I'll lead with the problem, and details of playthrough to follow

I was playing by myself working around the base, i was going onto my new building I'm constructing, going up small mound near a teleporter and a chest with boars and wolves all around me and pushing me(so maybe thats a clue).... Then suddenly I'm rubber banded like 150ft to my characters right side and land i guess luckily in the middle of the river.. so i didn't take fall damage it almost felt like a rubber banding from lag.. but nothing i've experienced before

A second time, playing by myself this time probably about 300ft straight ahead from the last instance, in a tiny patch of plains i was farming in, this time i was flung again to my characters right the exact same orientation of character, and subsequent launching into the same river but this time only like 50-100ft again into that same river just as i said about 300ft upstream from the first event....

Don't know what's going on, if the save or world is messed up if this is going to cause continued problems or something catastrophic in the future

These events both happened within 1-2 real days of game time, Im on day 900 or so of this world probably within 20 game days between events.


I've played multiple playthroughs, 1000s of hours of playtime. I'm on a new playthrough with new world, new characters me and a friend started after launch.

The past 2 days, i've ran into a bug i've never encountered. I have a small village that was occupied by dragurs when i came upon it, in meadows bordering blackforest don't know if this matters its on a river between two continents I've modified quite a bit of terrain around it, started to build a medium sized structure, and large dock to enclose our ship.

I have tons of animals and the whole base is my farm total area might be in my rough maybe inaccurate estimation maybe 250x 200ft and terrain modification 500x500 including digging down to limit, and raising terrain to limit..


Playing on the same setup for past year or more, this entire playthrough and most if not all the previous playthrough no changes, including the same friend im playing with who at the time was not online.

I've heard of a glitch like this when i first started playing shortly after the initial early release(so not sure if its been fixed) where my some people i were playing with tried to do it, involving using the harpoon, and harpooning another player and that player would try and i think hide behind a rock or something so they got stuck in place, and i guess the tension builds up from the harpoon and launches them..

I don't actually think they got it to work while we were playing but thats the jist, im not sure if the animals jostling me around (which is annoying af and makes me want to engage in (in game animal abuse) at times (as an aside can we please get a button to toggle to be able to walk through animals) or a easier way to direct or move them because its super annoying)

anyway 1 rant later, maybe it was the animals pushing me and it triggered something like that bug i heard about a long time ago...

Anyway just wanted to add it here maybe it could get addressed at some point or get some information on how to not do that.

Thanks for your time and the game