Disabling Rifts doesnt work

[Invogue]

Hi Everyone,

 

I hope you will be able to help me guys.

I have started Rifts on my server after giving the Shard to Wigstaff. I wanted to try new content.

Now I would very much like for Rifts, any rift-related events, and creatures to STOP. Before loading my game I disabled Wild Rifts Frequency and Wild Rifts in the Server Settings screen... Unfortunately, events and Rift creatures are still there.

Any ideas why Rifts and related events are still running in my Solo game? Thank you!

[arubaro]

did they respawn like if they werent diseable or do you mean that you leaved the game with an active portal and bridshades alive and expected to be gone once you launched the game again?

[Cassielu]

The current Rift won't disappear immediately, but when it does, there won't be another Rift spawn. Just like when you turn pigman or spider off.

[Invogue]

Yeah Birdshades (those annoying in-base plants) are still there. 

I left the game completely and have restarted Steam. Now the game won't load and gives an error. I think the error relates to Brilliance armor in the inventory.

I have rolled back the server by 2 days. Re-enabled Rifts. The game worked. I deleted any Rift items I had (armor, weapons, crafting materials). Left the game, disabled rifts, back in, and plants are still there. Brightshades is still there. Killed any I could find and deleted drops. Left the Game -> Restart Steam -> Back in the game and Brightshades and glass rain still happening...

What can I do? I dont want to lose my 330 days of world  

[Invogue]

It WORKED! Somehow after deleting all items, killing Brightshades and leaving nothing behind worked. Few games and Steam restarts and I no longer have any Brightshades spawning. No other Rift-related events either. Rejoice!

Thank you

[dois raios]

4 hours ago, Invogue said:

Birdshades

hear me out, when the rift is active, a new type of bird could spawn.

Spoiler

maybe it could leave seeds for new type of plants on the ground.

[Lovens]

Just saying here, deleting all the materials and equipment you gained from it was completely unnecessary. I played on a server where we had rifts activated for a long while. We were pretty burned out by repeated brightside killing and at some point decided to deactivate it. The current rift was still active at the moment and it spawned brightshades but after that the new rift didn't appear. We cleared the remaining brightshades and finally lived in peace. That was before Host Of Horrors update though. But the important point is that nobody deleted any of the drops or brightshade gear we earned from years of having rifts activated. It's irrelevant. 

In my current long-term world I solved the rift issue in a different way. I blocked my surface and underground rifts with signs every 7 tiles (the method is described in detail in this video by Lakhnish Monster). I never activate underground rifts anymore, I have more shadow rift materials than I can ever spend and 0 use for all the shadow equipment aside from dealing with acid rain...which is only happening with shadow rifts active. But I still allow one lunar rift to spawn each winter to kill all three lunar mutant bosses repeatedly to stock on spark arcs. After I'm done, I put back the sign that blocks it and live peacefully for the rest of the year.