Clans of the Forest: the floating clanmate soft-lock
Quick answer
Trailmark names a ShadowClan floating-NPC fix in Steam 1.1, PlayStation/Xbox 1.1 and Epic 1.1. Install the update for your platform and check the quest again. The notes do not establish a WindClan fix or recovery of an already blocked save; Kingy has not tested either.
Kingy has not played the game. Every line below comes from the official announcements or at least two players' reports, as marked.
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What players see
Three Steam threads describe the same thing. In The Brave and the Bold (ShadowClan, at the Sentry-Shadow Slopes) and in WindClan's story quest to rescue a clanmate, the enemy spawns with your clanmate and can be fought normally. Afterwards the clanmate floats above the ground, so you can't reach the quest marker or interact with them. One player says jumping into the cat just pushes them away.
In the WindClan case, the cat to rescue was also in the player's party, which that player suspects confuses the quest.
Before the named patch, players reported that restarting or warping away did not clear the floating cat. These October 25 reports describe earlier attempts; they do not establish how a patched existing save behaves.
A tab-out suggestion came from a different patrol-mark problem and is not a demonstrated fix for this soft-lock. Keep the quest, platform, installed version and a screenshot for official support if it persists.
Steam 1.1 is dated October 26. The publisher currently labels the console and Epic 1.1 entries November 8; that page date alone does not establish a new Steam hotfix. Steam 1.3 names a username-character issue, not another quest repair.
Epic 1.1 also adds mouse camera controls, sensitivity sliders, map mouse support and a mouse-only follow-camera toggle. The notes do not name WindClan or guarantee existing-save recovery.
Sources · 5Official · Reported · checked 8 Nov 2026 · Research checked 8 Nov 2026
Trailmark Games platform patch notes ↗Platform/version comparison; named ShadowClan floating-NPC fix. WindClan repair and existing-save recovery not established; no Kingy gameplay test.Official ·
ShadowClan soft-lock ↗Player post, read October 25. In ShadowClan's The Brave and the Bold quest at the Sentry-Shadow Slopes, the enemy can be fought but the clanmate floats above the ground and the quest marker can't be interacted with. Restarting the game brought the same result every time.Reported ·
Softlocked?? Windclan Rescue Quest ↗Player post, read October 25. In WindClan's story quest to rescue a clanmate, the enemy can be fought off but the cat to rescue floats in the air and can't be interacted with; jumping into it pushes the player away. Closing the game and warping away didn't help. The cat to rescue was also in the player's party.Reported ·
Bug with the brave and the bold quest ↗Player post, read October 25, with no replies: a floating cat in The Brave and the Bold quest, asking how to fix it.Reported ·
If you feel a quest is broken: ↗Player post, read October 25: a patrol mark would not activate until they tabbed out of the game and back in. Single report; not about the floating-clanmate bug.Reported ·
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