Update 0.6.2 Patch 6 - Minor Update

Hello, Engineers!
Another week, another update! This week we've implemented some code to prevent the grid coordinate system from getting into a corrupted state when deconstructing blocks that cause a building to split in half. This fix applies retroactively, and should fix some issues with the placement of larger blocks like battlements on walls. Additionally, we implemented a nice error message when joining someone's private game. The load world screen now opens again, even when you do not have any saves, so that you can load worlds from the workshop. Renaming worlds correctly updates the directory, and vsync now saves the setting from the display settings.
Enjoy the update!



General Changes:
- Grid coordinate system no longer gets into an invalid state when deconstructing blocks that causes a building to split into two buildings.
- Clicking Join Game from the Steam friends list while the game is running no longer fails quietly when the game is set to private.
- Load world screen now allows access to loading workshop worlds even when you do not have any local saves.
- Renaming a world in the load worlds screen now also renames the save folder.
- VSync can now be enabled again in the menu.

Modding Changes:
- Re-whitelisted TimeDefinition. It was erroneously lost in the 0.6 release.

Thanks,
Keen Software House team

 

No, also, that sounds like a really strange situation.

Grids should never just disappear, there's only three intended causes:
1. Large grid becomes dynamic, over time it will fall apart and get cleaned up. This behavior can be disabled by deselecting Ruin Decay in the world settings.
2. Grids are considered abandoned (i.e. no-one visited them for many weeks and they were in an unclaimed area) are automatically cleaned up. This behavior can be disabled by setting Abandoned Castle Decay to 0 in the world settings.
3. Someone with admin level access removed them.

If you believe something happened erroneously, please give us your world backup, hopefully still with the grids, and the one directly after. Maybe we can reproduce the issue and resolve it.

 

Can't repair unless we have more details. "My grids disappeared" doesn't provide us the data we need to analyze and reproduce the problem.

If it's something related to 1 it means the grids became dynamic for some reason, this could be a server start-up initialization bug. For analyzing this, we would need a save right before it happens.
If it's something related to 2 it means the abandoned check is not working correctly. For analyzing this, we would need a save right before it happens.
If it's something related to 3 it means you have to talk to your admins.

 

How long ago did you last visit your grids though? The 168 hours (7 days) don't start counting until your claimblocks expire, so if you had your claims paid it should be okay.
Do you keep any long term backups? I spoke to another admin who had it happen to him, but he already threw away the world and logs, and loaded his 09:00 morning backup.

From him too, I got the information that, occasionally, the server loads up and after a few hours someone connects and finds no buildings, but he was unable to verify if anything specific happened.

I believe that there's a chance there's a bug, and I'd like to figure it out, buildings sporadically disappearing is a pretty major problem for the game!