I lost my inventory materials! How?!

[genesiset]

So I'm 20 hours into the game I just saw that almost all of my 'general' inventory tab is gone!!! I noticed it when I needed to refuel and had no resourses for it. Now I have only 80 oxygen, 50 carbon, etc, no chromatic metal whatsoever. I DONT UNDERSTAND! What the hell has happened? I've been farming like crazy for these 20 hours since I started the game! I just wanted to hoard a lot of basic, most frequenly used materials, I also was buying them every time I visited a space station. So I had thousands of each material. And no I have nothing. WHERE did it go, what the hell happened? I'm devastated T_T

I tried to reload manual save file that I had an hour ago. So I appeared at the save point, near the ship, and right next to my grave. I've never seen it before, didn't even know you can have one. Well okay then, I claimed it and it said that I took back my inventory. But nothing has changed, I didn't get anything. Oh my god, does it mean that when I went afk (to eat) I left my character on the open space on the planet and he died multiple times due to overheating or some other crap? You lose your inventory if you die??? I'm on normal mode, didn't even know about it! And since this grave I reclaimed didn't get me anything, it means it's not the first grave, that's why it's empty or what? Jesus, I'm so disappointed, what the hell game. Every time I go afk, I always open 'options' menu or just get into the ship. It means this was the first time left the character in real time in the open space and left...?

How to keep playing? I lost everything. I hate losing my progression, to throw my efforts in the trash bin. And what if it will repeat some day and I will lose much more valuable stuff? Maybe I was robbed? Can other players rob you somehow?

[SuperTech]

It's just a game relax. 20 hours is nothing in a game like this. Look at it as a lesson learned and use your freighter to store important items. With a matter teleporter on your freighter you have access to it all anywhere and can't lose it like that. Try not to go afk unless you're somewhere safe like your freighter or the anomaly.

[Guyver8]

2.5 out of 10...poor effort

[Brew]

In normal mode, if you die, you lose general inventory. But the game leaves a grave marker where you can get it back (in survival/permadeath, there is no marker and you lose your stuff permanently). I don't think I've died more than once in a row, but it may be that the game only saves the latest marker, not sure.

I'm not sure what effect reloads have on your grave marker... but the game does not auto-save if you're just standing there. You have to do something to make it save, e.g. get in and out of your starship. If you got out of your ship with an empty inventory, your auto-save is with an empty inventory. Manual saves occur when you click a save point, or perhaps a save beacon or white POI antenna. If you didn't do that, then it seems like your manual save shouldn't have been affected, but I guess you tried reloading that. Not sure how to explain that...

Most planets have hostile environments. If you just stand around and do nothing, you will die. Some planets have pleasant environments when there is no storm, but when a storm starts it becomes hostile. If you stand out in it and do nothing, you will die. If you want to risk extended AFK outdoors, outside of a cave or any natural protection, at the least I would do is dig a hole and stand in it. That ought to protect you from the normal environment, but I've heard of people getting sucked out of holes (and buildings) by tornadoes, hit with lightning during lightning storms, even when underground. May not protect you from hostile wildlife either.

When you die, items in high-capacity inventory are retained. So you should move as much inventory to that tab as possible, and prioritize that which you want to risk the least. You don't have much space there in the beginning, but you can expand it via standard inventory expansion methods.

I think the safest thing to do if you need to AFK is go to a station or on your freighter. Secondly might be starship or exocraft. Thirdly might be a planet-side settlement, trade station, planetary archive, etc. I'd put caves and holes last.

Your character can't be robbed by other players, but if you have pvp and multiplayer enabled, they can kill you. They also can't access your cargo containers. I've grabbed stuff out of their supply depots though. :)

[SaD-82]

Originally posted by Brew:

but it may be that the game only saves the latest marker, not sure

Exactly this.
Which just means: Never go afk in the wilds or in space.
Dock on your freighter, dock inside a space station, sit in the Anomaly, stand inside a building - but never be out where you can be killed by critters, pirates, hazardous environments.

[wkitty42]

Originally posted by genesiset:

Oh my god, does it mean that when I went afk (to eat) I left my character on the open space on the planet and he died multiple times due to overheating or some other crap? You lose your inventory if you die??? I'm on normal mode, didn't even know about it! And since this grave I reclaimed didn't get me anything, it means it's not the first grave, that's why it's empty or what?

answering your three questions in order... yes, yes, and yes...
you've learned an important lesson... never go AFK unless you are in one of your base buildings or possibly in your ship... i say "possibly" in regards to the ship because i don't recall if they can take damage from outlaws and you die if the ship's shielding completely fails... i generally only go AFK in one of my base buildings, on the anomaly, or in my freighter... no where else...

[Mandrake]

Also, with 20 hours of gameplay, you should be able to make something called a 'save beacon'. Before you get up to do something, just plop one down and use it. When you do that, you've just created a new manual save.
If you come back and you're dead, or your inventory is gone - you can just go to your main menu and "Reload" - "Manual Save" (using the most recent one of course)
Or ou can just hop in and back out of your ship if you'r enext to it - that will create a new "sutosave", and it will show up in the list to reload if you need it.

[genesiset]

Originally posted by Mandrake:

Also, with 20 hours of gameplay, you should be able to make something called a 'save beacon'. Before you get up to do something, just plop one down and use it. When you do that, you've just created a new manual save.
If you come back and you're dead, or your inventory is gone - you can just go to your main menu and "Reload" - "Manual Save" (using the most recent one of course)
Or ou can just hop in and back out of your ship if you'r enext to it - that will create a new "sutosave", and it will show up in the list to reload if you need it.

I know, I landed with my ship near the facility, the save outpost was right there too, I used it to manually save. Then I went to the facility and bought the new multitool, but then realized I actually don't want it and decided to reload the save file before I bought the tool. I probably loaded the autosave because this and a manual save were made almost at the same time so I doesn't matter which one I load. I'm on PS4, it has hard drive, long loading. That's why I decided to go make some coffee and stuff while the game is loading. And apparanely, when It loaded, my character was standing ourside near the ship (cause the autosave works when you exit the ship), and the heatwave of the planet killed him. A few times in a row. Yes, this is my fault that I went AFK while game was loading. But my complaint is that the game never warned me in the tutorial that I should't die otherwise I will lose my intenvoty (or maybe they did warn and I just somehow didn't see it?). And more importanly is why the hell this game auto-revives your character after death to let it die again? Any game, that I ever played, either has a 'game over' screen and you need to press a button to restart, or if it revives your char automatically, it places it in the safe zone. So this is is the first time I ever seen the game putting your recently dead character back to the danger zone. This is so wrong. And no message (it disappeared). They only leave the grave, which I didn't even notice when I came back. I loaded the manual save I did before death if I'm not mistaken, but for some reason it still loads after this accident. Idk why they made only two save slots to begin with. For a 'chill game' it's unnecessary. Why does a player should be so limited with their saves? Will there be the end of the world and game would collapse if they let us save wherever we want from the menu, without all these weird slot limits and other conditions?

[mjvoice]

Originally posted by SaD-82:

Originally posted by Brew:

but it may be that the game only saves the latest marker, not sure

Exactly this.
Which just means: Never go afk in the wilds or in space.
Dock on your freighter, dock inside a space station, sit in the Anomaly, stand inside a building - but never be out where you can be killed by critters, pirates, hazardous environments.

Got bit by this for the first time, on the expedition. Had hit the first Rendezvous planet, and got the rewards, then was looking for Living pearls when my spouse needed help with something.

AFK'd while standing on the shore. Came back several minutes later, and since my character was still standing on the shore, I just hopped in my ship and took off. No thought that I might have DIED - and that there might be a grave nearby. :(

It wasn't till a short time later I noticed my general inventory was empty - and had no clue why until i found this thread.

Sucked for me, because I loaded an earlier save - before finding this thread = got my stuff back, and thought I just had to redo the lost Expedition events.

But it didn't work that way, for me. Still had the quest for going to the Expedition system, but the planet in the system wasn't marked, The planet has all the bases and such from other players, but no location marker for me to go to with the quest active.

Gave up, deleted that save, and started a new expedition game.

Painful learning experience.

[mbrowne999]

Nobody mentioned hitting Esc key will pause the game.

[taniwhat]

Originally posted by mbrowne999:

Nobody mentioned hitting Esc key will pause the game.

I have a cat.
All the PC's in the house have cardboard taped across the reset and power buttons.

The escape key would be a sure way to die in the presence of such evil.

[Menecroth]

Originally posted by mbrowne999:

Nobody mentioned hitting Esc key will pause the game.

Time still seems to pass. If I hit ESC and go away for a bit, it can be a different time of day when I come back. Am I doing something wrong?

[SaD-82]

Originally posted by Menecroth:

Am I doing something wrong?

No, it's WAD.

[Nettle]

Originally posted by Menecroth:

Time still seems to pass. If I hit ESC and go away for a bit, it can be a different time of day when I come back.

The "pause" mechanic is highly selective and moreover will only function as such if you are completely alone. With other players around it does nothing besides obscure your vision.

[wkitty42]

turn off multiplayer and photo mode or Esc will pause your game for you... at least, that's what i keep being told but i don't ever think about it until i go into photo mode while flying my star ship and watch it fly right away from me totally screwing a good photo opp

[mbrowne999]

Originally posted by Menecroth:

Originally posted by mbrowne999:

Nobody mentioned hitting Esc key will pause the game.

Time still seems to pass. If I hit ESC and go away for a bit, it can be a different time of day when I come back. Am I doing something wrong?

No it's odd for sure that clock keeps moving but action doesn't. So standing in an extreme storm or in the middle of a sentinel fignt will stop all damage. And as mentioned above, single player,