Disappearing items on ground

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So I was doing a craft run and made a pile of gems, runes and jewels. I started on a mule with less mats so I’d finish on a mule with the large quantity since my shared stash couldn’t hold it.
As I dropped stuff I noticed some off discrepancies on where I had placed other items thinking maybe they were just not showing correctly and would appear when picking other items up.

Not even 15 minutes after emptying the last mule and crafting 10 amulets I started noticing every time I crafted a new batch (6 amulets) and went back to pick up the required mats everything was disappearing more and more. I have it recorded that as I run towards the items on the ground they were just simply disappearing every time I went off screen and came back to it.
The random items I dropped from my stash remained on the ground, but all the runes/gems/jewels were the first to disappear even though they were dropped after those other random items.

Anyways lost a ton, not sure if I’ll keep playing since that was a major annoyance so just a general warning to others that if your shared stash is full of useless torches, get rid of those and don’t leave other items on the ground.

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Not a bug. The ground isn’t a storage area. Items start to vanish if you don’t pick them up.

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was picking them up, the timing of the speed didn’t correlate to the rate of disappearance – just saying alright.
& if you’re not a dev you actually have no answer to this, so not asking you.

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Sure. Keep dropping items on the ground then.

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The Arreat Summit/Items/Item Basics

Items and Gold Disappear after time when left on the ground
Don’t leave items or gold lying on the ground any longer than necessary, especially when transferring in town (“muling”) as they disappear after a certain amount of time:

  • 10 minutes: Key, Potion, Scroll, Tome, and Ammo (Arrows, Bolts).
  • 10 minutes: Any Armor and Weapon of quality < magic, regardless if flagged as ‘‘Ethereal’’, ‘‘Socketed’’ or not, and Rune Words.
  • 10 minutes: Pandemonium artifacts (Key of Terror/Hate/Destruction, Mephisto’s Brain, Diablo’s Horn, Baal’s Eye).
  • 10 minutes: Essence (4 flavours) and Token of Absolution (these are new items from Patch 1.13x).
  • 20 minutes: Magic Items, Gems and Runes.
  • 30 minutes: Rare, Set, Unique and Crafted Items.

Picking an item onto your cursor and dropping it again resets the timer.


As TimberWolf said:

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Another thing to note, there is an item limit for number of items displayed when holding Alt. If you’re past this limit, moving around screen will put different items in view, making it hard to see items you’re looking for.