The mod's server-side config is the issue (it has 2, a player one and a more recently added server one), did you really not edit it at all? it's in your world's folder, under /Storage/<stuff>_PaintGun/

I migrated servers hosts at one point but i have never edited it outside of the payed servers dashboard. So whats the fix here. It just suddenly stopped working after a regular scheduled restart.

Can you post that file's contents to see what is going on there, it's small enough to be posted directly as a message.

And the fix is to delete it so it can be re-created, but I would first like its contents to probably figure out how this happened in the first place.

So after trying to open the serversetting file, it seemed to error out and was corrupted. I tried to copy it from the server using ftp but its just blank i went ahead and deleted it after transferring it to my personal pc and hoping this will solve my issue. Im guessing the config file got corrupted somehow i doubt it had anything to do with your mod but more or less migrating servers/improper save states Idk I have the file if you want but it only opens to a blank text document. Thanks for all your help though i probably would have just erased my server in the end trying to get it to work.

I'm also getting the same when copying from the Dedicated Server app on windows to a seperate dedicated server.


On Windows
2023-07-28 20:08:35.243: ### PaintGun v24
2023-07-28 20:08:35.259: PaintGunMod - Loaded server settings:
[ServerSettings]
RequireAmmo=True
PaintSpeedMultiplier=1
ReplacePaintSurvival=False


On Docker
2023-07-28 20:08:17.750: ### PaintGun v24
2023-07-28 20:08:17.777: PaintGunMod - Loaded server settings:
[ServerSettings]
RequireAmmo=True
PaintSpeedMultiplier=1
ReplacePaintSurvival=False

2023-07-28 20:08:17.786: Paint Gun error/exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Unable to find the specified file.
at Sandbox.ModAPI.MyAPIUtilities.VRage.Game.ModAPI.IMyUtilities.WriteFileInWorldStorage(String file, Type callingType)
at Digi.PaintGun.Features.ServerSettings.LoadOnHost()
at Digi.PaintGun.Features.ServerSettings..ctor(PaintGunMod main)
at Digi.PaintGun.PaintGunMod..ctor(PaintGun_GameSession session)
at Digi.ComponentLib.PaintGun_GameSession.LoadMod()
at Digi.ComponentLib.PaintGun_GameSession.LoadData()
2023-07-28 20:08:17.789: Exception while loading world: Error in mod loading, see above exceptions.


The files were copied and looking at them side by side they seem fine.

I would just delete it and let it remake the file, should work fine after that.

That error is probably because of some sort of directory linking or I don't even...

Code from WriteFileInWorldStorage(): https://i.imgur.com/VoFc5cE.png
The highlighted last line is likely the one it hits, not the first one because the input file name is "ServerSettings.ini" so I very much doubt that period character is not allowed in file names on that OS.

Which leaves that GetFullPath() returns a different path for whatever reason, either CurrentPath is wrong or something else is going on... this is not something I can fix, and not even debug/test xD
You'll have to report it to keen and I very much doubt they'll do anything about it, they ignore reports that have the answer right in them and it's 1-2 line changes :(