#Black Screen after diving past 23:00

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drowsy yacht
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Reproduction Steps: go out diving past 23:00 and usually you'd be tp-ed up but it's just a black screen

Describe what you were doing in the game before the bug occurred: Was diving and i didn't see the time, then it just went black screen.

Repro Rate: How often does the issue occur? (e.g. every time, occasionally, only once : tested it twice, happened twice.

In-Game Date & Time: Night, 23:00

Players & Platform: How many players joined? 2 people, both on steam

Game Version: v1.2-1238
Input Mode: Keyboard & Mouse

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wheat fern
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Hi @drowsy yacht , thank you for bringing this issue to our attention! Could you confirm if the issue happens on the Host's game or on Player 2's game? Does it always happen whenever you go diving past 23:00 or was it only a one time occurence?

drowsy yacht
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Hello! It happened when I was hosting the game, player 2 doesn't seem affected by it when they weren't diving and we didn't test it out furtherr

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but we tested it twice and after 23:00 it happened both times to me (as the host)

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we just kept player 2 on the shore so we didn't reset our day

steel violet
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Dont know if we are allowed to comment on these things but this also just happened to me in my co op game (im host) and did not affect my co op partner. I had to wait until the night ended and it was fixed when the new day started.

dreamy vessel
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(Per shei's request, moving comments from a duplicate thread to this one)

Confirming this. My wife and I are experiencing the same thing. It's not cutscene related as far as we can tell, but either player who dives until they would normally get forced out of the water at 2300 gets black-screened until they pass out.

Reproducible 100% of the time we dive too late. Like OP, we are also both playing on Steam/PC, mouse/keyboard, with the most recent patch.

Today, we progressed to the point that the Merfolk Kingdom was unlocked, and now this issue no longer occurs, leading us to believe the issue is with some kind of conflict between the multiplayer system and the way in which a player gets "emergency surfaced" to the dive pier.

We didn't think to test this at the time, but I went back and checked on a fresh file. Getting emergency surfaced due to exhaustion works normally, it's just the nighttime surfacing that breaks for us.

wheat fern
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Thank you everyone for sending in some additional information @drowsy yacht @steel violet @dreamy vessel ! If you’re able to replicate the issue, would you be able to record a video and share it with us here? It would be especially helpful if you could include both the Host’s and Guest’s points of view while the black screen issue is happening. That way, we can get a clearer understanding of what’s going on Chicken_Pondering_Emoji

teal bane
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I had this happen on ps5 with my partner. I am the host. First time it happened, I used too much energy and my screen went black, while my partner's screen was still normal (we were both underwater). He was able to go to bed and then the day ended at 2am like normal.
Then he was underwater, and it was 11pm so his diving time was up, and his screen went black. I went to bed and the day ended at 2am. So for us it happened to both host and player 2 in different scenarios.

dreamy vessel
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I tried today to get some recordings of the bug occurring, and it wasn't occurring for me. Again, I need to clarify that this is on a fresh file since our primary MP file (that the bug was occurring on) has progressed past the Merfolk Kingdom and therefore players can no longer be forcibly surfaced due to the day ending. I don't have an earlier backup of this file, so I have no way to test this specific case on a more "realistic" file. All I know for now is that the bug does not occur on the file where I slept 8 days, then dived in MP and waited until 2300 to be kicked out, or cleared trash until exhaustion and got surfaced. Both of those worked fine for host and guest.

The only thing I can think of is that either the more "mature" file has something to do with it, or a prolonged play session leads to more instability over time. Anecdotally, during an long date-night play session my wife and I also noticed some strange behavior with Rock Domino and with the guest's ability to harvest kelp, but after quitting the game and re-loading the save file, things started behaving normally again. We were going to post a separate bug tracking thread for the kelp issue as Rock Domino has already been documented, but after we tried the age-old "turning it off and on again," the issue never resurfaced.

I was able to capture footage of diving to exhaustion on the mature file, but post-Merfolk that leads to a "faint" rather than a emergency surface. This soft-locks the guest (they can't move or interact in any way), and they have to wait out the rest of the day until 0200, though I assume this is intended behavior since working until exhaustion in single player forcibly ends the day, so the multiplayer equivalent would probably be the exhausted player "faints" until 0200 when they would pass out, while the other players can continue playing normally.

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For us, these black screens happened between meeting Denali for the first time at 20m depth and unlocking the Merfolk Kingdom via the cutscene at the gate. Perhaps there is a hidden trigger in the code somewhere that changes the behavior from "emergency surface" to "faint -> wake up in Merfolk Kingdom housing" that is configured poorly or is acting up somehow? It seems like between meeting Denali for the first time and fully unlocking the kingdom via the cutscenes the player is left in some kind of indeterminate state that the game doesn't know how to handle correctly when a player reaches exhaustion or 2300.

To summarize our experiences:
Not reproducible on fresh file (before meeting Merfolk)
Not reproducible on post-Merfolk file
Reproducible (but we have no footage) between "meeting" Merfolk and unlocking the Kingdom fully.

teal bane
vernal ermine
steel violet
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Also happened after meeting the merfolk and never once before then. We got kicked out of diving many times but only after meeting merfolk did I get the black screen

violet heart
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Same thing is happening to me: I have to sit and wait and get les stamina because I didn't make it to bed on time, but once the day ends it turns to normal. Sorry didn't catch the clip when it went to 23:00/11:00(pm). But got the clip of it catching the next day after being black screen.

tribal copper
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THIS JUST HAPPENED TO ME

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im hoping i dont have to restart bc i did so much today đŸ˜­

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didnt have to restart yipeeee but i did have to wait for pass out

fallen sonnet
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Happened to me as well. I'm the host. Player 2 was in the mines and is unaffected

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1.2-1238

lusty hare
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I can confirm this has happened to my husband on our multiplayer session. we have been able to reproduce the issue twice, once yesterday and once today. I am the host for all sessions. I had already met the mermaids and we were working on silver kelp area. Both times I was not underwater but player b was. I was able to teleport down to the diving area since those were unlocked (to see if I could trigger something or assist), but I as player A remained in land clothes and could run normally. Was able to locate player b ( who was frozen in diving gear) but no anchor or kibble. We waited out the clock for the day and played b fully quit out of the game. It treated it like I passed out but player b logged back in the next day and still had all the items in his inventory from right before the glitch.

stuck edge
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This happened to me as well, but I was playing singleplayer, and it happened twice.

I was collecting bronze kelps at the Sepulu area, 11PM came, the screen went blank, but the diving music was still playing. I force quit the game, replayed the entire day, went diving again, same thing. I think on both occasion I was harvesting.
It happened on 1st year, fall season. I've activated 19 cleaning devices so far.

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After waiting for about an hour, the screen is still black and the diving music is still playing, seems like I have to restart again đŸ¥²

1.2-1238

midnight sluice
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Came to check if this had been reported, cause I'm having the same issue. For my game it's happening to Player 2 each time we are forced out at 23:00, and as host my screen is fine and I go to bed and we have to wait until Player 2 passes out for the next day to start and everything re-sets.
Reading through the comments here, we are also in that stretch between meeting Denali and finding the Mermaid Kingdom, which I wouldn't have connected. In Year 1 Spring.

wheat fern
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Hi everyone @tribal copper @fallen sonnet @fallen sonnet @stuck edge @midnight sluice , I'm so sorry to hear that the issue is also happening for you! If you could replicate the issue, could you record a video and send it here? This would greatly assist us in investigating the issue.

And if you are playing on Steam, could you send your latest Save File and Backup Files here so we can take a closer look? Thank you goatlove2

fallen sonnet
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Can't at the moment, already unlocked mermaid village so the 11pm yoink doesn't trigger

wheat fern
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Hi everyone, I'm here to confirm that we are currently checking on it. For now, as a workaround, please dive from the pier to avoid the issue while we investigate. Thanks so much for your understanding laugh2