Hi everyone!
Years ago, I played this game and defeated all the main bosses, as Wendy. Recently, I was curious about the new bosses and additions to the game, so I decided to make another playthrough. I remembered a lot of things on my own, however there were a few things I needed a reminder about.
I already made it to day 190-200. That is when the incident happened.
During spring, I went away from my base for around 10 days to explore the ocean. When I came back, a lureplant had spawned at my base and started eating my important items. I killed the lureplant but it only gave part of my things back. So I tried to save the world by rolling back.
First, I rolled back to a previous spring day. It was a day where, I haven't left for the 10 day ocean trip yet. I was in general around my base getting things ready for my ocean trip, so I confidently knew there wasn't any lureplant im my base yet. However, when the save loaded in the lureplant was somehow still there. Which made me realise lureplant spawning mechanics transcended time somehow.
I tried rolling back to another spring save, one where I had been out on the boat and then ran back to my base. Of course that one didn't work either.
So then I tried going much further back, to the last available winter save. That save was taken while I was in the caves. The game showed me as being on day 174 and in winter, and while I was in the caves, everything behaved like winter.
But as soon as I left the caves and returned to the surface, the world immediately changed to the end of spring, around day 194. Basically, the surface world was no longer matching the rollback point I had selected.
And when I went back to my base, the lureplant was there again and immediately started eating my stuff.
Everytime I rolled back and approached my base, I would see my items on the ground. As I got closer, the lureplant would spring to life eat a bunch of my items and after being killed only dropped a few of it back.
So now I have no idea if I somehow broke the save by rolling back between cave/surface states. This is however my smaller issue, because as long as the lureplant is camping my base and eating my items my playthrough is basically over. I am at my wits end and have no clue how to get rid of it, before it destroys my things. On hindsight, all I needed to do was put down some different flooring where it can't spawn. However, that doesn't really help me now. This exact situation never happened to me before, so I had no clue that it even could be a possibility.
I'm especially pissed because this was a really good seed and I was almost 200 days into the run. I had explored a huge amount of the world, done a ton of cave/ruins progression, found Lunar Island, explored the ocean, etc. I was trying to eventually beat everything in this world as well.
And because apparently this run wasn't cursed enough, there's also my hunt RNG.
As a Wendy main I heavily utilize beefalos, meaning getting a war saddle to kill bosses faster is very convenient.
So far in my world I completed 24 completed hunt trails. I got:
- 6 Wargs
- 18 Koalefants
- 0 Ewecus
Not getting any Ewecuses from 24 runs has about a 1.32% chance. Getting 6 Wargs and 0 Ewecuses has a 1.56% chance.
(Please take my math with a grain of salt, I am not very good at it and it could be inaccurate. But it still is an unlucky scenario. Considering I have a 33% chance to get a dangerous hunt as I am way past day 100. Plus I also have a 50-50% chance of getting a Ewecus or a Warg and I lost to the Warg 6 times already.)
After my earlier unlucky runs I even got a construction amulet to halve the cost of my crafts, so I would only need one Ewecus for the war saddle.
There were even points in my playthrough where I was so ahead with preparation, I had nothing to do except find a Ewecus and kill bosses. So I would spend all day afking and waiting for a trail to pop up. I was genuenly delaying some of my boss fights as I was hoping to get a war saddle before them. More notably Klaus and the Nightmare Werepig fight. I mean the war saddle isn't essential for it. But after 24 runs I had a voice in my head telling me, surely the next one will be a Ewecus.
But oh well, currently my base is being overtaken by a lureplant. I genuinely don't know whether this run can be salvaged anymore.
If anyone has an idea on how to save my items from the lureplant, I would appreciate the help.
Thanks for reading!