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Beav Nov 21, 2018 @ 5:07pm
Mek keeps disappearing
Am I missing something I have made 4 meks so far 3 of them have disappeared and 1 decided to starve to death today after only an hour of being offline. Is anyone having issues with meks just going poof when you log off?
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Natjur Nov 21, 2018 @ 5:08pm 
You put element dust on them? While in stasis (no one in render range) they seem to use 10X the normal food rate and can die fast.
Last edited by Natjur; Nov 21, 2018 @ 5:08pm
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Beav Nov 21, 2018 @ 5:16pm 
I see one died in tribe log due to starvation but the other 3 just up and disappeared. Nothing in log.
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Natjur Nov 21, 2018 @ 5:39pm 
Originally posted by Beav:
I see one died in tribe log due to starvation but the other 3 just up and disappeared. Nothing in log.
In the past, when some dinos of ours starved but no one was on for hours and no one in the area, we got no log, it was just gone.

We had two meks disappear, one in the logs, one not, we think both starved
Last edited by Natjur; Nov 21, 2018 @ 5:39pm
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Beav Nov 21, 2018 @ 5:41pm 
will try again and stack dust on it i guess just getting expensive losing them all one was even higher lvl from blueprint
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Ferchi Nov 21, 2018 @ 5:46pm 
when you have dinos or stuff disappearing you need to move them to another part of the map, in the island is a big hole undermap near the hidden lake where stuff poof if the are far away from the time of the first loading, and the island is the most old map and complete of the game, then another map is worst and they can't fix that bc is so big and a lot of work

also i recomend don't craft new stuff bc is all broken, save your materials and wait for a fix,.. soon... unless you want to lost more stuff fast
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blackemu Nov 22, 2018 @ 2:54am 
ive had one despawn on me with no message either. They dont have a food stat so not sure they can starve. I did start praking them on the roof tho. havent lost one since then
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Bernhard Nov 22, 2018 @ 3:09am 
Ark logic: Robots can starve to death (they are robots, how can they die ffs?) and can lose stamina even if they're powered by the fuel they need. Brilliant concept Devs
I do also feed my car every time i come home from work with some petrol dust so that it won't starve till the next morning
Last edited by Bernhard; Nov 22, 2018 @ 3:09am
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Beav Nov 22, 2018 @ 9:58am 
Think im going to make a parking lot with foundations and try that rather than just relying on the natural structures and keep dust or element on them at all times
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blackemu Nov 26, 2018 @ 11:16am 
mine havent starved at all after a week with no dust. The enforcer needs dust not to starve. I also have lost another mek since i parked them on the roof of my base, maybe they fall thru the game on loading in as the mesh doesnt catch them or something, by putting a fair distance between them and the ground ive kept all my meks
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Mardröm Nov 27, 2018 @ 12:28pm 
this happened to me three times, no messages. i'm paranoid about meks enough to just not make them now, which sucks because i love them. dunno what's up here.
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Natjur Nov 27, 2018 @ 12:41pm 
Originally posted by Victor Van Dort:
this happened to me three times, no messages. i'm paranoid about meks enough to just not make them now, which sucks because i love them. dunno what's up here.
Or just crypod them before you log off. We keep all of ours in crypods for this reason.

But it does sound like they are just falling through the world on server restart. Which would explain the random mec's sitting at 50,50 on the map
Last edited by Natjur; Nov 27, 2018 @ 12:49pm
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Mardröm Nov 27, 2018 @ 12:45pm 
Originally posted by Natjur:
Originally posted by Victor Van Dort:
this happened to me three times, no messages. i'm paranoid about meks enough to just not make them now, which sucks because i love them. dunno what's up here.
Or just crypod them before you log off. We keep all of ours in crypods for this reason.
meks can be cryo'd? i tried it and it wouldn't let me.
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Natjur Nov 27, 2018 @ 12:46pm 
Its hard to get the angle right, but once you do, it works fine
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Karu Nov 28, 2018 @ 9:57am 
Originally posted by Natjur:
Originally posted by Victor Van Dort:
this happened to me three times, no messages. i'm paranoid about meks enough to just not make them now, which sucks because i love them. dunno what's up here.
Or just crypod them before you log off. We keep all of ours in crypods for this reason.

But it does sound like they are just falling through the world on server restart. Which would explain the random mec's sitting at 50,50 on the map

Have you really found Mec's sitting there? I got the same issue, checked and nothing was there sadly...
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Migromul Aug 17, 2020 @ 9:42pm 
Did I miss something? since when do Meks "starve"?

But I have the same issue. Built 2 Meks so far. Both just disapeared after a while

BTW: if my meks did starve, shouldn't there be a tribe-note there? but there is nothing. They just vanished some day.

And Yes, I'm necroing this thread, because this is, what the search-function is for and the issue is stil there!


Originally posted by Beav:
Think im going to make a parking lot with foundations and try that rather than just relying on the natural structures and keep dust or element on them at all times

This doesn't help, because, this is, what I did... (although it's only half-built, it HAS walls on all sides.)
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