afk overnight by mistake and skipped a few months

[funknfritter]

Is there any in game option for automatically disconnecting if afk too long? As the title suggests, last night I thought I had saved and left my single player world, but apparently I just put my computer to sleep and left the game running. I have lost four months of in game time. fortunately it was winter (now spring) so my food is still good, however, I was just gearing up production for a full cellar of blue cheese and seem to have missed the window for that. This is now the second time I have done this. The first time was worse, as it was an april to july time skip so I lost most of my food, and the couple of cold weather crops I had planted were heat damaged.  It's not the end of the world, but it sure is annoying. 

Edited Friday at 10:32 PM by funknfritter
asked main question after wall of text.

[Professor Dragon]

I'm really not sure how come you didn't starve to death or be killed by a Drifter in a Temporal Storm.

Most Vintage Story players would love to be able to do nothing and not have to worry about food.

I am assuming that the following are true:  

• Single player world, not multi-player  
• No mods that impact hunger, storms  or player survival  
• Current version
• Windows (just a guess!)

What happens if you Alt-Tab out of the game? Does the menu come up when you return?

 

On a multi-player world there are game settings that handle boots for inactivity. I'm just trying to wrap my head around how you got into this position, before diving into settings, first though!

Professor Dragon.
 

 

[funknfritter]

Thanks for responding

It's a single player world, and I failed to mention that I did die of starvation. No idea what satiety I had when I stopped playing for the night.  

Passive mobs with no rift activity or temporal storms. I'm getting old, and I play the game to relax before bed. That stuff stresses me out too much.

No menu screens after tabbing out and returning.

Also, It was a bit under three months, not four. December 5, give or take a day or two, to March 3.

Edited Saturday at 12:50 AM by funknfritter

[Professor Dragon]

Okay, probably best to try and mod your way out of this one.

Try: https://mods.vintagestory.at/idlepause

"This tiny QoL client side only mod automatically pauses your game.

When idle for a entire minute (default - configurable) the game pauses and triggers the pause menu. It purposefully ignores opened guis, so it will pause even if you have the inventory, player stats, map or anything opened .

It is strictly Single Player only. It won't do nothing in multiplayer."

P.D.

[funknfritter]

Thank you, that looks like the perfect solution.

I will likely change it to fifteen minutes or half an hour because i sometimes like to get some food or whatnot while waiting for things like pit kilns to finish burning. 

I appreciate the timely answer