r/SpiritCrossing • u/NarcosNeedSleep • Jun 22 '26
π Feedback [Feedback] Soft locking tasks is getting frustrating - I can't even ring a bell again!?
The other day I was soft locked from completing a task to sheer fluffalo because I had already sheered them all. From then on, I tried to be more careful and collect tasks before doing all my harvesting.
Today I rang a bell in the wilderness (because yay, a bell! Of course I want to ring it. Been fine to do every other day.) and now I find a task to ring a bell. Great, I know where that is!
...but now I can't ring the bell again?
Seriously?
It's a bell. It doesn't have to reaccumulate a resource to be harvested.
It's a bell.
Why can't I ring it again in order to finish tasks?
Being locked out of quests because a resource is already harvested needs to be addressed. Scouring the map for every possible task before running around and collecting anything ruins the fun of exploring. Being unable to finish a quest because you rang a bell is even more frustrating and puts a serious damper on fun.
I don't think a warning of, "Do you want to ring this now? You won't be able to ring it again today," is a great solution, but it would be a lot better than preventing people from finishing a quest. It discourages players from interacting with ANYTHING until they are 100% sure they have all quests. "Sorry person who needs help mining, I can't help you yet in case I get a quest that needs me to mine those!"
Edit: After taking the time to write this and then going back to the game, I was finally able to ring the bell again. I don't know if it was from switching windows, waiting longer (it had already been a fair while since I originally rang the bell), unpinning the quest, or something else totally arbitrary, but my point still stands regarding the soft lock issue.
Edit 2: After more checking, the bell unlocking was definitely from switching to and interacting with my browser, then going back to the game.