Crash when attempting to join my modded server. Console txt attached | Project Zomboid | Page 1

night meteor May 9, 2026, 4:30 AM

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📎 console.txt

ripe cradle May 9, 2026, 4:32 AM

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Not sure if it's the problem but unknown option "-maxMem=12288"

night meteor May 9, 2026, 4:33 AM

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thats me attempting to get my game to run on more than 3gb of ram

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i've edited the .json and set launch parameters on steam

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and it refuses to launch with more than 3gb

ripe cradle May 9, 2026, 4:33 AM

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Should be `-Xmx12288m"

night meteor May 9, 2026, 4:33 AM

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i've tried that

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doesnt work

ripe cradle May 9, 2026, 4:34 AM

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What's your launch options look like

night meteor May 9, 2026, 4:34 AM

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going to try the xmx parameter again

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see if I get a different result

ripe cradle May 9, 2026, 4:35 AM

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-Xmx12288m --

night meteor May 9, 2026, 4:36 AM

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Id have to install discord on my server rig to conveniently upload anything off that

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so give me a moment to get signed in on that end

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its gonna take a moment for me to connect to attempt to recreate the crash, in a desperate attempt I nuked my mods from my game and started a fresh install

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im also going to feel really dumb if that fixes it because honestly that should have been what i did first

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I could have done this the easy way. spent like 14 dollars a month. but no. I chose the path of the penguin and blew 400 dollars on a heavily used gaming pc to convert into a server

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📎 console.txt

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I can immediately see that setting the launch parameter did nothing

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Im just so confused as into why its also ignoring the .json file edit

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and heres the most recent chunk of text from the server

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honestly going to just shut it down for the night and hopefully come back to it with a fresh head sometime tomorrow

ripe cradle May 9, 2026, 4:59 AM

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Was server created recently?

night meteor May 9, 2026, 4:59 AM

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literally just spent 6 hours on debugging stuff only for this last headache to pop up during the last hour

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yes server was created today

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using recycled configs from a server I previously rented

ripe cradle May 9, 2026, 5:00 AM

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Looks to be a server side issue from your console.txt but I'll keep digging

night meteor May 9, 2026, 5:00 AM

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the thing I dont get is why my game is refusing to run with more than 3gb of ram

ripe cradle May 9, 2026, 5:00 AM

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night meteor using recycled configs from a server I previously rented

Might want to just wipe those, they could be trying to config things incorrectly now

night meteor May 9, 2026, 5:01 AM

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ripe cradle Might want to just wipe those, they could be trying to config things incorrectly...

might have to. which sucks because that means I have to redo all my settings

ripe cradle May 9, 2026, 5:01 AM

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night meteor the thing I dont get is why my game is refusing to run with more than 3gb of ram

The log you sent is showing 12G of ram available

night meteor May 9, 2026, 5:01 AM

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really Must of misread it then

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oh yeah so it does

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six hours of using linux terminal will do that to me I guess lol

ripe cradle May 9, 2026, 5:02 AM

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It be like that, my brain is fried from writing bash scripts all afternoon

night meteor May 9, 2026, 5:04 AM

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yeah modding is next on the docket of things to learn

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want to get this server stuff knocked out first

ripe cradle May 9, 2026, 5:04 AM

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night meteor yeah modding is next on the docket of things to learn

Fun times highly recommend, check out the PZMC server if you need help/advice

night meteor May 9, 2026, 5:05 AM

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I already got a tiny bit of familiarity with tweaking a few abandoned mods so Im not entirely blind

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honestly just doing the nuclear approach for the server real quick to see if that will resolve some of the issues

ripe cradle May 9, 2026, 5:06 AM

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Might be the way to go

night meteor May 9, 2026, 5:07 AM

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I already had a major headache actively editing the server ini while learning nano. well technically relearning but thats a story for another time

ripe cradle May 9, 2026, 5:11 AM

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night meteor I already had a major headache actively editing the server ini while learning na...

Time to get into vim

night meteor May 9, 2026, 5:12 AM

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ah yes let me just dust off my bludgeon that has the linux bible printed on it

ripe cradle May 9, 2026, 5:13 AM

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Also noticed farming expansion b42(trees) is throwing an error

night meteor May 9, 2026, 5:14 AM

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yeah. thats simply because its out of date. keep meaning to disable it but keep forgetting

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should probably do that since im writing a new ini

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also noticed that the formatting for the mods is wrong on the old ini

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despite that it was still loading said mods

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it was using the build 41 method with ; instead of \

ripe cradle May 9, 2026, 5:17 AM

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Yeah fresh ini should 🤞 hopefully 🤞fix

night meteor May 9, 2026, 5:24 AM

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welp and the use of Ai to make a very boring task instant. ie replacing ; with \ in a text file

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obviously with proof reading to make sure it didnt screw it up

ripe cradle May 9, 2026, 5:28 AM

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As you should

night meteor May 9, 2026, 5:31 AM

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ripe cradle As you should

microslop could learn a thing or two

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📎 console.txt

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welp I officially give up for the night

ripe cradle May 9, 2026, 5:36 AM

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Yeah I'd personally say nuke the server at this point, try it modless and then delete the world if it works and try with mods

night meteor May 9, 2026, 5:36 AM

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probably start with a fresh steam cmd install when i get the time tomorrow

ripe cradle May 9, 2026, 5:36 AM

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As far as I can see something somewhere is out of date or misconfigured

night meteor May 9, 2026, 5:37 AM

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probably need to manually comb through the mods and find what hasnt been updated for 42.17

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unfortunately a lot of mod devs have just kind of given up for the time being due to the frequency of updates

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cant say i blame them

ripe cradle May 9, 2026, 5:38 AM

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We trying our best 😭 but yeah last few months have been rough on modders

#Crash when attempting to join my modded server. Console txt attached