#Naked Corpse ONLY in Linux (?) Why?

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wise barn
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We run a modded Dedicated server (heavy on clothing mods like Frockin Splendor, Tomb's Wardrobe, AliceMod, and others). On our Linux dedicated server, modded clothing never drops when you kill a zombie. Every single kill, every zombie, nothing. The body falls and the inventory turns into a container with vanilla clothes. Playing 42.17; had this issue in 42.16 as well.

The weird part is that everything else with those items works perfectly:

  • You can see the Modded clothes on the zombie in 3D - shirts, pants, belts, shoes, all rendering correctly before you kill it.
  • You can spawn items via admin and they work fine.
  • You can dress your character, drop items on the ground, put them in containers - no issues.
  • The modded clothing items exist in the world as loot - you can find them in buildings, pick them up, everything works.

The problem is only when a zombie dies: the clothes that were visually on its body simply don't appear in its inventory.

This is a Linux-only problem
We tested on Mac (self-hosted AND Dedicated server created by me on Mac) and the same modpack with the same .ini etc. works; clothes drop from zombies normally on Mac, with only a rare occasional miss. On the Linux server, it is 100% of the time, every zombie.

The log shows this warning for every zombie that spawns:

  • WARN: Clothing > Could not find item type for media/clothing/clothingitems/xxx

Note: wornItems:size() returns 0 at the time of OnZombieDead. The zombie has visible clothes (the WARNs prove this), but when the death event triggers, the WornItems list is already empty - the engine clears the slots? Why, and how to debug why?

Linux Server is using Symlink, and note this is not an issue of missing XML or Script, as you can see the Modded Clothings, you can use it, spawns, etc.

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  • Has anyone had modded clothes not dropping on a Linux server even after the clothingitems symlink fix? Do you know what else causes that warning to keep appearing?

  • Is anyone running these clothing mods (Frockin Splendor, Tomb's Wardrobe, AliceMod, or similar) on a Windows dedicated server? Do modded clothes drop normally for you? We suspect Windows doesn't have this problem at all.

  • Does anyone know a good Windows dedicated server host for PZ B42 with workshop support and panel/SFTP access? We're considering switching from Linux hosting just to avoid this class of issues.

Any lead helps - thanks in advance.