Inventory losses on relog

[bobus rolanus]

I lost a sharpened pickaxe (replaced by 2 carrots and a loaf of bread!!) after a link-dead, and i had been carrying that pickaxe for hours.  I didn\'t report it, figuring it was a part of the LD problem.
  But just moments ago I quit and rejoined the game because my guild name wasn\'t showing ( another player told me). When I rejoined, I was in the exact location I had left, but 6 gold ore were gone, and instead i had a loaf of bread and another \'invisible\' carrot.

(I ate the food on both occasions, but i don\'t see that it had any effect. - is it supposed to?)

I went link-dead again as I came to the forums to report it.  I hope I still have 15 gold ore in my inventory when I return, as well as my pickaxe and broadsword.!?!

[Moogie]

So... you ate them when they turned into food, and you expect them to reappear as swords? ...I think you\'d better take some extra toilet rolls with you, you\'re about to have the worst case of the runs in your life.

How long ago was this? The server was rolled back a while ago and we lost a few weeks\' worth of gained items. Also, Talad keeps messing up some tables, causing items to morph into other things. It\'s usually only temporary, unless you... uh... ...*hands you a toilet roll*

[bobus rolanus]

Originally posted by Moogie

How long ago was this? The server was rolled back a while ago and we lost a few weeks\' worth of gained items. Also, Talad keeps messing up some tables, causing items to morph into other things. It\'s usually only temporary, unless you... uh... ...*hands you a toilet roll*

  Very funny - no tummy ache yet, and if any of that food turned back into a pickaxe, i\'d know it by now.

All this was in the last 36 hours, I hadn\'t even downloaded the client when they set the data back on the 20th.  And the rejoin I was about to do when i posted above: I didn\'t lose anything, but i got a free (invisible) carrot and one loaf of bread:  The consolation reward for link-dead victims??

update: another connection problem, this time i lost 10 rat skins, and gained one invisible carrot to take their place

Newer update:
The next two relogs (join game):
1. I left with 13 gold and rejoined to find 10 rat eyes, 3 gold, and 2 \'invisible carrots\' in two separate slots of inventory. I ate each of the two carrots, and regained 1 EMU, apparently the weight is 1/2 each.
2. (downloaded another update (still shows as 007): The server is starting to feel sorry for me?   1 rat eye was gone but was replaced with the 10 gold i had lost 10 hours earlier(also 2 carrots)!
I crashed out  : (illegal command) when i tried to eat a carrot. After restart I tried to DROP the carrots: crashed out (illegal command) -
Next restart  - The carrot was lying on the ground (sewers) next to me, the other carrot still in inventory [i decided not to touch it!] But the 3 rat eyes i had accumulated were replaced with a MASTER Crafted Rock pick, better than the \'sharpened\' one i had lost 2 days ago! Remainder of inventory remained intact throughout all this.  ;~

Now i just killed another rat, and before i could even request to loot his body parts, another server disconnect: (illegal command message). I\'ll try disabling sound this time, and will see if any diagnostic (dmp) messages were generated.
CORRECTION: the message is

Server dropped us: (invalid error message)

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[Scots Saseg]

I share your loss of items .I too have lost things being turned into bread and meat.I tried to eat the bread as well incase it said i couldnt and it changed back,never worked bread got consumed pick sabre gone.Another thing i was training end when server went LD. came back and all the training had gone as well as the tria it cost to train it.

[Seytra]

Since there hasn\'t been a similar report to this lately, one should assume that this doesn\'t occur anymore.
However, it just did.
I had bought a carp fish and a carrot two RL days ago. Yesterday I ate them. When I logged in today, both were back! So I ate them again. Strange but whatever.
So then I put my two falchions into the inventory, one where the carrot was and the other into a fresh slot. Then I logged out and when I logged back in *poof* the carrot and the fish were back, the carrot having replaced the falchion I had put in it\'s slot.

Therefore I assume that there is a bug in the eating code that doesn\'t actually delete the eaten items, and when they reappear on relogin, they overwrite whatever is in that slot.
Sold items don\'t reappear, so it really seems to be food-specific.

[Denivi]

All these items transforming...  You know, I can\'t say why, but the name \"Agrajag\" comes to mind.


\"You... YOU MULTIPLE ME MURDERER!\"

[Moogie]

Ok, this appears to not be the previous bug where Talad was mixing tables up. Thus I\'ve reported it to the bugtracker, thought there\'s very limited info known about why or when this is actually happening... seems pretty random to me.

[Seytra]

Yesterday I decided to try something, and the result was quite different from what I expected:
After seeing that my beloved carp and carrot were back once again, I swapped their positions before I logged out.
Obviously, I expected them to have repositioned as usual, but - surprise- they have not. Instead, I got my falchion back, the carrot has vanished and the carp is where I put it - in the carrots place. The falchion reappeared where the carp originally had been, which is, IIRC, also where it vanished, as would be logical to assume s well.

Therefore, there clearly is something special about food and the inventory. It is my assumption that, somehow, two items of different kind can be placed on top of each other in the same inventory spot, just like stacking identical items.
Since they aren\'t of the same type, the one that was placed in first overrides the one added later, effectively hiding it.

Also, there is another bug in the stacking algorithm (I just posted it to the bugtracker):
When you are mining and have collected some gold (or whatever you\'re mining) and, while the mining animation is in progress, move the stack of already mined ores (of the same type, I assume), and you receive ore at the end of that mining animation, it\'ll drop it and not let you pick up more ore.
You can get it to work again by dropping the individual ores, one at a time (the entire stack won\'t work; if you pick it up, you can\'t pick up more, likewise, you can\'t pick it up if you already have some), and then picking them back up again.
I don\'t know if this will always fix it, or if it is required to drop all ores or just one, as I don\'t get ores reliably enough yet to be able to test it properly.