I had finished the tutorial and was just wandering around exploring the map. I was high on a cliff looking out over a frozen area of water; I thought I saw something in the distance. I climbed down the tall turquoise colored pillars and headed off to check out what I had observed from above. To my dismay there was nothing out there. Matters became much worse when I went back to the cliffs and could find no way back up! I walked for a very long time in both directions along those cliffs and was unable to find any way back up and so in effect lost my game. Because of this I was unable to find all the statues for the contest. I must say am quite disappointed! I will be sure to watch for other contests as I do enjoy this game and hope you will continue to add more content! The scenery is quite entrancing and causing me to want to keep going and look around the next set of boulders to see what I could find.
On another note: There is an irritating bug that when you move stuff from Backpack to Hot bar it misses and falls thru and when you back out and look on the ground where it should have dropped it is not there. I lost a pile of 32 iron ore that way and the nodes had not re-spawned so it took me longer to finish the tutorial than was necessary.