imnvs
Local Legend
Unlikely. It's likely considered voluntary since you did put the bins there voluntarily... but if it makes you feel better, most folks have lost worse at one time or another.
npc vs chest
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Tukis J
Sodbuster
I purpose like in a recommendation I made that the if we have a good friendship with the wizard, he could show us a map of the villager paths
Ivy99999
Cowpoke
Others have already answered your question but I'd like to recommend Dangerously Funny on YouTube if you want to see some videos of it. He has quite a sizeable SV list and a few of them demonstrate the pathing. He has at least one showing Pam vs trees on her way to the bus stop that will show you exactly what happens.
Kurachi84
Planter
I just thought about something, regarding pathing.
It may be easier to fix it, in case more areas and new pathing will come in future updates.
We always have to know paths now, and learn about them with each change to villagers' pathing.
If they'd not break anything, but walk through it, we'd need no new screenshots of new routings the villagers take.
Mods for a fix also need updates over time, so waiting for mods and waiting for new routing screenshots are both annoying.
If a mod gets dropped, then others need to update them, or it gets dropped permanently.
Same with screenshots, someone has to make them.
So a fix would help forever.
Them never touching chests, trees and such, will avoid any possible complications, and makes the mods unneeded, giving modders more time for other mods.
Plus not everyone can use mods.
It may be easier to fix it, in case more areas and new pathing will come in future updates.
We always have to know paths now, and learn about them with each change to villagers' pathing.
If they'd not break anything, but walk through it, we'd need no new screenshots of new routings the villagers take.
Mods for a fix also need updates over time, so waiting for mods and waiting for new routing screenshots are both annoying.
If a mod gets dropped, then others need to update them, or it gets dropped permanently.
Same with screenshots, someone has to make them.
So a fix would help forever.
Them never touching chests, trees and such, will avoid any possible complications, and makes the mods unneeded, giving modders more time for other mods.
Plus not everyone can use mods.
SuperChouette
Planter
I love these solutions.
In the meantime, if you don’t trust the pathing maps that are available because of updates you can test the pathing with torches or by planting a bunch of pine cones.
There are a few places that I know for a fact no NPC will walk near. These are not always convenient spots but if you plant torches/ trees all around where you’d prefer your chest to be… by year two any saplings/ trees/ torches left standing are in a safe spot for a chest. Then I can move my inconveniently placed chest to the preferred spot. (This would only work for me as I don’t normally have a huge need for chests in highly trafficked places until later in the game.)
If it stresses you out that much then wait until one year after the community center opens too.
Sinmenon
Rancher
Hit them with an axe or pickaxe and you'll be able to retrieve them.
This is a very useful guide! I'd also recommend avoid placing chests in front of the garage, Sebastian has a heart event right in front of it. I don't know if it causes any glitches but better safe than sorry
Some important items can later be retrieved at the lost and found at the Mayor's house, but it is usually only tools. Some items like the quest items are lost forever (like how it happened to me, rip). If you are playing on computer I recommend this mod.
imnvs
Local Legend
If you discover them the day she ran over them, you can collect them. If you don't get there by the time you go to sleep they will be gone by the time you get back.
FilthyGorilla
Local Legend
If you want a guide rather than screenshots you could do so yourself.
It is a very tedious task with little gain.
Another way to overcome this problem is to permanently trap npcs inside their rooms with chairs.
Ereo
Helper
Lightning rods only work on the farm, so it doesn't make sense to put them around the map.
Irreplaceable items will show up in Lewis' lost & found, others disappear over night.
Freizeitfarmer
Farmer
Question: Has anybody tried to place solar panels at GI? Does this work??
Lenora Rose
Farmer
I had one on GI and it dropped batteries as expected. It would be weird for lightning rods to do anything there (lots of rain, no storms) but *really* weird if solar panels didn't. Of course, the rules of SDV are not the rules of the real world, (see again re months old fish from your fridge making a successful fishpond) but in this case, it applies.
imnvs
Local Legend
Yes, they work. Previously I did that, thinking maybe they'd drop more often... but it's just as rainy there.
jameskuyper
Farmhand
That link no longer works. Most of the wiki pages that used to have a "Villager Paths" section no longer have one. The only two that still have such a section are the Secret Woods and the Backwoods, both of which say that no villagers visit those areas, so it's safe to place things anywhere you want.