Unfortunately Timed Bug Destroys World

[Zackrb7]

On one of my world games, I have enabled a mod to ask whethere you would like to resurrect upon death, reload last save, or just die. The mod is called "Compromising Survival."
I unfortunately was killed at the exact moment of climbing a rope out of a cave. This caused no prompt to resurrect, did not load in the overworld, was a black screen, and while still being able to open the command console, was not able to type commands.
Closing the game without it saying that it had saved led me to assume that it would load in at the last proper save point, but just loads in to the black screen and only able to pull up an unusable console.
This world was very far in and had very advanced bases, farms, ect. and I would like to know if there is a way to restore the previous save, edit the save log data safely, or any way to reverse this predicament.
Thanks in advance for any support.

[Blueberrys]

@Zackrb7, if you're sure that mod was causing it, you may want to report the bug on the mod page too.

 

Please load up the world again, wait a little while for everything to load, then upload your log.txt file here. It will help determine the problem. There may be some way to fix it.

 

You should always make a backup of your saves once in a while if you're using mods, just in case something like this happens. (Unless you don't mind losing them)

[Zackrb7]

@Blueberrys , Thank you for the response. Situation is the same. I loaded up the world for a bit as stated. Here's the log.

 

 

log.txt

[DeathDisciple]

That bug has been reported multiple times on base unmodded game. Not saying that mods can't make it worse, but the actual issue is caused by race condition in klei code. If the cave save file is still being loaded (and corrupted) you could try fixing it by making a new world, entering a cave, saving, then copying the new cave file over the one that locks up. Not guaranteed to work tho.

[Zackrb7]

That bug has been reported multiple times on base unmodded game. Not saying that mods can't make it worse, but the actual issue is caused by race condition in klei code. If the cave save file is still being loaded (and corrupted) you could try fixing it by making a new world, entering a cave, saving, then copying the new cave file over the one that locks up. Not guaranteed to work tho.

 

Thanks for the reply. How would I go about doing something like that?

 

[simplex]

As @DeathDisciple said, this is a vanilla bug, and I don't see how Compromising Survival could've triggered it in any way. Instead, the level switch (due to disabling the FrontEnd) just prevented the popup from showing.

And I put an explicit check for the "file_load" death cause, your case when reloading the save, where Compromising Survival just let's the game do its thing without interfering.

Nonetheless, I should be able to fix your save files manually. Do you know how to find your save files? Steam being your Steam installation directory, they're in

Steam/userdata/$STEAMID/219740/remote

whre $STEAMID is your numerical Steam ID (if you just use one Steam account in your computer, there should only be one folder there). I'll need the files 'saveindex' and all files starting with 'survival_N_' or 'cave_N_', where N is the number of the slot you were playing in.

[Zackrb7]

simplex

 

I'll need the files 'saveindex' and all files starting with 'survival_N_' or 'cave_N_', where N is the number of the slot you were playing in.

 

Thank you so much for the help. Here are those files.

cave_3_1_1.txt

saveindex.txt

survival_3.txt

[Zackrb7]

Also, sorry for posting this in the Mod section. I thought that the lack of resurrection prompt meant that the mod was involved. Thanks again for helping.

 

 

[simplex]

Also, sorry for posting this in the Mod section. I thought that the lack of resurrection prompt meant that the mod was involved. Thanks again for helping.

No problem. If you had posted it in the bug tracker you'd probably just get the "this is in our list of known issues to fix some unspecified time in the future" reply. Singleplayer bug reports receive very little attention now that Klei is focused on DST.

Anyway, I fixed your saves. I only had to edit 'saveindex'. Replace your 'saveindex' file with this one (first removing its '.txt' extension) and you should be good to go:

saveindex.txt

I set your health to 50.

Edited January 14, 2015 by simplex

[kraken121]

No problem. If you had posted it in the bug tracker you'd probably just get the "this is in our list of known issues to fix some unspecified time in the future" reply. Singleplayer bug reports receive very little attention now that Klei is focused on DST.

 

lol could not have said it better myself How long has this been going on.....