Dear Dasius, I have found a bug in the game, not a visual one, but related to the crystals. Please notify me if this has been told to you already, but i doubt it. I am 99.9% sure that this is a bug, and not me misplacing this; I put my all crystals but the fear crystal in a crate - Light Crystal, Fire Crystal, Ice Crystal, Earth Crystal. I did this and went to the mines, bringing the crate with me, finding out from a walkthrough that the mine door would open. I found a crystal door. I fell in the green void (accidentally), i found the Fear Crystal, i put 2 + 2 together and put the Fear Crystal in the door. I fell in again (accidentally) and i came back to put all of the crystals in the door, when i got back to the mine from the cathedral, they were GONE. Yes i have looked EVERYWHERE in the mines, and i did not bring the crate past the door. I even turned my gamma up all the way to try to find it, and i still did not find it. Is this a bug? My version is 0.1.0
For the most part, if you could please re... eeehh... I guess theere has been video postings.. it doesn't really matter... but feel free to redact some of the info here, I won't stop you if you decide to, and would encourage it.
anyway onto the matter at hand.
Yes. Some places unload (partially?) when the player is not within their cell/region - This causes foreign entities (anything that isn't ore is foreign, this includes the player(save/reload)) to fall through the now unloaded surface, and generally, into the void, however its not always directly into the void, (player mostly), but it is always "gone"
The area unloading is not specifically "a bug" as that is the intended purpose.
Lost crystals can (somewhat) be solved with Slipcor's save fixer
the most recent one (for 0.0.9e) can be used for some features in 0.1.0o - there is MINOR support for difficulty and primary save file - if you have 3 normal files (I think) and this one in particular is your "2" (3rd, I think) then the save fixer will have a lot of trouble being of any help, as it will be next to impossible for it to identify the save file - it isn't yet designed to support multiple saves.
but if its the primary file (of a difficulty, I believe, so if you have 1 hard, 1 normal, and 1 easy, you can fix any of them.. I think.... I'm not sure, as I haven't had the need to, and it hasn't been priority in my mind to check it cause it isn't updated)
There's no way to recover the crate, though that's small potatoes cause you can chop essentially infinite logs for essentially infinite crates.
If you can't recover the crystals, there's a few options still that remain.
one is to wait till you can
another is to just forget about it for the time being, as the [redacted(long)] this version
And the last, very last, would be to restart your save...
technically there's one before that too
you can try to be like Slipcor and break open your save and edit the crystals entries yourself - If they don't exist, the engine is programed to make them exist (when you use them, correctly, the engine will reload them on the next save and reload, )
as Slipcor does, you should backup your save if you try this, just like his fixer, as 1 wrong step can instantly bork the save file.