Crane stuck with magnet. Lost game file.

[evobunny]

So I was using magnet, the crane stop do animation, and didnt finish grabbing. Crane was in use, so I cant save. I quit game, and reload. Come back to a game with fresh ship and all skill tree is back to level 1. and lost all money and material.

[Underbank]

The magnet got stuck for me yesterday and froze the game. After a restart, I was able to choose 'load' from the main menu and picked an earlier save. That let me play again with only losing a few minutes of gameplay. GL

[sarukil]

same bug and new game cahange nothing crane always stuck

[misterie356]

same here. The magnet got stuck and the crane no longer works.

[Syphedias84]

Had that as well, I just went to main menu and loaded back into the game. I only lost about 1-2 minutes of progress and not everything.

[Kendra Kirai]

I had a similar problem. I quit the game entirely, came back later with a save previous to getting stuck, everything was fine.

[TeDiouS]

Had this once so far. They definitely need to add a 'reset crane' option into the game.
At the moment I just have to remember to do save before I do a series of magnet pick-ups.

[Mysticalmaid]

My crane was getting stuck before this update, same issue though. It was caused by the Floating Cities pack I just installed. Seems to happen with craneable hull parts nearest the crane. Work around is to save before using, and do each piece one by one with a save after every piece that is close to the crane.

[Pesky]

I've had to incidents of the magnet crane getting stuck. The noise for the crane just repeats, but the crane doesn't move. If I crash the game, then load my latest save, the ship and all its pieces has gone, leaving just green glowing crates.

Fortunately, in both cases, the previous autosave was still valid, and when I played from that one I didn't get a repeat of the crash.

[Madman]

The exact same thing just happened to me. I was on the MV Blue Dream ship.

[Slaskia]

Had that earlier, had to reload an earlier save to fix it.

[Shona (vincit omnia veritas)]

Same right now and i lost half an hour ....

[Alder]

same for me. gets often stuck with the magnet for no reason

[evobunny]

well seem like most got lucky and was able to reload to a earlier state, unlike me, which wipe out my whole skill tree. Close to 200 hours of play wasted.

[evobunny]

ok NVM i was able to load a much older save file, on a a ship I was working on way before I got the magnet. So all is not lost.

[MAGICEYE]

I also can't save it after the crane stops, so when I accessed it after forced shutdown, the dollar I have remains the same, but the tool level and house have also been reset.