Nia's Quest Date Sandrunning BUG

[Kvaisir]

Hello all. The quest where you have to go sand painting and sand sledding with Nia seems to be bugged, I can't interact with the person at the sand sledding stand. Does anyone have a solution?

[Rikku_Tribal]

Same here. I just ended the date out of frustration...

[Artesano]

same here

[ScottShi1984]

Hi, thanks for you guys' feedback, can this be solved with an save and load? We're also investigating this problem and try figure it out ASAP.

[Kvaisir]

No, I tried it several times. I tried reloading before accepting the quest and also during the quest. I also tried starting the quest at different points in the main quest's progression and completing all the other side quests so that there was no other quest that could involve Nia.

[AbuTwoHands]

Also running into the same issue. I had sandrunning unlocked back in the early access and had not played the game for a few months while waiting for the full release to come out. Since the full release I have not been able to do sand running at all.

[Bogdy]

Gonna write here what I already wrote in a similar post.
The problem is not the quest itself. The problem is that the sandrunning social activity is missing all together. Even if you try to take a another NPC on play/date the activity for sandrunning will not be there, there's no pink icon at the sandsledding site.

I don't know exactly how this happened, but the only thing that I can think of is I believe I missed the "Sandapalooza" quest, where Catori is inviting us for the opening ceremony for Sandrunning. The quest can be "failed" if the player doesn't attend, so maybe the game needs the quest to be finished in order for the activity to become available, similar to how Stargazing activity requires Qi telescope quest to be finished.

Also forgot to mention that sandrunning solo still works fine, it's only the social activity that doesn't work, so perhaps looking into the triggers for social activity unlock will find the problem @ScottShi1984.

[Kvaisir]

Originally posted by ScottShi1984:

Hi, thanks for you guys' feedback, can this be solved with an save and load? We're also investigating this problem and try figure it out ASAP.

Thanks for the fix. Its working now.

[Archaick]

Is this quest still bugged? Right now I'm supposed to be sandpainting with Nia, but nothing is happening. She is just running back and forth and I can not move my character at all.

[FruitLord]

I just did this quest last night with Nia and had no issues painting and then 2-manning a sand sled.

[SailorLunar [Star]]

It's now April of 2025 and I've gotten to the Nia Sand painting/Sandrunning quest and it's still bugged. I try to start the sand painting and Nia just starts walking back and forth, the sand painting doesn't start. As much as I hate to say this I get the feeling this buy will never get fixed if it hasn't gotten fixed by now so skipping the event is really the only option I see sadly