Help! I am stuck in a drowning death loop

[Klapaucius]

Some spoilers:

I explored a water cave and thought I could build a shelter underwater to replenish my oxygen. This does not work in this game (me thinking I could do the Subnautica trick). I suffocated but unfortunately, was regenerated in the very shelter that I drowned in. I do not have enough oxygen to escape to anywhere. I tried dismantling the shelter, but now I just regenerate underwater in the area where the shelter used to be. I have died about a dozen times now and I cannot figure a way out.

Is there some way to revert to a save from perhaps 10 minutes prior? Otherwise, after 50+ hours of play, I am completely stuck.

[Coops]

You could try the F4 unstuck trick
As soon as you respawn, spam the F4 key. It should pop you out straight up until you hit the atmosphere.

[Spirit]

i find it strange that something like underwater bases arent a thing since its you who build it

[Klapaucius]

I managed to get out of it by quitting the game completely and restarting. It respawned me in a different location.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

In relaxed lvl game let yourself die of thirst you be spawned to the last base you were at and lose nothing.
Before in the beginnings we had to wear oxygen mask we could stay underwater then, but once the Breath lvl arrives we nolonger use the oxygen mask so we have only the oxygen carried on us.
I find the length is quite long to stay under water as I explore sunk wreaks.
But yeah carry the oxygen tanks just incase,
Glad you got out :)

[mishka741]

I got out using the /stuck command. When I respawned next, it took me to a different base

[Talyl]

I had the same problem minus the water. I asked Chat GBT how to try and load an earlier save and followed its instructions. Because your saves are overwritten when they're uploaded into the cloud it didn't get me back where I needed to be but at least got me somewhere that meant I didn't have to lose my entire game. It's a pretty serious bug to be sent to the last place you got oxygen from even though the building itself has been deconstructed (as it was in my case). They need a way for you to set your main base as your respawn point.

[flint74]

Originally posted by Talyl:

It's a pretty serious bug to be sent to the last place you got oxygen from even though the building itself has been deconstructed (as it was in my case). They need a way for you to set your main base as your respawn point.

It's hardly a bug. Infact it's a fairly common save point system employed throughout gaming. Heck even a game like Minecraft uses a variation of that same system to set your personal (re)spawn point to the last bed you slept in rather than sending you all the way back to the generic world spawn location.

And yes, removing the last bed you used in Minecraft has about the same effect as removing a temporary base in this game - thus it's generally considered not a good idea, this is why a lot of players exploring in Minecraft will carry a bed in their inventory so they can reset their spawn point at any time.

So the simple solution in this game is to not deconstruct the last base you got oxygen from, instead leave it in place and just gather up the 6 resources you need to make a new base somewhere further along your path.

By doing that yes eventually you'll have safe places all over the world that you can use while you're out exploring; but later on when air, and then water, become less of a pressing issue you at least have the option to remove some/all of those temporary bases if you want to.