Losing all items because I respawn in a fresh body after crash

[Will]

i run back to my offline body and it floats away under the map so i lose my iventory.

This game has been out for awhile, update 7 and its still is such horrible shape?

[Mintiper]

it is EA, so things will be buggy, i never had this problem, and a lost inventory is not realy bad, because you should have enough from everything?
if you play online, and it is your server, look if there is a save from a few minutes before the crash.

[Huren Ogeko]

Originally posted by Will:

i run back to my offline body and it floats away under the map so i lose my iventory.

This game has been out for awhile, update 7 and its still is such horrible shape?

its not actually released or finished.,..the game is in early access so we are playing a beta game in development.

that being said the issue you have is your steam and/or epic profile not being available when you load the game meaning you cannot be linked to your prior character. This happens alot if you have unstable internet or routinely change what steam/epic account you might be logged into. Even though the can be played as single player and even offline the game still treats every thing as if its multiplayer so it has to have some way to identify which in game character you belong to when you load into the game. So if you load into a game but it cant link you to any character already on the map it will spawn you as a new player in the hub.
hopefully before the game actually gets released they will have made this process a little better in the final version of the game.

[NZ.Zero]

Originally posted by Huren Ogeko:

This happens alot if you have unstable internet or routinely change what steam/epic account you might be logged into.

or if you swap machines. It happens ever time I switch from the upstairs to downstairs PC, without fail.

[ryiinn]

This happens to my friends and I a lot, both when we die + dc and sometimes when we just log out and back in on multiplayer saves. When this happens we just go find ourselves in the world (usually a body or an AFK character) and kill them. It takes a lot of hits but eventually they'll die and drop a chest with everything that had been in our inventory.

[Still B0r3d]

Originally posted by NZ.Zero:

or if you swap machines. It happens ever time I switch from the upstairs to downstairs PC, without fail.

I can swap computers fine, I also moved the save file to a dedicated server and back without a single issue.

The only time I had an issue was when I started the game with steam in offline mode.

[Vectorspace]

You can use SCIM save editor to move your old body somewhere accessible, or to just delete it and give yourself the missing items:
https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/interactive-map

This happens because your in-game avatar is linked to your Steam/Epic ID. If you then join the game while Satisfactory is in offline mode, it can't work out which body is yours so spawns you in a new one.
This dev video explains why in game avatars are linked to platform IDs and why the avatars stay in game after disconnect, which in part is why this issue exists:
https://youtu.be/9Kh5Q-okBbE

I think there is somewhere a video specifially explaining the duplicate body bug but I can't find it

[Will]

Originally posted by ryiinn:

This happens to my friends and I a lot, both when we die + dc and sometimes when we just log out and back in on multiplayer saves. When this happens we just go find ourselves in the world (usually a body or an AFK character) and kill them. It takes a lot of hits but eventually they'll die and drop a chest with everything that had been in our inventory.

i tried this after i saw it happen to be the first time but my body was murdered when i returned to it and it floated under the map. I hope the devs get off their ass and add gravestones so player items can be secure.

[Huren Ogeko]

They do drop a gravestone...its just in the form of a chest. with the new map in the game I wonder if you can locate your body using a marker in the map.

[AmDDRed]

Yeah, I've returned to the server joint game after a break, and I've found a lot crashes in 7th update - actually, I don't remember experiencing it in 6th... And the last one was quite unhappy one, as I've crashed in the air, and now I respawn nullified, and I cannot find any traces of my loot...
Damn, this kills the will to play this game more...

[Will]

Originally posted by AmDDRed:

Yeah, I've returned to the server joint game after a break, and I've found a lot crashes in 7th update - actually, I don't remember experiencing it in 6th... And the last one was quite unhappy one, as I've crashed in the air, and now I respawn nullified, and I cannot find any traces of my loot...
Damn, this kills the will to play this game more...

Exactly, i dont even feel like playing anymore if my stuff isnt safe. its just effort down the drain.

[NZ.Zero]

Originally posted by Huren Ogeko:

They do drop a gravestone...its just in the form of a chest. with the new map in the game I wonder if you can locate your body using a marker in the map.

There used to be a marker on the map for me but it disappeared after the latest update. I have to return to base at the end of every session, or use satisfactory-calfulator to find my shadow if I exited the game somewhere else.

Originally posted by still B0r3d:

The only time I had an issue was when I started the game with steam in offline mode.

Hmm weird. I always open satisfactory directly from the icon instead of opening steam first. Maybe that's the issue.

Edit: actually, it can't be that because it always syncs the game files before it launches anyway so steam must be in online mode to do that.

(I know this because I often have the online map open in a second monitor, and I need to open the latest save file with that, and it's always available as soon as the intro screen launches ... Oh and I always use the game file read only, I never let it write to it).

[Anime Nerd]

When this happened to me, we restarted the server and then my body was back to where I had originally died and was then able to kill it and get my stuff back

[Huren Ogeko]

the answer to every bug in this game is SCIM web site https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/interactive-map

[NZ.Zero]

OMG I've solved it!
I must have had to kill my virtual avatar I'd say something like 50-100 times before and finally I did a bit of experimenting and solved it!
So @still B0r3d .. it wasnt exactly what you said, but you inspired me, so thank you!

My problem was that on one machine I was logged into Steam AND epic, on the other machine I was only logged into Steam. So I went to this screen and logged into Epic and it fixed it...
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2940659568

You cant imagine how annoying that was, thanks guys for the motivation to try and fix it. YESSSSS!

Originally posted by Will:

i run back to my offline body and it floats away under the map so i lose my iventory.

So try logging into steam AND epic.

[Huren Ogeko]

Originally posted by Huren Ogeko:

the answer to every bug in this game is SCIM web site https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/interactive-map

this is why I always turn off epic and turn on steam when I play. I bought the game on epic but I play it now via steam as a non-steam game and I can tell you that having both logged in really confuses the game. you have to be very consistent with the environment you have when launching the game.