I’m not sure if this will help in every case, but it seems to help in some cases:
If you’re missing crafters, go to follower menu, select the missing crafters, and select “stats”
It seems for some reason, viewing their stat screen for a minute or two makes them pop into place.
Notably, the missing thralls stats always give the “loading distant follower” message before popping up. Then they’re at their station tooling away like they never disappeared.
(NOTE that this only seems to be working for thralls still on your follower list lol… For the dead and gone ones, well… RIP.)
yeah my thralls at my workstations disappeared and are no longer affecting the work stations. Looking at the followers list, the text is a different color, and it shows the thralls to be in my base, but they are not there. They were there last night when I logged off. I log in to find them NOT affecting my benches. This totally sucks.