Raft Size limit when playing online!

[Hugh Jazz]

There seems to be a size limit in terms of how many structures are built on the Raft, but this limit is only apparent when playing in multiplayer.

A friend and me are currently working on a huge Floating Castle, everything seemed to go smoothly until today. He is hosting the world and everything is fine on his side, but if i attempt to join his world i just end up in the water and there is no visible construction on my end.

To reproduce this issue it's rather simple, but time consuming. Just build a 100x100 raft foundation, ask anyone to join your world, and they'll go right through the floor and won't even see it, they will only see water around them.

Does anyone know if there is a way to prevent this from happening, through mods or other means ?

[City Builder]

I have to ask, are you playing on creative because there's no way that most of us could even come close to 100x100 raft on regular play.

[Priest]

Originally posted by City Builder:

I have to ask, are you playing on creative because there's no way that most of us could even come close to 100x100 raft on regular play.

If you make only one story it should be possible until arround ... day 200-300
(its equal 9x 33x33)

But All above 30x30 is anyway too much (ferormance wise too) and in special unrealistic


but on topic, i have no idea, my arround 28x25 big raft was allready too large for multiplayer
(had a black screen issue (But i use mods))

[Anonymous Helper]

Was the raft made before or after the 9.05 patch? If it was made prior the patch, does the problem still occur on raft made after it as the black screen on joining was one of the bugs the 9.05 hotfix was supposed to fix.

✔ Bug where joining a friend with a big raft could cause the player to get stuck on a black screen

https://steamcommunity.com/games/648800/announcements/detail/1611638729473533655

[Priest]

If you mean me
hmm 9.05 was from 22 may

29 may
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1754860816

Somewhere between a player joined my raft without issues

Some time later he joined again a few times but never moved
(i GUESS he had allready the issue)

31 may
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1756652952

and then (no idea) 3-4 days ago
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1759435586
And he had the black screen issue
(i removed the foundations as he told me that)

As i said, i used mods (from the very start, so the unknown player could join this savegame i used the mods (no idea if the mods was active at this time))
* Turn the raft
* No clipping Freecam
* Your Balance
* Item spawner
Like i listed here
https://steamcommunity.com/app/648800/discussions/0/1649919326334016905/#c1649919326334054918
(Greg (he had no mods) could not join with and without active mods on my side)
(Btw today he joined a new (raft) game from me without issues)

[Hugh Jazz]

Originally posted by City Builder:

I have to ask, are you playing on creative because there's no way that most of us could even come close to 100x100 raft on regular play.

We are preparing the castle in creative, but our ultimate goal was to build it in a normal game once we figured out the entire layout and all the difficulties we might have building it.

[Hugh Jazz]

Originally posted by Anonymous Helper:

Was the raft made before or after the 9.05 patch? If it was made prior the patch, does the problem still occur on raft made after it as the black screen on joining was one of the bugs the 9.05 hotfix was supposed to fix.

So to give you the full story, this is actually our third attempt at building a castle, the first two were stopped due to this exact issue preventing us from building together. We reduced the size of the castle each time, hoping it would work out, but every time at some point in the construction it seems we went over the size limit.

To put it short, our initial build was before the patch, but our latest and current one was made afterwards and the issue is still the same.

Here are some screenshots of what's going on.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1763130278
this is the basic layout of our current build. (60x44)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1763130237
this is what my friend sees

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1763130115
this is what i see.

As you can witness, there is literally NOTHING on my side and my friend is floating in midair on an invisible structure i can't interact with.