No loot in tree stumps in Roanoke?

[paulcrawls]

So far it is.
Been checking 30 or more stumps with no result.
Any differences?

[staxjax]

From my understanding, every time a person enters a certain map grid the stumps have chance to spawn an item...since there has not been that much player activity on Roanoke, the stumps haven't had very many chances to spawn items. It was like this for me at the start of Plymouth as well...but now I have a 'stump garden' outside of my city full of fabulous items for your casual stumper.

[Sevenless]

Settle down in an area and wait a day (do other things in the area) before bothering to stump.

[Jalpha]

Is that really how stump spawns function? I thought it may actually be tied in to decay ticks or something, items which spawn inside stumps seem to remain there unless removed.

Unless there is some kind of cooldown on stumps, where they will remain as is and do not spawn new items unless a certain time period has passed, within which no-one has loaded the map grid.

In any case I suspect the mechanics of stump spawns are not as simple as a chance for a spawn per stump per loading of the map grid.

Also while I'm here, do hollow logs spawn items or is it only the stumps? If they do it must be a much more infrequent occurrence.

Edit: Should this be in help?