Trees duplicating after deleting a region file

Just in case I answered the did you wipe old saves wrong...I always create a completely fresh install of the dedicated server and have all of the save files stored in the game directory.  Thus we always delete all old files including anything that would have been saved in the profile on the server.  We did use the B323 world as noted.

On my client, I manage the profile files the same way and also did a clean installation for b324.

I was able to replicate this. Additionally, it occurred when restoring a region file from a previous backup.

 

You can see some of the trees clearly as a tree inside a tree before you cut them down. In about 80% of the second felled trees, they were at 0hp. Some would knock now in one hit, others were basically invincible.

I'll give this a check

Having a no-go on reproducing this atm, checking out alternative reproductions, but if anyone has any other information that would be appreciated.

 

• Went to an area with a lot of trees
• Shut the server down, deleted the region files
• Loaded back in, trees were fine

 

• Went to an area with a lot of trees
• Destroyed a whole bunch of them
• Shut the server down, deleted the region files
• Loaded back in, trees were fine

 

• Went to an area with a lot of trees
• Destroyed a whole bunch of them
• Went to a region far away from that one
• Shut the server down, deleted the region files
• Loaded back in, went to the region, trees were fine

Erm, well okay then right after I posted this I found a tree that duplicated. Going to say confirmed, will do some more investigation into this for other cases and make a report

When it happened to me, I was building a base in the area. During the base building, something occurred in the area that basically made my client crash. (I think I spoke with you about this elsewhere Jugg.) So in fixing the issue, I had restored the region file for that area from a backup that was taken like 15 minutes prior. After doing some building and playing for a few hours, I decided to cut down the trees around the base. That's when I noticed the duplication. It was occurring in every tree around the base. I didn't go further out in the region to test it though.

Should be fixed in A22 or a future build. 

 

So, this turned into a giant, complicated ticket; a ton of details aside, this didn't require deleting region files to reproduce but a certain set of actions done by multiple clients. 

 

@bob the big blob of goo, deleting region files is no longer supported and should not be done unless dire situations call for it, which even those situations you should use the region reset command (rr) instead. Deleting region files can still cause this likely, but doing so can cause a lot of other bugs since there are systems that require/expect things to be in order data-wise; the region reset command will rebuild the regions properly.