Please add an option to disable using backpack while in the crawling state. Currently it can be used and we'd like to disable that.

Thanks for reporting. Looking into it.

Merged post

Released in Backpacks v3.6.0.

was this released as an option?  The description says it was a bug fix and doesn't mention it as an option.  Looking at the code it looks like it is simply that way all the time now (no backpack when wounded).  I'm still checking to see what our server's preference is going to be, but there may be some that want this as an option

Looking back at the original post, I realize that this was requested to be an option. However, at the time of the report, I classified the behavior of players being able to open backpacks while crawling as a backwards incompatible change that was introduced as a side effect of the July Rust update.

I do not recall whether the backpack could be opened in the old wounded state, but I assumed it could not be because it is currently impossible to open containers in the incapacitated state, and the incapacitated state most closely resembles the old wounded state. As I believed the behavior to have changed unintentionally as of the July Rust update, Backpacks v3.6 intended to rectify that to avoid server owners having to come to grips with the behavior change. Therefore, the change was not released as an option.

Where the misunderstanding may have occurred is in concluding that the old wounded state did not allow opening backpacks. If it did indeed allow opening backpacks, the change in Backpacks v3.6 was made in error, and the behavior should be reverted, and an option should be introduced to allow server owners to block Backpacks from being opened while the player is in a crawling state.

In an upcoming release, I will make this an option. However, the default value of that option is still to be determined. Do you happen to recall whether backpacks could be opened in the old wounded state?

I was wondering the same thing.  I don't recall if you could open the backpack while in the old wounded state.  I'll see if anyone on our server knows offhand and let you know.

edit:  You are probably correct about the old behavior. I just saw that the request was for an option, and realized that some might want that.

edit2: so far, no one on our server remembers the old behavior because none of them ever tried to open a backpack while waiting for death.  Most likely the answer is NO, and you're prolly good w/ making it default to disabled.   - but that's just my opinion

edit3:  just got confirmation from a player that you could NOT open backpack while waiting to die prior to the July
update.  So defaulting to that would maintain the old behavior