Ok so I put a fire pit basically in the water. Got the fire going and cooked some meat. Took awhile but finally found the sweet spot. White circle has to be just below and to the right of meat touching flame.
Think I have enough palm tops to last awhile. I’m gunna see how long I can go bugged out. It’s kind of fun seeing what I can do. Dont get me wrong tho hope this is fixed soon. I really feel for yall who put in way more time than my measly 15 days. Hope they are able to recover your saves once this is sorted.
Update: After successfully cooking and consuming my first piece of meat above, I cooked a second the same way. Interaction hitbox was in exact same place. However, when I took meat off fire it disappeared from inventory.
I placed another piece of meat on and suddenly interaction hitbox was normal again for a few seconds. Then back to bugged out.
I found something new by accident. So if you create a new island while its bugged even if you put max trees etc when you go there its bare nothing but birds and dirt.
If you save it while that island is there, exit to cartographer delete that created island load back in and the original comes back and does have trees etc but still glitched.
I just started a brand new game and before i started i added the island i created during the bug. Its supppsed to have 30+ trees and shipwrecks. I went straight to that island and it is bare and empty except birds even though its not bugged yet. The island created during the bug that wouldnt render anything carried over to a new save. Weird.
what I did was, I set up a corrugated platform really closely above a fire (but I put the fire in after the platform), then I cooked on there, which worked, but I couldn’t pick up the meat…until I jumped. When you jump, it makes the meat possible to pick up, very briefly, but maybe crouching would have worked too, not sure if I tried that
I can honestly say, that I am not knowledgeable about programming or anything at all, and have been doing my own testing on a new save slot, it has glitched in saves slot 1, 2, 3 but not on 4 yet, I am now on day 8, and the only thing I have not done this go round is attach the smoker!!! I have been travelling, and returning to main starting cell island without problems, but as soon as I attach a smoker then travel, and return back to my main cell island the bug is triggered.!
Hi all. my interaction problem started 3 days ago. I play about 12 hours of real time, 19 days in the game. single player. set up camp on the big island, started building a raft, exploring the ship. due to an error, I cannot interact with things in the camp and cannot do anything.
You honestly don’t need to know about programming itself to understand the logic end . This is how developers can solve strange bugs. You have to change variables about what you’re doing and see the results.
I have smokers on several islands myself, I’d have to start a new save and try not having one to test your theory. If your save keeps working I’d definitely let Clare know.
hmm, now I also attached 4 smokers to my island (which are exceptionally finicky to place, btw, and required me to keep loading to get it right, but that’s another topic), and travelled away, and came back, and then the bug triggered, but not sure on what the amount of time between these events is. did anyone else get the bug triggered after placing smokers? I feel like the smokers would be much easier to place if they were one piece, and not 3 pieces (fire, fire pit and smoker, because getting them all in the right place is incredibly difficult when trying to set up multiple smokers
To be fair as far as I can remember yes, I had recently placed a new smoker. Found an island that was a good hunting island when playing after the patch. Made a smoker to preserve all the meat and sailed home with it.
Saved the game and shut down for the night. The next time I played I loaded in, emptied out crates, watered my plants, and headed out to another new island. Experienced the lag people are mentioning that can happen when you change island “cells.” At this point the bug is triggered.
I will start a new game later today and test a bit more! I am not at all sure why a smoker would cause this issue but…? I’ll give it a try anyhow and see if I can replicate.
I’ve also found that it highlights more objects if you look directly down, i can put the sail up and down by looking down but can’t interact if look straight at it.
I know that I have enough stuff near the beach to be able to survive for 5 in-game days, so I might be abble to test it out. Maybe I should grab all my smoked meat from up top in the ten in-game minutes I have until the bug triggers…hmm, I will try and go for 5 days and see if it starts working again.
hmm, I just noticed two additional things that I haven’t previously noticed.
1: I remember that I deliberately left ALL of my young palm trees untouched, because I wanted to place some farms, without placing them over spawn points of young palm trees that are needed for my survival, and now, in this world, they are not present, when they absolutely should be, because I deliberately didn’t touch them.
2) I am seeing shadows along the ground, of birds flying in the air, but when I look up, there are no birds anywhere.
another thing I noticed is, I dropped a palm frond so that one side was at the bottom of a hill, and the other side was pointing up the hill, and I could highlight the palm frond lower down on it, but not higher up. It is the same frond, I should be able to highlight it all, or none of it, but I can I can highlight it at the bottom, but not at the top. idk if this makes sense.
. This is how developers can solve strange bugs. You have to change variables about what you’re doing and see the results.