Building my base andddddd GONE

[Zion 1]

So I was building my base, took about 6 hours to get started and find a hammer. Then when i went out for more materiels my friends and I carried back power generators and wire mesh barriers back to base and then the server crashed. Two minutes later I came back on the server, both sea chests gone all the walls and sheet metal layed out GONE. Tents GONE. Obviously you can see the cycle here. So when the server actually crashes does it just delete everything or is this just happening to me? (It was "No message received...")

Edited November 25, 2018 by Zion

[Dopplerman 55]

42 minutes ago, Zion said:

So I was building my base, took about 6 hours to get started and find a hammer. Then when i went out for more materiels my friends and I carried back power generators and wire mesh barriers back to base and then the server crashed. Two minutes later I came back on the server, both sea chests gone all the walls and sheet metal layed out GONE. Tents GONE. Obviously you can see the cycle here. So when the server actually crashes does it just delete everything or is this just happening to me? (It was "No message received...")

Are you guys sure you joined the same server? I had no messaged received while building my base it it was all still there..

[Zion 1]

I screenshot the server # when we started, we're on the same server

[TheYetiBum 790]

1 hour ago, Zion said:

So I was building my base, took about 6 hours to get started and find a hammer. Then when i went out for more materiels my friends and I carried back power generators and wire mesh barriers back to base and then the server crashed. Two minutes later I came back on the server, both sea chests gone all the walls and sheet metal layed out GONE. Tents GONE. Obviously you can see the cycle here. So when the server actually crashes does it just delete everything or is this just happening to me? (It was "No message received...")

Exact same thing happened to me, servers are buggy as he ATM and there doesn't seem to be a server reset timer. To be fair though the devs did state that persistency for bases isn't a thing yet and that there prone to despawning at random or on server resets. They specifically said don't get to attached, especially as they'll most likely be doing a full server reset after the weekend to sort the constant night and rain out on 99% of servers as that an unintentional bug, plus at somepoint next week I'm sure there will be another patch for a lot of the hugs this update has with fps and rendering. I feel your pain though but atleast we will get a head start in knowing how to build once the game gets stable and releases as a 1.0 version :)

[xhardcorefishx 66]

Server timer are there and i cant report any issues with basebuilding and stuff like that.

Edit : Atleast not atm

Edited November 25, 2018 by xhardcorefishx

[DayzDayzFanboy 1280]

I wouldn't get too attached to anything yet while the game is in preview. I think the best approach is just use it as a practice run for learning what's needed and where to find things. 

[pilgrim* 3514]

12 hours ago, Dopplerman said:

no messaged received

"no message received" means your server has ALREADY shut down ( .. unless the mice are eating your ethernet cable, OK? ). you are still 'playing' on your home machine - but anything you do for the several seconds during the "no message received"  and for a couple of seconds BEFORE it - will NOT be recorded on the server. When you log back in you will find yourself back at the point BEFORE that message started.

So - If you drop something on the ground, and start to exchange gear from pocket to backpack.. then you notice the "no message received" .. this means that when you log back in after the server restart, whatever was RECORDED as being carried - before that message started -  will be still in your gear - anything recorded as dropped on the ground will have despawned -  even if you picked it up during the "no message received" warning.   If you run, or do anything while that message is up,  you'll find yourself BACK where you were before you did that stuff,  when you log back in..  This has ALWAYS been how it works.
When the server goes down, there is a second or so before the "no message received" comes up.. because it takes a couple of seconds for your home machine to decide it is out of contact. 
So any objects, items, you left on the ground THEN,  will be despawned when the server restarts.

Tents &  stuff you carry  and barrels  &  cars  &  bases  (and those contents)   should NOT despawn..  but anything ELSE you are putting down, picking up, looting, crafting, etc.. will go back to wherever they were and whatever state they were in when your home machine lost contact with the server. So any ordinary objects on the ground at THAT moment (logs, nails, weapon, boots, planks, bow, jacket, hammer, dead cow, whatever) - they won't be there anymore. 

And if you just keep driving through that message, you might have to look for your car a mile back down the road, maybe

- a well-run server will give you a 5 minute and a 1 minute warning before it closes down.

xxP

Edited November 25, 2018 by pilgrim*

[Zion 1]

3 hours ago, pilgrim* said:

"no message received" means your server has ALREADY shut down ( .. unless the mice are eating your ethernet cable, OK? ). you are still 'playing' on your home machine - but anything you do for the several seconds during the "no message received"  and for a couple of seconds BEFORE it - will NOT be recorded on the server. When you log back in you will find yourself back at the point BEFORE that message started.

So - If you drop something on the ground, and start to exchange gear from pocket to backpack.. then you notice the "no message received" .. this means that when you log back in after the server restart, whatever was RECORDED as being carried - before that message started -  will be still in your gear - anything recorded as dropped on the ground will have despawned -  even if you picked it up during the "no message received" warning.   If you run, or do anything while that message is up,  you'll find yourself BACK where you were before you did that stuff,  when you log back in..  This has ALWAYS been how it works.
When the server goes down, there is a second or so before the "no message received" comes up.. because it takes a couple of seconds for your home machine to decide it is out of contact. 
So any objects, items, you left on the ground THEN,  will be despawned when the server restarts.

Tents &  stuff you carry  and barrels  &  cars  &  bases  (and those contents)   should NOT despawn..  but anything ELSE you are putting down, picking up, looting, crafting, etc.. will go back to wherever they were and whatever state they were in when your home machine lost contact with the server. So any ordinary objects on the ground at THAT moment (logs, nails, weapon, boots, planks, bow, jacket, hammer, dead cow, whatever) - they won't be there anymore. 

And if you just keep driving through that message, you might have to look for your car a mile back down the road, maybe

- a well-run server will give you a 5 minute and a 1 minute warning before it closes down.

xxP

I got the no message received an hour after the building of my base. My friend and I had gone down the road to find more sheet metal and supplies and the warning went up. By the time we came back to our base location everything was gone. Walls, tents, power generator, barrels, wire mesh barriers gone. If it should not despawn I'm assuming that this is a major bug that should be addressed.