Despawning islands

[xBlackjackx]

I noticed when I played this game a long time ago if drove to an island and wanted to discover these as also stay a bit more where suddenly despawned which makes me drop into the water.. lost 2 rafts because of this (unable to swim back)which makes me restart the game everytime. So I assumed a "pressure timer" to makes you pushing forward (jump on an island loot it in time adn get back to raft to continue travel).
Has this changed now?

Thanks for answers

[Anonymous Helper]

It's not pressure timer or anything like that. World is spawned around your raft (islands, debris, derelict rafts etc.), not your character. If you jump on island and don't anchor your raft in place, it'll drift away and eventually the island will end being outside of raft's spawning radius and despawns.

If you want to explore an island, you need to anchor your raft first.

In case you let your raft drift away and can't swim back to it, you can drown your character and you should be able to respawn on your raft (assuming shark hasn't eaten it). On peaceful and easy you lose nothing by doing so (your hunger and thirst meters may be worse) but on normal you lose your inventory. On hard you need other people's help to revive. You also lose your inventory on hard.

[𒐪⎝ Epylector ⎠𒐪]

Originally posted by Anonymous Helper:

It's not pressure timer or anything like that. World is spawned around your raft (islands, debris, derelict rafts etc.), not your character. If you jump on island and don't anchor your raft in place, it'll drift away and eventually the island will end being outside of raft's spawning radius and despawns.

If you want to explore an island, you need to anchor your raft first.

In case you let your raft drift away and can't swim back to it, you can drown your character and you should be able to respawn on your raft (assuming shark hasn't eaten it). On peaceful and easy you lose nothing by doing so (your hunger and thirst meters may be worse) but on normal you lose your inventory. On hard you need other people's help to revive. You also lose your inventory on hard.

That's pretty dumb as a mechanic. I shouldn't have to anchor a raft.

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Originally posted by EpycWyn:

Originally posted by Anonymous Helper:

It's not pressure timer or anything like that. World is spawned around your raft (islands, debris, derelict rafts etc.), not your character. If you jump on island and don't anchor your raft in place, it'll drift away and eventually the island will end being outside of raft's spawning radius and despawns.

If you want to explore an island, you need to anchor your raft first.

In case you let your raft drift away and can't swim back to it, you can drown your character and you should be able to respawn on your raft (assuming shark hasn't eaten it). On peaceful and easy you lose nothing by doing so (your hunger and thirst meters may be worse) but on normal you lose your inventory. On hard you need other people's help to revive. You also lose your inventory on hard.

That's pretty dumb as a mechanic. I shouldn't have to anchor a raft.

yes....yes you should....because thats how boats work...you dont just jump on an island without securing your raft first...if its that hard just jam the raft in a crevice, explore the island, then paddle out whenever you feel like leaving i guess.

[Menzagitat]

Originally posted by EpycWyn:

Originally posted by Anonymous Helper:

It's not pressure timer or anything like that. World is spawned around your raft (islands, debris, derelict rafts etc.), not your character. If you jump on island and don't anchor your raft in place, it'll drift away and eventually the island will end being outside of raft's spawning radius and despawns.

If you want to explore an island, you need to anchor your raft first.

In case you let your raft drift away and can't swim back to it, you can drown your character and you should be able to respawn on your raft (assuming shark hasn't eaten it). On peaceful and easy you lose nothing by doing so (your hunger and thirst meters may be worse) but on normal you lose your inventory. On hard you need other people's help to revive. You also lose your inventory on hard.

That's pretty dumb as a mechanic. I shouldn't have to anchor a raft.

It is ok to need to anchor the raft.
It is dumb that we can build one one and that islands vanish.

[mistake]

Originally posted by EpycWyn:

Originally posted by Anonymous Helper:

It's not pressure timer or anything like that. World is spawned around your raft (islands, debris, derelict rafts etc.), not your character. If you jump on island and don't anchor your raft in place, it'll drift away and eventually the island will end being outside of raft's spawning radius and despawns.

If you want to explore an island, you need to anchor your raft first.

In case you let your raft drift away and can't swim back to it, you can drown your character and you should be able to respawn on your raft (assuming shark hasn't eaten it). On peaceful and easy you lose nothing by doing so (your hunger and thirst meters may be worse) but on normal you lose your inventory. On hard you need other people's help to revive. You also lose your inventory on hard.

That's pretty dumb as a mechanic. I shouldn't have to anchor a raft.

im laughing lmao.

[Wispur]

Originally posted by EpycWyn:

That's pretty dumb as a mechanic. I shouldn't have to anchor a raft.

This is my new favorite quote.
It's a bit like saying Cars shouldn't have brakes, or Airplanes shouldn't have landing gear.
I love it! lol

[andylaugel]

On my first playthrough, I had a shark eat a quarter of my raft and saw another raft drifting past. I assumed I could swim over and place my flag on the new boat--but it sank. So I found my way to an island. I had assumed the island would stay and that I could build a new raft there.

And then the island disappeared, leaving me very confused in a very empty looking sea.

I understand how the game works now, but it would have been preferable to get a game-over message with a sentence about getting too far from your raft. Or better yet, if the option to build a new raft and abandon your old one existed.

[Thias Light]

A year later and i still can't reset. Just bruce my way from island to island hoping to find some way to get another raft going since mine has long since despawned.