God Mode Bug/ Water Walking Bug

[NightMix80]

So I tried looking briefly through the bug forums and i didnt see anything like this posted so im ganna explain what happen/ how to recreate the bug and for speedrunning how useful the bug can be.

To start off with this bug like the title says will pretty much give you good mode for say in reality it just allows you to phase through any object that has collision but if used smartly you can never take any damage when properly set up.

How I discovered these bugs when it was just me and a few of my buddies just playing along you know going through the motion of gathering materials. well we where traveling via raft to one of the islands when someone accidentally gathered water from the sea while on the boat and proceeded to phase through the rafts collision box which allowed him to walk on water however his position was still effected by the boats movement slight (boat would move right, he would drift right as well) this bug im ganna call it water walking was actually quite useful for traveling the waters much faster since if going in the right direction could get you there at player sprint speed plus the boats boat speed (and probably faster with speed charms. the only draw back was if the player controlling the boat stopped sailing and the player who did the glitch was still over water the game would instantly kill the player. Apart from that you could also walk through mountains and trees however again if the player left the boat you would be stuck right where you are unless you where in water or on normal walking ground.

Now for the fun part with the knowledge of this new WATERWALKING bug we found we experimented with it and just messed around with it as we played since we discovered most of its limits. However MOST wasnt all the bug could do which lead me stumbling upon the GOD MOD bug. discovering this one was as similar as the waterwalking bug however it uses the waterwalking bug as a baseline for the more overpowering bug. in order to do this you first need someone using a boat and for you to preform the waterwalking bug now once your walking on the water go to another boat and start sailing with that one (thats it) you now unlocked god mode however there are major flaws with this version on the bug. after obtaining the bug you will find yourself unable to leave the boat or if you manage to get off the boat after preforming the waterwalking bug with the friend you find yourself unable to damage anything (trees, rocks, enemies, even grass, etc) however you can still enter chest and pick up items from the ground (but cant carry items such as chest this will lock you from ever placing or doing anything ever and will softlock you if you dont follow the next steps to override the game code to merge god mode with normal player functionality) on top of this if you try to damage an enemy you may instantly die due to the game thinking your player position is still in the water (this is ok it will not reset the bug) in order for you to achive the proper merging of bug and functionality you must first actually save the game and leave and quit the game. this i believes loads the glitch state with the normal player data, This is ideal for the idea of speedrunning because upon reload everyone that was loaded on the server will now have this glitch state added to their player data (steam might mistake the corrupt save as outdated information this is ok it shouldnt delete anything) however now any player can damage (plants, animals, enemies, etc) and gather resources however you can no longer pick up chest or chairs because the game doesnt register the ground as ground for objects tho you can still build things on it. you as well have waterwalking and wallwalking all the time which means no more bombs to get into caves or keys to get into the labyrinths making speeding the game easier to do since you no longer have to gather money to buy the keys downside is you can not get the monkeys from them without the key and teleporting the monkey may lead to unexpected events (i havent tested it but im sure they will not teleport where you are from what you see player position is not what your visual position is) this also effects where raids are making the spawn from where you first saved the game with the bug. however what you can do with this bug if done is endless i alone have walked outside the map across cave systems to other islands and even killed all the bosses in the labyrinths since all i had to do was hid in the wall and shoot it with a bow or hit it with my sword.

I kinda do hope this bug will get patched but at the same time i hope it doesnt as well unless this 100% softlocked me from finishing the game id like it to kinda just stay in the game or at least the waterwalking bug that one is pretty cool. anyway i hope everyone will find this useful and good luck reproducing it ill update this at somepoint and add images on how it was done and what it does but for the time being this will get it out here for people to try out for themselfs. just do keep in mind if you do this you can never use monkeys to follow you or being able to pick you chest (unless an enemy hurts you)

[Team17_Assist]

Hi NightMix80,

Sorry to hear you've had this issue.

Could you please share the saved file this occurred on with us?
You can email us at [e-mail] with a link to this thread.

You can find the saved file here:

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Team17 Digital Ltd_\The Survivalists
There should be a folder with a long line of numbers. Please compress (eg. ZIP, RAR) and send us the whole folder.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Regards,
Team17 Support

[Bibicue]

lol same thing happened to me

[nipro]

any way to fix it?

[NightMix80]

Originally posted by nipro:

any way to fix it?

sadly i dont think there is if i remember correctly least not if your host vlients seemed to get fixed after dying but apart from that you kinda just have to spam the boat until it sort fixes itself. and even then i no longer have the save file so i cant test it out again but for now you can act like your playing legit just to get through the game the dungeons are i believe far right (out of bounds) have map of the event trigger to teleport you doesnt work.

[Vágódeszka]

Originally posted by NightMix80:

Originally posted by nipro:

sadly i dont think there is if i remember correctly least not if your host vlients seemed to get fixed after dying but apart from that you kinda just have to spam the boat until it sort fixes itself. and even then i no longer have the save file so i cant test it out again but for now you can act like your playing legit just to get through the game the dungeons are i believe far right (out of bounds) have map of the event trigger to teleport you doesnt work.

Well if you really want to fix that bug, then you have to sacrifice your current map, and press regenerate world. That's important, when you have something in your invetory, then you can transfor that easly. But you can't go back to your bugging world after creating a new one, keep it in mind. I hope a can help :)