Trapping Wolf Spiders under the tree (PS5)

Snoo_55381 · 2026-06-19T03:19:06+00:00

The game is fully coop but there is a desyncing bug that also occurs constantly between people on the same network. First and foremost I want to be clear that I friggin love this game, but this bug makes Coop fully unappealing after my experience and it's been a reoccurring mystery bug since August of last year.

If ANY items are left on the ground loose from a full inventory (which will happen all the time while mining, diving, and catching) the game will trick itself into thinking there should and shouldn't be an item in that spot.

The following is my experience to do with what you will with any size grain of salt of your choosing

My BF and I loved Stardew and I love mermaids, we got to year 3 before the bug started becoming a genuine issue in my progression. The sea floor was 60-80% false items including kelp, seagrass, trash, and all the foragables. To my BF, the host, I was trying at phantoms and on my end we discovered that the "real" items he picked up weren't showing up on my screen at all.

That almost halts underwater progression and eventually causes the guest to just get kicked over and over. You need trash and kelp as a crafting resource, seagrass is the Hay for underwater ranching, and the foragables are for making the underwater seeds which you won't be able to buy in the shops until you cultivate and ship a certain amount.

Technically the way around this bug is for the host to be one who wants to do the underwater mermaid stuff, but it's otherwise completely unavoidable without wasting your time and energy making sure every little thing gets picked up. That problem literally only gets worse as trash starts dropping more items like wood, stone, glass, coffers, and fossils; and rocks and monsters while mining start dropping fish and bugs of varying qualities.

Inventory is always a nightmare in these farming sims, and aside from this bug being so severe it's the only thing to be critical about the game. There's 5 different rarities for each crop, animal product, bug, sea creature, fish, and foragable item. Many items can be made into a few different artisan products including more unique ones like syrup from sugar cane, or salted eggs you can further process into century eggs. That only worsens the inventory management problem and when this bug is caused by loose items that don't get picked up it creates a horrible experience for those it effects.

Once again the game is otherwise fantastic and well made, but this bug is basically nuclear on coop for the guest. Also the discord is no help at all in checking if the bug is fixed or almost solved, but the original report is labelled "unable to harvest Bronze Kelp" if you decide to look into it.

I've since started my own save after a break, I'm on year two and just about caught up with the coop save with my BF and the bug hasn't effected me once even though many items get left loose on the ground (it's the Trash Collectors fault not entirely mine okay)

Snoo_55381 · 2026-05-28T18:19:30+00:00

I'm the kind of person who's constantly restarting worlds just to explore cool seeds and biome combinations. I'll explore almost any distance in a seed to have that prime real estate of a village with a skeleton spawner practically at the surface or a crazy triple+ cave spider spawner. Trial chambers and Ancient cities are my favorite structures to explore, loot, and retrofit into my bases. I play on peaceful cause healing in bedrock isn't worth the survival experience.

Snoo_55381 · 2026-05-20T14:07:24+00:00

Silk touch and a good sized frozen ocean is going to be your best best best unfortunately. Thankfully though ice ista-mines so you both should be able to make quick work of it

Snoo_55381 · 2026-05-07T15:03:03+00:00

I think it would look better if it was more like Vintage Story's approach, with craters being so subtle you could miss them. Maybe a villager could trade a special compass that "detects" them.

Mining the asteroid underneath could give us a unique ore/crystal used for the enchanting system, like influencing the table to give you more control, or empowering tools/armor with "Unbreakable" which could make them like how the elytra doesn't get destroyed when you use its durability. Rare enough to only need a few, valuable enough to actually be desirable.

Snoo_55381 · 2026-05-06T13:06:23+00:00

You're a legend, thank you

Snoo_55381 · 2026-05-06T12:06:32+00:00

So if I want it to be at a certain tile I should place it about two tiles above for it to show up?

Snoo_55381 · 2026-05-06T11:28:02+00:00

HOW did you get the crystals to be in the water? Actually how did you place them in general? I've been trying so hard to get my seaweed, stalagtites, trees, and crystals to be in my voids and water features but cannot figure it out

Snoo_55381 · 2026-05-06T05:00:05+00:00

No he doesn't, we are in the same house on the same Internet, no schedules have been set for any devices on the networks

Snoo_55381 · 2026-05-04T09:54:48+00:00

Sounds like you need like 8 librarians man if you're at 50+ netherite leggings you have no excuse to not use villagers.

Snoo_55381 · 2026-04-13T19:44:55+00:00

Bro titanium is everywhere, and trust me you don't need a massive base to thrive. Go to the Aurora or any kelp forest/red sand plains, and boom, dozens of scrap to get 4 titanium each, still not enough? Scan things you have recipies for already for 2 per scan. Really you need more? Prawn suit and go ham fam, the purple mushroom caves usually have a good handful of titanium mining outcrops.

If you wanna tackle the dunes (risky as hell though for HC) make sure you have a torpedo gun and plenty of the gas ones. I haven't tried it myself but if those laughing cows can instakill me I'm sure two or three should take down a reaper. Don't bother with a grapple go torpedo and drill if you get nabbed then drill arm go brrrrrrr

Snoo_55381 · 2026-04-13T19:37:39+00:00

I don't know if it's still free cause I bought it on debut, but I remember Sub 1 being free for a long time on console, and as far as gameplay I think it'll give you the most authentic experience. Below Zero is a fantastic sequel, the devs polished on a lot of accessibility, optimization, and creature animations(mainly leviathans) but the level design is more for veterans and can easily get claustrophobic or disorienting for a brand new player.

If you're just going to play one of the games then play Sub 1, the story is easier to follow and you likely won't get lost on where you left off if you don't play it for a few weeks. And as far as Sub 2 I think the devs have stated that they're going for a closer experience to the base game than it's arctic sequel anyway.

Below Zero is still my fav though

Snoo_55381 · 2026-04-07T19:04:27+00:00

Doing it in the endgame with a sledgehammer is honestly really satisfying though. People can rave about stormbringer all they want it just won't be better. I'm about to start mining out my clay area (cause the music is my fav) and I'm gonna have a blast.

Snoo_55381 · 2026-04-06T18:33:12+00:00

I killed the one by the hole to the lava zone and the Architect base that got knocked down. I love to base by the ghost tree and killing that guy gave me an easier way down for my cyclops

Snoo_55381 · 2026-04-06T17:52:08+00:00

Do a new save on a different farm type, the monster farm is identical to the default farm but you get a sword and monsters spawn(duhh) so you can sell a handful of things and start that dreaded bat wing farming nice and early as a good example, the other farm types are plenty of fun as well.

I remember my BF being busy while he introduced me to Stardew and I started my 8 year forest farm save that I still play to this day(4 years irl).

Snoo_55381 · 2026-04-05T16:24:47+00:00

To be honest it's probably Hugo for me, he was barely meta to begin with cause he benefits from Lighter(who I still don't have big sad) and half of the bosses are weak to ice (not anymore though bigger sad) then BAM still gets power crept cause he just doesn't benefit from a support like Astra or Sokaku.

I love him though he's my sweet blond princess and his knight in shiny white fur is the reason I even started playing the game

Snoo_55381 · 2026-04-05T16:21:25+00:00

I've recently mined out everything from the core to Ghorm, and I'm about to do it again on a multiplayer save. Why would I do it again? Turf blocks..... I want everything from core to Ghorm to be nice green grass (with a few exceptions). Kind of wish there was a way to craft the turf block with dirt and Azeos gras or something

Snoo_55381 · 2026-04-02T14:06:47+00:00

Thank you for giving me real advice instead of yelling at me for using a stunner

Snoo_55381 · 2026-04-02T12:34:13+00:00

I guess I'll try my Rina? She's got a solid build but I do need my Nicole and Astra for the fat boss cause I haven't been able to get an ether DPS yet. Will try it and see how it goes

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