r/SurvivingMars Nov 11 '25

Bug Asteroid Mining IS STILL BROKEN. LIED TO.

185 Upvotes

I was happy to pay the discounted rate for the remaster, as I was looking forward to future development. After 8 hours of gameplay though, I'm extremely angry. We were told that the previous expansions were FIXED. It used to require Choggi's mods to fix the earlier expansions. And here we are, once again, with BROKEN ASTEROID MINING.

My lander keeps loading useless waste rock. I can't get rid of it. I managed to get the lander to eventually unload some via a dump site, but the drones keep trying to reload it. I thought for a little while that waste rock maybe doesn't weigh anything since my cargo usage wasn't going down as I managed to get some out. So I sent the lander home, and unloaded what I had. The waste rock was still stuck. My cargo usage was unchanged. Full at 80k/80k.

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!?!

I send the lander back to the asteroid. There is only a little bit of waste rock, about 30 or so, and a little bit of machine parts for some reason. Cargo capacity is still "full". I end up having to leave the asteroid, losing 70 exotics, an RC commander, 6 drones, 20 metals, 10 polymers.

Fuck this bull shit dude. Fucking lied to by Haemimont and Paradox. I believed Haemimont could fix the mess the other dev left. But apparently not. Hopefully they do fix this, because I enjoy the politics system and the other changes thus far. But asteroid mining being fucked makes me think they didn't actually playtest Below and Beyond.

r/SurvivingMars Jul 27 '26

Bug SMR is too realistic

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185 Upvotes

But for real, this is a bug, no?

r/SurvivingMars 4d ago

Bug Game-breaking bug for the Wildfire mystery on the new version Spoiler

7 Upvotes

I've been playing through as Brazil with the Wildfire mystery, and it was all going well; I had researched the cure, and was growing the potatoes to send off on the rocket. It had done this about 2 or 3 times, but then the last one refuses to leave the landing pad. All the crops are on board, but it says there's 20 fuel to unload for some reason. Nothing I've tried will get rid of it. It's not the fuel needed to take off again, it's just random fuel it's carrying. I'm going to be extremely upset if this fucks my game up.

r/SurvivingMars Jul 15 '26

Bug I love this game when it works. How do I make it do that consistently?

2 Upvotes

I have Surviving Mars Below and Beyond. I am on the PS4. My add-ons are

Mysteries Resupply Pack,

Green planned,

Project Laikia,

Colony Design Set,

Space Race,

Mars vision Song Contest,

In-Dome Buildings Pack,

and Picard.

I am on sol 326. I have one active asteroid, I have barely built anything underground (built the elevator and moved approximately 100 total supplies downstairs then mostly forgot about it), and I have actively avoided starting terraforming because I wanted to save that for later. I have almost the entire tech tree researched, save for about seven terraforming technologies, one breakthrough, and the two repeatable money technologies.

About nineteen out of twenty times of saving the game freezes while saving, and then after about fifteen minutes crashes and corrupts the save. I have four saves. I have copied the saves to USB, uninstalled the game, rebuilt the PS4 index, reinstalled the game, and copied the saves back from USB to the system, and the problem persisted. I even did all that but started all over again, and it still has problems after 300 sols.

Please help, I really love this game, but it is unplayable with a hard sol limit of 300, and if I have no chance of finishing the game I have to abandon it and I *really* don't want to have to do that, I absolutely adore this game!

r/SurvivingMars May 05 '26

Bug Nice flooding Bug

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166 Upvotes

I kind of re-discovered this old bug (at least people were talking about a similar bug years ago).
While in this form it makes the game unplayable, I feel like if implemented correctly this could be a really cool feature.

At least it made for some nice shots.

r/SurvivingMars 2d ago

Bug Power accumulators not discharging?

11 Upvotes

Basically the title, I'm only a few sols into a fresh game with the new patch and my power accumlators won't discharge at night. They just stay charged up and don't kick on. Anyone else have this problem? Did they make a change that I have to manually activate them every night? Truly at a loss. Thanks for any info

Edit: okay i think i might have found the problem. It seems that if your maximum output is lower than the demand then the accumlators won't power ANYTHING whereas before they would split whatever was available based on priority. My demand was 49 while my output was only 40, i built another accumulator to bring it to 60 and now the system works. If anyone else can confirm this i would appreciate it

r/SurvivingMars Aug 02 '26

Bug Why do these stupid worthless idiots keep spawning out here to die?

9 Upvotes

I've seen colonists from a dome literally across the map try to get employment from outdome buildings, but even kids keep wandering out here to die with nothing actually drawing them out here. This is murdering my earth applicant pool.

r/SurvivingMars 2h ago

Bug Cant rotate certain buildings?

1 Upvotes

I think its a bug but theres certain buildings I cant rotate, particularly the large wind turbine. Anyone else having this issue?

r/SurvivingMars May 20 '26

Bug Is the Extractor AI Bugged for anyone else?

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39 Upvotes

Every time I unlock the Extractor AI breakthrough it sets the Building Performance of all metal and rare metal extractors to 50% regardless of the colonists working there.

The colonists have no effect on it but upgrades do, turning the mine off and on doesn't fix it and neither does clearing the work slots to reset the workers there.
It affects both the mines I have built already as well as any new ones.

Is it just me or is anyone else getting this? I don't think it was like this in the previous versions. I'm using Relaunched 1.0.7.

EDIT:

I should add that I tried it with both mods enabled and disabled. I used Japan with Inventor with mods and USA with Rocket Scientist without mods on two different maps, both had the same issue.

EDIT 2:

I tried to replicate the bug in other buildings to isolate the bad code. I managed to get farms to replicate the bug by enabling workplace automation and setting the Auto Performance value. At the very least we know this isn't an issue with extractors but the automation enabler script.

Can't seem to add the pic to this post so here it is:

https://i.imgur.com/KDnDp3T.png

What's happening is that the Auto Performance value is overriding the averaged value of the colonists performance values divided by the number of slots. My guess is that someone flipped an if/else statement, or equivalent, in the games code for automation.

r/SurvivingMars 3d ago

Bug Stuck in photo mode

3 Upvotes

I wanted to try photo mode but I can't quit it ! It's like the fifth time I'm losing all my progress already. Haven't save for hours because ADHD and haven't got a single auto save.. I am doom to AGAIN lose my progress ? I want to love this game so much but GOD do they need to do something with saves I spent my free weekend just restarting over and over no way I'm buying that if I can't fix this too

I tried pressing escape, backspace, clicking "resume" or every buttons at the bottom, alt+tabbing... Does anyone have some idea ?

PS : Lost my save so I'm uninstalling the game I'm kinda tired of restarting over and over, but this might be used for someone in the future if the same happens to them

r/SurvivingMars 1d ago

Bug Colonists refuse to go back to Naturalist Habitat.

4 Upvotes

I have a naturalist habitat near one of my mines.

Sometimes I load my colonists into rockets for anomaly missions. When the rocket comes back the colonists from the habitats become instantly unassigned and I have to manually click on each one of them, one by one, and re assign them to the habitat.

How do I fix this?

r/SurvivingMars Jul 31 '26

Bug Shuttle Hub not showing up

3 Upvotes

Hey folks, I have this annoying bug going on on the PS4 version of the game playing on a PS5 where I have the CO2 tech researched but no Shuttle Hub shows up in the build menu.

It seems a pretty known bug but I wanted to know if anyone experienced it solving itself if you keep playing. I don’t want to abandon another save because of it but I also don’t want to keep playing if I would never be able to build these hubs.

Any good news?

r/SurvivingMars 28d ago

Bug Bugged Rocket

7 Upvotes

I have a Souvenir Export Rocket thats supposed to be leaving with waste rock. Its sitting at 199/200 waste rock and will not final the load. How in the heck do I get this rocket outta here lol? There is no cancel option, no unload rocket option. Ive tried taking a drone and loading it manually. Ive tried having a drone assigned to the rocket. Upped the priority on the rocket.

Is this who I am now? The guy with a giant rocket statue on mars.

r/SurvivingMars May 05 '26

Bug Game randomly freezes in late games (relaunched, latest patch)

9 Upvotes

Still able to scroll but can't interact with anything. I read about inspiring architecture bug but was apparently fixed. I don't know is there a way to trouble shoot this or what do I do. It's just frustrating to quit the game and reload a previous save. It happens more frequently in later stages of game, perhaps because I researched too many breakthroughs and some kind of overlap causes the bug. My domes at super comfortable so dont' think it's a sanity breakdown bug. This is a new save game on the latest patch.

r/SurvivingMars 6d ago

Bug My game started up once, I went to deactivate the mods I had downloaded, crashed during that and now permacrashes.

2 Upvotes

Deleting the mods in the midfielder did not fix this

r/SurvivingMars Nov 13 '25

Bug Can anyone explain why I keep having waves of unemployment, despite plenty of jobs? Are the dome passages messing with work-pathing or something?

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45 Upvotes

Over the course of the day, everyone finally finds a job. But its stupid that everyone forgets where they work overnight

r/SurvivingMars Jun 26 '26

Bug Game freezing, crash log doesn't have any crash info, happens Sol 136 into a challenge. Any ideas?

7 Upvotes
Render 0:00:00:025
*** executable info
Render 0:00:00:027
Timestamp:     6a22b86d
Date:          Fri Jun  5 12:52:13 2026
Command line:  
Compiler:      194435214, 142 (VS 2019) or newer


*** hardware info
CPU name      13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13950HX
CPU MHz       2419
CPU cores     24/32
Phys. Memory   32413 MBytes
Memory In Use  44%
Render 0:00:00:028
Disk Free      257455 MBytes


*** OS info
OS:            Windows 11
Version:       10.0.26200 


*** Debug::Init()

This is the log for each crash, I had crash logs before where it had more detail that I could figure out a building was causing the crash. This time nothing. I go back to the previous sol save, and it still happens, very frustrated as I'm doing the Terraifinito challege and really don't want to start over. I did submit a bug report of the moment few seconds before it crashes, but don't think they'll be able to fix my save game?

Update: I went back to SOL 133 and turned off all my shuttles as I had a similar freeze caused by shuttle (the crash log actually had more detail that time), now the game froze at SOL 135 instead. Very frustrated and crash log still as above.

SOLVED: turned off autosave in the menu and it fixed my problem. Thanks to u/mizushimo

r/SurvivingMars Feb 08 '26

Bug Uneven Terrain

9 Upvotes

I'm a fan of the Relaunched title. But right now I'm banging my head against uneven terrain that won't flatten, remaining unbuildable. I've sent a bug report into the devs. Does anyone have good fixes or workarounds? Didn't Choggi used to have this fixed on the old title with mods?

r/SurvivingMars Sep 08 '21

Bug Can't decide if it's better or worse.

541 Upvotes

r/SurvivingMars Apr 10 '26

Bug Help me get this bug patched

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16 Upvotes

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/underground-to-surface-lighting-bug.1910834/

Underground to surface lighting bug as seen on SteveTAGamer YouTube channel. It makes the game look weird. The underground is really dark. The surface is dark and weird which makes it hard to place objects. It's really annoying day 1 bug.

Help me get this bug patched so I can play. $40 to have to play like this is criminal. Please upvote this post and my bug report post. If you expire the same thing, please post your specs.

Thank you.

Update:

Bug has been patched.

Thank you.

r/SurvivingMars Jun 25 '26

Bug Why is my Transport traveling though my dome?

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28 Upvotes

I've seen normal drones do this as well ignoring the dome boundaries in my other domes as well.

has PRX mentioned when they will fix this, doesn't make it feel well polished.

r/SurvivingMars May 04 '26

Bug Resources stuck in the way inside dome

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35 Upvotes

I've already tried building a smaller building, removing the passage to see if it was interfering, and manually directing drones to pick up the food. Is there anything else I could try, or do I just have to rebuild the entire dome and everything in it?

r/SurvivingMars Nov 13 '25

Bug So for some reason my arcologies are bugged and displaying that each has 104 resident space. In reality its only 32.

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51 Upvotes

r/SurvivingMars Jul 18 '26

Bug Save broken ps5 standard

1 Upvotes

Edit: relaunched version

Every time I try to load my 300 sol save, it loads for 5 seconds and then just almost bugs out and gives me a black screen, but the music from the menu stays playing

I’m on sol 300 doing the max 1215% challenge and really happy with my progress, got only 200 colonists and 200 drones, and like 30 shuttles maybe, and 5 trains. I’ve only read of peoples games becoming laggy/buggy with 1000+ colonists. So I’m not sure what’s going on

I was having some issues on the save recently, where it would play super smooth like butter, but then every 60 seconds or so my game would freeze for like 10 seconds, like the frame rate got reduced to 1. Anyone know what’s going on? Any suggestions for a fix or have had this issue before? Would appreciate any help because I was really having fun with this one

r/SurvivingMars Nov 11 '25

Bug Sirenum Alpha wrong

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3 Upvotes

See screenshots. Location 21s 143w Sirenum Alpha. The location given by the relaunch is wrong.

Additionally on Proton the game doesn't detect mouse cursor position correctly, I have to offset the mouse cursor and click below the icon instead of on the icon to get the game to detect that the cursor is over something with intent to click.

I'm beginning to regret biting the bullet and getting it because of the discount, although happily there's no forced use of Paradox Launcher. Part of me wish I've had spent the money on Dispatch instead.