Don't know if this is a feature or a bug- game keeps running after I shut my computer if I don't close the game

[DesolateRose]

so this has happened twice too me now the first time after i closed the computer on the you died screen to walk away for the night and cool down came back to my laptop the next day and all my stuff had despawned and it was now winter. I have semi recently closed the computer and I guess I didn't close the world out properly even when i was trying to be careful and left it on the esc screen or just on the game and when i opened and unlocked my computer i was dead of starvation and it went from like February to may ;-;. I don't know if this is an intended feature? or if it's just a bug. most games I play will at least pause the game if i close my laptop, so I don't think that this is intentional but what do i know?

I play on a mac if it matters.

[LadyWYT]

It might be an oversight. If I'm understanding you correctly, it sounds like you're playing on a Macbook rather than a desktop, left the game at the "You Died" screen, and closed the laptop instead of exiting the game and then closing the laptop. As far as I'm aware, the game does not pause on the death screen--only on the escape menu or the handbook, assuming you have it set to pause while the handbook is open.

Now why the game kept running after you closed the laptop, I do not know. I play on a desktop(Windows), and I'm not terribly familiar with how Macs operate. If the computer went to sleep though, it seems that most open programs should have been shut down automatically. You might check the settings to make sure it didn't hibernate instead of sleep; I don't know if that's a thing Macs can do, but the difference between the modes is that hibernate essentially lets you return to whatever you were doing upon waking the computer. Sleep mode simply saves power, but you'll have to reopen the programs that you wish to use.

In any case, I would make sure that you at least exit to the title screen next time, before closing your computer. I'm guessing that if it's not intended behavior, it'll be fixed sooner or later, but it's better to make sure that you're at a safe stopping point with your programs before closing the computer, in order to avoid potential issues.

[DesolateRose]

thanks for your input! its just a little frustrating because i never do it on purpose but is still messes me up ;-;