Why do they poof from drop inventory without engaging but no other loot does?
Is there some lore I'm missing?

When monsters spawn on the last step, the map drop poof timer activates. If you don’t spawn monsters on the last step, you can take your time picking it up

Edit: I believe this is because they are considered to drop from the catacombs before the monsters spawn, which is essentially like, you killed the catacombs, then automatically engaged, then spawned monsters... whereas loot drops from monsters, so you won’t see those drops disappearing unless there is a similar autoengage feature occurring after the monsters die, such as between waves of bits and pieces/hack the horde.

This post was edited by BWConformity on Nov 7 2018 06:48am

Not sure if that was changed, but I'm almost sure monsters didn't use to spawn on the last step some time ago

That's only changed to prevent people from taking screenshots at the end of mazes ( with the map drops in ) and that's why maps disappear so fast if you spawn monsters

I think it's a bug

lets get some debug lol

is not a bug doe.

I have a feeling this is the way it always has been. Either way it's not very significant. Sometimes it gives us time to look at the maps, sometimes it doesn't. Something with whether the last square spawns mobs or not.

It could be made so that the last square acts just like any other item drop and so long as you don't press g, t or go to town you can take your time looking at them.

If you attack the monster on the last step the timer activates
If you just take dmg it won't vanish

Grab first.....look later....problem solved

So the maps will stick around unless there's mobs spawned on the last square AND you attack them, otherwise they stick around until manually engaged, just like every other item drop not found from hack the horde/slash the swarm/bits and pieces.

Working as intended?

I think so, yup. I didn't know about this tbh, I've never tried that:



Although, if you just take dmg it might not vanish... but after 5-6 seconds, you will still vanish