Player reset to no gear but still retain skills and map when loading the game. | Project Zomboid | Page 1

buoyant pagoda Jan 28, 2026, 5:30 AM

I assume someone has asked about this before but I couldn't find any info to help for vanilla games. I have had this happen 3 times now on 3 different saves with 3 different characters. I will quit out of the game like normal, standing in a safe room with doors and windows close. I will then either play a vanilla multiplayer game with my friend through steam hosting or will just go do other things not related to my solo game. Hours or days later I will load into my game and my character will be wiped of all gear. Is there any way to prevent this? I know I can give myself stuff back through debug mode but I don't remember everything I had since I also play with friends and other games. This is on a vanilla solo game, no mods ever installed for this game on my pc, and is on version 42.13.1

stray pilot Jan 28, 2026, 11:23 AM

There were some reported issues where too much data on the character can cause issues, though we have not been able to reproduce this

Do you have a backup of this save before it happened? Or of the server specifically, so we can use it to reproduce the issue

Though, now looking at the screenshot, you are on the older game version

We cannot accept bug reports from older versions, so I am not sure how I can help in that case

You can use the admin menu to give back skills and items in any case?

#Player reset to no gear but still retain skills and map when loading the game.