is this a bug?

[🎀Hara🎀]

so i started as a young adult and was doing great until the season changed from summer to fall, then for no reason 21 minutes exactly after midnight i just die, no reasons given, i just fall over and "die of natural causes".

when this happens it gives me the option to create a new family since i wanted to start alone and build a family in game, or i can reload a save.

i have reloaded saves going back 2 days before the death and it happens every time still at the exact same time, so either each character has their own randomly decided death day, no matter what age they are, or it is a bug

so what is it? is it a bug or will the finished game really have just random unavoidable deaths for no reason

[🎀Hara🎀]

i spent 14 hours on this one character, and for them to just die of no cause in a way that is impossible to avoid, really turns my away from continuing again.

imagine if this had happened after 40 hours, character isn't old and i'm not taking any risks, they shouldn't be randomly dieing when they reach a randomly chosen date and time, for reasons out of my control.

[Excommunicatus]

My Zoi died "of natural causes" just after midnight of her ninth day (in-game). In other words, exactly the point she should have been aging up from Young Adult to Adult. Instead of aging up to the next life stage - she died of no obvious cause.

Guessing a bug that's killing instead of advancing ages. Hoping it's a bug and not as-intended.

[Crystal Pink 🦋🦄]

I hope it's a bug.
Remember, it's in Early Access, and there's a very, very high probability that it's a code error. If this were intentional, not only would you be discouraged from continuing to play, but I don't think anyone wants to waste their time like this and get a dose of frustration as a gift.

That's why I don't play EA games to much, to avoid awkward and very uncomfortable situations.

Maybe you should report it on their Discord or check the bug report section so they're aware and can fix it.

[MutedSanity]

Same issue, it's day two. And midnight plus 21 minutes and she dies of "natural causes" as a young adult. Barely had time to do anything. Frustrating. And sad.

[Nordic Paws]

No! but my character zoi w/e kept coughing. I stole cough medicine out of a store (odd) they where better but i don't recall them just dropping dead. another problem i they age up too fast from what i heard your zoi may have died from old age. i heard they age up after like a week. this needs to be changed. like we need to have an option to age them up at our own pace.

[Meslyin]

I haven't had this happen yet. I'm playing a single zoi, and a family of four. No one has died out of the blue, yet. They have been coughing (it's fall in the world, so cold season, I guess), but I would have them take the cough medicine from the first aid kit and they'd stop coughing after that, no other issues.

[ImpactLegacy]

is there any update wth zoi keep dying its just sucks when people trying to play and randomly die for no reason

[Niasurii]

Still no update. My zoi has max good karma and max fitness lvled. and after 9 days, midnight at 0:21am he dies because of "unknown reason". Kinda frustrating when it happens to every Zoi tho, because I made a family with him

[jcmouton1979]

I just experienced the same exact thing. My guy was middle aged, healthy, fitness level 10, not hungry, sick, was tired but was in the middle of sleeping. Gets out of bed gets dressed and dies. I was on my seventh day and he died at 00:15. I don't know if this is planned, but he had a job and I just bought a car. If this is a glitch I hope it gets fixed. I am not playing anymore until this is addressed.

I don't see continuing if every 7-9 days your character dies while sleeping.

[the1silverwolf]

One of Mine died the first night while sleeping. :( "Natural Causes" and "Unknown Reason"

[carolinaisle]

Same here, I just tried to change things in order to avoid my zoi from dying but it wasn't possible, hope it gets fixed soon

[Dopeh]

you can set average time to die higher or lower in the city manager, press m for map and then its the 4rd tab on top) not sure if that improves it, my zois do get older, pretty old, one has pensioned already and is having a baby now xD so i think it does....

edit : yeah the description says it makes it higher age, and less health problems, health level

[Dopeh]

Originally posted by Nordic Paws:

No! but my character zoi w/e kept coughing. I stole cough medicine out of a store (odd) they where better but i don't recall them just dropping dead. another problem i they age up too fast from what i heard your zoi may have died from old age. i heard they age up after like a week. this needs to be changed. like we need to have an option to age them up at our own pace.

coughing just open the build manager in ur house, search for "first aid kit" buy it, and drop it in ur house, take cold medicine...

[SmallArchangel]

Not experienced this yet, but it sounds like there must be a "death check" each night after midnight, and Zoi's have a % chance to die. Seems like it may be set a bit too high for younger age groups, however, and IMO the game should explain better why the Zoi you spent ages creating (one way or another) just got wiped.

[Niasurii]

Well they fixed it, but you have to start a complete new save