# Why do my items disappear when I put them in a crate near the ranch?
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/why-do-my-items-disappear-when-i-put-them-in-a-crate-near-the-ranch/15592
**Category:** The Garage
**Created:** [May 31, 2018, 4:24pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/why-do-my-items-disappear-when-i-put-them-in-a-crate-near-the-ranch/15592 "2018-05-31T16:24:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Bence](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Bence)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 4:24pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/why-do-my-items-disappear-when-i-put-them-in-a-crate-near-the-ranch/15592/1 "2018-05-31T16:24:23Z")
Why do my items disapper?
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### Author:  [@mentos046](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/mentos046)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 6:02pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/why-do-my-items-disappear-when-i-put-them-in-a-crate-near-the-ranch/15592/2 "2018-05-31T18:02:18Z")
Do they reappear when you are adjacent to the crate? If so, then it’s because some containers hide what items are in them. The items are generally still there but you can’t see what they are and may not be able to use them in crafting and whatnot.
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### Author:  [@TheZoneWizard](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/TheZoneWizard)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 6:28pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/why-do-my-items-disappear-when-i-put-them-in-a-crate-near-the-ranch/15592/3 "2018-05-31T18:28:58Z")
This is to prevent the user from hovering a mouse over the tile in order to give the illusion of “line of sight”. As in, you can’t see crap in a box unless you are peering into said box. Thus, why would you in a game. Generally we should have this on corpses too but…\>\_\>
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### Author:  [@Bence](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Bence)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 7:33pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/why-do-my-items-disappear-when-i-put-them-in-a-crate-near-the-ranch/15592/4 "2018-05-31T19:33:31Z")
I know I have to get next to the crate. I put my stuff in It , but then some items disapper.
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### Author:  [@Zhilkin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Zhilkin)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 7:40pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/why-do-my-items-disappear-when-i-put-them-in-a-crate-near-the-ranch/15592/5 "2018-05-31T19:40:29Z")
Either they rot away or someone took them and didn’t put back.
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### Author:  [@latogato](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/latogato)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 10:09pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/why-do-my-items-disappear-when-i-put-them-in-a-crate-near-the-ranch/15592/6 "2018-05-31T22:09:44Z")
It sounds much like this:
> **[r/cataclysmdda - \[Possible Bug?\] Items Disappearing When Using Advanced...](https://www.reddit.com/r/cataclysmdda/comments/8n5ev8/possible_bug_items_disappearing_when_using/)**
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> 3 votes and 9 comments so far on Reddit
Maybe we have a new bug?
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### Author:  [@Bence](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Bence)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2018, 4:43am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/why-do-my-items-disappear-when-i-put-them-in-a-crate-near-the-ranch/15592/7 "2018-06-01T04:43:50Z")
Yes , I move a lot of items after raids , but instead of advanced inventory management I use my duffel bag.
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### Author:  [@Zhilkin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Zhilkin)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2018, 10:22am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/why-do-my-items-disappear-when-i-put-them-in-a-crate-near-the-ranch/15592/8 "2018-06-01T10:22:54Z")
Thanks. I can confirm there is a bug.
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### Author:  [@redxlaser15](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/redxlaser15)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2018, 3:34pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/why-do-my-items-disappear-when-i-put-them-in-a-crate-near-the-ranch/15592/9 "2018-06-01T15:34:51Z")
–Actually, recently my massive stack of almost 1K batteries magically poofed away. It was frustrating, to say the least. I was going to report it, but this thread more-or-less does the same thing. To mention, they weren’t in a crate, but it very possibly had to do with the ‘advanced inventory’ thing, since I use that a lot. Nothing else _seems_ to have gone poof, but now I have a serious lack of batteries. (Or I would have, if I didn’t just debug them back in the game.)
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### Author:  [@mentos046](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/mentos046)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2018, 5:02pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/why-do-my-items-disappear-when-i-put-them-in-a-crate-near-the-ranch/15592/10 "2018-06-01T17:02:06Z")
> [@redxlaser15](#):
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> –Actually, recently my massive stack of almost 1K batteries magically poofed away. It was frustrating, to say the least. I was going to report it, but this thread more-or-less does the same thing. To mention, they weren’t in a crate, but it very possibly had to do with the ‘advanced inventory’ thing, since I use that a lot. Nothing else _seems_ to have gone poof, but now I have a serious lack of batteries. (Or I would have, if I didn’t just debug them back in the game.)
I had that exact problem. I was moving some stuff between vehicles using advanced inventory management and all 1200+ batteries were just gone when I finished moving everything. On top of that, all the ammo that I had accumulated, along with almost 100 plutonium cells disappeared into thin air.
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### Author:  [@redxlaser15](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/redxlaser15)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2018, 5:13pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/why-do-my-items-disappear-when-i-put-them-in-a-crate-near-the-ranch/15592/11 "2018-06-01T17:13:05Z")
In cases like this, I wouldn’t call it cheating to debug your stuff back.
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### Author:  [@Garfink](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Garfink)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2018, 10:43am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/why-do-my-items-disappear-when-i-put-them-in-a-crate-near-the-ranch/15592/12 "2018-06-02T10:43:04Z")
I have had that with batteries too!
As a temp fix, I just debug menu batteries back.
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### Author:  [@redxlaser15](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/redxlaser15)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2018, 4:16pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/why-do-my-items-disappear-when-i-put-them-in-a-crate-near-the-ranch/15592/13 "2018-06-02T16:16:08Z")
–Dang game! My _tool box_ just disappeared! Thank goodness I know how to debug stuff in. For some stupid reason, I plopped my toolbox in my vaguely organized tool storage rather than keeping it in my inventory. I like to keep some basic tools on my character at all times so I don’t have to worry about forgetting and every once-in-a-while I’ll run into cases when I need a bunch of stuff.