Originally posted by haize:

For sure, the simple answer is to stop quitting via alt-f4. I think if that were the only thing going on though, the game should have resumed back where that .5-3+ second freeze happened a while ago. I should have started again with my inventory from before. Instead, both times, it saved my empty player inventory immediately, but kept the terrain save from previous instances (no grave or marker). This is how (I at least) ended up with a missing corpse.

I told myself to stop F4'ing after it happened the first time and managed to do it again. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. It's no doubt my fault I lost my stuff, but it's not as easy as the game going back and restoring my spot from ~20 min earlier. That would have made things much much more tolerable when it had happened to me previously.

The easy fix (to me at least) is that if it really needs to do an insta-save on F4, do it for the corpse too right before you exit. Single player only of course, dedicated servers are unlikely to have these kinds of issues.

No no. You're not understanding.

Your character file, and your world file are completely separate, and saved independently of one another. You can play on a thousand different worlds if you want with the same character. Or you could play the same world but with a dozen different characters.

Your character save file saves constantly, it's a small file to save and so it can be done without interrupting gameplay at all.

The world file, however, is quite large and takes awhile to save- So it saves once every 20 minutes.

So what happens is, you die, the game creates a gravestone with your items in the world, and your character save file is saved with the now empty inventory; But the gravestone is not part of your Character save data- It's part of the World's save data. So, the gravestone is only saved at that 20 minute mark, Or upon a proper log out. If you Alt+F4, or crash, or anything of the sort prior to the 20 minute mark or a proper log out, all data since that last save is gone- Including the gravestone.

So what you've done twice now is Alt+F4'd after your character has saved, but before your world has saved- And poof, your gravestone goes byebye.



And there is no way to 'insta save' on Alt+F4. First, The save process takes several seconds due to the large save file size. Second, and much more importantly, Alt+F4 is a Windows function; Not a function of the game. Alt+F4 tells Windows 'Close this application now', and the application doesn't get a choice about being closed.