DEVS. Lost almost my entire tribe after the 7/4 update...

[Ellafina]

Literally an entire base of 10, minus 1 lucky porter, died of thirst in a stocked camp between 12:30PM and 11PM while hubs and I were out doing holiday stuff. The tribe of 8 in our other older camp is completely fine and thriving. Both camps are built on lakes, and there was also also plenty of food and water bottles stocked and available to them. I'm so gutted, we brought all our best tribe members to this camp.

I've read this is an unaddressed bug, but does anyone know if it's possible to roll back on a private server? Or are we just boned and have to start from scratch?

[Deinsensai]

Oh my god, i´m so sorry for you, you literally wasted dozends of hours of your life :O
Maybe the whole Camp with the Tribesman got stuck in each other, or they didnt want to live anymore, because you left them for too long^^

[Deelen]

Private servers (such as g-portal) will have auto-save backups every so often that can be used to roll back to a particular point. Requires a little bit of IT knowledge to do so.
1. Assuming you are using a provider such as g-portal, You'll first need FTP software to connect. The provider will give you help instructions on their web site and the IP address and password.
2. Stop the server and FTP to the site and look for the .../WS/Saved/Worlds/Dedicated/Level01_Main folder.
3. Find an auto-save file from the list of *.db files in that folder with a date/time that is as far back as you need. Note: The file names have the date/time, but they are likely server times and not your actual playing time zone. So you may need to experiment to find the exact copy you are looking for.
4. Simply rename any of those files to your world.db file. You'll likely want to save a copy of the original world.db file first, just in case.
5. Restart the server and it will load from your backup/auto-save. Future auto-saves will start from that point and time.

[Ellafina]

Originally posted by Deelen:

Private servers (such as g-portal) will have auto-save backups every so often that can be used to roll back to a particular point. Requires a little bit of IT knowledge to do so.
1. Assuming you are using a provider such as g-portal, You'll first need FTP software to connect. The provider will give you help instructions on their web site and the IP address and password.
2. Stop the server and FTP to the site and look for the .../WS/Saved/Worlds/Dedicated/Level01_Main folder.
3. Find an auto-save file from the list of *.db files in that folder with a date/time that is as far back as you need. Note: The file names have the date/time, but they are likely server times and not your actual playing time zone. So you may need to experiment to find the exact copy you are looking for.
4. Simply rename any of those files to your world.db file. You'll likely want to save a copy of the original world.db file first, just in case.
5. Restart the server and it will load from your backup/auto-save. Future auto-saves will start from that point and time.

Hubs looked into it - the last possible backup we could have rolled back to was from the 1st, and if we do so, we would lose all the progress we made on building our base. Heading out on a mass clansmen search as we speak lol

[EverTrek1701]

same happened on my official pve server. what changed?

[loserman(FAT)]

Hard to say for this specific instance, but in general:
- Tribe members do not drink from open water (lakes/rivers)
- I have not seen a tribe member take a water skin for drinking, but can't say this is impossible
- My experience is that tribe members consume food items with hydration in response to satiety, but have had cases where tribe members died to dehydration while hydrating foods were easily available, so I don't believe they consume hydrating food items just to fill hydration
- The only consistent method to avoid tribe dehydration I have found is to have wells/rain collectors in easily accessed areas, tribe members do well at visiting those to fill hydration

[RandomDude]

Originally posted by Ellafina:

Literally an entire base of 10, minus 1 lucky porter, died of thirst in a stocked camp between 12:30PM and 11PM while hubs and I were out doing holiday stuff. The tribe of 8 in our other older camp is completely fine and thriving. Both camps are built on lakes, and there was also also plenty of food and water bottles stocked and available to them. I'm so gutted, we brought all our best tribe members to this camp.

I've read this is an unaddressed bug, but does anyone know if it's possible to roll back on a private server? Or are we just boned and have to start from scratch?

You can just pretend they got visited by euros :)

[RoscoMash]

If this is a private server, tell "hubs" to back up the game every day. I have mine set to back up at 3AM each morning.

[Sonja Babs]

Originally posted by Mr Chazbo II:

If this is a private server, tell "hubs" to back up the game every day. I have mine set to back up at 3AM each morning.

[Dedicated.Settings]
SteamServerName="<Server Name>"
MaxPlayers=10
pvp=False
backup=900
saving=600

Engine.ini ..\WS\Saved\Config\WindowsServer

[Stephan]

Originally posted by Sonja Babs:

Originally posted by Mr Chazbo II:

If this is a private server, tell "hubs" to back up the game every day. I have mine set to back up at 3AM each morning.

[Dedicated.Settings]
SteamServerName="<Server Name>"
MaxPlayers=10
pvp=False
backup=900
saving=600

Engine.ini ..\WS\Saved\Config\WindowsServer

backup=900 wont make a copy of your world.db, it just rewrite the world.db, thats different to Mr Chazbo


-backup Specifies the interval for writing the game database to disk (unit: seconds).
-saving Specifies the interval for writing game objects to the database (unit: seconds).


https://soulmask.fandom.com/wiki/Private_Server

[Ellafina]

Originally posted by loserman(FAT):

Hard to say for this specific instance, but in general:
- I have not seen a tribe member take a water skin for drinking, but can't say this is impossible

Completely forgot about this post over the weekend lol. Just wanted to comment on this specific part and say that, in order to avoid a similar snafu while I was out of town, I loaded up each tribe member and both food tables with skins, and believe it or not, they drained ALL of them... but did not go get the extra filled ones in my 'Container' chest. When I logged in yesterday, they all had plenty of hydration, and none of them died this time lol.

I gave the lil bishes a well, so here's hoping.