Mayors Staff went missing after digging up dog dirt

[spiral solstice]

After I gave the dog the steak outside the Mayors Mansion, and dug up with dirt using the shovel, the staff went missing and I could no longer find it. (Xbox Gamepass for PC).

[grave sundial]

same here, did you fix it somehow?

Reloading doesn't work for me, as the dirt is already gone and the Mayors Staff was still nowhere around.

[fallen sequoia]

same for me too

[spiral solstice]

Nope

Its a real shame

[severe gust]

Just happened to me too. My inventory was full when I dug it up and then it disappeared. Tried restarting last save point and it didn’t work

[spiral solstice]

ye same, my inventory was full

do u think that could be the main issue maybe?

[severe gust]

Yes I think so.

[spiral solstice]

its a shame we cant have multiple saves

or try to reload a mission from a specific point

rather than all of it

would make the game more enjoyable and would make me not regret it lol

[severe gust]

I completely agree. I don’t think I’ll complete the game because I don’t want to restart all the way over

[severe gust]

Soooo I did restart the entire game and got back to the point. When I went for the staff again, it shot across the yard and I had to search for it again. So it is possible it did the same for you? It didn’t go into my inventory automatically

[spiral solstice]

Yeah, I watched a youtuber doing the mission, it falls on the floor. But I tried looking and unsure where it is, mustve been flung far into space or something like that, quite ridiculous

[crimson patrol]

its quite annoying, I waited 2 days because in act 3 the shovel went missing and now this staff went flying and is now missing too. I went back to the first house to check if it was there cause thats where the shovel ended up being but it is not there

[severe gust]

My shovel also went missing too. But I found on Reddit there was another spawn for a different shovel. Definitely very bugged

[iron turtle]

Hi, thank you for letting us know of this. We will look through all your reported issues and do our best to address them. In the meantime, please ensure that the game is always up-to-date! Have a great day, and we hope you enjoy playing Hello Neighbor 2!

[grave sundial]

Well, I reset my progress and started all over. But it actually didn’t take that long (~20min). What helped me enormously was that I took a picture of the code for the safe in the hunters garden.
That way I just had to get the shovel and I basically skipped this chapter. If I’m allowed to, I can post the coder here so you don’t have to run through it again

[grave sundial]

Or just watch a walk through and skip to the codes etc.

[spiral solstice]

You did the whole game all again?