Hi there. I just wanted to let you know that I am aware that some players have been having issues with saving and loading their games.
Since releasing Dinkum I have paid as much care as possible to keeping player’s saves throughout the entire Early Access period. This always has been and continues to be very important to me.
For the Summer Sun Update we made a lot of changes to the internal of Dinkum, including writing a new save system. The old system was very bloated - it had far too many separate files and often caused problems with Steam Cloud syncs. The new system is much smaller, taking the file amount down from around 60 files to just 3.
The Summer Sun update was tested publicly for over three weeks, this was in part due to my concerns with the new save system. Over those 3 weeks, a lot of bugs were reported, but no issues were found relating to players using the new save system.
However, since the public release, some rare cases of save file corruption have been reported. For anyone that has experienced this I would like to sincerely apologize. I know how much some player’s islands mean to them and I can not express my regret enough.
I have been working tirelessly on improving the new save system and I’ve included these changes in this hotfix. I am hopeful that these changes will mitigate any further problems.
Once again, I apologize if your save was affected by these changes.
I hope this hotfix prevents these kinds of problems in future.
Thank you everyone for your understanding and patience,
James
Patch notes:
- Fixed a problem that prevented some games from saving and loading correctly
- Fixed a problem that prevented save slots from appearing correctly
- Decreased save and load time
- Increased probability of rain for some seasons
- Fixed the Festive Roo Plush changing to regular Roo Plush when picked up
- Festive Roo Plush will no longer appear in shops and is no longer orderable