Dedicated Server: All NPCs, animals, monsters do not spawn after restart

Game mode: Dedicated server
Type of issue: BUG
Server type: ALL
Region: US


Sometimes after restarting the server, all game NPCs, animals, monsters, doors, resources do not spawn. The world is empty of dynamic content.

Client and server restarts do not fix.

Deleting Game.db and restarting server fixes the issue (but you lose your world).

This happens without mods and with mods. (not a mod issue)


Please provide a step-by-step process of how the bug can be reproduced. The more details you provide us with the easier it will be for us to find and fix the bug:

  1. Run a dedicated server…
  2. Restart the server a few times until the bug happens (NPCs are no longer there).
  3. To fix: delete Game.db and restart.
    .

More info… If you copy the ‘bad’ game.db file to your single player directory and start the game, everything is fine.

If you copy the same file FROM your single player game back to the dedicated server, the dedicated server is still missing dynamic content.

If you delete the game.db file from the server and start a ‘fresh’ world, the dynamic content is ok.

CheckGameDB.bat results:
“game.db”
ok
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