[PS4][2071][Gameplay] Can't interact with most things

:face_with_monocle: Ok, back to sonysoft burocracy, I hope it don’t take too long. I know is off topic but I think is a little relevant: Terraria 1.4 for update was release last month, after the submission the devs posted on twitter and it took a good chunk of days before it was released. Untill recently I didn’t knew that the submission process is so time consuming and that is a scale outside of devs hands.
As I said last week, lets be patient.
A polished delayed content is always better than a worse rushed one (creator of Mario said something like this) :t_rex:

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Same issues here Claire. Taking my time advancing the game, looting ships and what not. About 15-20 days in the game goes to the pot. Can’t harvest resources. Cant interact with anything. This happened on two different games as I restarted thinking the save file was corrupted.

I also lost my life raft. Floated off to sea I think. You’d be a saint if you could gps that puppy.

Not being able to interact with an item seems to be related to repeated character elevation change. On and off the raft, in out of the ocean, or on and off rocks on the island. It is almost like your character does not return to the usual resting space or “0” for the island. Once items have been deactivated, you can interact with items after squatting or getting below an item. Hope this helps

I’ve managed to work around the bug on my 290 game day file so far. I luckily had most things on the sand on my main temp home base except my tent, clay brick station, boiler, cloth station, etc. I can still use the stations to make things but had to create a new tent & fire right down by the water. The main thing that’s a pain is having to use a fire to cook food one at a time and that the food doesn’t smoke so doesn’t last as long. That and making sure that my Uber huge garden doesn’t die out lol. I made a new resource gathering island that is the absolutely lowest elevation I could get. I tried to make it so the island was as much sand as possible (to help indicate the low elevation) and to try and get the yukka, palm trees & mini palms on the sand. I included a bunch of ships to get lots of containers to try and get food rations to supplement the food difficulties with the bug. So far it’s worked well. I still get the bug on anything higher than beach level, rafts are way more tippy, the UV is extremely brutal so try to spend the daytime in the water, and my food & water levels seem to decrease way more quickly but at least I’ve been able to still get by playing :). I’d be really, really sad if the fix wipes out my save so I’m crossing my fingers that doesn’t happen and using the bug to farm clay so I can build my super house :rofl::crossed_fingers::crossed_fingers::crossed_fingers:.

It does for me. I am on 3rd Island going back to my Starter island and on the sea when It lags/changes the island squares thats when interaction button drop down and everything goes poop.

Please see Sam’s posts above for more information. There is also a post here I’ll keep updating on the issue - [Known Issue][PS4/XB1] Loss of interactions

If you experience other issues, please do not report them here, create a seperate bug report, I will not be following up on other issues in this thread.

You’re welcome to keep posting your experience of the interaction issue here, but the team are working on a fix.

Clare, when should we expect to get the fix?

She probably doesnt know. I think even the devs dont know

But they could give us an estimate. I mean, is it gonna be a few days, a few weeks, a few months?

The bug appeared 07:53. I play on PS4 and it seems that when the bug appeared it was raining. I don’t know if that is important but you mentioned any environmental changes. It looks like that I can only interact with wood, trunks and stones, but only in certain positions.
Here’s the footage.

I know I’m late to the party; I’ve been lurking and didn’t have anything constructive to share - until now. Playing on PS4 I’ve noticed that I seem to consistently trigger the glitch during the 1st storm after fishing, subsequent to exploring a new island and/or ship. In my case, having successfully played a new game for several hours following the last update; explored a new island - no glitch. Explored a new ship - no glitch. Returned to my base island saved, and slept - no glitch. Went fishing for breakfast - no glitch. Dumped my catch by my smoker, and went to water my farm plots - no glitch. Filled my coconut and watered my crops, and a stormed started. Went to refill my coconut only to find out the glitch had been triggered. No snakes observed at all during this playthrough. I hope this helps. Love the game, have been playing since we used to catch water in buckets as a water source lol

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Hi all, I updated my post on this issue with information about why the workaround may work for some and not others - [Known Issue][PS4/XB1] Loss of interactions

The team are continuing their work to get a fix for this issue released to the community as quickly as they can.

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Hello, do you have a time frame on when this will be fixed? I can’t past day 5, I’ve started over 10 new games now too on the ps4. A bit frustrating. Thanks

Hi XRP_Andy, welcome to the forums, please see my post linked above more more details on the issue and Sam’s post here on the process involved in patching the game here: [PS4/XB1] Dev Update on Interaction Bug

As that post states there are a number of factors that can eat up time so we do not have an estimate on when this fix may be released, however as things progress if an estimate is able to be made by the team I will let the community know.

Hello, everyone, I share my experience in one player game (PS4) I get this issue and solve it with the turn off clouds, animals, and third person. It happened twice and do that solve temporarily.You can save with the glitch and you continue with it (You can save searching one point on the hut to save, only get the save option on one point)
But I tried to play the game multiplayer with a friend and he is the host, this bug crash the game and you can’t interact with nothing. We get this error after a save, so you could load the save and wait some time and you get the bug. Weather is normal and not matter what do you do the bug happens you can’t interact with things and you can’t fight neither.

  • What time of day was it in game when this issue triggered? 18:00
  • Were you on and island or sailing? Land
  • Did you notice any usual sounds? Nope it happens after a while of started the save game
  • What was the weather like, any storms or rainfall? Clear weather
  • Were there any seagulls or bats present? Nope
  • When this occurs, can you intereact with items closer to the water? nop
  • If you stay in the game, does the interactions return and go again? nope
  • If this is occuring for you in a cycle, have you noticed if it lines up with an objects such as your water still refilling or items cooking? You can interact so you can’t check
    More Details:
    -We are traveling so we are on Chile right now (South America)
    -You can travel to another island and the glitch/bug happens again
    -The support player (not host) can disconnect from the game and join again to host and the game fix for some time. It takes some minutes and it bug again :frowning: there is no hour to happens again only a minutes after the player rejoin
    -You can save and the bug happens again.
    -Change the options (clouds, animals and view) don’t work
    -You can save on the hut on one point
    -You can’t interact with things, chop trees or kill animals so you can’t play at all
    My friend was very happy playing but with the glitch he is very pissed off he doesn’t want to play again before a patch will be applied :sob: :sob: so please make a patch!!
    PD:If anyone knows how to get fixed temporarily on multiplayer we will be grateful
    PD2: Do you need the multiplayer save?
    I hate sharks flip my little raft

Hi Clare, my birthday is next friday, it would be awesome if the team could fix the bug until them. It would definitely make a great birthday present.
Unfortunately I haven’t been able to play for two weeks and it’s very frustrating.
All luck to the team and that they manage to solve this problem.
Thanks.

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Hi,
Sorry my english ist Little Bad, better German or italian
So i have this Trouble in to the game…
I cant make nothing, Palm cant Cut, craffting is not working, i swimming to another Island but nothing i cant make zero…and the sound Is transforming likes robotic suond…
Thanks

I’m having the same problems

@bangme77 das Problem ist bekannt und wird aktuell von den Entwicklern gefixt, siehe unten das letze Update von Clare (Forum-Admin) zum Stand vom 11. Oktober. Heißt: nachdem der Fehler nachgestellt werden konnte, haben sie nun einen Fix gebaut, der jetzt in die Qualitätssicherung geht, d.h. Es wird getestet, dass das Problem wirklich damit behoben wird, und dass (hoffentlich) auch keine neuen Fehler dadurch auftauchen. Wenn alles ok ist, wird das Team auf den verschiedenen Plattformen (Playstation/ XBox, etc.) ein Zeitfenster für das Einspielen des Updates beantragen, die Hersteller prüfen natürlich auch alles noch mal, bevor sie das Go geben, dadurch verzögert es sich ebenfalls, bis das Update also tatsächlich für die Gamer zur Verfügung steht. Clare wird uns hier im Forum auf dem Laufenden halten, hoffen wir mal, dass der Fix ok ist und sie ein frühes Zeitfenster zum Einspielen bekommen (wir werden uns aber vermutlich noch etwas gedulden müssen). Hoffe ich konnte dir weiterhelfen, das Forum wird leider ausschließlich auf Englisch geführt, daher werden keine Übersetzungen der Statusupdates geliefert. Im Zweifel schick mir gerne ne PM, vielleicht kann ich dir weiterhelfen.
@Clare I know it’s probably not in line with the rules of the Forum, however I‘m trying to help German Players who don’t speak much English by translating your latest Statusupdate, hope this makes sense to you too.

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Thank you @Bocat for providing your reasoning and for helping other users. :+1: - usually a 1:1 translation being included is prefered but as this is an explanation of the quoted section I don’t mind :slight_smile:

Thank you again.