#[💡] All maps disappear and Game is stuck in loading screen on restart

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rough orchid
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Game version: Don't know, not displayed.
Build ID on steam: 13566030
Updated on: 2024/02/27
OS: Windows 10

Reproduction steps

  1. Change the string for a map from the Editor
  2. Save that map with the new string and name (Both maps are identical with only different map string)
  3. After the save is completed press "Esc" to go back to the main menu. There, all maps disappeared from the game (Base & Community maps) except for the current week Rush Hour contest map
  4. Quit the Game
  5. Start the game again
  6. Be stuck in loading screen

Wrong behaviour:

  1. The maps should not disappear from saving an already created map after generating a new map string for it.
  2. After quitting the game normally and restarting it again the game should not be stuck on the loading screen

Expected behaviour:

  1. The maps should not have disappeared from the main menu
  2. The game should not be stuck in the loading screen
Endless_loading.jpg
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Sadly I didn't take a screenshot of the main menu where all maps disappeared before closing the game the first time

burnt remnant
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It seems something went wrong when the custom map was saved.
Hopefully we can reproduce that issue and fix it.

as for getting the game to work again in the mean time you can try removing the problematic map from the user files.
located in C:\Users\<your name>\AppData\LocalLow\bitrich\Rail Route here you will see a folder named community levels which contains your custom levels. here you need to remove the folder of the problematic map, most likely the one with the last modified date.

Please send this broken map here so we can have a look at the broken file.
you can do this by zipping the folder and uploading it here (right click on the custom level folder and click "copy to" > "compressed (zipped) folder")

pine cryptBOT
rough orchid
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Sadly though, deleting the map in question has not solved the endless loading problem

burnt remnant
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okay it seems that map might be fine then. you can try removing (or moving to a temporary folder as a backup) other custom maps there to see if that helps.
it could also be a save that it broken. those are located in in the saves folder instead of the community levels folder.

same logic here. remove the save(s) that are edited most recently and see if the game then runs like normal.
then please send the file that prevented the loading

rough orchid
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Now it works again
I think I found the problem
For the original map that I cloned I also manually edited the "map author" section of the "level" text document, but I accidentally typed it in as

Instead of "MapAuthor":"AuthorName"```
Deleting that solved the endless loading problem and all maps are visible again
So at the end of the day it comes back to doing 2 things at the same time and not paying enough attention to what exactly I'm doing with one of those things
Anyway, thanks for the help
Always fascinating to see how one little mistake can cause a whole game to stop working
burnt remnant
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ah yes that will do it ahha.
glad you found the problem