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GrumpyKoala 19 Mar, 2018 @ 7:34am
Seems to be crashing servers
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I've spent the last two days trying to track down what was crashing two of our servers, and it appears to be this mod. I note that it has also been marked as "broken" today by two different ark hosts.

It seems like it works fine initially, but is somehow responsible for corrupting the save game file after a reboot. The server will come up for a few moments, but crash almost immediately.

Even restoring a backup does not help. That file is also corrupted. If we remove this mod, and then restore the exact same backup, the server boots fine and is stable.

I hope you are able to find the issue soon, as we absolutely love this mod.

Thanks so much for your efforts.
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Arksanity.com 19 Mar, 2018 @ 10:50pm 
If you have the time and energy, I'd recommend adding 1 spawn, test, saveworld, restart... and continue until you recreate the crash. Also writing down settings, added spawns and possibly spawn locations. While I can't guarantee this will help darklore in debugging, it is easier to recreate a crash when knowing what was added to a server that did crash.

We have 35 spawners now, 4 nests, spawning in 45 different vanilla/base-game creatures. Several of these are set to spawn 20-50 creatures with a max of 100 in radius (which was the max setting on spawner).

I have written down spawn locations, settings, creatures, etc, so if I were to add a new spawn today, and the server would crash tomorrow m orning, I can assume that newly added spawn is the culprit. Then I can test the same spawn to see if I can recreate the crash...
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darklore  [developer] 22 Mar, 2018 @ 10:27am 
Make sure to always do frequent backups of your saves.
I have my servers' save files back up every night, and saved for 14 days.
Then they get backed up once a week and those weekly backups are saved for 5 weeks.
I'd rather not have to roll back a server by 5 weeks but I have the option to if something goes wrong.
Last edited by darklore; 22 Mar, 2018 @ 10:28am
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atomician99 11 Apr, 2024 @ 9:12pm 
crashes my game
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