She Sells Sea Shells - Pearl's Pearl problem

[Iconer]

Hi,
Me and my friend were playing multiplayer, we finished all 10 hermit's quests. As a reward, we got the shiny pearl's pearl.
We learned, that every time we saved the game and loaded it later, the pearl's pearl dropped to the ground. Never mind, we picked it up again.
But now, after a couple of in-game days, the pearl's pearl is missing. We can't find it anywhere.  
We haven't even fought the Crab King yet.
It might be possible, that it is lying somewhere on the ground behind a tree. We don't know. We searched the map over and over and can't find it.
What can we do? How tho get/find the pearl's pearl now?
Please help. 

[CarlZalph]

The pearl is marked as an essential item, like Chester's eyebone, making it unable to maintain in an inventory of a player if they leave.

There's a few ways you could go about finding where the pearl is:

1) Retrace the entire map looking for it, slow and legitimate.

2) Use the console to teleport it to you, fast and cheaty.

3) Use the console or open the map's save session to find out the coordinates and manually walk there, a bit cheaty.

[ArubaroBeefalo]

the only thing i can imagine, if you are tired of search, is to open console --> c_gonext("hermit_pearl")

[Wumpus the 19th]

if it was a legitimate glitch, just do a legitimate cheat. spawn in the pearl if she'd already dispensed one. worst case scenario is you find the original immediately after and you can just despawn the cheated pearl. 

[Cuikui]

6 hours ago, Iconer said:

But now, after a couple of in-game days, the pearl's pearl is missing. We can't find it anywhere.

Did you log in and the Pearl's Pearl did not appear ? or you just roam around without it and forgot its location ?

A not too cheaty method is to open the map centered on the pearl's pearl location (if you're not afraid of long commands) with

x, y, z = c_find("hermit_pearl").Transform:GetWorldPosition()
ThePlayer.HUD.controls:ShowMap(Vector3(x, y, z))

 

[Iconer]

Thanks for all suggestions.

We already roamed around a couple of days without relizing we forgot its location. We probably were thinking the other player has it.

I forgot to mention, that we play a large world with caves, which could make things more complicated.

• We have already tried the command c_find in both overworld and underworld and it didn't find anything. Does it matter if the world host runs those commands? First we just want to determine the coordinates, we don't need to move anything anywhere.
print(c_find("hermit_pearl").Transform:GetWorldPosition())
• I suspect, that if the pearl was inside a chest or something, that it might be a problem.
Is there a command to find the coordinates of a chest which contains a specific item?
• If we use c_give or c_spawn, the pearl appears on the ground and cannot be picked up. Weird.
We haven't tried c_gonext yet.
 

[QuartzBeam]

The commands must be used by the host, yeah, otherwise they don't work.

Also, it doesn't matter if the Pearl is in a container.

[Iconer]

Hi. Thanks for the hints. From now on, we only tried to use the commands by the host.

We tried c_gonext, it didn't find anything either. Looks like the pearl completely vanished. Maybe a bug?

And about the container (chest):
I am not sure about the pearl. But we tried putting chester bone onto the ground, then c_gonext and c_find did find it. But after putting it inside a chest, c_gonext and c_find didn't find the chester bone. So I think it does matter.

Because we don't know any command to look for it inside a chest, we thoroughly searched all our 100 chests manually. Couldn't find it anyway.

Finally, we managed to get the pearl using c_give. It worked this time, finally.