Talk:The Caretaker's spade/@comment-85.52.35.87-20190217025201

Just in case someone is, as me, wondering if this item despawns if left unlooted, i did some experimenting.

-Killed the Caretaker at lvl 35, left the shovel untouched. Save game at this point.

-Looted the shovel. It was lvl 32 so my current gear outperforms it. Loaded previous saved game.

-Fast travel to somewhere in Skellige to see if that would make it despawn.

-Meditated for over a month to see if it would despawn over time.

-Save and exit the game to see if a game restart would affect in any way.

-Load game and use console command to set my lvl to 99.

-Went back to the place and both the Caretaker's corpse and the shovel were still there. Looted the shovel and it was lvl 97.

So, AFAIK, you can safely leave the shovel there and come back once you are comfy with your level to make sure it is an upgrade over your current steel, or whatever.

Cheers!