Game Freezes When Switching Tools During Animation

[mandaantonia]

I am on the iPad version in Fullscreen using a Dualshock 4 controller. I am able to consistently trigger this bug any time I try to switch items in the hotbar (using R & L triggers) while the animation for the active tool is still happening. It happens with all tools, but only tools. Switching to a different hotbar item while drinking coffee, for example, causes no issues. Once the game freezes, the only way to unfreeze it seems to be closing and reopening the game, which causes the day's progress to be lost as it only saves when you sleep. I have not tried letting it sit to see if it unfreezes on it's own eventually. While frozen, you can switch through items in the hotbar, and see the item in your hands change, but all other game animations remain frozen. It's frustrating as I do it unintentionally and frequently, and I have no other way to regain my progress except by repeating it all again. I'm not always able to remember everything I had done that day. If it freezes very late in the in-game day (meaning I lose almost an entire day's progress) I usually stop playing for the rest of the real life day because it's not fun to have to redo all the gameplay I just did when I wanted to be moving on to my next plans.

I had a similar bug once when mining late at night. I swung my sword at a bug at the same moment the bug hit me, which was also the moment the game time turned to 2:00 AM. My character froze in the "falling asleep" animation. Like the other bug, I was able to switch items in the hotbar, but this time they had no effect on the character (items were not visible in character's hands). I ended up leaving it sitting for around half an hour while I made dinner, and when I came back it suddenly unfroze and ended the day as normal.