Known Moonstone Island Switch Performance Issues Shared

Studio Supersoft took to the Moonstone Island official subreddit to list all of the known performance issues with the Switch version of the game. This is part of an endeavor to help people know what the team is aware of and working on, while also providing an opportunity for players to submit bug reports with Raw Fury for additional errors.

Some of the issues are more serious than others. For example, there is a problem where upon using the glider at the end of an island, it won’t actually unfurl and appear. Instead, the player’s avatar will very slowly move in the direction they were facing over open air. This will continue until their stamina runs out, the time of day ends to roll over to the next, or they run into an island. (From personal experience, running into another island will cause the game to resume play as normal.) Opening a chest could cause the game to freeze. 

Other issues involve items that go missing or don’t appear properly. For example, you can’t tell if a Spirit in Moonstone Island is a holo one on the Switch, this game’s version of a shiny, due to a performance issue keeping it from appearing a different color. Someone’s Medallion could disappear, making it impossible to tend the three Spirits with you when not near your barn, and other objects can apparently despawn.

Here’s the full list of Moonstone Island known performance issues on Switch as of July 22, 2024. In addition to people being able to report to Raw Fury, the official Studio Supersoft account is replying to comments on the Reddit thread and adding reports to the list via those comments. There is no timeline shared for fixes yet.

Bugs, Issues, & Glitches

• Holos don’t appear as different colours, although the shimmer effect is still there
• Game freezes after opening a chest
• Some animations freeze
• Gates are one-way
• Some rocks can’t be smashed in the mines
• Sometimes, using the glider can result in the player sliding across the screen with no animation
• The goddess statue daily gift is not “random” and may only give you moonstones
• Controller rumbles and won’t stop
• Loom designs displaying incorrectly — the bottom-right pixel is missing from the design when placed down
• Objects (including house, chests, and Spirits) despawn and don’t reappear
• Invisible walls
• Spirits sometimes become “invisible”
• Fish can’t be caught after the fishing minigame
• Debug code appears in red at the top of a screen
• Medallion disappears from tool wheel
• Villager sprites stop moving
• The Magic Man’s card shop sometimes freezes
• Overlapping textboxes when talking to Magic Man
• Lag in the Spirit Barn when you have lots of Spirits (or sometimes just because)
• Spirits gifted to NPCs not appearing
• Goddess statue sometimes does not give gifts

Moonstone Island is available on the Nintendo Switch and PC.