Warden's Sonic Boom attack resulting in completely lost inventory upon deathscreen

(Ver. 26.2)

• Short description of the issue

Was exploring Deepdark biome when I triggered a Warden encounter. Upon being killed by the “sonic boom” attack, I respawned and went about looking for my dropped inventory. I could not find a single item, armour, or xp point; nothing was present at the site I died in game. I searched the entire area around it and found nothing. There was no lava, water, or other mobs around that could have interfered with my inventory drop; everything is just gone.

• Steps to reproduce the issue

Aggravate the Warden, and fire arrows in a different direction to the location you are hiding (futile effort). Death screen doesn’t mention warden, only that player was killed by “sonic boom”.

• Expected result

Be able to locate inventory dropped upon death screen, since the 5 mins typically taken to despawn loot had not yet elapsed

• Actual result

Entire dropped inventory was missing from the exact death location and from the surrounding areas, though the 5 min despawn time had not yet elapsed. There was no lava, water, nor mobs present that could have interfered with the loot.

Thank you for any help you can give regarding this unfortunate bug.