Placed gear: Collect a visible marker or diagnose disappearing items

Update 1.4 is the developer's fix for taxidermies vanishing from dioramas. Lost ones that are still in your Hunting Log can be placed on a stand again, but they don't return by themselves, so you need to put each one back.

The November 4 hotfix (217820) covers the edge cases 1.4 missed: if a lost taxidermy still would not go back on its stand after 1.4, try placing it again after the hotfix. The developer says correctly displayed taxidermies are not touched.

Affected players automatically get 1,500 in-game currency for each lost taxidermy, to cover the diorama placement. The developer asks players to say whether the fix works. If a taxidermy looks gone while still on its stand, its known-issues list says to reload your save. Kingy hasn't tested the recovery or seen the refund.

Update 1.3 / 215031 reports a fix for taxidermied animals disappearing from dioramas. The developer separately says recovery of already-missing taxidermies is still being worked on. Installing the fix does not establish restoration of an existing lost trophy; retain the save and report the affected diorama. This is separate from the older placed-tent/deployable disappearance fix.

A visible map marker identifies equipment you can try to collect using the older documented procedure below. Gear absent from both the map and Storage matches the separate disappearance described in the 1.2 notes; the marker-based procedure cannot locate an absent marker.

Update on a platform where 1.2 / 213891 has arrived, retain your save, and check both map and Storage. If the item remains missing, preserve the details for the official bug report. Neither rejoining nor starting a new save is documented as restoring old lost items.

Use the map action when a decoy or another placed item ends up somewhere difficult to reach. The developer documents this workflow; Kingy has not independently reproduced it.

1. Approach to within 50 metres of the placed item.
2. Open the Hunting Map and select the item’s marker.
3. Choose Collect.
4. Open Storage to find the returned equipment.

Collected equipment goes to Storage. The developer does not describe this action as equipping the item directly into your carried loadout, so look in Storage before treating it as missing.

Check that you are within the documented 50-metre range and have selected the placed equipment’s own marker. The command was introduced in 0.3.2.204916, so earlier builds do not have this documented recovery route. The patch does not specify every excluded item or a multiplayer ownership rule.