Joining During Sleep Cutscene Permanently Wipes Player Data!

[real sequoia]

Description
If a player joins the host’s game during a sleep/day-transition cutscene (such as a dream sequence), the joining player is placed in their home but becomes stuck waiting for other players to sleep.
Meanwhile, the host’s game shows the "waiting for players to respond" prompt for that player, causing all players to be soft-locked.

The only way to proceed is for the host to forcibly close the game via external means (e.g., Alt+F4, Task Manager).
When the host reloads the save, the joining player’s character is reset to default, losing:
• All items (except tools)
• All clothing
• All customizations (except name)
• possibly all skill levels (i don't know, i didn't ask but it'd make sense that it would)
• possibly all relationship levels (i don't know, i didn't ask but it'd make sense that it would)

This effectively wipes the joining player’s progress and appearance.

Reproduction Steps
1: Host is in a day-transition cutscene (sleep/dream)
2: Second player joins during the cutscene
3: Both players become stuck in separate, unresolvable states
4: Host must forcibly close the game
5: Upon reload, joining player’s character is completely reset

Repro Rate
Once so far — not tested again due to risk of data loss

In-Game Date & Time
Spring 6 → Spring 7, Year 1

Players & Platform
2 Players on Steam
• Host: Toby (controller) (myself)
• Joining Player: Lilly (KB/M) (not in the discord server but i can get you in contact if needed)

Game Version
v1.2-1238

Host PC Specs
• CPU: Ryzen 9700X
• RAM: 32GB Fury Beast 5200MHz
• GPU: RTX 5070
• Drives:
– 1TB NVMe (x2)
– 1TB HDD (x2)
– 1TB SATA SSD (game installed here)

Attachments
Host save file available, and included backup save file

added backup data from 1 game day before the bug occurrence for testing:
dailySave_1.sav = bugged current save
SaveBackup_1_7.sav = dream sequence save, bug already there now
SaveBackup_1_6.sav = save from day before, no bug yet, need to go to town center to talk to mayor about town rank, otherwise dream doesn't play

[remote coral]

Hello @real sequoia,
Thank you for bringing this to our attention, and so sorry for the inconvenience. 🙇‍♀️

Do you happen to have a video or screenshot showing the guest/joining player’s character resetting to default? Also, did the character appear without any clothes when this happened?

[real sequoia]

i didn't have a screenshot or video but i did load up the saves for a screenshot of the management window, though their picture does show clothes, they actually did not have clothes when they logged in,

we have avoided the bug since we reverted to the backup by avoiding them joining whenever there was a cutscene playing or when the day was transitioning

[real sequoia]

sorry forgot to hit the reply button, and no worries, the issues was waay less devastating when i found out there are daily backups of the files, so that's a really good feature you guys came up with

[remote coral]

Hello CozyToby,
Thank you for sharing the details, and I’m sorry for the delayed response.

I’m glad to hear you were able to use the Backup feature instead of continuing after the issue happened—that’s definitely the safer option! I’ll pass this along to the team so they can investigate further, and we’ll reach out if we need any additional info.

Thank you so much! 🙏

[tribal path]

Hi @real sequoia, thank you so much for your patience and for sharing all the information above 🙏

Our team has fixed the problem that led to guest character resets in version v1.2-1241, so it should no longer happen moving forward.
Unfortunately, the fix can’t recover the progress that was already lost, as this is due to failed data replication.

We completely understand how disheartening this must be, especially after all the time and effort you’ve put into your character.
Please know that your reports were incredibly helpful in identifying the root cause and ensuring this doesn’t happen again to others in the future.

Thank you again for your patience and understanding 🙇‍♀️

[real sequoia]

No worries! I’m glad you figured it out, we didn’t actually lost progress permanently, there were backups that returned us to the day before so we were able to recover! Just figured I’d let y’all know!