If there's no icon is my corpse gone?

[chris2309]

Hi all,
Seems like the game should have saved on exit, but after I did a dumb thing and accidentally discovered the plains early while searching a new continent, I of course got pwned. Frustrated, I exited. After re-starting I don't see the last few minutes of my path on the map and no corpse icon.

Is there any chance the corpse is still there, or did I fail to save so it's gone? (Don't want to invest a huge amount of time trying to recover it if it's not there.)

Thanks!

[BloodRed]

Thing to do is put the mobs in passive mode in the game menu and run back to that spot no mobs will attack you unless you hit them , see if your corpse is there..
hope this helps

[Exodite-Dragon]

It's possible the auto-save function may not have triggered if you force-quit the game immediately after your death. If so, neither your tombstone nor your items/gear (depending on death penalty settings) will be there.

While dying, admittedly, is always a bit of a bummer, remember to at least give the game time to record the world state before exiting the software if you need a break.

[OneCarbon]

Before you log out always SAVE. ALways :)

[Zombits]

I quit immediatly after death numerous times and it always saved . More likely the steam cloud save didn't have time if shutting down steam too fast

[chris2309]

Thank you all. I may have been a bit frustrated and forced quit. Lesson learned. Thanks for the suggestions!

[Skuzzlebutt]

If you look there are back up saves for worlds and characters ... you can roll back a bit. Not done this myself so maybe look it up.

[SyxtySyx]

Originally posted by Zombits:

I quit immediatly after death numerous times and it always saved . More likely the steam cloud save didn't have time if shutting down steam too fast

This ^
Yes you should save before ragequit!
Also, don't shut down steam before the cloud saves.

[chris2309]

Interesting follow up - I found my corpse! Had abandoned trying to go back for it and finally made it back again - and my corpse did exist in the world. So somehow it did save the corpse, but did NOT save the map, so there was no marker for it. I probably exited right after I died so maybe it just hadn't updated. Weird.

[Kursor1]

Yeah, your personal inventory and containers save when you quit, but the world doesnt save at the same time so you can have mismatches. most particularly if there's a crash after you've pulled materials from a chest and used them to build something. (The chest is empty, but the thing you built doesnt exist)

[Exodite-Dragon]

Originally posted by chris2309:

Interesting follow up - I found my corpse! Had abandoned trying to go back for it and finally made it back again - and my corpse did exist in the world. So somehow it did save the corpse, but did NOT save the map, so there was no marker for it. I probably exited right after I died so maybe it just hadn't updated. Weird.

Man, lucky break. Glad you got it back when all was said and done.