Totem Puzzle in Caves Is Not Resetting

[rgmaberry]

I had something happen to me about the totem puzzle in the caves. I went through all kinds of combinations of the correct 6 totems in the totem room and at some point when I raised all 6 up nothing happened and I raised up all the other totems and then nothing happened still and now they are all stuck up in their up position and won't go back down or reset. I could start a new game, but I don't want to do that and it would just feel wrong and kind of off especially because in this first playthrough I still have more achievements to unlock. Thanks in advance for any help or assistance anyone can give.

[rgmaberry]

Also got to add emphasis that I can do other things and access other areas around this point in the game on the islands as normal but that puzzle in the Moiety Caves is the only thing that won't reset as far as I know with my manual and auto saves that I have in there.

[FuzzyJuzzy]

Please send your save file to [e-mail]

[rgmaberry]

Originally posted by FuzzyJuzzy:

Please send your save file to [e-mail]

Will do when I get a chance. Thanks.

[rgmaberry]

Ok sent my configuration and save game files to their support email. We'll see hopefully if a fix comes from them checking it out.

[Hellish Fiend]

This is indeed a glitch that they seem to have been unaware of until people started reporting it recently. Hopefully the fix will be in the next patch. In the meantime, maybe they can fix the save and send it back to you, or perhaps you could try reloading an earlier save so you can continue.

[rgmaberry]

Originally posted by Hellish Fiend:

This is indeed a glitch that they seem to have been unaware of until people started reporting it recently. Hopefully the fix will be in the next patch. In the meantime, maybe they can fix the save and send it back to you, or perhaps you could try reloading an earlier save so you can continue.

Yeah I hope so, too. And yeah in the meantime fixing the save and sending it back to me would be the only hotfix or stopgap measure until they patch it because I only have a manual save and auto save no earlier save so the only thing I'd be able to do to continue is start a new game play through to progress to the part I'm at in the save game all over again. Crossing my fingers.

[Elle]

Here is a workaround.

1. Quit completely out of Riven.

2. Backup your saves. (C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Riven\Saved directory, zipped up, or if on Mac, the contents of your /Users/username/Library/Application Support/Epic/Riven/Saved directory)

3. Use the save editor here and load your save: https://thefloydman.github.io/saveswapper/

4. Switch to the raw editor.

5. Expand "IntGameStates(MapProperty)".

6. Search for "Animal" and you'll get to "AnimalTotemGuessOne".

7. Set the Value(IntProperty) of AnimalTotemGuessOne through AnimalTotemGuessFive to 0.

8. Immediately after the AnimalTotem properties will be 24 properties named AnimalTotem0 ... AnimalTotem23. Set those from 1 to 0 as well. (AnimalTotem13 seems not to be named, but change that from a 1 to a 0 as well.)

9. Scroll to the top and click Save, and put the downloaded save file back in your saves directory.

10. Load up the game and the puzzle should be reset.

11. You can now complete the puzzle as normal.

[cathyhajduk]

go to options then go to help. then you an load a hidden checkpoint

[rgmaberry]

Thanks for all the comments. Update: the support over at Cyan got back to me and sent me a corrected/fixed save game file which seems to have reset the puzzle. Hopefully I can get back to what I was doing and try to progress further without the same thing happening again but it looks like it's back to normal now.

[rgmaberry]

Looks like I'm in the clear. Was able to get past the puzzle and progress further.

[Hellish Fiend]

Glad to hear it!