Lately i have noticed that areas where i cleared out enemies and loot and that would normally respawn (examples: Valtheim Towers, Silent Moons Camp, Helgen, Halted Stream Camp) after a few in game days are no longer respawning. Has anyone else encountered this? Note: i noticed this before 1.4 update

Theres a few areas like that, while some quests will respawn properly, others wont.

The spawning was broken by either 1.2 or 1.3 (not exactly sure which- I skipped 1.2).

Basically, if you return to an area after killing the inhabitants and the bodies are gone, they won't respawn. If the problem is what I believe it to be, I'm shocked that more people haven't noticed this. I -think- that when they added a clear timer for bodies, they forgot that the respawn timer was attached to the bodies. When the bodies are cleared, all data attached to them are cleared as well, thus no respawn. They have effectively been completely removed from the game.

Well, that's my theory at least. To avoid this problem in the first place you have to stay away from any cleared area long enough for the respawn timer to trigger (10 days for some areas, 30 days for others). Once it occurs, however, I don't know of any way to fix it.

My main two games are currently borked because of this particular bug.

I can't become Thane of Dawnstar because Blizzard Rest giants won't re-spawn.

I've notice this too, I have a bunch of areas that aren't respawning to the point where I think I might just just start a new game now.

I haven't seen much discussion of this issue yet but it really bugs me. I've been playing the same character since release and places like WolfSkull, Labyrinthian, Valthiem to name a few haven't respawned in a long long time.

if this is an issue caused by updates as someone mentioned above maybe I'll clear my cache and roll back to 1.1 and see if things change.

It is a real pain that this happens. I have a miscellaneous quest to kill the bandit leader located at Nilheim, but I already completed a quest there where I had to kill all the bandits, and as they do not respawn at this location I have another quest which I cannot complete.