Server issue with placing any object anywhere

[RoxofoxeR 0]

Hi.

I run a modded server.  None of the mods we use should affect the ability to place items.

Nobody on my server can "place" anything anywhere.  No matter what location they use, they are unable to place anything.  No barrels, no tents, no flag kit, nothing.  This is true no matter what location they try to place anything.  The "left click to select placement" thing comes up, and if they left click the white ghost appears to be able to choose the placement of things, but they cannot place anything at all.  No option to place ("HOLD to place") never appears.  They're just stuck with the ghost saying you can choose where to place and that's it.

We were on 1.07 and upgraded to 1.08.  We have applied all recent patches.

I do not know what file controls the ability to place things.  If I knew what file controlled that I could look at it and see if there is some kind of error.

[drgullen 596]

2 minutes ago, RoxofoxeR said:

I run a modded server.  None of the mods we use should affect the ability to place items.

I hate to be Devil's advocate here, but you know what the devs will say -- have you tried this on 1.08 without any mods?  I ask because I've played 1.08, I've seen others play 1.08 and I've yet to encounter or see any issue placing things, so my bet is one of your mods that worked fine on 1.07 is causing this issue on 1.08.

I suggest you try it without any mods present and if the issue is still there, open a bug tracker ticket for this at that point because you'll have proven then that it has nothing to do with any of your installed mods.

[RoxofoxeR 0]

While that's good advice, we've done that already.  When we updated from 1.07 to 1.08 we had no mods at all.  Had mods installed on 1.07, but prior to the update to 1.08 all mods were removed so the update process wouldn't be interfered with by any mods.

The problem existed immediately after update, prior to reinstalling the mods we use.

Many of the files we had been using before the update were then copied back to the server after update, such as our types.xml file (1.08 installed a default types.xml and ours is edited, so we simply copied and pasted the one we use back overtop of the default on that 1.08 put in place) so the possibility exists that one of the files we use for the older version is somehow preventing the actual placement of items.  However, this shouldn't be the case as none of those files, to my knowledge, affects how things are placed.  It's once again a case of "if i knew which file handled the ability to place objects I could check, but I don't know that file, because BI hasn't given anyone any instruction manual at all on how all this stuff works or at least which file does what".

I have not heard of any problems with re-using 1.07's XML files but if there is a problem with that that anyone knows of I'd love to hear it.  I don't know if they changed any class names for any items, no announcement has been made either way on the matter, and I'd like to know for sure whether all class names are the same or if they changed them.

Anyways, long story short, the tl'dr version of this is that the problem has existed without any mods because we've done that already.  Good advice, just, we've already done that,

[Capt Caveman 0]

I have a server that had worked properly until I updated to 1.09 and I have the same issue, I can't place anything at all..no claim flags, barrels, tents or anything!! I've tried everything from uninstalling all mods right through to the normal mods I have as usual. 

PLEASE FIX THIS!! this has got to be a DayZ problem and not my server as it's not just me that's having it.

[drgullen 596]

1 hour ago, Capt Caveman said:

I have a server that had worked properly until I updated to 1.09 and I have the same issue, I can't place anything at all..no claim flags, barrels, tents or anything!! I've tried everything from uninstalling all mods right through to the normal mods I have as usual. 

PLEASE FIX THIS!! this has got to be a DayZ problem and not my server as it's not just me that's having it.

I wonder if it could be your persistence folders?  Did you wipe the server before updating it?  As a test, shut down the server and then move the persistence folders (cut and paste them somewhere else).  Now, start up the server and try to place something.  If you can now, repeat this test but with the original persistence folders back in place.  If it doesn't work again, it means there's something corrupted in there and you'll unfortunately have to wipe the server.

[Capt Caveman 0]

well that didnt work...I'm now gonna re-install mods then if that dont work....REFORMAT!!!!

I have now pinned this fault down to one mod, BaseBuildingPlus, which is a pain in the backside as of now there's no fix out there for it.

Edited September 13, 2020 by Capt Caveman
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