I almost said some mean shit but you guys handled it better

. Who knows what is causing the lag but it's definitely an issue that stuff disappears. For example if somebody is trying to move to a new village and take everything with them, any number of things could happen causing them to disconnect during a long trip. "get better internet" is rather silly considering how many places only have one choice of ISP, and I'm sure this "bug" is not intended by the developers, bad internet or not. Just the fact that you can generally log out on boats could cause people to assume they are safe to log off while carrying something.
For now I will stop carrying stuff on a boat. This does make me quite curious where the items are ending up though. I assume they are ending up somewhere in the world rather than being deleted. Could the devs make it so the items show up on the closest shore when this happens?