The Mystery of the Vanishing Ore

[Curudan]

I've been mining for a few months now, and I prefer to mine in bulk. I take seven or ten tea cups into the mine with me, and mine without picking up any of the ore. Then, I take a couple dozen trips in and out of the mine, carrying ore to the smelters.

Just a few minutes ago, I finished off the last of my tea cups, grabbed all the ore I could carry with me, and dumped ore and tea cups outside.

And, to my great astonishment, when I returned to the mine, I discovered that all of the ore had vanished!

I had only left the mine for a few seconds. So I know it wasn't thieves.

Help?

[Brosephine]

This is why you build smelters in the mine.

[KoE]

Except you can't do that anymore.

[Curudan]

This is why you build smelters in the mine.

I can see that you have had no access to a mine in this world. You can't build smelters in mines anymore.

Edit: Which is what KOE just said.

[Colbear]

Server crashes wipe out all dropped items on the floor.

Try experimenting: drop a stick in the mine, go out, and see what happens when you go back in.

[Curudan]

Try experimenting: drop a stick in the mine, go out, and see what happens when you go back in.

Already done. I wasn't able to reproduce it.

Server crashes wipe out all dropped items on the floor.

Yeah, I think I'd know that, at least, after all this time, and no server crash happened at that time, anyway.

I have a vague theory that this had something to do with the hourly map save. The ore vanished around the turn of the hour.

[AnonWat]

I have a vague theory that this had something to do with the hourly map save. The ore vanished around the turn of the hour.

You know..
I did the exact same thing, and saw it happen.

I dropped a branch because it was taking up space, I go off for a couple minutes, about 1-2, and I come back, thanks to my keen eye, I actually SAW the branch disappear, AKA, de-spawn.

Don't know what to tell you man.
The new world may have a despawning effect to make it less laggy?

P.S. I love your picture.

[PhaedrothSP]

I used to do that too, mining 8 plots of 4x6, just enough to fill 2 smelters and 4 chests. Maybe you should keep some containers down there to store the batch you just mined until you're satisfied with how many ores you have?

[sonerohi]

It was like this in the old world too. After a certain amount of time, items on the ground plain old disappear.

[Curudan]

It was like this in the old world too. After a certain amount of time, items on the ground plain old disappear.

Yeah, as I mentioned in the first post, this is definitely not my first time mining, and some of the ore had only been sitting for less than a minute.

Regardless, I've mined 10+ batches since this happened, and the problem has yet to recur. I suppose this mystery will never be solved.