Stuck in the sky

[proud juniper]

So I was flying to a new island and crafting on a ship while traveling. I stopped to get my bearings straight and everything became unclickable on my ship. The helm, the sails, crafting table, the forge, storage containers, etc. It doesn't give me any option to press "E" to access the object. I tried dying and respawning. I have completely exited the game and reloaded the saved world. It just loads me back to my ship and everything bugged out.

I can start a new world and bring with me everything on myself. But everything on ship is currently locked away since I cannot interact with storage. 😭

[errant mulch]

I -may- have discovered an accidental workaround to this when it happened to me. I disassembled a decoration (simple bedroll) on my ship and once I picked up the dropped components, I could interact with my ship and fixtures again. Try it and see if it works for you

[final igloo]

I have this same issue right after building the research table on my ship when i left the first island, and i tried to see if doing this worked, and it did not, even took down a chest (dropped an item into the void doing so) and i had a split second that i could interact with it before again not being able to interact with anything at all..

[errant mulch]

Well crap. I was really hoping I'd found a workaround in case it happens again. Sorry 😦

[proud juniper]

Same issue. I discovered I can dismantle the storage containers and I have a second to grab items dropped before it all bugs out again. I eventually gave up and died respawning at the Ark. I can interact with the Ark computer in my world and things on the starting islands. It is only everything on my ship, which is now parked in the middle of nowhere between islands, that is locked down.

[final igloo]

Right, exactly same with me. But that essentially means starting over, and i literally packed up everything ive ever collected onto the ship. ><

[proud juniper]

I feel ya. I honestly am going to take a break from playing and see if the next patch will fix it. I spent hours hoarding everything onto my ship and I am not desperate enough to start over... yet. 🥲 😂

[wintry rivet]

I got the same issue

[final igloo]

Saaaame, exactly! 🥲 😂

[proud juniper]

So I got my ship back! Where I left off, I had respawned at the Ark which forces you to deregister your ship. So I started a new world and collect materials to build another shipyard and a basic ship to take back to my main save to fly out to my locked down vessel. It didn't work...

for some reason after I collected all the materials and loaded my main save it brought me back to my deregistered, bugged out ship. Then I lost everything when I respawned because I wasn't expecting that to happen and my belt was fully loaded with gear that I cannot lose. Be aware that might happen to you.

So in my main save at the Ark on the starting islands, I again collected all the materials to build a shipyard and a basic ship to fly out to my bugged out main vessel. I was afraid of getting too close to my main vessel in case the bug was contagious. So I stopped high above my main vessel and glided down. I was surprised to find everything working again on my main ship.

So in summary. build a new ship and fly out to your bugged out vessel. Everything should be operable that way, at least it was for me.

In case this happens again, I am keeping my "lifeboat" ship docked at the Ark so next time I can immediately fly out to my main vessel to unlock it 😂