We need a potion to help us pick up large quantities of items on the ground quickly. Or maybe just implement the CTRL modifier, if I pick up something while holding CTRL, it picks up all of those items in a small area at once. CTRL already works for breaking, dropping, destroying and crafting multiple items, why not for picking?

I think that starting a new game would have fixed this, but I didn't try. Instead, I loaded the game I had started during the 60min time trial. Oddly, it started on a new character, but it was fine and I didn't have the bug anymore. Funny thing, I found someone in my game, myself. I was just there standing next to a unlit fire and some bamboo chest i made in that old game. After a while, I decided to kill my old self, and it gave me all my old items. I left them since it's close to my spawn, so if I die, i'll have some stuff to get back to where i'm going, because i'm leaving the spawn yland.

I have the same issue I died, the game stuck on loading, I ended doing "End task' in my resource monitor after 15 minutes. I restart game, I'm dead still, and the loading resumes. Again it takes over 10 minutes, I restart the game, this time my new character loads naked, but I cannot use items that open in the UI like the map, or open containers. My action bar also doesn't update when i change what's equipped there. Cannot play like this. I'll try creating a new game.