How long do dropped items stay

How long do dropped items persist? Ask Question. Asked 9 years, 3 months ago. Active 3 months ago. Viewed 92k times. Improve this question.

Ross C. Ross 16k 8 8 gold badges 98 98 silver badges bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Also, quitting the game destroys all items on the ground. Improve this answer. Private Pansy Joseph Kendall Joseph Kendall 3, 15 15 silver badges 22 22 bronze badges. Is a discrete drop of coins from killing a monster considered an "item"? Jay Read the second answer — Baked Potato. Baked Potato Baked Potato 1, 6 6 gold badges 22 22 silver badges 36 36 bronze badges. I tried searching around for it, but with the Warper still in the area, I didn't do a great job.

After licking my wounds at my base about m away , I came back and thoroughly searched the cave. The rifle was nowhere to be seen. What typically happens with items that are dropped? Do they de-spawn? And if so, how much time goes by? I dropped a rotten melon outside of my base once, and it saw it there for quite a while as I entered and exited my base.

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Items don't seem to de-spawn. If they do it takes a long while. As long as you don't delete any cache files, everything stays where it is.

Cougarific View Profile View Posts. The answer should be never BUT the devs did a lot of optimization work right before launch, and the "duh" optimization issue is "garbage collection" or getting rid of unneeded stuff out in the world. I can tell you for a fact that dropped items did not despawn over my recent ish in-game days playthrough.

Beyond that, it's hard to say. They don't despawn. So somewhere out there is my stasis rifle I was inside the mouth of a vertical cave when I dropped it, so the only place it could have fallen was into the cave. And the cave's bottom isn't very big, so I've gone over it very carefully. Items have essentially no health, so they are destroyed by the slightest damage, though if set on fire they may remain for a few seconds before disappearing.

Nether stars are immune to explosions, and netherite -based items and tools are immune to fire and float on top of lava. Also, some blocks that normally damage mobs, such as magma blocks , campfires , sweet berry bushes and wither roses , do not damage items. Items despawn after game ticks 5 minutes of being in a loaded chunk. If two item stacks merge, the timer is set to the item that has more time remaining.

The 5-minute timer is paused when the chunk is unloaded. Dropped items have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the entity. Minecraft Wiki. Minecraft Wiki Explore. Main Page All Pages. Minecraft Minecraft Earth Minecraft Dungeons. Useful pages. Minecraft links. Gamepedia support Report a bad ad Help Wiki Contact us. Explore Wikis Community Central.

Register Don't have an account? Item entity. History Talk Item Entity. See also: Chunk format. Main article: Entity format. Entity data Tags common to all entities Age : The number of ticks the item has been "untouched". After ticks 5 minutes the item is destroyed. If set to , the Age does not increase, preventing the item from despawning automatically. Health : The health of the item, which starts at 5.

The item is destroyed when its health reaches 0. Item : The inventory item, without the Slot tag. Used by the give command and can be set in a summon command to prevent the wrong player from picking up the spawned item entity. PickupDelay : The number of ticks the item cannot be picked up.