Quit the game on one planet, launched on a different one

So I was having a good time with the game, getting some good gear and had just gone to a new planet and build a house, I quit the game. And some hours later when starting it again, I am not on the same planet, loads of my stuff is gone, and worst of all, I cant transport myself to the place where I meat Ester or what her name is, so I did the mission in the mine thingy over again to teleport there after beating the boss, the teddybear mission i did has been reset, many quests has been reset. Back at the ship I was going to check if the teleporter worked now. NO.......... wth has happened? And I hope its fixable.....

 

Yeah this is a common issue happening to people. If you quit/crash/BSOD or whatever while it's overwriting your universe files, they will become corrupted and end in .fail. It treats your character as new, drops you off at a random gentle star and your mission progress is reset.

the GOOD news is that you can recover your bookmarks by hunting through your files.
http://playstarbound.com/how-to-retrieve-your-home-planet/

The BAD news is that your progress is permanently lost and you need to redo all main missions and re-unlock the outpost. Starbound staff still hasn't addressed this issue and I wish they would. This happened to me and my husband and many others.

 

Thank you, found my planet, but now a new problem how do I redo the quests? Penguin Bay is closed etc so I cant use it unless I do all the missions to open it, but there is no missions here :/

 

Sometimes you may have to create a new character to complete outpost missions. I think I remember somebody saying if you do the missions for one character, it counts for all. I mean, you'll have to redo all quests that Ester gave you as well. That should unlock things again.