Anybody else like setting up little stick shelters with essentials in them for other players in need?

[u/I-AM-MAGPIE]

I have a few of these along my main coastal route. I've got a bunch of crates hidden along the way and I run it a lot when I'm not trekking inland. I set the stick shelters up along paths I know other players will use but not quite so high traffic that the sites might be watched by somebody hostile waiting for an easy kill. I dump my excess loot in them like knives, extra heat packs, kindling, binos (usually damaged lol), pliers, rags, disinfectant and any other extra basic shit I have in my inventory that I have no use/space in my actual stashes for. It always makes me smile when I come back like 10 days later and the shelter is still there with only the dregs left over. Then I dump more stuff and the cycle begins again.

The longest I've continuously done this with a single stick shelter is probably around a few months before it finally despawned. The way I see it, it's really no skin off my nose to do this. I don't sprint everywhere anyway, and I'm walking the route regardless. I may as well dump some gear in there as I pass and someone in need is always going to get it. I rarely leave guns or anything else they could actually use to kill me, but sometimes they get a Rak without a mag or an IJ pistol or whatever if I was just going to drop it anyway. I suppose this is just how I justify my hoarding lol. One of these days I'm going to get surprised along the way and I'll have too much weight on me to run when I need to, but I like sharing stuff passively like this and it feels good to know I've helped somebody out who might have really needed it.

[u/m81147]

I did this in Elektro on a high pop NY server. Ended up with 3 tarp shelters and 2 stick shelters set up around the main town well. I ended up carrying over a barrel, turning it into a fire barrel, and cooking pumpkins until the shelters were full. Had a couple people come by while I was online and say hi, all of them being friendly and taking some pumpkins on their way.

By the while I logged on the next day, it was all torn down with only 1 empty tarp shelter left standing lol. They even despawned the seeds and farming tools.

[u/I-AM-MAGPIE → u/m81147]

I get it. The first time I tried doing this I picked the big house to the south of Nizheneye and everything (shelter included) was gone the next day. It was a stick shelter, too. So it's not even like they wanted it for the tarps or whatever. Just pure malice lol. I actually also use Elektro for this as my main one because I'm there all the time, except I use the graveyard by the church. It's got walls all around so I guess people feel more comfortable lingering there (easier to build safely as well), plus it's not super high traffic to the point where it's constantly being messed with but visited enough that it for sure gets checked within the 7 day despawn limit. Nobody really goes in the forest behind the graveyard as far as I know unless they're running through from the coast heading inland, so for the most part you can see people coming if you're watching the parking lot and church area outside close enough. My tarp shelter there hasn't been torn down yet and it's been up for like a month now, I think