Bug: Game crashes at a specific part of the swamp

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Playing the game on a dedicated G Portal server with friends.

At a certain spot in the swamp we settled the game will crash on walking in there. We've rebooted the server, re-installed game, disabled Steam and Nvidia overlays. None has made a difference.

Both myself and a friend have experienced the crash at the same location - I'm in Australia, he is in the USA. None of the others have tested it.

The crash happens near a swamp dungeon. There is also a set of stone spiral stairs leading downwards nearby. Can't see much more than that other than normal looking swamp as it cashes at that point when approaching the area.

My friend managed to run into the dungeon once, and his game then crashed while inside the dungeon.

Not sure if it is tied to a certain monster, environment feature etc. Can't investigate further due to the crashes. It is consistent behavior, I've crashed in the same area about 10-15 times trying to work it out.

Other than this one spot the game works perfectly.

Under consideration Suggested by: Xenoun (15 Feb, '21) • Upvoted: 19 May, '22 • Comments: 6

Comments: 6

19 Feb, '21
Eeuwe
Similar problem is happening to me now. Bringing iron from a dungeon to my stash near the portal so I can sail it home. It's a swamp area. More specifically, the area where we killed Bonemass. It's littered with dungeons. I crashed about five times now. It might be a specific region I walk through. So far it only happened here in this region. I'll try walking around it. See if it solves my personal problem.
21 Feb, '21
hasano5
hey, yes I had the same problem. I have the link of the structure here - https://imgur.com/a/spTaArK

It covers a small portion of my map. I kept crashing when I was going closeby from different side and I couldn't figure out why it was happening but this is the first time I got close to the dungeon and am pretty sure, given this post, that it does something.
23 Feb, '21
Mairsil
I'm experiencing something similar. I've got 131 hours in the game and it has fully crashed only 3 times, all at the same (or very close to the same) spot on my map. Mine is also near a swamp dungeon, though not actually in the swamp biome. It's up on a hill in Plains biome that is transitioning down the hill into the swamp and the dungeon is right on the edge of the change. I've gone hours between with no issues and explored a lot of the area around where I know the spot is without issues, but the moment I walk into that specific spot, crash. Mine is a personal world without a dedicated server, just running on my PC.
23 Feb, '21
Schade
The same happens for me. If I try to enter anywhere near the center of the swamp the game/server crashes every time.
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24 Feb, '21
Aeliatare
I have a similar issue on my dedicated server with a dungeon in the mountain area.

Both my and my friend's game would freeze in a specific area
We worked out that it was to do with a specific skeleton spawner, when it activates and tries to spawn an enemy, it causes the crash.

There are such spawners in the swamp.
Once we managed to get to the spawner and destroy it before it tried to spawn, the crash no longer occurred.
28 Feb, '21
Gerisse
I've been having the same issue but it's at the shoreline of the swamp. We've lost many ships trying to unglitch them, but we haven't had any luck. It's been super frustrating.