Changing the way “Saving” Works.

[Mike23Ua]

One of the things I really hate about DST, is the way the game “saves” its content, Save meaning: Saving Your game.

I had hoped that way back when Klei added the Global Pause function into the game, that they would also have added a way to “save” your game at exactly the moment you want it to be saved at. If you are playing on PC this doesn’t really apply to You, because you can just type in admin commands to save progress.

But on Xbox the game saves periodically at the start of each new daylight cycle, I did NOT find out until here recently that you can “trick” the game into creating a save point by exiting the world & rebooting it back up again.

Had I known this sooner it would have probably made long drawn out boss fights significantly more manageable.

However, exiting my world & rebooting it up does not feel like an ideal way of saving my game progress. And if I can pause the on screen action with global pause, it should not be too unrealistic of a request to ask that whilst said game is paused, that they add a NEW option in the menu to “Save”.

This would allow me to fight bosses at my own time and pace, and when I need to use server “Rollback” I can return to exactly the point of the fight that I need to, rather than just rollback an entire in-game days worth of progress.

Now please do note: you can ALREADY set custom save points by exiting and relaunching the world through the above mentioned obscure method, I’m just asking for a simpler more in your face way of doing it with an impossible to miss menu button for even casual new players to see.

In multiplayer, this would obviously only be an option to the “server host” or if enough players have triggered “global pause”

Edited February 21 by Mike23Ua

[Mike23Ua]

Please? Pretty Please? 😕🥺 I really need this!

[Primalflower]

On 2/21/2026 at 1:03 PM, Mike23Ua said:

This would allow me to fight bosses at my own time and pace, and when I need to use server “Rollback” I can return to exactly the point of the fight that I need to, rather than just rollback an entire in-game days worth of progress.

a large portion of bosses will either run away/despawn entirely or regenerate their entire hp if you do this sort of thing, sadly - you still have to do bosses all in one go even with rollbacks

[Mike23Ua]

8 minutes ago, Primalflower said:

a large portion of bosses will either run away/despawn entirely or regenerate their entire hp if you do this sort of thing, sadly - you still have to do bosses all in one go even with rollbacks

I can’t tell how much health a boss has. Whack it until it’s Dead Is the best strategy.

[Primalflower]

1 hour ago, Mike23Ua said:

I can’t tell how much health a boss has. Whack it until it’s Dead Is the best strategy.

As a general rule - if you ever walk away or let it out of your sight, it has likely regenerated its hp

[Cheggf]

You can't manually make saves because you aren't supposed to. The only time you'd need to save the game is when you're done playing, with autosaves periodically happening in-case the game crashes or a griefer shows up. You're abusing something made to prevent griefing in order to cheat, so obviously the game isn't making it really easy to do that because you aren't supposed to be doing that. 

[Velvy]

On 2/26/2026 at 4:06 AM, Cheggf said:

You can't manually make saves because you aren't supposed to. The only time you'd need to save the game is when you're done playing, with autosaves periodically happening in-case the game crashes or a griefer shows up. You're abusing something made to prevent griefing in order to cheat, so obviously the game isn't making it really easy to do that because you aren't supposed to be doing that. 

eh, let people play how they want i'd say. if someone gets more fun out of this game using rollback for specific points then they're by all means fine to do that. pc players can do it already so might as well let console do it too

Edited February 27 by Velvy

[Cheggf]

10 hours ago, Velvy said:

eh, let people play how they want i'd say. if someone gets more fun out of this game using rollback for specific points then they're by all means fine to do that. pc players can do it already so might as well let console do it too

Console already has the same functionality that PC does.

[Naifxoxo]

On 2/26/2026 at 7:06 AM, Cheggf said:

You can't manually make saves because you aren't supposed to. The only time you'd need to save the game is when you're done playing, with autosaves periodically happening in-case the game crashes or a griefer shows up. You're abusing something made to prevent griefing in order to cheat, so obviously the game isn't making it really easy to do that because you aren't supposed to be doing that. 

meanwhile pc kids spawning CC day 1