Bug: Demolishing Items Not Returning All Materials

Comments: 117

• 11 Feb, '21
  Botin Merged

  When using a hammer to dismantle wood stacks it drops anything from 30 to a single piece of wood. this is on a multiplayer server but the issue affect everyone playing. Inventory isn't full and there appears to be no wood dropped on the ground, it's simply gone.

• 11 Feb, '21
  Frank Merged

  Unsure what causes this, but only one player in our server is affected by it.
  
  If he dismantles something, no matter who placed it, he will receive only one of each item that was used to craft it. Wasn't always the case either; like the rest of us, he receive a full refund of the item used in something's construction when removing it with the hammer or destroying it.
  
  Some examples: dismantling a fermenter only yeiled 1 bronze bar, 1 resin and 1 fine wood.
  Dismantling a pile of rocks (50 rocks) yeilds just one rock, same for the pile of lumber (50 wood).

• 11 Feb, '21
  John Carlyle

  This seems to consistently happen to non-host players demoing log/stone piles in my group.

• 12 Feb, '21
  Playah

  I can't be sure if it's related or not, but me and my friend observed something similar just a little bit ago. If one of us dismantled a wood pile that the other had built, we only got one wood returned. But when one of us dismantled a wood pile that they had built, we got the full 50 wood back. So it may be an ownership issue?

• 12 Feb, '21
  James

  This has been killing me lately. wood piles and stone piles giving back one resource instead of 50. Or my stonecutter not giving me back my iron, which is VERY limited for my group atm.

• 12 Feb, '21
  bob

  Happened for woods piles several times (1 wood returned only)
  a boat : 1 nail retruned, no fine wood, 1 skin :(
  a portal (no cubes)
  on a dedicated server

• 12 Feb, '21
  Tarkus

  Ive been able to deconstruct my own wood pile and get the 50 wood but not with the stone one, got only one stone back, so i don't think that ownership affects it. No wards in sight.

• 12 Feb, '21
  Andrew

  Please someone find out how to make this consistent, it's painful to lose your portal on the run

• 13 Feb, '21
  Grayson

  I was playing on my brother's world, and I deconstructed our kiln, and only got back one of each item. We had to use the last of our surtling cores to remake it.

• 13 Feb, '21
  MH

  We have experienced the same issue since the same update.

• 14 Feb, '21
  Neewom

  This has happened to me as well. So far it's for sure happened on the Fermenter, Dragon Bed, Portal, and Raven Throne. It's not tied to ownership as it's happened on items I've craft. Haven't been able to repeat it on purpose.

• 14 Feb, '21
  Mattias Ryrlén

  i only got 1 iron bar instead of two when deconstructing a stonecutter, was my only iron so couldn't build a new one.
  running latest as of 2021-02-13 on dedicated linux server

• 14 Feb, '21
  Korocota

  I can somewhat confirm this, tried moving our forge and the pieces I removed with hammer didnt refund everything, but my friend (and host) got everything.

• 14 Feb, '21
  Kristian Merged

  Duplicate of https://valheimbugs.featureupvote.com/suggestions/158747/bug-demolishing-items-not-returning-all-materials ?

• 14 Feb, '21
  Ironwithin

  Seems to be a host/client or latency issue rather than it mattering who built the structure. Demolished plenty of things(built by me and others) on a dedicated server with the game only returning 1 of each ingredient but it never ever happens when hosting my own game. Cannot find a common factor apart from that.

• 15 Feb, '21
  dunka

  Where the things fully repaired? I noticed if the items were damaged and you demo them you only get a portion back. I haven't run into it since repairing first.

• 15 Feb, '21
  Mick

  We have been seeing the same. Today when we dismantled wood piles and also, rock piles, we only got one. Also we dismantled the kiln to move it and only received one core and one rock. I was the one that built the kiln and I was the one that dismantled it. Also one of the wood piles I made I also dismantled and got only one. The others I am not sure who made what but I am sure on the wood because it was only like 15 mins and I needed it back. Anyways we have stopped making piles and setup chests under a structure outside to hold wood and rock until it gets fixed. As far stuff like the kiln... I dont see any work around. We first started seeing this behavior a few days ago but it is definitely getting worse.

• 15 Feb, '21
  Ingirid

  I have had this happen on a friend's server when destroying things requiring Surtling Cores but only one core was not returned.

• 15 Feb, '21
  Belthize

  I'm suspicious this is a manifestation of the de-sync/lag bug. You can generate the inverse behavior by stuffing way more than 20 coal in a smelter on a laggy client. The problem is one of authoritative control, in this game the clients are authoritative so things are likely to get confused.

• 15 Feb, '21
  mama_bun

  Just reporting the same issue. Deconstructed wood piles, got 1 wood, not hosting the game. Stone seems ok.

• 15 Feb, '21
  Richaela

  The 2 instances I've confirmed this happening are: 1) I demolished 3 wood piles that I built and getting 52 wood, assuming 2 of the piles only gave 1 wood back each and the 3rd gave me all 50; 2) I demolished a smelter another player had built and only got 1 stone and 3 surtling cores back. I was hosting the server both times.

• 15 Feb, '21
  Fredusko

  Happening to me annoying frequent to the point we stopped stacking wood and stone and instead we now put them in chests again.
  
  Non-dedicated server, windows, happens even to me (I am the host) regardless of having built the items myself or not.

• 15 Feb, '21
  Robin

  I got the same issue, we are playing on a locally hosted dedicated server. So far I'm the only one in our group whose noticed it happening. Mostly when demolishing piles of wood and stone.

• 16 Feb, '21
  Vexzilla

  I was hosting and experienced this. 100% failure to return more than 1 material when breaking anything that has been built. Owner didn’t matter. Wood piles, walls, etc. we did have terrible latency,

• 16 Feb, '21
  Strimbo+

  Friend and I bought Valheim yesterday and played with no issues at all, but today we're running into this material refund bug. My friend (who is hosting) is being refunded full material costs while I am only getting one of each type of material used in construction. I learned this when I tried moving some rock piles and my smeltery. Mah surtites!

• 16 Feb, '21
  Gryzsa

  This bug may be related to player desync and how the game registers what materials were contributed to the build. This will sound confusing, but hear me out.
  
  During a period of intense desync, several structures were built, and demolishing them returned minimal materials (1 of each mat). We recognized the desync issues right away and restarted the server and then continued to build. Items built after the desync was cleared up correctly returned 100% of materials, however, any items that were build during the desync but demolished after server restart still only provided minimal materials.
  
  Perhaps when desync is occurring, the server takes the materials client side and creates the object, but server side the material quantities are unable to be validated, making the created object look like only 1 of each material went into construction. We've been trying to force desync again and haven't had any luck yet, but will test this extensively when it happens again.

• 16 Feb, '21
  Thymin

  I have the same issue. But it happens to my own log piles too. I only get one wood returned.
  I had built the log piles less than a minute earlier

• 17 Feb, '21
  MJ

  Same thing happened to us last night, dedicated server. The owner placed a Portal, broke it down to move and it only gave back 15% of the resources.... We initially thought maybe it had todo with "Received Damage" on the Structure(Item) or something. Once its damaged you get less back... but yeah we had Log Piles/Stacks do the same 50 stack returned only 1 wood. We also lean towards the "since the mini patch" this started happening.

• 17 Feb, '21
  Karamba

  Same... Happened (noticed) with: tanning rack (returned 1 leather scrap, 1 deer hide, 1 flint, ? wood) portal (1 fine wood, 1 core, 1 eye), workbench (several times - 1 wood). Multiplayer (not a host). No idea how to reproduce: seems random, structures full health. Maybe it something with netcode or server load: i died once while was loading outside of troll cave, grave stone was already outside (while troll was inside and not near exit).

• 17 Feb, '21
  Frigus

  I have noticed this as well, client connected to host server on the same network. I demolished a kiln and only got one core back. same with log piles. After the host and I both restarted the game I was able to get all resources back. Is it somehow related to how long the server has been running?

• 17 Feb, '21
  Dusty

  This seems to happen when you don't have enough space in your inventory (either slots or carrying capacity)

• 17 Feb, '21
  Daniel

  Same here, me and my mates lost 90% of our portal materials when we wanted to move it like 20m... :(
  Had to sail back to base and get the items again, HUGE time consumer, and super frustrating!

• 17 Feb, '21
  Lord Man

  Built a temporary portal in a swamp when a friend died. Then we got him back, started building a base, and wanted to move the portal into safety from all the garbage creatures that kept attacking it. 1 core, 1 fine wood and 1 graydwarf eye back. Stranded af.

• 18 Feb, '21
  Sky

  This keeps happening to me when I’m not hosting. For example, spiked walls I've built sometimes only return 1 wood back versus 4 all within moments of destroying each one. It’s odd, but I believe it happens to people not hosting more so, and it’s frustrating to say the least. I’ve lost many materials over this issue since it doesn’t always happen, but does happen pretty consistently.

• 18 Feb, '21
  Babar

  All of the above happened to me too. Also when picking up processed items from windmill gives only one item (Had 9 processed) Just have to wait for them to drop. Playing on my own dedicated server.

• 18 Feb, '21
  Jon

  Also reporting this issue:
  I was on my friends server, deconstructed a smelter that I originally placed, only received 1 stone and 1 surtling core in return.
  Occurred on version that was live February 17th,

• 18 Feb, '21
  Alvar

  Happened twice to me recently.
  Once with a portal where I only got 1 eye 1 surtling core and 1 fine wood back. It was at destination so we had to hunt for grave chambers and birch trees...
  
  Then again with the bellows where I only got 1 chain, 1 deerskin and 1 wood back. Frustrating since those chains were kind of a pain to get ...

• 18 Feb, '21
  Ninja Havok

  This has been occurring since day one and seems to be completely random. This could be occurring due to inventory space of the player at the time, a syncing issues during that moment, a triggered server save at that time or various other things. localizing it will be tricky as it functions randomly. If anyone has come across a way to reproduce this each and ever time for a specific item maybe the devs can localize this issue. I have experienced this myself with the Stone Bench. Stone bench destruction for example should yield a return of 2 iron. Destroying it 10 times, twice it returned only 1.
  
  We also need to keep in mind that other players vacuum suckers, just from walking by could also be the cause for many players agreeing with this and should have their friends check their inventories but this is a valid bug that I am sure a large portion of the community has noticed and felt.
  
  Good bug, good write up. TY OP!

• 18 Feb, '21
  SkyLord

  I have experienced this bug. I suspected it was due to my hammer being still equipped. Since then, I have unequipped my hammer before picking up the items, and have gotten them all back (small number of tests, a small amount of time with normal play). With the hammer equipped, I suspect I was only getting one of each type of item. Hopefully this helps debugging.

• 18 Feb, '21
  Thedryice

  Demolished my smelter and my stonecutting bench and both only yielded one of each respective Bar, wards or no wards it's happened multiple times as well as with wood/stone piles

• 18 Feb, '21
  Madelyn

  This has been happening to me frequently for the last two or three days. Playing on a friend's server (not third-party hosted). Lost hundreds of wood while demoing log piles that I was using to store wood in a construction zone, then just happened again when demoing a charcoal kiln and some core wood posts. Only getting one of each mat back instead of the full mats. It's really frustrating when most of what I enjoy in the game is experimenting with building structures, which also requires a lot of demolishing...

• 18 Feb, '21
  falo

  Following up, it's not unique to buildings created pre-patch. Just had it on a relatively fresh server where the building (forge) was demolished within around 1 minute of it being placed (undamaged) for the first time. Only got a single resource back per type.

• 19 Feb, '21
  Azzy

  We have this issue when destroying log piles, but not stone piles. Also, seems to happen with portals returning fine wood. Both log pile and portal only return 1 wood and 1 fine wood, respectively.

• 19 Feb, '21
  Quazil Merged

  We had a couple of stack broken open not drop any wood at all.

• 19 Feb, '21
  Pantheis

  Dedicated server on Windows 10, two clients connected, went to move forge and related additions and didn't get all of my resources back. This is new for us after one of the recent updates. Had to go into single player and cheat in replacement items.

• 19 Feb, '21
  SK

  Can also confirm this is happening, destroyed a stone pile, got 1 stone back, destroyed a stonecutter and lost iron. Happened with workbench upgrades too, just random amounts of partial resources are returned. Happened while playing multiplayer.

• 19 Feb, '21
  d Merged

  Was the stack out side? Was it damaged? If yes, Repair it then dismantle it.

• 19 Feb, '21
  Michael Merged

  This happen last night with my wood and stone piles.

• 19 Feb, '21
  Mark J

  Happened to me when a giant smashed a bunch of my wooden spikes. I didn’t receive any core wood back but I received all my regular wood back.

• 19 Feb, '21
  Asdrubal Neto

  happens to host players too, I host and frequently happens to me, when dismantling anything, furniture, portals..

• 19 Feb, '21
  Fanu

  We tried to break down stone piles while being FAR from the pile, not to trigger the auto-vacuum and we were able to get always 50 stones. I noticed that I, the client, was seeing 50xStone in the tooltip after the demolition. My friend, the server, had just 1 stone in the tooltip but waiting for a sec and then walking on the items gave him 50 of the stones.
  Can anyone try and reproduce the issue in which you get consistently 50x from the piles if you wait a sec or two after disassembly?

• 19 Feb, '21
  m0nstrz Merged

  This has happened to our group a lot but some times we've noticed that there are a couple things which cause some confusion with this one.
  
  1. It will have to split the stacks because a stack in your inventory reaches the max of that types stack in the inventory. When it does this the notification in the upper left will only show that it receives the total of the last stack added to. Example: You have 7 wood in your inventory. You break down a stack of wood (50x wood). The notification will say you received 7 wood because it added 43 wood to the stack in your inventory then saw the stack was complete (50/50) and added the remaining 7 to a new stack.
  2. Another thing that happens is that you cannot pickup the stack of wood because it would put you beyond max carrying capacity. In a game with multiple people its possible someone else could accidently pick it up before you receive you didn't receive all the materials.
  
  But we've also had the game not give any materials on break down

• 20 Feb, '21
  Alex Waff

  Likewise - seems to happen 99% of the time with wood piles, but not stone piles for now.
  Happened with the cutting block upgrade, also something I placed, so not ownership.
  Also our cart broke today, and it dropped all 10 nails but only 1 wood.

• 20 Feb, '21
  Magnus Berg-Pedersen

  Log Piles: Returning 1 or 0 wood, when ought to return 50.
  Fermenter: When deconstructed with hammer, returned 0 materials

• 20 Feb, '21
  retsawe

  Lost a multitude of Surtling Cores today from dismantling smelters and kilns. This happened in singleplayer without ever having played with others.

• 20 Feb, '21
  Sir Squirrelsalot

  I have had this happen for workshops, chopping block, tanning rack, chest and resource piles. Definitely had it on multiplayer unsure about single player.

• 20 Feb, '21
  Kurtis T Lown Merged

  This has happened on my server as well. Fully repaired piles of wood and stone sometimes only give you 1 back instead of the full 50.

• 20 Feb, '21
  Henrik

  I have 1 stone floor block floating in midair not wanting to deconstruct placing objects above it works just fine but when i build on the sides of it the stone floor blocks falls apart also happens underneat it aswell
  
  update: i logged out and in again on a server set up by a friend i was the only one online and after that i could destroy the blocks

• 20 Feb, '21
  Sam

  Happened with various (undamaged) items indoors when moving forge and its upgrades around

• 20 Feb, '21
  Ophyrs

  Win 10.
  Hosting own game online with one friend
  Can confirm with multiple objects, forge, bed, stonecutter bench, portal have only returned partial resources
  
  Each time I only receive partial

• 20 Feb, '21
  Lucas

  Running a server with 6 - 8 people constantly, issue happens frequently.

• 20 Feb, '21
  Yrsa

  We're also finding this issue. Host seems to encounter it slightly less often, but host and guest are both seeing it. Item fully repaired, use hammer to deconstruct, returns one of each item, rather than the full amount.

• 20 Feb, '21
  TrogdorTheMan

  This consistently happens to me on my hosted Ubuntu 20 server in AWS. I've easily lost around a thousand wood to this bug.

• 20 Feb, '21
  Saito

  Reporting the same bug. It happens inconsistently, but once it starts happening, it persists. Doesn't seem to affect objects placed while you're experiencing the bug; only objects that already exist in the world. This is a game breaking bug and needs to be fixed ASAP

• 20 Feb, '21
  Tom Valenzuela Merged

  I get 1 wood despite repairing pile.

• 21 Feb, '21
  D

  getting 1 mat back instead of correct amounts. very frequently now.

• 21 Feb, '21
  ezaF19

  Happens with portals often

• 21 Feb, '21
  Denis Poulin

  I'll add my report to this. Were a couple of friends playing on a dedicated server and at least 2 of us experienced this issue.
  We experienced this when deconstructing Wood Pile, Stone Pile, Portal and Karve (possibly in other instances but while building so the loss would have been minimal and not noticeable in those instances). In each instance we received 1 of each ressouces used to create the item instead of the correct number.
  This does put a damper on re-organizing our camps :)

• 21 Feb, '21
  d

  REPAIR THINGS BEFORE YOU DESTROY THEM

• 21 Feb, '21
  Roxa

  Two players, same network (presumably still over Steam though), has been _exclusively_ only happening to me, the host. Dismantled wood piles three times in a row and got 3 single wood pieces back. My girlfriend handles it all now (client) and she has never had the bug. Windows 10 on both.

• 21 Feb, '21
  Toucan Samson

  Good god, getting 25% of things like floors and walls is absurd. I can totally understand a rate like 75% to discourage random building because this isn't fortnite, but 25%?!?! Kills the flow of the game.

• 21 Feb, '21
  Tash965

  Can confirm this is happening only multiplayer. With stations/buildables and wood/rock piles. Also seems to affect my harvest . I mined half of a copper vein and got 4-6 stone per one no copper. My partner got copper every time. Chop a beech tree and just get wood. Partner would get fine wood too for instance. Then other times it is okay , then it goes off.

• 21 Feb, '21
  G

  Happens to me with wood piles. No damage to the wood pile at all, we tested with multiple piles. I am the host of the server and only get 1 wood back. It may have been constructed by someone else.

• 21 Feb, '21
  Flintless viking

  Same thing, smashing piles/destroying them via the hammer result in only 1 of X, ex: wood, surtling cores, stone, etc. have to restart server to fix it.

• 22 Feb, '21
  Arrek Merged

  Raw wood and stone stacks do not take durability damage outdoors D. But this also occurs to me in MP sessions with resources not being returned on dismantling objects. It seems to me to be a spacing or syncing issue

• 22 Feb, '21
  walteryosmite

  I have also just experienced this issue with attempting to move a portal. I think I've narrowed it down to something in particular. If my inventory is almost completely full, say only enough slots for the components, the game regularly will give me one of each item. This occurs even when I myself am host, so it doesn't seem to only be for non-hosting vikings. I even have it on record while streaming
  
  Just in case the devs want an example. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/923873061

• 22 Feb, '21
  Javier

  I've being playing with a friend, I'm hosting the server on my world so I ask my friend to chop some wood, he made those wooden piles and when I destroy them with the construction hammer to get the wood back I just got 1 insted of 50.

• 22 Feb, '21
  Veldrane

  It happens to non host players on my group.

• 22 Feb, '21
  Leo

  Yes! this happened to me before! it was pretty early game and I had enough surtling cores to finally craft a furnace but I placed it so where I couldn't access the coal side so I went to demolish it and barely anything was there.

• 22 Feb, '21
  Marty

  Love the game. I have noticed this bug a lot. Common with portals and workstations. I have only had it happen with middle click on the builders hammer. Never breaking it by hand (smash with axe).

• 22 Feb, '21
  Tank

  Frequently happens with stone/wood piles and workbench upgrades for me. I am sure walls/floors are equally problematic but less noticeable.

• 22 Feb, '21
  NeoHummel

  Had this happen in a Hosted Server, both me and my friend received only one wood/stone when destructing wood/stone piles. I was hosting the game, and this happened at least with piles I created and destroyed, and piles I created and he destroyed, can't recall if we had other combinations.

• 22 Feb, '21
  Auren Dawnstar

  My friends and I were starting to see this issue in our last play session as well. Mostly lost stone to it since we just unlocked the stonecutter and were all laying foundations for multiple buildings. Though we did lose some copper when moving forges around.
  
  However, when I went to move our portals from their temporary location to their portal hub location one of them got hit with the bug when I demolished it. When I checked the items I noticed I'd gotten a single item of each required item back. 1 core instead of 2, 1 graydwarf eye instead of 10, and 1 fine wood instead of 20.
  
  So it seems to me the game is giving back the types of items needed, but is forgetting how many of each item it is supposed to give back.

• 22 Feb, '21
  CC Merged

  Even after fully repairing a wood stack, it seems to be arbitrary whether it will return 0, 1, or 50 wood when dismantled. I have tested on stacks placed by me, or other players, stacks that were protected and unprotected, stacks that were repaired then immediately dismantled or after waiting a bit.
  Stacks that are damaged usually do not return the full 50, but stacks that have been repaired then immediately dismantled seem to flip a coin between full refund and no refund. However full health stacks still frequently don't return 50 wood regardless of length of time at full health.
  
  Our server is having a similar problem with anything constructed arbitrarily refusing to refund materials when dismantled. We've lost resources from work bench and forge upgrades, walls, and portals as well.

• 22 Feb, '21
  Tor Arne

  Can confirm. Destroyed smelter, got only a single surtling core back. Please fix ASAP!!!

• 22 Feb, '21
  didyouexpectthat

  We experienced this and only started playing on Friday night 2/19. My team stockpiled logs closely together. When I went to get them, I'd get none, 1, or 13... sometimes 50. I noticed sometimes the logs did have some damage and so I'd try to repair them ahead of time but still it persisted, so not seemingly damage related. My friend says she felt when she broke down the wood piles she had just made, she got all of the materials back.

• 22 Feb, '21
  Yanosh

  for me it happens for anything using surtling cores when i am not the host.

• 22 Feb, '21
  Rhiannon

  Happened to us too - demolished a portal because it was facing the wrong way, lost all of the items. Same with a ward - lost the fine wood. We are also not the host players. It has happened more and more with items recently and it is causing some issues for us trying to build things away from our main base - we end up having to detour to find caves etc particularly for cores or new birch trees for the fine wood.

• 23 Feb, '21
  Honorclaim

  Has happened on our dedicated server on wood piles, stone piles, tanning rack, and portal

• 23 Feb, '21
  icidesu

  I actually got only 1 cube 1 wood form portal, and i was in half way to the map end, that pissed me off

• 23 Feb, '21
  GM

  Same here - dismantled some kilns and only got one of each resource back. Same with the forge's cooler and anvils. That really hurt, especially when we're just trying to reorganize the smeltery.

• 23 Feb, '21
  Buddy

  Destroyed several items, Lost iron, surtling cores, Trophies, stone walls, stones. Several items are left all over the base and cannot be destroyed and lost more metal materials.

• 23 Feb, '21
  Cloud

  I went into my friends dedicated local server and built a longboat.. it got stuck on land. I destroyed the longboat with my axe... 1x each material was returned to me... bye bye 99 iron nails >.< closest iron is almost a 15 minute run, sad times.

• 23 Feb, '21
  HappyViking

  I am almost certain this is related to the multiplayer desync issues.

• 23 Feb, '21
  Adrian

  For me, this happened even with piles that I've placed after I've restarted the game/server. I think it works fine for me if I place the piles and deconstruct them immediately, but if I try to deconstruct them after a game/server restart or someone else's piles I only get one item back.

• 23 Feb, '21
  Fingoldfin

  I have had this bug with a portal that I used for traveling to my base, I lost the surtling cores, which was very annoying

• 23 Feb, '21
  Graham

  It just started happening for us. We tried to move a stone cutter and got a fraction of the resources. Only noticed as couldnt rebiuld it straight after demolishing it. For context, we started building a stone keep and needed to move workbenches from the soil to the stone floor. We also experienced the missing stone walls / floor bug, but that is a different story :)

• 23 Feb, '21
  severnipol

  I have same experiences, wood is ok but when you don't get any bronze back it sucks. And yes the item was repaired.

• 23 Feb, '21
  eric pihlblad

  we''ve got a bunch of rock piles stored in our base behind our workshop. we went to demolish them and were only getting 1 per pile. after a server restart we were getting 50 back again. after a while we checked again and we were only getting 1 per. seems the longer the play session the more of a chance of not getting the full amount back.

• 23 Feb, '21
  Kelley

  Confirmed. Multiplayer, private server. Host (me) dissembled wood pile and only received one wood. Thought I was going mad; glad it's a real bug, instead!

• 23 Feb, '21
  JanneMasa

  This happened multiple times for me and my friends when demolishing portals we had got only 1 of each items.

• 24 Feb, '21
  Mitch B

  +1 Just had this happen on our dedicated server with a stone pile, only got 1 stone back.

• 24 Feb, '21
  Peetr

  Guys, this is not a bug. Just repair the things before destruction. If you repair to full HP you will receive all resource back.

• 24 Feb, '21
  Tleil

  I had this happen to me, I picked up the materials but, afaik, since one of each item put me at max weight, it just deleted the rest of them. Is what it seemed like, anyways.

• 24 Feb, '21
  CiberX15 Merged

  Wood stacks feel like something that shouldn't degrade outside. So if that's what's causing this I would recommend preventing wood stacks from taking weather damage. Maybe even prevent enemy damage. Its... a bunch of logs. Short of burning it, I don't see how it could become "damaged" short of a troll directly pounding it.

• 24 Feb, '21
  Sefta Ironsoul

  This happened to me last night while exploring. Broke down our portal, all ready to build it again, and I only had 1 of each material and was SUPER STRANDED. I am playing on a Nitrado dedicated server where I am set to admin.

• 24 Feb, '21
  Matt

  Happened to me tonight on a dedicated server wth a portal.

• 27 Feb, '21
  MamaMisha

  This issue is still occurring, please help!

• 01 Mar, '21
  Tom

  Seems to happen with log/stone piles 100% of the time.

• 02 Mar, '21
  errik Admin

  "Dismantling things only returns one of each resource" (suggested by Frank on 2021-02-11), including upvotes (88) and comments (2), was merged into this suggestion.

• 02 Mar, '21
  Neetz

  I have found that if you try to dismantle an object that isn't fully repaired you sometimes won't get all of your materials back. This includes wood piles left out in the rain. Always repair anything before you dismantle it. I have been doing this since my friend suggested it and haven't lost any materials.

• 04 Mar, '21
  ERF

  The stone and lumber piles were giving me 1x instead of the 50x. The stone now is giving me 23x exactly each time. Even the repair before dismantling method doesn't work every time.

• 04 Mar, '21
  Sliverpix

  Through some accidental testing, we found that this issue is rather constant, as described in the previous posts, BUT we only saw the issue on local hosted games (two different machines 15 miles apart and on different networks). HOWEVER when we moved the world files (two) to a dedicated server (VM hosted game network - HOST HAVOC) we no longer saw this issue occurring.
  
  description of Issue:
  * regardless of who places a craftable item (from the hammer crafting menu), we see the same result 80+% of the time
  * once the item is placed and then destroyed only a single item of each crafting component is returned.
  (EX: a Log Pile, when placed, used 50 wood. When broke, the Log Pile only returned 1 wood)
  ( EX: a Forge, when placed, uses 10 wood, 4 coal, 4 stone and 6 copper. When broke, the Forge only returns a single wood, stone, coal and copper)

• 09 Mar, '21
  in.taco Merged

  This doesn't just concern wood stacks. Anything can randomly only give 1 of each resource when dismantled/destroyed. I've confirmed this happen with: wood piles, carts, portals. Seems to happen much more often with wood piles, though.

• 10 Mar, '21
  errik Admin

  "Dismantling wood stacks with a hammer doesn't refund all resources." (suggested by Botin on 2021-02-11), including upvotes (116) and comments (9), was merged into this suggestion.

• 24 Mar, '21
  Crom

  Issue not resolved. Smith's Anvil did not refund any iron.

• 26 Mar, '21
  Smiffe Admin

  @ Crom
  Hm.. I did get my 20 iron back. did it fall through a floor or something?