The case of the disappearing 'stuff'

[Killawatt]

Decay?

Highly unlikely. I left for about 12 hours, but I had repaired it fully not an hour before.

[Moogie]

I was travelling a while back in a boat loaded with all my hobo possessions, searching for a mine. I would pick up the boat and hide it under a tree, so that it wasn't visible, before heading off to do my prospecting.

Well, this one time, I came back to the hiding spot... and it was gone. Just gone. I was utterly perplexed. I was in a completely uninhabited part of the world, no settlements for miles around, and someone had not only stolen my boat (with everything in it), but been lucky enough to stumble directly onto it when it was completely hidden. Or perhaps, they were following me the whole time...?

Anyway, I figured that was it- I'd never find it. Built another boat, went back to my makeshift camp to try and recoup my losses. On the way home, I literally bumped into a guy in another boat. He went off in another direction, and at the time, it just didn't click in my head... I just thought it was odd to see another human being, when I'd seen no signs of life in the area for such a long time.

About an hour later, I was paying a visit to the clay furnace I'd built several rivers away, when I passed by this guy in his boat again, shooting at a bear. That's when it finally struck me. I waited for him to make his kill and head to shore, and then I snuck up on him, quickly dismounted my boat, and made a beeline for his- he saw me and instantly sprinted back to his boat to block my way.

There was a moment of hesitation for us both. He was just about to flee, when I managed to speed-type out a message:

"Give one of them [chests] back. You can keep the other."

Now, considering I really had no idea whether this guy had any clue what I was babbling about, I was completely shocked when he rode to shore, got out, and said "ok". He let me take the boat, and when I looked inside, there were all my possessions. Despite really making no attempt at tracking down this boat, having no idea where to even look, and spending an hour just assing around back at camp... here it was. Willingly given up by the person who expertly lifted it from me in the first place.

I didn't stick around long enough to find out who he was. But if he ever reads this: I respect you man. That was truely honorable. And I still have no idea how you found it to begin with. I'm going to call you Garret.

[eagledom]

Well i have built 2 cuboards and in one i put straw, it was full and the other i had bones, went to bed and the next morning my cuboard with straw was gone.The whole cuboard and all....It was on claimed land and i just can not believe it was gone, and the the next morning all my meat was gone from another crate. Have no idea what happend but i had built it all same time and make sure to fix things but some how they disappeared!!

It is sad to see people steal when the items are on claimed land...

Today my friend was at his home and 4 people with large pumpkin heads came on his land and took a lot of his stuff, was very sad, he just started 3 days ago and has been working hard, you can see he just started as he had 6 sets of pants shirt and shoes in his baskets, also had lots of rabbit food, i had given him some seeds to start farming and they took all his food and seeds, were real big jerks!!

But anyway, so even though we have claimed land people can come in and steal our stuff? well that is BS, so for us new people we can lose everything and not be able to do anything to these higher jerks how fun.

[Iryn]

Did you settle near the water? That's never a good idea. I always settle far enough inland so as not to be visible on the mini map. To my knowledge, I'm the only person who even knows my settlement exists.

[Moogie]

Your cupboard disappeared, it was not stolen. Cupboards have insanely high rate of decay outside, it's very unsafe to store anything in them.

It's also unlikely someone would have tresspassed just to steal some meat, so that crate was probably outside your claim. If not, well that's a bit unusual.

Finally: learn to expect this sort of thing. It's all part of the game. We all started out this way. So far, the majority of your troubles can be attributed to inexperience with the game, but you'll quickly learn how life in H&H works and adapt to it. You're not losing anything important at this stage; so learn the lessons quickly and humbly, and consider moving your camp somewhere less populated and away from common travel routes such as rivers.

Hope that helps a bit.

[eagledom]

Well the cuboards are gone, i put them back in house and thank you for all your help

Also i am not by water so that is not a problem.