lone field
Reproduction Steps:
QA brain couldn't help itself. I reloaded 10 times, it never occured again. I had been playing all evening from the start of the game, so had gone through the cherry blossom festival in the same session (which functioned as normal)
wanton path
Hello @lone field,
Thanks a lot for sharing this with us!
I get the QA brain urge to test things 
—really appreciate you doing that! 💙
We’ve heard from a few other players that this can happen in different festivals too, but so far, we haven’t been able to reproduce it on our side.
Quick check—did it happen when you played straight through from the day before (like D-1 Tree Planting Festival) into Festival Day (Spring 21) without reloading your save?
lone field
Hello <@439993513548185600>,
Thanks a lot for sharing this with us!
I get the Q...
I believe I had been playing straight through since the start of the game. Since then I've been loading saves and not had the issue with any other festivals (I've been playing a ton over the weekend and am at spring year 2 now)
I'll likely be running through the rest of spring tonight/tomorrow night so I'll keep an eye if I can get any better repro info
I'll start backing up my saves manually in case it crops up
wanton path
I'll likely be running through the rest of spring tonight/tomorrow night so I'll...
Thanks for confirming so quickly! And yes, kindly let us know if you have any other info about this.
If you play on Steam, you could also enable the Steam Recording feature to record your gameplay. You can see how to do it here: #1222877204233584722 message
In the meantime, we will also keep actively investigating the issue. Thank you sooo much! 
lone field
Thanks for confirming so quickly! And yes, kindly let us know if you have any ot...
No worries! I work in games QA so tend to have recording set up already, but because it takes so much disc space I don't tend to record a 12 hour binge of a game outside of work hours haha