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What do you do?

1. I perform any of the following:
   • deconstruct a vault ruin using bot;
   • deconstruct a rock/tree containing one more than one item type using a bot;
   • deconstruct any other entity containing more than one item type using a bot;
   • kill an egg raft.
2. I don't pick up all items (such as scrap, ice, pentapod eggs etc.) left on the ground by the deconstructed/killed entity.
3. I get on a rocket which passes over those items on the ground.
4. I reach a space platform.

What happens?

All the items are silently picked up into character's inventory, but don't end up in the space platform inventory when player reaches the space platform.

What did you expect to happen instead? It might be obvious to you, but do it anyway!

None of such items should be picked up.

Does it happen always, once, or sometimes?

Always.

Notes

There's a bug possibly related to this - I think it may be one specific case of a more general bug I'm reporting here, but not 100% sure. viewtopic.php?t=135791

Very simplified save game to illustrate/reproduce the bug: After loading the save game, simply:

1. open the rocket silo, and click "Travel to space platform" (there's only one available, so choose it)
2. after reaching the platform, observe that platform inventory doesn't contain any unexpected items
3. drop down to Nauvis, notice that there's a lot of stuff in player's inventory

Those items are picked up on the way up. One can see that by switching to Nauvis map view when rocket is flying to clearly see stuff picked up from the ground as it's passing by.

My theory is that this bug is affecting all items on the ground that would've been picked up by a player simply running over them (without pressing F to pick them up). In my save game I also manually dropped some items on the ground, but in my experiments I could never pick those up.

Just noticed that the same happens when the player is riding a drop pod, not only when riding a rocket. All notes and steps to reproduce the bug above still apply, so will just attach few extra screenshots.

I am not seeing anything making it different from 135791, as such marking this as duplicate