This has happened to me twice in the last week. Im on a PS5 and Iām not doing anything crazy, just building a basic house for my central base of opperations, but when i go to exit the game, and ensure that all my hard work is saved, the game freezes or crashes and when i come back half my builds are missing, even builds that have been around for multiple saves prior to the crash. Sometimes my character is completely different, including their gender, and some of the builds that didnt vanish are broken. For example my shrine no longer has any recipes inside it, except the upgrade option, which, is now impossible to upgrade since i can no longer make anything to earn any of the essence points needed for the upgrade. Iāve lost tons of rare resourses that were stored in the missing work benches and containers that vanished, and sometimes days worth of work is missing as if it loaded a save file from a week ago, yet with elements ive done or added since that time still existing in the world. Ive had to redo several days of work twice only for it to freeze again and destroy the save. On the first occasion i was fortunate that the cloud save wasnt corrupted but it was also from the day before and thus all my progress was still lost but my character and buildings were at least restored. The second time i wasnt so lucky. Bear in mind Im playing single player and a lot of that work has been painstakingly moving a dozen thralls from my old house on one side of the map, to my new home on the other side. One by one walking them painstakingly across the map, only to reload to find them all back at the original house, or whatās left of the original house.
The first time it happened my character had gone from female to male, with white hair, and an odd collection of items in their inventory that i wasnt carrying when i shut the game off. The new house iād just finished building was completely gone, and I returned to my old house looking like a frozen tetris game, with chunks of the building floating and bags full of my resources lying on the ground and rapidly despawning. All my thralls id moved to the new location were back at the old house, with many floating in midair where they were standing on platforms or raised floor that vanished.
This second time wasnt as bad as my buildings still stand, but at least 4 of my crafting benches, their resources, and high level workers just gone. Many were upgraded benches which means i need to go back to base level benches, just to get the resources needed to replace them with the upgrades. This also always seems to happen right after i upgrade my shrine to the second stage (pleasure dome?) And as i stated above, now when i visit my shrine the only crafting option available is to upgrade it, but all the recipes to make the stamina potions, bread, honey, or sacraficial dagger are missing, meaning i have to rebuild it and lose all the essence, or whatever its called, Iāve collected thus far. I have more stamina potions than ill ever need from trying to build up that essense multiple times. There also seems to be random recipes Iāve learned missing as well and itās hard to tell what else may be broken or wrong in all my settings and exploration progress until i really get into the game after rebuilding.
Whatās worse is Iāve become very paranoid since the first corrupted save, and now exit the game regularly to save, but even if i find a safe spot to shut it off for a minute, i have no control whether the game will decide to lock up or crash during the exit and there doesnt seem to be anything happening that would warrant a crash or freeze. And this second time it happened, it uploaded the save to the PS5 cloud immediately so there was no way to recover the old save and restore at least some of my progress. Im at the point where i dont feel comfortable playing the game and especially dont want to spend another day or two rebuilding what was lost, only to spend another day finishing this tedious move ive already had to do twice and risk another crash resetting me.
The only reoccuring element to both save corruptions seems to be right after i upgrade my shrine, but i will say since im playing solo ive used the admin window to unlock a few recipes past the 60lvl cap, since im not playing with friends with different jobs. However Ive been using the admin window for a while and not had any problems with saves, until i upgrade my shrine or at least try to. This last one my shrine was in the process of upgrading, for the second time, but hadnt finished. I had to go to bed so i had no choice but to shut off the game, and it just froze completely. I let it sit for almost an hour on the ādisconnecting from serverā screen with no progress and eventually closed the game manually. When i came back my character was in the middle of nowhere with entirely different armor on and half the thralls i moved back at their original location. The precision carpentry bench was gone with all of its stacks of shaped wood, a smelter with tons of steel and brick that ill need to rebuild it, all gone, my stone stove and level 2 cook was gone, and my alchemy bowl and level 2 alchemist missing with all my gold and silver dust and brimstone gone. Most of these items were some of the first things i built and have been present through multiple saves prior to the crash. As ive stated multiple times my shrine is broken with no recipes inside of it, and Ill have to tear it down and rebuild itā¦againā¦to get those back, i assume, and every time this happens i have to dump all the essence points on the ground and then wait for them to despawn before i can rebuild in the same spot since it states itās blocked by the little bag on the floor. Its unimaginably frustrating and tedious.
Ive been playing this game for a couple weeks now and i feel like ive made literal negative progress in it as both of these corrupted saves have kept me pretty much redoing the same tasks multiple times like Iām in some sort of groundhog day loop. I havent even had a chance to explore the northern half or the map yet because ive spent so much time on just my house.
Im just trying to get a convenient location set up just so that i can actually start getting into fighting bosses and progressing the story but Im pretty much done repeating the same day over and over. The game needs to allow access to previous saves and this is an issue with a one-save system where all your hard work can be gone in an instant from a simple unpredictable bug.
Edit: as most people have stated above there doesnt seem to be any pattern to the crashes as i can play for hours with no problem, but it seems to happen at complete random. The shrine upgrade is the only repeating event as the last thing i did before logging off both times. Though the first time i had upgraded the shrine a while before logging off, and the second time it was in the middle of upgrading. But both times when i reloaded the game, the shrine was back to before i upgraded it, and it is usually how i determine the time-frame of how much progress ive lost.