Warning! Stranger Sins DLC Save Bug!

[Eternal21]

If you try to create a Graveyard Fest, your game will get in a state where you can no longer save, and your plants stop growing.  Since you need tons of wine to get more reputation to create more Fests (for the 15 event trophy), you are essentially screwed.

 

Here's what you need to do to work around the trophy.

1. Do not create any Graveyeard Fests, until you earn all the other trophies (creating other events is fine).

2. Once you are at the point where 'The Show Must Go On' is your only trophy left (create 15 events) do the following.

3. Make about 1000 Gold star bottles of gold star wine, and keep it at your own basement (not in the tavern basement) .  It takes about 70 bottles of wine to earn 1 reputation star.

4. Once you have all that ready, save the game by sleeping.

5. After that you can start bringing the wine over to the tavern, waiting about two days for the 3 stars to appear, organize 3 Graveyard Fests, rinse and repeat.

 

The best setup for wine is building 5 Wine Making barrels in the basement.  Why?  Because the maximum yield from seeding all Grape fields on the upper level is about 150 Gold Grapes (that's assuming you are using Fertilizer II on each one, and combining with Shoots and Roots prayer).  150 Gold Grapes can be turned into 10 Buckets of Grape Juice, which can be turned simultaneously into Gold Wine in 5 Wine Barells (2 buckets per barrel).  It takes about 5 days for the seeds to grow into grapes, so just keep meditating in between to speed up time.

1000 bottles of wine will take up two entire trunks, and take 10 grow cycles.  You will want to have 190 Fertilizer II to get this done.

 

Don't bother with alcohol or beer, Gold Wine raises reputation the most.

[Whirled03]

I wish I had read your post before starting, since I just got hit by that save bug today, and it cost me a couple of hours.

 

It does seem to do with the Graveyard Event, and it messes up some process that stops basically everything; not only crops will stop growing, but eventually you won't be able to progress through the quest line either. I was on a part of the quest where it tells you to talk to Dig, but he literally disappeared from my game once I hit this bug.

 

So yeah you certainly want to do the 15 event trophy (and getting the "excellent" rating on one of the parties) separately from the quest line.

 

On 5/17/2020 at 7:50 PM, Eternal21 said:

3. Make about 1000 Gold star bottles of gold star wine, and keep it at your own basement (not in the tavern basement) .  It takes about 70 bottles of wine to earn 1 reputation star.

 

Don't bother with alcohol or beer, Gold Wine raises reputation the most.

 

Although Wine does seem to raise reputation the best, I think getting 1000 Gold Wine seems like overkill. Beer doesn't give as much, but it's significantly easier to make: Gold Hops, the item as well as the Seed, can be bought from Miller (who is available everyday), whereas only Gold Grape Seeds are available from the Merchant (who is only available 1 day).

 

It is possible to expedite the process a bit (to get more Gold Grape Seeds) by using Quality Fertilizer 2 on Silver Grape Seeds, but it takes more management of other things to create the Fertilizer.

 

The conversion from Grape to Grape Juice should also be considered; it takes 15 Grapes for 1 Juice, and 2 Juice to make Wine, whereas you can directly make Beer from Hops, and it only needs 3 Hops per Beer. On top of that, the Beer making time is significantly faster than how long it takes to make Wine. So the little bit of math there is that it takes 30 Grapes for 20 Wine, whereas 30 Hops will give you 100 Beer. At least I think those numbers are right.

 

Of course, that doesn't account for the fact that Beer needs Water (which is really annoying to get a lot of as it turns out), or the Wheat, but I suppose it's just how you want to approach it. Mead also works though, so if you have a stockpile of Honey, that's also an option over Wheat.

 

Ultimately it just depends on how you want to approach it, it seems like there's not really an "ideal" way to do it, it's all probably pretty valid. I just personally preferred having Beer going while I worked on other things. For me, it would drive me a little crazy waiting on that many Grapes lol

[Montyzu]

I have only the 15 events trophy left but you guys are saying to make gold quality wine or beer to get reputation but in my game the tavern doesnt sell gold quality items at all, only during the events, on a day to day basis it only sells bronze or silver items.

 

And the save bug is still not fixed, after almost 1 year. I need to do 10 events, I just saved the game with 3 stars and 99% since its the maximum you can save up, guess now I will have to grind an entire day without stopping for the other 6 reputation.

[Eternal21]

It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure the tavern keeps selling any quality of alcohol, as long as it's placed on a basement rack.

[Montyzu]

21 hours ago, Eternal21 said:

It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure the tavern keeps selling any quality of alcohol, as long as it's placed on a basement rack.

You are right. I was putting it into the barkeep inventory. His inventory are only the items to be sold during events.

[HuntingFever]

Does today's 1.05 patch, fix this bug?

[Pinselneo]

11 hours ago, HuntingFever said:

Does today's 1.05 patch, fix this bug?

It should be fixed now. It also fixed my damaged savegame, where I had an endless loop of a sequence. I am so happy that I can play it now.

[HuntingFever]

38 minutes ago, Pinselneo said:

It should be fixed now. It also fixed my damaged savegame, where I had an endless loop of a sequence. I am so happy that I can play it now.

Nice one .

[Procyon1981]

This is still not fixed, saving after doing graveyard events still prevents saving... you just get stuck on the saving progress screen

Edited August 30, 2022 by Procyon1981

[dieselmanchild]

So I just got this trophy a few minutes ago and it’s 100% still bugged. Thank goodness I saw this thread ahead of time and so I was prepared. Thank you @Eternal21!
 

I looked around online and the general consensus seems to be that running 2 ‘Graveyard Fest’ events in a row is what causes this bug. But after running a few tests myself I would honestly advise avoiding Graveyard Fest entirely.

 

I saved this trophy for last, then I backed up my save to the cloud and ran back-to-back Graveyard Fests a few times in a row to see what would happen. The save bug still exists, but more often than not your game is likely to just freeze up or crash before even leaving the tavern. This happened to me almost every time I tried it.

 

After that I decided I would alternate between events, throwing in a Graveyard Fest every other event. This seemed to work at first, but it didn’t take long before my game started freezing or crash again within minutes after finishing the Graveyard Fest event.

 

I started over again from my save and decided to spend the extra resources just alternating between the slightly more expensive Rat Race & Comedy shows and ignoring Graveyard Fest altogether. It takes a little bit longer since you have to reach 2-star rep every time, but once I started ignoring Graveyard Fest I didn’t encounter another problem until the trophy popped. To be safe, make sure to warp home and sleep (save game) before running any event in case something goes wrong. And I would highly recommend backing up your save to the cloud before tackling this trophy just in case things take a turn for the worse.

 

Thanks again Eternal. ?

[Long-Ryde]

Experiencing this bug now. Just came across this thread and this whole thread is still valid, your whole game basically stops working after you do a Graveyard event. NPCs stop showing up, which halts your quests. Plants stop growing. & When you save, your game freezes if it doesn’t manage to crash beforehand.

 

I personally don’t even have to do two in a row for it to essentially halt the entire game. If I do any events, it happens, so I’m going to just do it all at once (without saving) eventually since this game can’t seem to function under its own DLC.

[HuntingFever]

Did they ever fix this glitch?

[Masamune_Riku]

On 4/16/2023 at 4:32 PM, HuntingFever said:

Did they ever fix this glitch?

New patch just added in the new DLC as far as I know. More research is needed.

[Maartje_]

I previously avoided Graveyard Fests because I didn't want to screw up my save.

With the new patch (1.6) I just ran 3 Graveyard Fests in a row, without leaving the tavern. It seems to be softlocking during saving now. So I guess it's not fixed yet.

I noticed that using the teleport stone didn't work as usual, I had to press x to activate the options in the menu of the stone. After restarting and loading my save from before the Graveyard Fests, this menu worked like normal. So maybe the menu can be used as an early sign that stuff is messed up and you should quit and reload?

 

I didn't buy the new DLC though. Not sure if that makes a difference.

Edited April 19, 2023 by Maartje_

[sucuriju]

I can confirm that this bug is very much still present. Playing on PS5.   As Maartje_ above mentioned, you will know that it is bugged when you try to fast travel because the selection menu requires an extra press on the x button, so you can instantly reload to restore to a working state.

I achived this trophy by just doing comedy shows repeatedly while playing the game as normal instead of saving up and doing it all in one go.  Oddly though doing a perfect Greaveyard Feast did not softlock the game.

 

Got all DLC except Better save soul

 

Edited May 26, 2023 by sucuriju

[Shikotei-kun]

It's not a guarantee that this bug hits you when you do a Graveyard Fest.

My game didn't freeze, softlock, crash, or bug out characters after doing a single GF.

 

I will add that I have all DLC, and play on a basecase PS4.

 

That said, the game is unstable as hell. I've had at least 20 crashes. Mostly when going to bed, but there have been instances where I closed a container/crafting station and saw the game crashing to XMB. It's also happened a few times during a cutscene.