Loaded my SP exploration game to have boat floating in the air in fog. The terrain never loaded, then it said I was cold and freezing, and then the terrain loading screen showed. I reappeared with all my inventory and didn't get a message about dying. I was on an undiscovered island across an unexplored map. In my previous session, I'd journeyed to a new map and parked my boat on the shore of the first island, and then logged out. A forum search found...

That could be possible. When I logged out in my boat, I was parallel to the shore. I wasn't sure if it would drift, so I parked nearly onshore. I'm still too nervous to try leaving it out when I log, but I'll test it deeper waters. I'm sure that I was in control of the boat when I logged out, so I think that's part of the problem. I started building a ship and logged out while it was in Build Mode and everything has been fine, but I haven't tested logging out while using one...

I just took this screenshot to show the Recently Played Saves so you can see my confusion. Hilarious Potatoworld is now showing my most recent progress. But when the issue was occurring, loading this save would put me on an island with my boat missing and unsummonable. I've also added an old pic I took when I couldn't summon boat...just the summon aura would appear and fade. Gloomy Dragonworld: this is a MP map. I was leaving my starting yland...

Thank you for the response. My save files are attached. There was some confusion on my part since I'm not too sure how the save files work. Do they save several iterations of progress from each map? For whatever reason, loading three saves prior spawned me at my most recent location with my boat, and the problem is solved. However, I expected to be reset to before even building a boat or leaving the starting islands. The issue seems to stem from...