As indicated in the title this bug occurs during a battle, when the battlefield is crowded with corpses. If the hex on which a character is standing is already occupied by dead body and the same with all the adjacent hexes, then on a character death its corpse and all items just disappear. This way you can lost a named item even having a blacksmith in your retinue (or did not collect a named item from your dead enemy). I am almost sure that this is not an intended feature and it is super annoying, made me stop playing this game.
I did not take any screenshots nor save log because it took me some time after this bug occurred to figure out what happened. Although, I am providing a save file before attacking a location – I experienced it during this battle, so with some (bad) luck it can be recreated.
I hope that the dev team will read this topic and that they will fix this bug (which is spoiling an otherwise excellent game). But I want to also ask you, fellow players, does anyone of you maybe know a mod fixing this issue?
PS This bug was also reported by other players, here you can find a similar situation described: https://www.reddit.com/r/BattleBrothers/comments/z3vvbt/anybody_s_having_issue_with_blacksmith_follower/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
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