Found few issues post the update in my long term (~1k days) world

[Woofleaf]

Here's a summary of few bugs, and few questions I had:
1. Post rift boulders in the caves are not appearing, their animation happens but then nothing falls, same issue with the Antlion boulders
2. Message in a bottle doesn't seem to guarantee a treasure on the map anymore, was this change intentional? or is that just normal, my assumption was post crab king and returning the cracked pearl the bottle always points to a treasure unless 10 are already there then it won't, but even with no treasures on the map it seems almost 40% of my bottles are going into messages
3. When I reset the ruins, it seems to be put on a pause if i enter the Lunar Grotto or archives biome, additionally, was the Archives supposed to reset along with the rest of the ruins based on few update notes i saw, i dont see it happening, was it removed?
4. Also i can't seem to place the incomplete experiment on top of the completed lunar altar trio

I also had few questions:

1. The megablight seems to spawn either every 2-3 seasons or every year (haven't timed it yet and no information on wiki), and does it despawn after getting 20 units long? it seems to be the case, since i waited for it to get longer, only to come back 10 days later and bro disappeared
2. The only way to kill a megablight is by letting it run next to boulderbough tree, let it fall and then it turns over for 6-7 seconds when you can attack it, but tell me something, when it does crash into a boulderbough the boulder falls, the blight body instantly destroys the boulder and it does not even drop a seed, this just means that killing a megablight costs 2-3 boulderbough seeds, and the only renewable way to get boulderbough is by killing the Great Depths worm, which itself is very painful to spawn (I spent 125 days straight in the caves killing fuelweaver on repeat for my celestial champion farm, also using the Don't starve alone mod since cave servers are separate to wait for it to spawn), even then there's only a small chance to get it, max i got was 2 and last 2 kills i didn't even get any). That seems like a dumb mechanic of just destroying the boulderbough seed, i wish that gets changed so this incredibly rare item which is so painful to renew is not destroyed instantly just to farm dreadstone (which is also very painful to farm normally)

Edited September 21, 2025 by Woofleaf

[Green Reptile]

I’ve had the same thing with bottled messages happen. In that same world, the hermit crab gave me a second pearl, long after i’d done the lunar quests, so maybe the new update accidentally resets the hermit quests… for whatever reason 

[Radicaljoe]

On 9/21/2025 at 9:25 AM, Woofleaf said:

Archives supposed to reset along with the rest of the ruins

Specifically the new Sanctum area which is like it's own secluded section of the archives.

On 9/21/2025 at 9:25 AM, Woofleaf said:

i can't seem to place the incomplete experiment on top of the completed lunar altar trio

I think this has been a reported bug 

For the mega light problems I'll just list off the stuff I know:

The megablight(Ripple) spawns once per cave rift. He will despawn at the end of the rift regardless of size. He won't despawn for reaching max length. Hitting the boulder trees does not give a seed back, but the trees have world regrowth and will grow back after an hour or two naturally.

I imagine most of the issues you are having are due to DS Alone mod. Sadly as much as I like that mod, it does have extremely negative issues with rift content functions. Also, as I last checked, the mod will crash you when being in the Sanctum for too long, so a heads up if you want to go there.

[Dingle]

On 9/21/2025 at 6:25 AM, Woofleaf said:

Here's a summary of few bugs, and few questions I had:
1. Post rift boulders in the caves are not appearing, their animation happens but then nothing falls, same issue with the Antlion boulders
2. Message in a bottle doesn't seem to guarantee a treasure on the map anymore, was this change intentional? or is that just normal, my assumption was post crab king and returning the cracked pearl the bottle always points to a treasure unless 10 are already there then it won't, but even with no treasures on the map it seems almost 40% of my bottles are going into messages
3. When I reset the ruins, it seems to be put on a pause if i enter the Lunar Grotto or archives biome, additionally, was the Archives supposed to reset along with the rest of the ruins based on few update notes i saw, i dont see it happening, was it removed?
4. Also i can't seem to place the incomplete experiment on top of the completed lunar altar trio

I also had few questions:

1. The megablight seems to spawn either every 2-3 seasons or every year (haven't timed it yet and no information on wiki), and does it despawn after getting 20 units long? it seems to be the case, since i waited for it to get longer, only to come back 10 days later and bro disappeared
2. The only way to kill a megablight is by letting it run next to boulderbough tree, let it fall and then it turns over for 6-7 seconds when you can attack it, but tell me something, when it does crash into a boulderbough the boulder falls, the blight body instantly destroys the boulder and it does not even drop a seed, this just means that killing a megablight costs 2-3 boulderbough seeds, and the only renewable way to get boulderbough is by killing the Great Depths worm, which itself is very painful to spawn (I spent 125 days straight in the caves killing fuelweaver on repeat for my celestial champion farm, also using the Don't starve alone mod since cave servers are separate to wait for it to spawn), even then there's only a small chance to get it, max i got was 2 and last 2 kills i didn't even get any). That seems like a dumb mechanic of just destroying the boulderbough seed, i wish that gets changed so this incredibly rare item which is so painful to renew is not destroyed instantly just to farm dreadstone (which is also very painful to farm normally)

 A dev said that megablight destroying seeds was a bug, fixed on their side already.

[seanmj]

4 hours ago, Dingle said:

 A dev said that megablight destroying seeds was a bug, fixed on their side already.

Apparently not fixed enough. Because as soon as the update came out and I gave it a couple days before I went down there. And he pretty much destroyed almost every single one of those trees and not a single seed dropped. I was lucky to have 15, but I've seen that you're actually supposed to have more than that spawn in the biome. So I don't know if that's exactly fixed.

[Dingle]

16 minutes ago, seanmj said:

Apparently not fixed enough. Because as soon as the update came out and I gave it a couple days before I went down there. And he pretty much destroyed almost every single one of those trees and not a single seed dropped. I was lucky to have 15, but I've seen that you're actually supposed to have more than that spawn in the biome. So I don't know if that's exactly fixed.

"On their side" means their developer build. They haven't released another hotfix yet, so the bug fix isn't in our hands yet.

[Kehvran]

I have the same issue with boulders in the caves, the animations are happening but when the boulder itself is supposed to hit the ground nothing happens.
I didn't try 2,3,4 though.
Btw you don't need to worry too much with boulder tree, they appear eventually through regrowth, on the other hand, fumaroles won't regrow, i hope they do something about it in the future.
 

[Frosty_Mentos]

I feel like this is supposed to be in bug reports but yea I've had boulder issues too for some reason. 

Anyone got any clue how these hypes of bugs happen? It's kinda funny ngl xd

[Bellium]

16 hours ago, Dingle said:

 A dev said that megablight destroying seeds was a bug, fixed on their side already.

Something like that really should have been a hot fix, considering that it means for the time being Ripple just deletes them. A shame Keli didn't just address it in the beta.

[konijnenmoed]

16 hours ago, Radicaljoe said:

I think this has been a reported bug 

Could you tell me where I can find this bug report? I've been searching, but can't seem to find it. I have one player on my server who doesn't seem to be able to place the Incomplete Experiment as well, although me and other players still can. At first I thought this might be mod related, but we couldn't figure out which one is causing it.

[Radicaljoe]

13 hours ago, konijnenmoed said:

Could you tell me where I can find this bug report? I've been searching, but can't seem to find it. I have one player on my server who doesn't seem to be able to place the Incomplete Experiment as well, although me and other players still can. At first I thought this might be mod related, but we couldn't figure out which one is causing it.

I looked myself and it does seem I was wrong. I saw it talked about during the beta once and I thought it was reported.

[konijnenmoed]

3 hours ago, Radicaljoe said:

I looked myself and it does seem I was wrong. I saw it talked about during the beta once and I thought it was reported.

Alright, thanks. I'll report it again for live branch if I figure out it's not mod related.

[Popian]

16 hours ago, konijnenmoed said:

I have one player on my server who doesn't seem to be able to place the Incomplete Experiment

This is Geometric Placement with the Smart Spacing option enabled. Hold Ctrl for free placement.

[konijnenmoed]

9 hours ago, Popian said:

This is Geometric Placement with the Smart Spacing option enabled. Hold Ctrl for free placement.

Good to know, the player who had the placing issue did have Geometric Placement, but I have as well – so I didn't think that would be the cause. I'll tell them next time, thanks!