Issue Summary:
Players most commonly report seeing an increase in lag on their home islands and on more established saves. Lag has also been reported when traveling from island to island, especially as the island the player is approaching begins to load in.
Workarounds:
One of the common factors in saves where players report this occurring is a significant amount of gathered resources on the home island. Reducing the number of loose items may help towards a reduction in lag.
Most common reported items that when cleared up have helped players are: Sticks, stones and fiberous leaves. Please note however that the amount a player has on their island in comparison to other items may be a factor in this.
Players have recently reported noticing that red containers may be impacting lag buildup. This may appear in the form of the red container duplication glitch that spawns multiple containers in the one spot, or the use of a lot of red container parts in building on an island. If this is the case on your island, please try swapping these parts for other materials such as planks or sticks.
Similar to the above potential trigger, there is an issue can may result in plants in planters duplicating. While not a commonly reported as a potential trigger for lag like the red containers, if a save is established enough there may be a significant overlap of planters on an island.
Further Reporting
If you find the lag when traveling occurs when traveling only to a particular type of island or around a specific object, please let us know in the comments below.
If you find lag or performance drops are occurring for you and your situation does not match those listed above, please create a new post in the main Bug Reports section.
If you have noticed a lag increase after using a specific material, please let us know
So i started this new save with animals on āpassiveā, never had a lag problem or anything. Now Its sounding like Iām in a tunnel again since I turned animals to ādefaultā. I did notice a slight lag or pause when going back to my main island, but technically Iāve only been to
3 islands on the whole map (home, main, and resource). Seed #25024114, Iām on ps4
Ty for all you do. We have recently noticed a lag in our the bigger our home base got and we could only restart another; did not mind though just try to do better next time. That character was over 250 days old.
Thank you for your understand FIELDSislanders - please do let us know if you notice anything in particular triggering a lag build up for your in your new save.
From what I can tell so far once we start to build on an island and get a few supplies up even on the new on it starts to lag during the save. Thank you so much we really love the game. Cant wait to see whatās next. Also, quick question? is there anything on the ship the Megalodon is eating at? We are using a PlayStation 4. We did uy full game.
Thank you for that infor FIELDSislanders - A common items players (including myself) gather first is sticks and leaves for fire and the water still, If you have any piles like that early on, try seperating them out to see if that helps at all.
I can confirm there is no loot or crates on the piece of ship in the Megalodon area. Only the Megalodon drops items when defeated.
I know I know. Iām a late player.
But what iāve found is.
Like everyone here.
Iāve put all my stuff on that island (to become a base). On the course of maybe 8-10 in games days and it started laging. Iāve looted everything on it on the first 1 or 2 in days. So the growback process could activate for Yukka, Palm sapling, Giant Crab Hogs etcā¦
On That Island. It Has The Big Rocky Formation in the middle with Egg nest everywhere. Some wreckship and the 1 big wreckship with the Crane and 2 Red Container on it. You know the damn containers that Duplicate themselves.
On wreckship they duplicate. On the beach they donātā¦ They grownback like Yukka Tree. that is a non sense. Since it is a Material made by man and non natural.
And THATāS I think is the cause of the big lag and crash.
Iāve done it. Iāve taken all my stuff. With Saving each 2-3 minutes with save that did work in the process. Other that did crash the game.
Pickinp up Stuff without crashing and crashing the game.
11 real time hours to clean the island.
Iāve put everything on an island that donāt have a Big wreckship or Red container.
Result ? No lag there.
And Iām there on that new Island for 18 in games days now
Iāve never touch any Red container of the entire 96 in-game Days Iāve played of Container Duplicating. Except for 1 on the 2nd island iāve visited. I opened it to see if there was something inside.
So if the duplication or growback non sense process of a container is at maybe 3 in game days like Potato or Yukka tree etcā¦ Do the math. Theres maybe more than 25 Red Container inside one anotherā¦ Time 2 since thereās 2 red container on the Big wreckship. Iāve visited that island maybe in my 15-20th days of playing my story. Since its the island east to the Starting island.
Iāve return 2-3 times since iāve left that island. still lag but less than when Iāve had everything. Except when Iām in the water. That was the Kickerā¦ Why it is still so laggy near that island.
Iāve Pass next to that big shipwreck and it clickā¦ These MTF Containers dupeā¦ So making more & more item in the same zone.
I go to one of them and Open the door 12th time and there was stil a door closeā¦ IāVe stop counting.
Taken the Refined Axe out. Smash 2 time on the close door. The Hit circle pass for 100 to 50 back to 100ā¦ Almost freeze for 5 second then came backā¦
Iāve hit the OPEN DOORS. since thereās 12 open. until one drop and nope Stuck in and out of the container. Big lag building up. Hit more shot another one drop and KABOOM game crashā¦
So what I think is. If you Fix the RED Container duplicationā¦ That one part of the Big Lag source problem gone.
Player Starting feeling lag. Will never start building housing etcā¦ They donāt want the freeze, lag and crash of the game. We donāt need an unlimited red container source tooā¦
I encountered the same issue with a particular island with the red container pieces. I removed that island and unfortunately the lag still persists. Iām on day 430 and what I can tell u is that, you want to settle on multiple islands and split up the amount of supplies between them. If you are planning large structures my advice for u is to create your own island/islands with minimal items on it. Load them into your world(remove wanted items from island being replaced prior). Only take the supplies needed for building to the island. The bigger u go it will slowly make your island laggy. Unfortunately itās just a workaround atm. It takes alot of work to fix stuff sometimes and I know they will get us soon. Just be patient and try my work around. Cheers
The purpose of the post 1st was too let them know that the Container are problematic. Since they dupe they cause lag. Normally you should Scrap one Consisting of what? 1 door, 3 walls on each side and the back ok itā¦ Maybe iām wrong in the number of part it give since iāve never destroy one completely. But the fact is stillā¦ 7 parts or maybe 5 parts. Duplicating by itself say each 3 daysā¦ After 80 in game daysā¦ Its a lot of item. Its not like Palm Tree that once chop down. They are gone forever. since they Dupe in the zone. Itās making loot that you didnāt loot or want. Causing memory problem. Its like when you pile up too much plank or stick etcā¦ the pile bug and move constantly.
A Container should be a one scavenge journey after that the frame could dissapear.
So From one island with the 2 container on the shipwreck too one without it. No lag. But I knew at that new island. If I wanted too stay away from lag. I needed too split things. Iāve Already place my stuff by group on 5 different island.
And sure enough I donāt understand what you mean by Removing an Island. Iāve start the game. I know theyāre 25 Island or zone on the map. How can i Remove an island. By going custom ?. I want to play story mode. not Custom mode.
The Story should be lock off that kind of stuff personally I say.
Iāve actually had to quit stranded deep recently because of lag. Since Iām a hoarder, my base island got to the point of being more of a slide show. Sticks and rocks only stack in 4. I had roughly 120 of each on my main island. If i were to clean that up via crates, thatās 10 a piece. This becomes tedious to do with no way of crafting crates. And thatās just rocks and sticks. Fiberous leaves, palm leaves, and logs all have contributed to the lag. I started using neighboring islands to store more items.The more established your base, the worse it gets. Until we get the update pc got a few months back, Stranded Deep will be unplayable for me.
Thank you for describing your original island lay our in detail as well as your experiences there and on other islands. The team are aware of the issue with the red containers (we have a Known Issues report about it here: [Known Issue] - Multiple doors and sides on containers ) but they normally are mentioned in lag when used as construction material. I shall pass the details of your experience of the whole containers onto the team.
Please also note that the same issue that causes containers to multiply can also cause plants to duplicate too, so if you have a large number of planters on your island the lag there might build up too - This isnāt confirmed as it hasnāt been reported except for when players harvest a lot from the plants.
I experience lag after lots of structural builds or lots of supplies. It doesnāt matter what it is it seems as long as there are large amounts of anything on an island it causes lag. It gets to the point were it lags on nearby islands also.
I have an idea that might also cause lag. I added a video as well just to help give a better description. But anyways the yucca plants give yucca fruits after you take off the leaves and when you donāt remove the fruits from the plant it can make the game laggy. I havenāt tested it but figured someone else might actually want to and post results. But anyways thatās all I got for it. I know this isnāt really related to red containers duping but I figured it still might help with the lag part
Thanks for sharing this video @TheMonster14544 - I think Iāll seperate report for this for the team so they can investigate it and determine if itās related to other lag issues or if itās an independant source. Either way this is super useful! Thank you again
So Iām kinda OCD about my items on my island, I like to group together all of the trunks, and the fibrous leaves, etc. So I started building 1x1 āhutsā for my items. One plank foundation, 3 tarp walls, and a wood roof cap. Iāve been filling these huts with items to separate them, and Iāve found that when the items are in there, they wiggle. The more they wiggle, the more I lag like crazy. I imagine theyāre fighting the āgravityā in the game and this causes a lot of problems for me. As soon as I break a wall a relieve the pressure on the items the lag significantly drops, tested with multiple different items. So Iāve stopped constricting the items so much, made bigger huts, and spread them out. Hopefully there can be a fix for this, because I really like being able to separate items and keep them off the ground (the damn crabs move my things around the island, sometimes pushing them into the water.) for better ease at finding supplies. Done in online session I havenāt tried this in single-player mode
Ya same here when I get to my island from another island it glitches and freezes slightly. Ive even seen something fly up off my island and land back down not sure what it was. But its near to impossible to get rid of all the extra resources stuff laying around (expecially later in game) at least until you guys add the resource piles. Maybe that will help with alot of console freezing problems?
