This is the most devastating bug I've encountered

[tennessean734]

I have already submitted a support ticket for this, but this was heartbreaking as I don't back up my saves unlike others. 360 day Stalker run down the drain. I hope this gets fixed soon and that no one else has this issue.

[stratvox]

Whew. That is messed up.

[AdamvR]

that is heartbreaking:(

for the very same reasons I have a TLD backup NOW.bat file on my desktop, right next to the game icon to be pressed before starting up...
it consists of a single line:
xcopy /s /y C:\Users\[your windows username here]\AppData\Local\Hinterland\TheLongDark D:\Dropbox\HinterlandBackup

I set it up after losing a 600 day survivor on a similar issue. When it is my unpreparedness, I deserve to lose her - no questions about it...

[tennessean734]

Interestingly enough the named locations that I had mapped  were not deleted. 

[AdamvR]

@tennessean734, could support help you? could they somehow save your savefile?

[UTC-10]

I wonder what happened.  Since exiting Carter Hydro at that point, which is a one-way door, would put the OP into the "outside world" and the actual result was he appeared in another "inside world" (the Winding River/Carter Hydro cave) which was some distance away, I would guess that, for some reason, the "outside world" was considered invalid by the game and the one-way aspect of the door he passed through meant the game could not just put him back where he had been (in Carter Hydro) so it put him (spawned him) in the next valid location he could have transitioned to (rather than at the entrance from Winding River into Carter Hydro which would be closer).  Unfortunately in the process the game went back to a default condition of the start of the game rather than where he had been in it. 

The save game file would be on the individual PC and beyond the reach of Hinterland.  I am no technician so I hope they can do something to recover the OP's gear, but I don't know. 

 

[xAnAngelOfDeathx]

After seeing this I'm making save backups.

Thank you for the bat file code AdamvR.