Expedition glitch - characters stuck!

[The Broede Show]

Twice now, I've noticed my expeditions glitch and cannot be recalled. All of the common factors are:

* Sent with dog companion
* Pantry empty
* Humans leave but dog does not

When this happened the second time, I sent another expedition just to fetch food to hopefully feed the dog and maybe send it on its way. I filled the bowl, but the dog never moved, never starved and the first expedition never came back after being recalled. This is a pretty harsh bug.

Good luck and thanks for the great game, I've enjoyed it for a few months now! Keep up the good work!

[Steve O Malley]

Son and Dog stuck on expedition

So everyone was starving, dog had like 5 health left dying before my eyes, I thought I had noticed that his health didn't drain while on an expedition, so I sent him and son out quickly before he could die.

Now they're both stuck out there, somewhere, I recalled them but it just says recalled on the map and they havent shown up, dont think theyre coming back its been a week and I've done other expeditions.

People in my bunker say "I think the dog is hungry", but neither dog or son are on screen, and I think must have been on map that I was able to 'recall' them

Any suggestions? I'm assuming I broke it trying to cheat death for the dog, but he's the dog ya know.

[General Butt Naked]

Dog on expedition

I sent out two people with the dog and the two people left fine. Both had rebar, rucksacks, and some valium to trade with but the dog did not leave. The dog went to the front of the shelter and then saw a rat, did the growl stuff, and sat down not moving. Now I have lost two people with resources on them, and my dog.

All you need to do to reproduce this, from what has happened to me is the dog must see rat come out of the vent near the entrance up and the dog will sit in place and no longer move. Not sure if its chance or not, because after the first time I attempted to keep my shelter clean to keep the rats out. Really annoying because I lose my dog and two people, especially when they were the ones I was training.

[76561198103597845]

Hey broede.brigham / Feelsbadman,


Thanks, for getting in touch to report this.
The team is already working on the matter.
It can happen when a dog is interrupted on the way out for the expedition.
Hopefully, this should be fixed in one of the next updates.
Sorry in the meantime for any problems this causes you.


Thank you,
BenTeam17

[The Broede Show]

Originally posted by feelsbadman:

Dog on expedition

I sent out two people with the dog and the two people left fine. Both had rebar, rucksacks, and some valium to trade with but the dog did not leave. The dog went to the front of the shelter and then saw a rat, did the growl stuff, and sat down not moving. Now I have lost two people with resources on them, and my dog.

All you need to do to reproduce this, from what has happened to me is the dog must see rat come out of the vent near the entrance up and the dog will sit in place and no longer move. Not sure if its chance or not, because after the first time I attempted to keep my shelter clean to keep the rats out. Really annoying because I lose my dog and two people, especially when they were the ones I was training.

Yes, you are right, it happened to me a third time and we still had food. I noticed that this time, a rat was running around. Guess for the mean time, we need to make sure our shelters are clean before we send out expeditions.

@BenTeam17: No trouble at all, I understand how these things go. I've tested several games in the past and I know the routine. I'm just glad I could help contribute. Good luck and keep up the good work!

[Burnwine]

Survivor breaks / gets stuck when exploring

There's an issue I've come across in several saves now, and it pretty much forces me to abandon my game and start a new one. Sometimes when I send out a survivor with my dog, the survivor will leave, but the dog will stay in the shelter, unmoving but with an idle animation playing. The dog does not lose hunger or health. The survivor also does not make ANY progress exploring, EVER. Days will go by and they will not have gotten an inch closer to their destination, or even show that they've left. When I open the map, the survivor is shown with the option of recalling them. Recalling does nothing. Here's a picture : http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=582918741

I've also noticed there are a few constants when I get this bug - the survivor is alone and has the Proactive trait, and they take the dog with them.

[Coldmesa]

I get this same issue each game. This is also my second play through. It doesnt kill the game for me beacuse I still have enough survivors to go on more expiditions but it sucks not having the dog avaiable or the equipment I sent the party out with.

[Green Eyed Otter]

I am also having this problem.

[Sismanski]

Expedition stuck thanks to the dog

Hi there,

it seems like my expedition team got stuck thanks to the dog, that refused to follow them.
Been a few days since i sent them now, and at first didn't even realized that dog was still in base. He even ate a rat that came into base. But the dog doesn't move around anymore and doesn't eat anything. So technically he isn't there (except the rat thing, that's animal instincts i suppose).

I tried to call that expedition back, but they also refuse to come back, because they never really left according to the map.

I still can send others on expeditions, but i would love to get my people and especially my stuff back that i sent with them :D

Any way to fix this, or is that expedition and the dog simply lost in the dust?

Expedition Map View
Dog Shelter View

[Dusty_Monk]

I have the same bug. Unfortunately I sent mother and son fully equipped with our best equipment.

[Sismanski]

kinda was same here. I just kept playing and managed to get better and better. At day ~80 then suddenly the shelter attack sound kicked in and i wasnt able to click on anything anymore. But no attackers came to attack. So i was in infinite attack mode now. Unable to die, but unable to do anything else. Guess that savegame is just lost :(

[Dusty_Monk]

I've started to backup saves regularly. I created a subfolder in ...\steamapps\common\Sheltered\saves and put backups in there.

[Aditia Holdem]

just wanted to confirm that this bug still exists. Expedition gets stuck when dog is interrupted while leaving. Also wanted to say, bought this game last night and think it is a masterful piece of work.

Please resolve this when you can though, as it is game breaking.

[Sismanski]

that kinda would kill the fun either :D

[76561198103597845]

Hi again all,


Sorry for the problems this seems to be causing you.
Please rest assured that the team is still working to get a solution out as soon as possible.
In the meantime, apologies again.


Thank you,
BenTeam17

[Kalisa]

Still having this issue, just sent out an expedition, dog attacked a rat well they were heading out, now they are gliched.