Gjalls don't destroy items. Nothing does. What does happen is that items despawn if not in range of a workbench. If the Gjall destroyed your workbench too, and it took you more than 2 or 3(?) ingame days to come back to that area in order to pick up the mats then yes they are gone.

If it has been less that it's probably a bug though.

Originally posted by dirktoot:

Gjalls don't destroy items. Nothing does. What does happen is that items despawn if not in range of a workbench. If the Gjall destroyed your workbench too, and it took you more than 2 or 3(?) ingame days to come back to that area in order to pick up the mats then yes they are gone.

If it has been less that it's probably a bug though.

nah, once each day "unused assets are removed"

Originally posted by Philthy:

nah, once each day "unused assets are removed"

That's not the same as things that are dropped/on-the-ground being destroyed. There are even two separate dev commands for those functions. Unused assets would be assets in memory that are no longer being used/referenced, I believe.

Personally, I'd just kill Yagluth again, but you can also just use the --console
F5
devcommands
spawn yagluththing 3
devcommands
F5

Then think long and hard about where a good location would be for something that would really jack up your progression if you lost it and if it would be a good idea to keep all of them in one place.