Where did the loot go?

[Mansku]

I killed ASB when he was inside a wall and the orb is nowhere to be seen. I'm on p23. Am I screwed or is the orb somewhere on the level?

[Blasphemous]

This is a known bug which has been fixed in later prereleases.
Sadly, you are screwed, there is no way to recover the orb, even if you dig up the wall.

[sweetnothing]

Maybe dig through the wall? IDK

EDIT: oops

[psy_wombats]

Yeppp, lost a pretty good dwarven druid to this bug before it was fixed.

[Mansku]

Damn, thank you rng for giving me executor and some other good stuff...

[Blasphemous]

Just remember to kill ASB while it's standing in a corridor, not wall.
I have also lost a very powerful monk to this, when ASB panicked and stepped into the wall just when I blasted everything with a fireball and killed it.

[blunk]

Does this fix also mean other noncorporals will drop loot when killed in wall?

[auricbond]

I could have sworn this bug existed and was fixed way earlier than patch 23. If that's not the case I wonder how noone caught it for this long (and if it is the case, how did they break it again)?

[Blasphemous]

There is indeed a longer story about this bug. At some point, when a monster that ignores walls was killed while standing within a wall, the wall tile was destroyed.
Some liked the effect, some didn't. Subsequently there were multiple changes done to this mechanism and the result was as we can see.
Prerelease 23 is for all intents and purposes stable and mostly bugless but there are still glitches, like this one.

[Khnud]

Before the 1.0.0 days I'm pretty sure the items appeared when digging the wall. I remember killing ghosts in walls, digging them, and finding gold on the newly dug square. But this must have been in the gamma versions of the game.