Why does unstuck make you loose all your stuff?

[Atro]

This is a single player game. Why would you do that?
You are basically punishing your players for bugs they engcounter.
There is no unfair advantage they can gain over anybody else?!
This is the second time I lost stuff worth an hour of grinding.

[local cryptid]

Originally posted by Atro:

This is a single player game. Why would you do that?
You are basically punishing your players for bugs they engcounter.
There is no unfair advantage they can gain over anybody else?!
This is the second time I lost stuff worth an hour of grinding.

To avoid mis-using the unstuck option to get home faster, aka getting a free teleport

[Atro]

Why would that be a problem though, in a single player game?
Especially for the price of punishing players who actually are stuck?

[NBOX21]

Originally posted by Atro:

Why would that be a problem though, in a single player game?
Especially for the price of punishing players who actually are stuck?

If the Emergency Return allowed you to return home anytime with no penalty, players could easily abuse this feature to either bring items back much faster than they're supposed to or get themselves out of situations that could otherwise get them into trouble (i.e. falling into the sea). Even in a single player game, such a system could completely break the challenge and any sense of survival one is supposed to get from the experience.

Fortunately, actually getting stuck seems to be a very rare occurrence. I've spent about 100+ hours on this game and never used this feature once, and I'm sure many players would also never need to use it.

[Atro]

Then, what am I doing wrong to get in this situation twice in my less than 50 hours playtime??

[Bobucles]

Maybe try to avoid getting stuck?
The unstuck action is just a free player death, with all the penalties.

[NBOX21]

Originally posted by Bobucles:

Maybe try to avoid getting stuck?
The unstuck action is just a free player death, with all the penalties.

Basically, I prefer to treat it as if my player character either gets crushed by something in the world preventing escape, starving to death or having a heart attack depending on the circumstances, thus necessitating the use of this feature when it happens.
It's certainly a far better alternative to resetting your entire save file and starting over due to what could otherwise be a permanent soft-lock.

[Zodion]

Originally posted by local cryptid:

To avoid mis-using the unstuck option to get home faster, aka getting a free teleport

This. Not much else to say really.

I'm not sure how you can lose "hours" of progress by getting stuck, are you not taking stuff back to the ranch periodically? Or running out of storage?

It is annoying when you get stuck, don't disagree there, but for the amount of times it happens (can count them on one hand) it's not a big deal. It's good that feature is there at all to stop you being permanently stuck.

[Atro]

I think going back and forth multiple times is just very boring. So I normally go back when I have a lot of stuff and can't take more.

I just reached the glass desert and I got stuck there two times. After collecting a lot of the ressources and slimes I saw there the first time. So yes, it was hours of progress that I lost because of bugs in the game.

The argument "players will use it as a fast travel option" is a really weak one. Because the playerbase looses nothing if some players decide to "abuse" that function.

[jollibee]

It takes away a large part of the game if you can just instantly get back home with all your stuff. There are already teleporters in the game. Yes because you decide to use it and I don't, it doesn't effect me, however, just giving that option and people just start using that all the time it doesn't line up to what the developers envisioned for this game.