Originally posted by Spark Bibo:

Throwing junk to the ground doesn't help because the junk stays forever and next time you get too close, you pick it back up.

Why don't items decay on the ground? This is the first game ever where you can leave a pile of meat on the ground for infinity. The point of storage boxes is usually to prevent that decay, but in his game, you could literally never use a box and just have a yard full of piles. So that stack of 50 pine cones? It's YOURS FOREVER. LOVE IT.

https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Player_base
If you drop ♥♥♥♥ next to your base it dont despawn, this is a known fact.