Bases keep resetting and/or partially disappearing

[Marine]

Does anyone else have the issue with your base area resetting and/or partially disappearing? I have lost 3 bases in the last week due to this. Just a few minutes ago as I approached my base in my vehicle and the area loaded up graphically, I noticed a message that my bedroll was gone. Sure enough, my base area reset itself to the way the area was prior to building. In total, I have lost two bases that I built from scratch and one where I converted a POI. After the first base loss, I restarted. The current game I lost most of my POI base so I moved down the road about 200 meters and built from scratch. Generally, a couple of walls of the base remain with the items attached (spotlights, turrets, and/or storage) but the majority of the base and all of my items no longer exist, or, in the case of the POI base, reset back to the origional house layout. This is not a wandering horde issue as I would have seen them. I believe there is a complete reset of the chunk (I think that's what it is called) as the area renders in when approached. Besides, I had enough firepower on my walls to take care of any sort of horde threat. The area was surrounded by an electric fence with barbed wire directly underneath with turrets covering 360*. A horde would get caught up in the barbed wire while being fried and shot by turrets. Plus, what remains of the base is undamaged. I have searched the forums for anyone else experiencing this issue, but it seems to not be reported. The only hits I have seen are with xbox users.

[vgifford]

If you are building in a POI and the POI gets selected for a quest, the entire chunk of land will be reset when you start it.

[Marine]

Originally posted by vgifford:

If you are building in a POI and the POI gets selected for a quest, the entire chunk of land will be reset when you start it.

Yep, I am aware of that from one of Kickz' videos. That wasn't the case in any of my base losses, however. Thank you though!

[vgifford]

NP. was just an idea.

[Nimbull]

Your base doesn't have to be in a POI to get chunk reset. Random quests that designate open areas (non-POI's, similarly created like treasure chest maps) can pop up anywhere in the game world. Once you activate that quest in that random location it resets the chunk for that area. Any structures not present initially or removed will get completely reset.

This means no base is safe from quests resets in A17. You tear down a prefab junk building it gets reset. You build a storage facility and place all your loot there and it'll get reset by a quest located in that spot deleting your build and your loot.

[vgifford]

Didn't know the treasure chests reset chunks too.... Joy.

[Nimbull]

Originally posted by vgifford:

Didn't know the treasure chests reset chunks too.... Joy.

Not the treasure chests. There are quests that get assigned random locations like treasure chests. These are quests that aren't tied to a POI. Those will reset the chunk. So if I'm on a server and I get a quest that says go out to the middle of nowhere and kill 5 fat zombies and your base happens to be there then I'll wipe out your base just by starting the quest event.

[vgifford]

Gotcha, like Kill Some Chicks

[Nimbull]

Originally posted by vgifford:

Gotcha, like Kill Some Chicks

Yeah something like that. I got a quest to go out to a specific location in a wasteland and there was nothing around there but the quest marker to start the event. Soon as I started it the area kinda blinked and the whole chunk was reset. There were no POIs in the area and fortunately no bases.

[Detachi]

Did you put down a land claim block? I'm pretty sure that should remove any chance of getting your base messed with.

[vgifford]

Dont know if claim blocks make a difference but they definately should. Take note Devs.

[Marine]

Originally posted by Nimbull:

Your base doesn't have to be in a POI to get chunk reset. Random quests that designate open areas (non-POI's, similarly created like treasure chest maps) can pop up anywhere in the game world. Once you activate that quest in that random location it resets the chunk for that area. Any structures not present initially or removed will get completely reset.

This means no base is safe from quests resets in A17. You tear down a prefab junk building it gets reset. You build a storage facility and place all your loot there and it'll get reset by a quest located in that spot deleting your build and your loot.

I understand what you are saying here. However, the base reset as I was approaching in my vehicle. I was nearly there - near enough that the base would have been rendering in visually- when I got the message that my bedroll is no more. So it was as those chunks (that included my base) were loading that the game seemed to have dumped my base. My base was nowhere near any quest POI's. I build next to the lake and was around 100'ish meters from the nearest house. I'm taking a wild guess at the distance but no quests were present within a 1km radius from my base.

Originally posted by Detachi:

Did you put down a land claim block? I'm pretty sure that should remove any chance of getting your base messed with.

Yes, I had a land claim block placed in the middle of my driveway right next to my base. I used flagstone blocks as a driveway/parking spot for my 4x4 as I have had multiple vehicles vanish on me. I thought that by parking on player made blocks might prevent that from happening. Haven't had my vehicles vanish, just my driveway...and entire base! lol My land claim block was also part of the vanishing act. The ground that I had dug out for the driveway and the base foundation were reset.

[Evil_Lee]

You can report it but sadly it will probably never get fixed. A few of my friends and I have had this problem on occasion even before a17 so it is not a new thing. Usually, for me its an error loading part of a chunk that causes it and there is no way to stop it either since making a backup of the game does not work (you replace the saved game with the backup and when you load it just bugs out again. At this point I have already let my friends that play this game or were thinking about getting it know of the problem and some even decided not to buy the game because of it (rather they were willing to get it till they found out that this has been a problem for years and has not been fixed).

[LadyGrelka]

Originally posted by Marine:

Does anyone else have the issue with your base area resetting and/or partially disappearing? I have lost 3 bases in the last week due to this. Just a few minutes ago as I approached my base in my vehicle and the area loaded up graphically, I noticed a message that my bedroll was gone. Sure enough, my base area reset itself to the way the area was prior to building. In total, I have lost two bases that I built from scratch and one where I converted a POI. After the first base loss, I restarted. The current game I lost most of my POI base so I moved down the road about 200 meters and built from scratch. Generally, a couple of walls of the base remain with the items attached (spotlights, turrets, and/or storage) but the majority of the base and all of my items no longer exist, or, in the case of the POI base, reset back to the origional house layout. This is not a wandering horde issue as I would have seen them. I believe there is a complete reset of the chunk (I think that's what it is called) as the area renders in when approached. Besides, I had enough firepower on my walls to take care of any sort of horde threat. The area was surrounded by an electric fence with barbed wire directly underneath with turrets covering 360*. A horde would get caught up in the barbed wire while being fried and shot by turrets. Plus, what remains of the base is undamaged. I have searched the forums for anyone else experiencing this issue, but it seems to not be reported. The only hits I have seen are with xbox users.

I had something very similar happen to me, When I started my saved game for my single player, Navezgane world the house I spent MANY hours upgrading and reinforcing had reverted back to the original state I found it in, all the chests I put down with my stuff in them where gone, as well as the furniture I placed in my house, my claim block was also gone, I had planted crops and all but a few where gone as well, however the wall I built on my claim border was still there, as well as the few things I had in my inventory. My game did not crash, I did not start any quests, I played last night, cleaned out my inventory from my exploration trip and exited the game with no problems what so ever, then when I loaded my save today my house had reverted like I explained above. Needless to say I am NOT happy about this, that was a lot of work, and now I have to start over, NOT happy at all.

[Agent X Top Secret]

ALPHA 18 Experimental | PC VERSION

hello 2 bases nearly on the same lactions disapeears and a base in an and 1 existing house in alpha 18 experimental was reseted and disappears with all my loot... :( i can only find 1 wall from my base .... ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ i never had this issue i playing from alpha 16 to now and this is my first time ... and yes i had 2 claim blocks with undestoryable settings.. only 1 house from my frind is still here, its really because quests? if yes i will edit the xml file and remove all quests from my server...

[Shurenai]

Originally posted by Agent X Top Secret:

ALPHA 18 Experimental | PC VERSION

hello 2 bases nearly on the same lactions disapeears and a base in an and 1 existing house in alpha 18 experimental was reseted and disappears with all my loot... :( i can only find 1 wall from my base .... ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ i never had this issue i playing from alpha 16 to now and this is my first time ... and yes i had 2 claim blocks with undestoryable settings.. only 1 house from my frind is still here, its really because quests? if yes i will edit the xml file and remove all quests from my server...

Quests -can- reset a base if the base is made in an existing POI, but ONLY if you actually start the quest at the location; Until you reach the exclamation mark and begin the quest, nothing will be touched. When you do activate the exclamation mark, it will reload the POI, and any player built blocks/objects will disappear and missing blocks/objects will reappear..

But again, To be sure this is clear: It does NOT reset a POI from simply accepting the quest from the trader, It is only by going to the POI and starting the quest proper that will do that. So there is no need to strip quests from your server unless you're playing with people you don't trust.

Quests actually shouldn't even appear anymore at locations with a bedroll or land claim block; And an A18 theres even a second level of protection now that is supposed to prevent the activation of a quest at a location containing an active bedroll or landclaim block.. So it really shouldn't have been this that caused your problem.