Server wont finish initializing

[Potang]

Hello,

 

I've been trying to get a dedicated server up and running for a few days now.

 

So far I've tried on 3 seperate machines with the same results.

 

At first I was trying to generate 16k maps which would take an absurd amount of time and would crash half way through which I expected.

 

I've since then been trying to generate 8k maps and I'm able to sucessfully get through everything. However, when I go to join it kicks me and says server is still initializing.

 

Here are the logs:

 

Home PC

https://pastebin.com/b2hqSpnw

 

Dedicated server

https://pastebin.com/aELk5ShT

 

As for the third, it was a free trial on arkservers.

 

Could anyone advise?

[SylenThunder]

You've got several errors there. When you started the server up the first time, did you wait for it to finish generating the map on the first run?

[Potang]

Hey - thanks for the quick reply. On the dedicated server it would crash halfway through, until i downsized to 8k. Do I have a saved file I need to remove? As for the PC, it was a fresh install

 

- - - Updated - - -

 

If this helps at all, on the dedicated host I followed https://7dtd.illy.bz/wiki to download the dedicated server.

 

I also completely uninstalled/reinstalled on my PC and ran into the same issue. I ensured all server files were gone.

[Potang]

After posting the above, I proceeded with a new instance and it booted sucessfully. I was able to get in for a while, however after restarting the game client I'm getting the same message: "Index was outside the bound of the array"

[meganoth]

According to the log your generated world on the server is put in /home/sdtd/serverdata (if it isn't one of the pregenerated) and your savegame is put into /home/sdtd/instances/Server1

 

Before generating a new world I would make sure that both of those dirs are empty (delete it or move the contents to backup).

 

And always use a new GameName in serverconfig.xml, as this name is also used as a subdirectory name in finding cached data on the client (can't look it up now, so only 80% sure of this). A new name means there is no danger of loading old (cache) data.

 

Locally all your data is in C:\Users\R & G\AppData\Roaming/7DaysToDie, but this includes game data of local games and of other servers. At least for testing you could move the complete dir to a different location before logging in to the server (and later moving back all the data you still need).