Server won’t setup properly | Project Zomboid | Page 1

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 8:36 PM

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I’ve been trying to set up a Server with 1000+ mods, it’s been working with 6gb ram allocated just fine until I added maps which don’t seek to work properly at all…

And lately the mod just doesn’t load anything it seems like when it comes to maps, the logs always say the spawns don’t exist or maps don’t exist and crashes on map load.
It was working just fine earlier today and now doesn’t at all…

I deleted the steam workshop folder in zomboid so it reinstalled, I remade the server settings in case it was necessary, I did all the mods manually using mod manager and triple checked spawns and map order and all the load orders.
Maps were 90% loaded and now it just stopped loading them entirely? Why? Can someone help me set this up?

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Pc has 16gb ram, I have 6 allocated to zomboid and 6 to server.

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No ssd (yet), need a screw, but it was running 100% fine before maps.

vale burrow Nov 25, 2023, 8:41 PM

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over 1k mods? bruh. need more ram. also, post your Map= and spawnregions file

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 8:41 PM

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Alright

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And it was going just fine with current ram, though I am getting more too

vale burrow Nov 25, 2023, 8:41 PM

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post your server log

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hope you removed any passwords from your ini file @plush egret

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 8:42 PM

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📎 25-11-23_14-25-29_DebugLog.txt

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 8:42 PM

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vale burrow hope you removed any passwords from your ini file <@416742784796459008>

server admin passwords or?

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📎 map_load_order.txt

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📎 Sisters_Journey_SandboxVars.lua 📎 Sisters_Journey_spawnregions.lua

vale burrow Nov 25, 2023, 8:43 PM

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@spark radish vehicle_interior should be 1st in the Map= list

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or at least before RedstoneRaceway

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idk about some of those other spawn zone maps, they are also special cases sometimes

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 8:44 PM

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some of the order I was confused about since it was bottom to top it seemed like at least for muldraugh?

vale burrow Nov 25, 2023, 8:45 PM

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but i doubt that's an issue tbh. will probably work fine anywhere as long as Muldraugh, Ky is last

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 8:45 PM

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most of them were working down to the last 30 ish maybe

vale burrow Nov 25, 2023, 8:45 PM

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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2822286426&searchtext=rv+interior

Steam Workshop::RV Interior

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plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 8:46 PM

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after the last 30 I was in the process of slowly loading them and then everything stopped working

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and where do I disable the anti-cheats

vale burrow Nov 25, 2023, 8:47 PM

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you also didn't disable the anti-cheats

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beat me to that point haha

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well, listen. obviously you haven't read the workshop descriptions for all of these mods and maps you are adding

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before people waste a lot of time helping you, i would recommend you go read every workshop description, and the 1st page of comments at least, for every mod

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 8:47 PM

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vale burrow before people waste a lot of time helping you, i would recommend you go read eve...

it was mainly a collection that covered a large majority of them, and I had looked through most

vale burrow Nov 25, 2023, 8:48 PM

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i'll see you back in a couple weeks, peace

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haha

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 8:48 PM

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I just missed the anti cheat stuff it seems

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because everything else was working pretty well before it started not loading any of the maps at all

vale burrow Nov 25, 2023, 8:49 PM

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pretty sure almost everyone that helps here recommends against those mod packs, and if you are adding mods on top of them then that kind of negates the point of going with the mod pack -_-

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 8:49 PM

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it was only a map pack

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not a full mod pack

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but I get what you mean

vale burrow Nov 25, 2023, 8:49 PM

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if it's a recently made/updated mod pack, i wouldn't be against using it myself, but then mixing it with other maps who knows

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 8:49 PM

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we went through a spread sheet for all the tiles and locations

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so it's just the weird not loading thing that happened and hindered me when I was looking through the maps and fixing the stuff

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Like what things would cause it to suddenly not load all of the maps when around 230 were already loading fine

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vehicle interior breaking and the anti cheat would only prevent that from loading as far as the comments show, you just assumed I didn't read any of them at all from one mod

vale burrow Nov 25, 2023, 8:55 PM

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but wow, don't think i've ever seen so many spawn regions before

vale burrow Nov 25, 2023, 8:55 PM

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plush egret vehicle interior breaking and the anti cheat would only prevent that from loadin...

pretty much, haha

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i'm just a random guy btw, not official support

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 8:56 PM

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I know I just don't like getting simple dismissive answers that might make it seem like it's solved

vale burrow Nov 25, 2023, 8:57 PM

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how are you starting the server?

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 8:57 PM

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host button

vale burrow Nov 25, 2023, 8:58 PM

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probably should use a dedicated server for a setup like this

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 8:58 PM

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I used mod manager to do all the mods, organized them into categories so it would be easy to fix stuff and put tiles and maps towards the bottom currently

vale burrow Nov 25, 2023, 8:58 PM

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then the logs will be easier to look at too

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this log is cut off and looks like client side

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 8:58 PM

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It wasn't working too badly until the maps suddenly stopped loading

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and the server log was originally coming up, but right now when I load it stops at 0/500 or whatever number

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when it originally loaded into it and crashed I at least got a server log

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📎 25-11-23_14-15-10_DebugLog-server.txt

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this is the last one that was a server log

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I thought what partly caused the error originally was the fact I kept copying to slowly remove maps from the map order so I could see what was causing it

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so I made a new setting and put the stuff back in, plus necessary steps like reinstall and downloading mods again to see if that would fix it

vale burrow Nov 25, 2023, 9:02 PM

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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2891251749

Steam Workshop::Post-Soviet Armory

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do you have brita weapons mod?

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 9:02 PM

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those also worked fine, only overwritten some of each other

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I thought that was causing it too

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but if I take out maps server loads fine, not even a error in the error mod between them

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just overrides which is fine

vale burrow Nov 25, 2023, 9:03 PM

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shrug maybe it causes, exactly this issue? where things appear to work, but then later get corrupted?

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maye that's why the mod author has a big warning

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 9:03 PM

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maybe but I had them all in another server I did for a week or so

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and taking them out after making a new one didnt change it

vale burrow Nov 25, 2023, 9:04 PM

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it's a very long log file haha

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 9:04 PM

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yeah

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plus if it would cause later corruption, that would be something that would be included with the warning no?

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I mean you obviously can't list every error that could happen from conflict

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but corruption would be something under that if it happened

vale burrow Nov 25, 2023, 9:06 PM

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do you really need the Excrementum mod? -_-

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 9:08 PM

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yes it was wanted in the list

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You should see my suffering while I have drinks more and eats more negative traits on

vale burrow Nov 25, 2023, 9:09 PM

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[25-11-23 14:18:14.061] LOG  : General     , 1700943494061> 9,472,860> -----------------------------------------
STACK TRACE
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Callframe at: setExclusive
function: $ExcShared.lua -- file: $ExcShared.lua line # 3 | MOD: Excrementum.
[25-11-23 14:18:14.062] ERROR: General     , 1700943494062> 9,472,861> ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0 (Native Method)..
[25-11-23 14:18:14.062] ERROR: General     , 1700943494062> 9,472,861> DebugLogStream.printException> Stack trace:.
[25-11-23 14:18:14.062] LOG  : General     , 1700943494062> 9,472,862> -----------------------------------------
STACK TRACE
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Callframe at: setExclusive
function: $ExcShared.lua -- file: $ExcShared.lua line # 4 | MOD: Excrementum.```

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i think this is harmless, but idk

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stack traces are usually bad things haha

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 9:10 PM

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Most if not all of the mods were working before maps, so it is good to mention any errors that might be bad

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but I don't think they'd be the cause of what happened, though it can often be the stuff you don't think would cause it so idk

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Clothing, Weapons, Top order-Priority mods
Cars
Tiles, Ui, Set mods (Braven as example)
Loot, Crates, items spawns
Maps

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this is about the system I followed

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excluding dependencies

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those always went where they needed unless I missed some

vale burrow Nov 25, 2023, 9:14 PM

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the number of exceptions i am seeing is kind of concerning

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function: boxclothBodyLocations.lua -- file: boxclothBodyLocations.lua line # 21 | MOD: ClothesBox Redux.
[25-11-23 14:18:14.854] ERROR: General     , 1700943494854> 9,473,654> ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0 (Native Method)..
[25-11-23 14:18:14.855] ERROR: General     , 1700943494855> 9,473,654> DebugLogStream.printException> Stack trace:.
[25-11-23 14:18:14.855] LOG  : General     , 1700943494855> 9,473,654> -----------------------------------------
STACK TRACE
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plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 9:14 PM

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yeah I tried to fix most

vale burrow Nov 25, 2023, 9:14 PM

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lot of these

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 9:14 PM

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there was a lot

vale burrow Nov 25, 2023, 9:14 PM

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i used this mod before and had 0 exceptions, not sure why you have so many

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 9:15 PM

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might be the overlapping clothes mods

vale burrow Nov 25, 2023, 9:15 PM

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and some other mods

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many on Callframe at: setExclusive

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 9:15 PM

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I could of gotten the order a bit wrong but I planned to go back and do that later since after extended play the error mod shows which overlap/conflict

vale burrow Nov 25, 2023, 9:15 PM

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something is messing up setExclusive

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mod orders in Mods= doesn't matter too much except for patches

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 9:16 PM

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that's why I just followed an organized system

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which helps with organizing errors and when stuff overrides

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just because the order doesn't matter doesn't mean you shouldn't practice good organizing habits

vale burrow Nov 25, 2023, 9:18 PM

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i hear ya

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have you wiped the save yet?

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 9:20 PM

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yeah I've deleted world and save always

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my character ones too

vale burrow Nov 25, 2023, 9:21 PM

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[25-11-23 14:15:33.604] LOG : General , 1700943333604> 9,312,404> user database "C:\Users\sirja\Zomboid\db\Sister's Journey.db".
[25-11-23 14:15:33.643] ERROR: General , 1700943333643> 9,312,442> org.sqlite.SQLiteException: [SQLITE_ERROR] SQL error or missing database (no such table: whitelist).

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never seen that before

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might want to just delete the db file (or move it just in case )

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 9:22 PM

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oh that might be one of the errors

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the game didnt delete all of them now that I look in there

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I'll try that next

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and run it again while you keep reading

vale burrow Nov 25, 2023, 9:24 PM

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i still advise to move to a dedicated server

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 9:25 PM

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Those either cost money or need more ram/second computer to run though don’t they

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or a result that basically has same quality as host button

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I’ll switch if it ends up being a have to, but it’s only 4 people or less at all times if that

vale burrow Nov 25, 2023, 9:29 PM

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that's not what i meant

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i mean launch the "Dedicated Server" instead of using Host button in-game

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doesn't need a separate PC or anything

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https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Dedicated_server#Through_Steam

Dedicated server

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 9:33 PM

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Oh then I can try that next after I fix the map problem

vale burrow Nov 25, 2023, 9:34 PM

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wipe the save and db file and lets see if that fixes it

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 9:34 PM

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Yeah im trying it now

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it’s been loading while we chat im just using the phone now

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I get a black screen every so often

vale burrow Nov 25, 2023, 9:39 PM

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just don't cancel the initialization haha

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anyways, i think i might let someone take over from here, and go play PZ myself

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 9:57 PM

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Nope it still wasn’t those things either, it’s weird because it was very sudden and only after I had removed/deleted the steamworkshop folder according to other guides online and let it redownload

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 10:46 PM

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How long will I have to wait, I’ve been trying to get it to work for days now from all the mods added

molten jacinth Nov 25, 2023, 11:55 PM

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plush egret I’ve been trying to set up a Server with 1000+ mods, it’s been working with 6gb ...

There's 127 comments so far

Don't care what the others have said

A 1000+ mod world is unplayable. Dont care what you think or what they feel is right.

Fix your mod list and get it below 500, then troubleshoot

You are 100% wrong right now

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 11:56 PM

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It’s been playing just fine apart from maps though

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Only the maps are what i’ve had issues with no lag even either

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and those were even working before I tried to fix the last 30

plush egret Nov 25, 2023, 11:59 PM

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molten jacinth There's 127 comments so far Don't care what the others have said A 1000+ mod w...

I’ll even send a screenshot of me in the world right now

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the only lag I ever get is click to start loading and after that it’s flawless

molten jacinth Nov 26, 2023, 12:01 AM

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plush egret I’ll even send a screenshot of me in the world right now

X to doubt

plush egret Nov 26, 2023, 12:02 AM

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I know sometimes it’s easy to just be blunt and say use less but sometimes pushing limits ends well

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1ms ping too

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molten jacinth Nov 26, 2023, 12:08 AM

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plush egret

Localhost is not proof

1ms ping means its your server

1k mod servers are all trash

Not possible

You arent fooling anyone

plush egret Nov 26, 2023, 12:10 AM

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Well you have fun with that

molten jacinth Nov 26, 2023, 12:10 AM

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I have a solution for this

plush egret Nov 26, 2023, 12:10 AM

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I don’t think it’ll be a problem with 2 people

plush egret Nov 26, 2023, 4:50 AM

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I didn't see that on steam it was replied to, so I put the files there as well

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It never notified me with the reply

agile coral Nov 26, 2023, 11:11 AM

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plush egret

It looks like there is an issue saving the server which caused the crash, it specifies the Global Mod Data as being the cause. Do you have enough free space on your C drive?

plush egret Nov 26, 2023, 4:37 PM

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agile coral It looks like there is an issue saving the server which caused the crash, it spe...

I had 20gb of space when I was testing it, and 80 after making space I think

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Is it possible something reads the memory wrong?

agile coral Nov 26, 2023, 4:59 PM

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Could be an issue with one of the mods. Try running the /save command to see if that causes the crash

plush egret Nov 26, 2023, 11:20 PM

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agile coral Could be an issue with one of the mods. Try running the /save command to see if ...

okay, do I have to do that in a save?

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Wait i’ll just google that part

vale burrow Nov 26, 2023, 11:36 PM

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You do it in the server console, or as an admin in game

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Or via rcon

plush egret Nov 27, 2023, 1:36 AM

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vale burrow You do it in the server console, or as an admin in game

I’ll try that then

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If I can access without loading

plush egret Nov 27, 2023, 2:07 AM

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I’ll have the people i’m playing with make a small server too to check

plush egret Nov 27, 2023, 4:57 PM

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I also got more ram and a m.2 ssd lately so i’ll probably try again after installing

plush egret Nov 29, 2023, 3:21 AM

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Moment of truth

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I got 4tb of space and 64gb of ram

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lets see if it crashes again

plush egret Nov 29, 2023, 3:46 AM

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Not a storage problem it still happened

vale burrow Nov 29, 2023, 4:17 AM

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ded

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SSD?

plush egret Nov 29, 2023, 4:19 AM

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vale burrow SSD?

Yeah

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7000 write speed too

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couragelaugh

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I’m doing a full reinstall next

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deleted workshop folder too

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whole zomboid folder and just kept saves and server

plush egret Nov 29, 2023, 4:47 AM

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Full reinstall done

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will it be fixed??? who knows

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but it has 16gb of ram for the server

plush egret Nov 29, 2023, 5:45 AM

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Nope still lost connection

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@vale burrow [28-11-23 23:57:42.087] LOG : Mod , 1701237462087> refusing to list examplemod.

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is this normal?

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I know it's a map mod that

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causes it too

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because muldraugh at top it loads and functions fine while a bunch of map mods just updated

plush egret Nov 29, 2023, 7:28 AM

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Somehow the game broke

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because my sister’s mods loaded in the same load order

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but crashed for me in singleplayer

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I reinstalled the game, verified files, redid the mods etc

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and it doesn’t work

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somehow

agile coral Nov 29, 2023, 9:59 AM

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I would recommend testing your mods in that case, it looks to be a mod issue

plush egret Nov 29, 2023, 6:15 PM

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buys 64gb of ram

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forgets to give game more ram

plush egret Nov 29, 2023, 7:01 PM

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Now i’m getting server timeout though

plush egret Nov 29, 2023, 8:42 PM

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is it possible the server folder is corrupted somehow?

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It seems it loads in singleplayer after properly allocating everything, when it crashed before

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but doesn’t load in the server

plush egret Nov 29, 2023, 9:31 PM

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agile coral I would recommend testing your mods in that case, it looks to be a mod issue

I know it’s a map mod causing but I don’t know how they’re causing it

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I pinpointed it that far

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because if I use muldraugh to overwrite the maps the server loads

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But I can’t tell which map broke it because 99% of them loaded before

agile coral Nov 29, 2023, 10:25 PM

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I do not think I can help you find out how something happpens, as I am not the creator of the mod nor have modding experience

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I can just help fix it by telling you to remove the mod

plush egret Nov 29, 2023, 11:27 PM

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agile coral I do not think I can help you find out how something happpens, as I am not the c...

That’s fair can the logs tell you what I need to disable and do you know what I need to look for?

plush egret Nov 30, 2023, 5:09 AM

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Okay

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this is the newest log

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📎 29-11-23_22-55-10_DebugLog-server.txt

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I managed to get it to load after removing 2/3rds of the maps like I did before

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so one or two are breaking

plush egret Dec 2, 2023, 5:08 AM

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@vale burrow If I narrowed down the list of maps to 20 ish and the ones I think are causing problems do you think you could help me figure out the issue

plush egret Dec 2, 2023, 5:36 AM

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SZ_Battlefield_Louisville_Airfield;SZ_Battlefield_Louisville_Hospital;SZ_Battlefield_Louisville_Stadium;SZ_Checkpoint_2;SZ_Checkpoint_3;SZ_Checkpoint_5;SZ_Checkpoint_6;SZ_Checkpoint_7;SZ_Checkpoint_8;SZ_EVAC_Louisville;SZ_EVAC_Muldraugh;SaveOurStation_KnoxCountry_World;SecretZ_Core;SecretZ_Core_v2;Hunter'sBase_map;ranger's_homestead_map;SLEOSpawn;Shortrest County;Southwood2.0;Speck;spencermansionlootable;St Paulo;Studio, KY;SurvivorCampMap;TeraMart;The Compound;TheEyeLake;The Frigate;The Mall FIXED - use this;PrisonTWD;The Yacht;The Museum;Tikitown;TrimbleCountyPowerStation;Tugaland

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these are the ones that break it, if I remove them it loads and runs really well even

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Muldraugh Fire Department;MuldraughCheckpoint;OSMuldraughKY;OSRiversideKY;OSRosewoodKY;OSWestPointKY;Muldraugh, KY

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this is what comes after tugaland, but these don't break it, this is just in case it's a cause somehow

plush egret Dec 4, 2023, 9:07 PM

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I have successfully gotten all maps to load

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well

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minus 6 of them

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but whats -6 when you have 254

vale burrow Dec 4, 2023, 10:47 PM

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Lol

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Respect. That's a lot of maps

plush egret Dec 5, 2023, 10:21 AM

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Yeah now im just adding the last 300 mods

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