I recently investigated one of those question marks on the world map and got trapped in a snare, knocked out and imprisoned. I had to escape and kill the fools who captured me which was easy enough, but in the process I lost all items. And I mean everything: weapons, bounties, throwables and crafting items. I couldn't find any way to recover my items so have had to start again from nothing.

This has happened just before taking on the sawmill horde to progress the story. So it's sort of gimped my ability to take on this horde as I can only craft a few throwables and traps.

Is this usually the case that you lose all items with no way to recover them? Or did it bug out on me by not giving me an option, from what I could find, to retrieve my former inventory.

I'd also appreciate any tips on taking on the horde with limited traps and napalm bombs as I'd like to progress the story but I don't really want to trawl through the map looking for gunpowder, polystyrene and other craftables.

thanks,