Lost basically all my progress doing trader quests

[Delphinius]

Had my forge all my collected mats, gear, and food literally everything in this house a few hundred meters from the trader. PPicked up a clear the area quest and it turned out to be my house that was storing everthing in. Figured it was no big deal and initiated the quests. As soon as i clicked on the quest marker the entire building and surrounding area reset. deleted every storage chest, my 3 forges, work bench, everything. Probably 20 hours worth of progress just gone.

I love 7 days. I have hundreds if not over a thousand hours between console and pc. In fact, the main reason i bought a pc was the pley the proper updated version, but this bug realllllllly irks me. put a warning up or something ie; Initiating this quest will reset this area. Amy player built items or crafting benches will be deleted permanently.

[comet_65cali]

IIRC You should get a warning if there was a land claim block or bedroll placed down in the POI. I've never tried to do a quest in the POI I'm occupying, but that's what I've read.

[pryt]

Now you learned. But you should have realized that before when doing quests, that the POI is being reset when starting the mission.

It's not a bug.

Just a question: did you place a land claim block? That should prevent that area from being selected for missions of any kind.

[DthBlayde]

Not to mention... lets say for argument sake nothing reset. How did you think things were going to play out?

Base now suddenly full of zeds again. Sealed off areas now requiring to be breached to clear them out. Stashes and courier satchels now spawning behind or in replaced walls? Possibly tougher walls? Zeds now potentially tearing things apart from the inside out?

[Seftak]

I would ask, how is in it in around a 1000 hours you never ever noticed that quests reset the area of said quest? And in those 1000 hours you've never used the land claim block...

[Crater Creator]

My condolences on losing your stuff. However… this is not a bug. This is the intended behavior.

You want a warning? Sure, sounds reasonable. But what are the circumstances when the warning should appear? Without a land claim or bedroll placed, the game has no good way to judge whether this is ‘your base’, or just a POI where you placed a couple wood frames and left some plant fibers in a cabinet.

You figured it was no big deal but, like Dthblayde, I have to wonder what you expected would happen. I don’t say this to victim blame. If players intuit that the outcome of starting that quest is something other than what does happen, I want to understand that.

[Blue Hasia]

One never build a base in an existing POI

Two as seftak said, a thousand hours of play time and you are just learning this now???

[DthBlayde]

Originally posted by Blue Hasia:

One never build a base in an existing POI

Two as seftak said, a thousand hours of play time and you are just learning this now???

noooooooot entirely true. I do it all the time. Find the most structurally solid building (preferably churches or the smaller post offices. Anything thats already on a 2-3 block high brick or cement foundation) , seal the entrances, shore up windows and call it done :)

[Blue Hasia]

POIs are more prone to SI issues

And also building your own starter house gets ton of xp plus can build a really good killing corridor for those first few blood moons

[Crashtian]

It's not a bug it's poor game design.

You think you're suppose to use POI's to survive? that's not how the devs WANT you to play. gosh. You think this is a sandbox game?

[Seftak]

Originally posted by Crashtian:

It's not a bug it's poor game design.

You think you're suppose to use POI's to survive? that's not how the devs WANT you to play. gosh. You think this is a sandbox game?

Just put in a land claim block, you know that thing you SPAWN WITH that you are supposed to place in your CLAIMED AREA to pick up your ♥♥♥♥ if need be and no missions will be set in your base.

[Crater Creator]

Originally posted by Crashtian:

You think you're suppose to use POI's to survive? that's not how the devs WANT you to play. gosh. You think this is a sandbox game?

Oh come now. If the devs really didn’t want you to use POIs, then they wouldn’t have programmed land claims and bedrolls to suppress quests. They had to go out of their way to add that functionality.

Originally posted by Crashtian:

It's not a bug it's poor game design.

So what’s a better design then? Serious question. I think a lot of players don’t appreciate that ‘my base’ is a hard to define concept in a sandbox game.

[FT]

You can temporarily turn CHEATS on in the options to the right when you're selecting your map/save to play.
Then load into your map/save, press u to open a searchable menu with everything in it, type in and grab your important missing things.
For weapons/tools that have levels 1-6, retype the last couple letters until the right level you're missing appears.
After you get your missing things, quit out and turn CHEATS OFF, then load back into the save.

Now it'll work for achievements and everything again because you turned cheats off, but you'll have your missing things back.

Having a lackclaim and/or bedroll in your base will make a warning pop-up before your select it as a mission (or it might make it not ever appear as a mission location to begin with). and it'll stop zombies from respawning inside your POI base wherever the bedroll or landclaim covers (that highlighted cube/area) with neither the zeds will usually respawn in a week or two.
The game won't let you overlap a bedroll or landclaim safety zone (highlighted cube) with the trader's invincible zone, but you can still protect your POI next to a trader by simply placing the bedroll or landclaim a little farther away from the trader where the game lets you place it down while still protecting some of the POI (and protecting it from appearing as a mission).