How is it that this game does not save when you sleep??

[Blast Hardcheese]

I've had the game crash randomly on me twice. Each time I lost days of work. Great, now I have to go back and clean out that sunken crypt all over again, then smelt everything again. The game doesn't autosave frequently enough. Yes, it causes a stutter which could be annoying, which is why sleeping would be the perfect time to do it! You already have to wait for a bit, so why doesn't this game save every time you sleep? I'm tired of losing progress due to crashes! Saves should be daily, not every few days.

[Twisted Father]

Press F5 for console and type SAVE... only found this out through Reddit. Game is ridiculously unstable... but then its using Unity!

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by Blast Hardcheese:

I've had the game crash randomly on me twice. Each time I lost days of work.

After 300+ hours, I haven't experienced any crashes. Perhaps you should investigate why that is happening to you. Check your settings.
The game autosaves every 20 minutes and you can change that yourself. If you lose 20 minutes of progress, what have you really lost? Days of work in 20 minutes? Really?
Personally, I'm considering setting autosave to hourly, since if I want to save manually, all I have to do is log out.

Originally posted by Phil:

Game is ridiculously unstable... but then its using Unity!

Stability issues are to be expected with an EA title this new, but I would not say that they are ridiculously unstable at all. In fact, it is remarkably stable, all things considered.
As for your Unity remark, what does that mean?

[Blast Hardcheese]

This computer has been rock-solid for everything else I've done. I don't have frequent crashes with Valheim, but it does happen. To make this even more fun, it turns out that my last autosave was in the middle of the sea. I had to get another boat, sail out there, and then bring the original boat back with all of the iron ore in it. Fun.

If the autosave interval can be changed then it isn't in the standard game settings. I shouldn't need to futz around with the console or config files to set something like this. Again, autosave while sleeping would make far more sense.

And what have I lost? Time and frustration. Going into areas that are a pain and getting things back out again isn't something I would want to do twice because the game crashed before the next autosave. Taking down a tough boss isn't something I'd want to do twice just to get back to where I was. A more sensible default save policy would alleviate that frustration.

[Ninefinger]

I use Configurable auto save mod as well as have a macro set up to open console and type save and close console.

[Frozztastic]

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

Originally posted by Blast Hardcheese:

I've had the game crash randomly on me twice. Each time I lost days of work.

After 300+ hours, I haven't experienced any crashes. Perhaps you should investigate why that is happening to you. Check your settings.
The game autosaves every 20 minutes and you can change that yourself. If you lose 20 minutes of progress, what have you really lost? Days of work in 20 minutes? Really?
Personally, I'm considering setting autosave to hourly, since if I want to save manually, all I have to do is log out.

Originally posted by Phil:

Game is ridiculously unstable... but then its using Unity!

Stability issues are to be expected with an EA title this new, but I would not say that they are ridiculously unstable at all. In fact, it is remarkably stable, all things considered.
As for your Unity remark, what does that mean?

I agree with the oddly stable.

I haven't had a single crash or game breaking bug. I can say with a lot of certainty that it is more "Finished" than some AAA titles I've played over the years. In every way.

[Blud]

Problem must be elsewhere. Never had a crash.

[Frozztastic]

Originally posted by Blud:

Problem must be elsewhere. Never had a crash.

Maybe it's related to mods? I don't run any mods, so it probably helps with some of the stability issues.

[Lunacy]

I would say it autosaves a little too often, and with the freeze time of over 2 seconds it gets intrusive when the world does not pause while im frozen.

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by Phil:

Press F5 for console and type SAVE... only found this out through Reddit. Game is ridiculously unstable... but then its using Unity!

Ridiculously unstable? I've never had a crash of major issue with Valheim. It could be something with your rig. I've had no issues with the dozens of Unity games I own.

Save on sleep would be a good feature to have added.

[Vaigrant]

Not to discount your experience, but I have up until now, not seen someone complaining about stability. In fact most people have had a crash fee play, myself at almost 200 hours only has save stutters. Sucks that you're having this issue, but more information would be necessary to find out if it's a program conflict, a mod conflict, maybe an out of date driver.

That said, I don't disagree with it saving during sleep, or heck even Teleporting, something that's already taking up time and could be used to cover up auto saves and those are also points you aren't in any imminent danger.

[Simon Bar Sinister]

Originally posted by Phil:

Press F5 for console and type SAVE... only found this out through Reddit. Game is ridiculously unstable... but then its using Unity!

Not one crash or save issue. Problem is yours?

[Nephanis]

Its very strange, that your character is not saved during a crash. I had 2 crashes so far and my character logged back in right where i crashed. Also closing the game with alt+f4 saves my game.

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by racooperii:

Not to discount your experience, but I have up until now, not seen someone complaining about stability.

Well, there are over 300 posts containing the word crash on the bugs and crashes forum.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/892970/discussions/1/

However, 300+ people out of six million players? Could be system issues and not necessarily the game.

[Vaigrant]

Originally posted by Macdallan:

Originally posted by racooperii:

Not to discount your experience, but I have up until now, not seen someone complaining about stability.

Well, there are over 300 posts containing the word crash on the bugs and crashes forum.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/892970/discussions/1/

However, 300+ people out of six million players? Could be system issues and not necessarily the game.

Only 300, that is honestly lower than I would have suspected at a guess. I hadn't really looked into it too much since my own experience had been free of any issues(Shy of the save stutter). Its possible the unique user posting is even lower, or they're using that word to say they haven't had crashes, so it could be even less people having that particular experience(At least of those that visit the discussion threads).

Which honestly, impressive that so little traction on a subject is being had about world crashes on a EA game with 5 Million players.