Game quits out to main menu without saving previous day when ending the current day

[spare sierra]

My friend and I had this happen twice to us tonight. It doesn’t happen every time, but on two separate occasions we were playing multiplayer together and after a full day we both went to bed and instead of saving and ending the day it sent me, the host, to the stairway games logo and then the main menu. We’ve lost two days over this. Can’t play the game if progress isn’t saved. We’re both playing on Xbox. Thanks.

[undone fulcrum]

Hello @spare sierra Thanks for bringing this to our attention! 😊

Could you let us know which platform both the Host and Guest are playing on (Xbox PC/series S/series X) and what your current game version is?

Thanks in advance for the details!

[spare sierra]

I’m playing on Xbox and my friend ha since told me that she’s playing on pc. The version of the game is the most recent up to date one.

[undone fulcrum]

Thanks for the update! 😊
Just to confirm, which Xbox are you playing on? And is your friend playing on PC via Steam? Also, who was hosting the session?

[spare sierra]

I was playing on the series x and I was hosting. My friend was on the pc xbox app

[sterile veldt]

This has been happening repeatedly to me and a friend in multiplayer too. Him on ps5, me on xbox series s hosting. We noticed it happens more if we play too many consecutive days in game so we let it save on day 2 or 3 and close the game completely and reload, we've had less issues doing this but it's still frustrating to have to do

[plush merlin]

It also seems to be a multiplayer focused issue as well. I have played several days on my solo game and I've had 0 issues.

[pallid ledge]

Hi everyone @spare sierra @sterile veldt @plush merlin ,I’m also part of the team and just following up on this — really sorry to hear you’ve been having trouble saving the game 😞

Would you mind sharing what both the Host and Guest were doing on the in-game day when the save failed? Also, did you see any error message, or were you just sent back to the home screen? Any details you can remember would really help us look into this further!

[plush merlin]

I was the guest on Darthxmas' save and we did normal day things. Caught bugs, talked to townies, I was diving and He was working on chatting with different townies and filling requests. There were no major events on any of the days that the game quit to main menu, other than one of the days was a townie's birthday. On my screen, we would both gone to bed to end the day and I would catch a glimpse of the 'end of day' screen and then it would take me back to the main screen with a note saying the host lost internet connection. On his end it does say/do something else before taking him back to the main menu. This would happen either every other day or every 2 days. When we reload the save the day is restarted from the beginning so anything we had completed that day we had to redo. (I am the one on PC/Xbox app. Host, Darth, is on Xbox Series X)

[pallid ledge]

I see, thanks so much for sharing some more details on what happened! Could you recall if during that day, you also finished any quest, placed anything new around the land/underwater farm, upgraded any tool or building, or built any new building? 😲

[plush merlin]

I believe that the very first time it happened I stopped at the black smith and paid to upgrade my scythe to silver. On another day I know Darth had placed a bunch of stone paths, but when that day failed we didn't replace them again as we found another way to lay our crops for the season. The final time it happened I know he had gathered some flowers around town and had gathered some new bugs that we were going to donate, and I had finished the last two gold spire things in the bottom part of the map in the ocean.

We had also played together on the same save about a week and a half prior to the new patch update and we had 0 problems. The day we both updated our games and played it right after updating is the same day we had the connection issues, which was 3/16/26.

[pallid ledge]

Got it, thanks for sharing those extra details and your observations with us! 😉

Just to double-check, about how many hours had you been playing before the issue happened?

[plush merlin]

Not even an hour in, it happened at the end of the second day we played

world speed at 60%

[pallid ledge]

Thanks for confirming! On your next gameplay, would you mind sending screenshots of your in-game Multiplayer settings and Party Management page?

[plush merlin]

I can absolutely do that!

[sterile veldt]

It's happened multiple times and each time we've been doing different things, the one time it was after the spooky festival so we had to redo all of the mini games 😭 i just get sent back to the home screen after seeing a brief glimpse of the end day screen, no error message at all and my co op player sees a message saying lost connection or something similar. We've been having the issue for a couple months so pre-update and it tends to be the second or third day of us playing where it will happen

[spare sierra]

Hi, sorry for the waiting on me. When we go to bed and the screen goes to black the next thing I see is the stairway games logo before being returned to the main menu like I just started up the game. I have attached two photos of what you requested as well.

[plush merlin]

This is my multiplayer settings

[pallid ledge]

Got it, thanks for sharing more details with us!

You mentioned you had to redo the mini-games—do you remember if you went through them in the same order as before? And did the game save properly the second time around?

[pallid ledge]

Thanks for sharing your settings with us! Could you recall what you were doing before going to bed? Such as if the Host or Guest completed any quest, upgraded anything, or triggered any events on that day 😲

[pallid ledge]

Thanks so much for sharing this with us!

If the issue happens again, feel free to send over the details of what you were doing in the game—we’re currently gathering as much info as we can to help investigate it further 🙏

[sterile veldt]

We did them in a different order since this time we knew what we were doing and then yes it did save properly the second time

[pallid ledge]

Got it, thanks so much for confirming! Do you happen to remember what you were doing on the first run, or what you did differently before the game was able to save?

[sterile veldt]

Not much, I know we did the haunted house first multiple times to see all the rooms, then i think maybe the ring toss and I can't remember after that. The second day we did the whack the skulls one first, then the scavenger hunt, ring toss and didnt do the haunted house at all since we'd already seen it

[idle shoal]

This has been happening to me as well. I am the host and I have stable connection and a really good computer. Its unplayable at this point. We lost SO much progress because the game just crashes before the new day starts and the game saves. It was once every few days and then now its almost every single day that the crash happens, all at the same time.

[pallid ledge]

Thanks for providing us with some additional information! Did any of you receive a crash log after the game quits without saving?

[pallid ledge]

So sorry to hear that it's also been happening to you as well, must be frustrating to keep losing your progress due to the crash 🥲

Could you let us know which platform the Hsst and Guest are playing from (Steam PC/Deck, Xbox PC/S/X, PlayStation 5)? And could you confirm if the crash mostly happens on the Host's part?

[idle shoal]

We are all on steam and its crashing on host part

[sterile veldt]

No, just back to the main screen as if we've just loaded the game

[pallid ledge]

Thanks for your confirmation! Did the host receive any crash log? They can retrieve it by copy-pasting the following file path into your Windows Explorer: %localappdata%\ProjectCoral\Saved\Crashes then filter the date to the most recent one and attach the .xml file here

[pallid ledge]

I see 😲 Was there any error message when that happened?

[sterile veldt]

I get no error message, my coop partner gets a host disconnected type message but thats all

[pallid ledge]

Thanks for your confirmation! If the issue happens again, would you mind run an internet speed test on the Host and Guest? This would help us narrow down the cause of the issue, thanks a lot in advance

[sterile veldt]

We usually do when it happens, just to make sure neither of us is having issues. Our speeds are the same as our usual average, mine is around 90-100mbps and Guest above 70

[idle shoal]

i checked and there is no crash log from these incidents

its just losing connection

all of our internet speeds are over 800 mbps

[pallid ledge]

I see, thanks for checking! Did the Host receive any error message when they got disconnected the first time?

[pallid ledge]

Thanks for letting us know! If the issue happens again, feel free to send over the details of what you were doing in the game—we’re currently still gathering as much info as we can to help investigate it further 🙏

[idle shoal]

Just says that the server disconnected

[idle shoal]

any updates on this crash?

[obtuse charm]

Can you try syncing time on your PC?

You can do it by going to:

• Start, then Settings, then Time & Language, then Date & Time
• Make sure “Set time automatically” is turned on, then click “Sync now.”

Let us know if this works for you! 😉

[undone fulcrum]

Thanks for keeping us posted on this.

Could you grab a screenshot of whatever message the host is seeing when it happens? Also, let us know if you've tried the steps that **wecouldtalk **shared and if the issue is still happening.

We want to make sure we've covered all the bases to get this fixed for you!

[obtuse charm]

Is this after syncing time on PC? Did both the guest and host sync or just one of you? Can you screenshot the time settings?

[undone fulcrum]

Another player in our community mentioned they were able to fix this issue by syncing their system timezone.
You could try the steps below to see if it helps:

• Select Start, then go to Settings > Time & Language > Date & Time
• Make sure “Set time automatically” is turned on
• Then click “Sync now” under the Synchronize your clock section

Could you let us know if this solution works on your end?

[spare sierra]

Is there a similar fix for console? My original issue was with me on xbox as the host and my friend was playing on pc. They just did the timezone sync on their end, but I don’t have anything like that for the Xbox.

[obtuse charm]

can you clarify if after your friend did the time sync on their PC the issue still persists or not?

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