are underground, or most of them anyways. If you step a little far away from it and looks straight down i can usually get the ones underground.

Soloeus wrote: »

This is a small issue that has been ongoing since Beta. Every so often a resource node I approach, when I use it, will just vanish without giving me any resources.

Why?

PS. This has happened with every type of Alchemy, Blacksmith, Clothing, and Woodworking materials.

I asked this a while back and someone said it was because the node yielded no items, they alleged this is WAI: I never, ever saw it in beta or on initial release.

Also, while the 'phased' harvester theory is true, I've seen it several times, what I think the OP is talking about, and what I'm referring to, is that the node disappears the moment I click the button to harvest, THAT VERY SECOND.

This happens regularly if not very frequently, no way is this explicable by 'phased harvesting', the timing of my attempt harvest and the node's disappearance cannot be explained by a theory that says someone else harvested that node THAT VERY SECOND so many times in the course of a day.

babylon wrote: »

This.

I have all of those glow perks maxed and I get the glow; just not the material.

KerinKor wrote: »

What I think the OP is talking about, and what I'm referring to, is that the node disappears the moment I click the button to harvest, THAT VERY SECOND.

This happens regularly if not very frequently, no way is this explicable by 'phased harvesting', the timing of my attempt harvest and the node's disappearance cannot be explained by a theory that says someone else harvested that node THAT VERY SECOND so many times in the course of a day.

Hit the nail on the head. This.

And I used to just live with it, figuring it was something that would be fixed. I finally thought about how many cumulative ingredients I have lost over time. I wondered if anyone else was having this odd behavior.

I have keen-eye on every craft and there are times when the node glows and I can't harvest it. This happens often in Greenshade in AD.

It's annoying to click on a node and watch it disappear without getting anything.

This happens a lot with the Heavy Sacks too. I notice this farming any type of "node"; ore, plants, wood, runes, heavy sacks.

Has ZOS said anything about this? Since I've seen "little heads" of hacker farmers popping up from underground, I assume all the disappearing nodes are because of the hacker farmers taking the node from under the surface of the game. But then why would it go through the animation of me kneeling down to pick it? Or why is it clickable and then disappear the second the picking animation starts? How could it be that so often someone else is picking at EXACTLY the same time as I am? Because if someone else starts picking before me, it tells me someone else is using that node.

Interesting... I hope ZOS looks at this thread.

i see this alot also, and is annoying to think the bots now have learned the code for perminant invisibility, and being invisible even when they are interacting with the enviroment.


especially when im in cryodiil. perhaps they need this in order to not be killed in cryodiil?

I have had moments where it does phase out as I approach.

I have had many more moments where I do make it up to the node but get no sound or graphic; just "poof, gone." No cloud of smoke.

Walk up, hit "E", vanishes.
Walk up, hit "E", nothing happens, node still visible just non-interactable.
Walk up to a glow, nothing there. Greenshade was the worst for it.

Those are all the resource bugs I've seen. Seen a few bots but I always report em right away.

Niliu wrote: »

Walk up, hit "E", vanishes.
Walk up, hit "E", nothing happens, node still visible just non-interactable.
Walk up to a glow, nothing there. Greenshade was the worst for it.

Those are all the resource bugs I've seen. Seen a few bots but I always report em right away.

I have also found nodes, come to think of it, where I just couldn't interact with it. It glows, and has "E" but nothing happens when I press.