Best way to prevent loot cycling on mp servers?

[Nukaboy]

Me and my friends are thinking about starting an mp server and a big question that came up on my side was how we will prevent loot cycling.

 

For those that don't know, loot cycling is when people throw all the stuff from containers on the ground and leave it there. Many people doing this over and over again will greatly hurt server performance in the long run (we want the world to be persistent).

 

Now what I thought off was to add items that are usually dumped to the ground (books, tools, trash items) to the removal list (thats a setting the game provides) so that the game will automatically delete those after some time. The problem with that approach is that this will also remove player based items in bases and thus limit the ability of players to decorate their base with items.

 

Does anybody know a mod or some other way to effectively counter loot cycling like a server plugin or setting etc.?

 

We will, of course, also make a rule that disallows loot cycling and would, if we decide to add items to the removal list, tell people about which items specifically on our discord. But you know how people are sometimes... Some will not follow it because they don't care and it's hard to catch them in the moment they do this so we really need a solution for that problem.