I think I am soft locked out of the ending. What is documented?

Steps

1. Update to the 26 August 2026 build before concluding a save is dead.
2. If your lamp seems to have disappeared after you picked it up, press T again — the UV lamp is toggled after the regular light, so it can be held and still be off.
3. If a key item is embedded in the level, reload: Update 1.0.5 respawns key items, and ores go straight to the bank.
4. If a tool went into the lava, look for it again; Update 1.0.6 respawns tools lost there.
5. Only after all of that, report the save as a bug rather than restarting the run.

Requirements / limits

• Update 1.0.6, 26 August 2026: “When finishing the main ending the player should not be stuck when continuing the last save.”
• In a thread opened the same day, a player reported the UV light gone after grabbing it and called themselves soft locked. They later confirmed the lamp was there and they had missed the button to turn it on.
• A different player in the same thread reports triggering the main ending more than once while pursuing the alternate ending and losing the run. That report is one player's account and is not addressed by any published fix.

Common mistakes

• Restarting a save before updating the game.
• Assuming a held tool is an active tool. The torch and the UV lamp both need pressing T after they are collected.
• Treating another player's soft lock as the same bug as yours. At least three different causes are being reported under that one phrase.

Still unverified

• Can triggering the main ending more than once still break a run?Single unconfirmed reportOne player describes exactly that in a 26 August thread. No developer statement covers it and no second player reports the same sequence.