"Winter Mystery" quest won't trigger

[JazmynnSnow]

I think I've potentially found a bug in the game that causes the cutscene with the shadow figure to not trigger in winter. I've only had this experience once before a few years back and ended up deleting the save and starting over after going two winters without the cutscene triggering. Just now, I've realized that my current save is having the same issue. Winter 18 and still no cutscene, even if I go right away in the morning. The only thing I can think of that is the same as in the last save to have the issue, is that I completed the community center before winter- more specifically, I fixed the bus before winter. Could there be something in the code that causes the cutscene to not trigger if the bus has been fixed before winter? I experimented in a couple saves to see if it was any of the mods I had installed, or perhaps accidentally skipped the cutscene, but the quest wasn't on my list, and even with mods the cutscene still triggered in the next save; primary difference was that I hadn't fixed the bus or anything because they were throw away saves. Any ideas on this would be great, because I REALLY don't want to start all the way over!

[dexter]

You have to enter the bus stop from the farm during Winter between 6am and 4pm. You can try interacting with the bush to the right of the playground in pelican town and see if that works. Some stuff online said that switching language to english got the quest to trigger if you are playing in a different language, but that was from 8 years ago.

[JazmynnSnow]

Originally posted by dexter:

You have to enter the bus stop from the farm during Winter between 6am and 4pm. You can try interacting with the bush to the right of the playground in pelican town and see if that works. Some stuff online said that switching language to english got the quest to trigger if you are playing in a different language, but that was from 8 years ago.

The only thing I did not know was changing the language, but I play the game in English, anyways. Everything else I've tried. I'll try switching to a different language and then back to English.

[JazmynnSnow]

Originally posted by JazmynnSnow:

Originally posted by dexter:

You have to enter the bus stop from the farm during Winter between 6am and 4pm. You can try interacting with the bush to the right of the playground in pelican town and see if that works. Some stuff online said that switching language to english got the quest to trigger if you are playing in a different language, but that was from 8 years ago.

The only thing I did not know was changing the language, but I play the game in English, anyways. Everything else I've tried. I'll try switching to a different language and then back to English.

Switching out the languages did nada.

[dexter]

Did you have the save pre-1.6? If so mods may be the culprit or just an existing save updating to 1.6 bug. If you are using mods though you might be able to trigger the event with smapi.

In the smapi cmd prompt try this: debug ebi 520702

It will play the cutscene and give you the quest, then you can complete the quest and get the magnifying glass as normal. You can do this at any time in the year.

[JazmynnSnow]

Originally posted by dexter:

Did you have the save pre-1.6? If so mods may be the culprit or just an existing save updating to 1.6 bug. If you are using mods though you might be able to trigger the event with smapi.

In the smapi cmd prompt try this: debug ebi 520702

It will play the cutscene and give you the quest, then you can complete the quest and get the magnifying glass as normal. You can do this at any time in the year.

Brand new save started the week or so after the update to see all of it from start to finish, and to make sure all mods were up to date for compatibility. Never had issues with the mods causing scenes to not trigger. Only thing that came to mind was fixing the bus prior to reaching winter, which is something that I almost never accomplish. I think this is only the second or third time of the couple dozen saves I've played over the years.
I did the debug command you gave me and that did the trick! Thank you for that.

[dexter]

Well I'm glad it got fixed and you don't have to restart :) Have fun!

[Jademonas]

Originally posted by dexter:

Did you have the save pre-1.6? If so mods may be the culprit or just an existing save updating to 1.6 bug. If you are using mods though you might be able to trigger the event with smapi.

In the smapi cmd prompt try this: debug ebi 520702

It will play the cutscene and give you the quest, then you can complete the quest and get the magnifying glass as normal. You can do this at any time in the year.

thank you SO so much, I've waited until winter year two because i thought i just missed the time somehow, but it truly wasn't triggering
Finally, access to secret notes :D