Horizons Engineers dropped loot from destroyed npcs disappears?

hi, despite the instakill bugged npcs (which there is a thread for so not more here) i like a lot of things in engineers. but i just killed 2 npcs who attacked me and before i can pick up all the worn shield emitter etc i noticed some disappear. do they vanish after very short time or supposed to hang around until you collect them and leave? its just curious when i wasnt near done i pick one up and the other two vanished.
 
hi, despite the instakill bugged npcs (which there is a thread for so not more here) i like a lot of things in engineers. but i just killed 2 npcs who attacked me and before i can pick up all the worn shield emitter etc i noticed some disappear. do they vanish after very short time or supposed to hang around until you collect them and leave? its just curious when i wasnt near done i pick one up and the other two vanished.

Yes, just as cargo, mats have a timeout (which is too short) after which they vanish. I'm considering equipping a collector to my ships, just in case I stumble across mats.

Got in a bad way in a CZ trying to scoop, got isolated and had to boogie out of the CZ...
 
You have a minute and a half to collect them.

If you think it is too short there are always collector limpets.
 
thanks for the replies but i dont have anything i can dump to use limpets. i didnt want to make a bug report on mats vanishing if it was designed as i suspected. thanks again all!
 
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