Help with drone on Xbox

Jarrett Cox

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My game randomly crashed and when I loaded back in my 4x4 and drone were gone. Crashes and bugs happen every once in a while but now I’m stuck at the point I can’t place another drone down because it says I have the maximum amount placed even though the old one vanished from existence

 
This happened to me a couple of times too, the drone should return after a couple of days/game restarts but the 4x4 may not. I've lost 5 gyro's and 3 motorcycles so far but the drone always returned.

 
I've started over twice as drone never came back... heck never even got a reply on my bug post... 

Hope it comes back for you however i expect to see a new post over this same topic every few months 

 
Normally, your vehicles/drones are at a location you traveled, it could be about 2 - 5 minutes away from where you were (e.g. you parked at a POI, drove for 2 minutes, crashed, the 4x4 could be at the POI or on the way to the POI). So, try retracing your path. The drone, if it gets stuck way down underground, you can try digging to bedrock and log out/back in, I have seen that a couple times pop the drone back up to follow you

 
First one was painful. Fully loaded drone crashed as I pulled up to base. Bike eventually showed up down the street, drone icon never left being a marker for the base. Yes dug to bed rock and flew to roof, every time coming home I was reminded I can't have a drone. Should have killed world instead of putting in more hours, 2nd was not as bad but also never showed up...

I hope we get a fix for some of these issues as I went from playing 3 worlds with different friends down to 1 part time

 
Well, the trick would be to log out at bedrock level and back in while still at bedrock. Yeah the drone issue is being worked on though no worries, it's a tricky one to nail down.

 
They could at least put an interaction point at the traders to either respawn the drone there or even “destroy” it which allows the player to place another one down. 

 
Greetings,

It seems like myself and others end up having our drones missing after a xbox series x  7DTD  crash.... weither be in a gyrocopter or motorcycle, etc. . sometimes folk not always noticing the exact path they take when it crashes.  Additionally a player due to whatever reason during a lag or session spazing out, may fall through the ground and seems their drone is potentially stuck underground.. The drone won't even appear on the compass as an icon untill your right on top of it..

2 players have lost their drones to this containing whatever loot, etc in it.  and can't deploy a new one until the original one is reclaimed which blocks them permanently.

"DL logs"  or "dl"  or whatever on the console doesn't work but from time to time the game will display all the vehicles out but no drones, even the ones active and following the player, or lost ones after a crash.

I feel for basic session maintenance, that the host should be able to use "dl clear"  to delete all drones currently active upon a loss or something to resolve the issue temporarly till a fix where the drones can perhaps get summoned by the owner in whatever condition it's in to plop on the ground in front of them, or a nice old icon they can ride to.

it's not till it's lost where the idea comes up that perhaps we should take stuff out of the drones inventory and claim the drone back into our backpack prior to flight or travel - but this can be tedious.

Some basic commands for the console using console admin portal should be allowed for this. What's the point of being a Admin of our own session but not be able to do the most basic fixing issues mentioned above.

And there's no save game reverting back an hour or 2  to attempt get the drone back.

-FireWalker101

 
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Greetings,

It seems like myself and others end up having our drones missing after a xbox series x  7DTD  crash.... weither be in a gyrocopter or motorcycle, etc. . sometimes folk not always noticing the exact path they take when it crashes.  Additionally a player due to whatever reason during a lag or session spazing out, may fall through the ground and seems their drone is potentially stuck underground.. The drone won't even appear on the compass as an icon untill your right on top of it..

2 players have lost their drones to this containing whatever loot, etc in it.  and can't deploy a new one until the original one is reclaimed which blocks them permanently.

"DL logs"  or "dl"  or whatever on the console doesn't work but from time to time the game will display all the vehicles out but no drones, even the ones active and following the player, or lost ones after a crash.

I feel for basic session maintenance, that the host should be able to use "dl clear"  to delete all drones currently active upon a loss or something to resolve the issue temporarly till a fix where the drones can perhaps get summoned by the owner in whatever condition it's in to plop on the ground in front of them, or a nice old icon they can ride to.

it's not till it's lost where the idea comes up that perhaps we should take stuff out of the drones inventory and claim the drone back into our backpack prior to flight or travel - but this can be tedious.

Some basic commands for the console using console admin portal should be allowed for this. What's the point of being a Admin of our own session but not be able to do the most basic fixing issues mentioned above.

And there's no save game reverting back an hour or 2  to attempt get the drone back.

-FireWalker101
a drone bug has been reported this week by oc- once the pimps fix the issue may resolve your issue to.... If you want to follow the bug report- oc has reported one of the drone bugs to get fixed follow the link:  https://community.7daystodie.com/v1-bugs/bug-pool/bug-found-with-drone-when-a-player-exits-a-dedicated-server-drone-is-not-unloading-properly-r1016/

 
a drone bug has been reported this week by oc- once the pimps fix the issue may resolve your issue to.... If you want to follow the bug report- oc has reported one of the drone bugs to get fixed follow the link:  https://community.7daystodie.com/v1-bugs/bug-pool/bug-found-with-drone-when-a-player-exits-a-dedicated-server-drone-is-not-unloading-properly-r1016/


Since i don't have a dedicated server because i'm on xbox, this is relating to a crash on the console, not on a dedicated server like the PC folk have.

per the link  - a crash is much different than a player simply logging off of free choice and drone still does whatever it's doing.  *shrugs*

 
Since i don't have a dedicated server because i'm on xbox, this is relating to a crash on the console, not on a dedicated server like the PC folk have.

per the link  - a crash is much different than a player simply logging off of free choice and drone still does whatever it's doing.  *shrugs*
"The drones are not unloading properly when the player leaves the server" or i imagine in your case crash, reguardless pretty sure if this bug gets fixed is going help your situation rather it be on console or pc

 
Yeah my drone is also gone. I've tried to locate it but the last known location is always (none)

 
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so they know if they'll patch this in the next update?  kind of a big bug, as the drone is a valuable tool for experienced and inexperienced players with an almost endless application of it's use's.

 
so they know if they'll patch this in the next update?  kind of a big bug, as the drone is a valuable tool for experienced and inexperienced players with an almost endless application of it's use's.
it just got reported this week so who knows? ive seen bugs that where reported years ago just get fixed....

like vending machine player dupe was just fixed 1.3 players been asking for that one for ever.

i imagine since drones effect pve and pvp players and is such a concern they prob will make it a high priority to fix

all you can do is just follow the report, once its fixed the pimps will add the update in next release they do.

 
gosh i hope drone update comes up in next update. it's a big thing for a diverse type of vehicle / drone.. 🤪😁
Especially if you have alot of valuable stuff stored in it upon it's disappearance.

 
a xbox friend also enjoyed the clone duplication in the drone..lol ... if he injures himself and lets the drone initiate the heal (not hum selecting drone to ask for a heal), then it will clone stuff in his inventory in the drone after the heal... but he has to have stuff in his inventory first, log off and then back on which saves this items for next cloning. if he wants something new to clone like a fleet of gyrocopters, he has to take the stuff out of his drone and log off and on.. i don't remember if he has to collect the drone into his character's inventory to reset it then deploy it.. but key factor is drone has to initiate heal ... so he often steps in his own traps like electric fence till the drone heal's him - then bam, stuff magicly appears in the drone's inventory. doesn't work for me cause i am the host. seems to only work for guests who join a host. not sure if anyone else can do it.

all i know is 5 trucks, 6 gyrocopters, several stacks of steel bars was nice to add to the player store vending machine to sell to other players for cheap price..lol

 
firewalker101 said:
a xbox friend also enjoyed the clone duplication in the drone..lol ... if he injures himself and lets the drone initiate the heal (not hum selecting drone to ask for a heal), then it will clone stuff in his inventory in the drone after the heal... but he has to have stuff in his inventory first, log off and then back on which saves this items for next cloning. if he wants something new to clone like a fleet of gyrocopters, he has to take the stuff out of his drone and log off and on.. i don't remember if he has to collect the drone into his character's inventory to reset it then deploy it.. but key factor is drone has to initiate heal ... so he often steps in his own traps like electric fence till the drone heal's him - then bam, stuff magicly appears in the drone's inventory. doesn't work for me cause i am the host. seems to only work for guests who join a host. not sure if anyone else can do it.

all i know is 5 trucks, 6 gyrocopters, several stacks of steel bars was nice to add to the player store vending machine to sell to other players for cheap price..lol


Yeah just don't use the healing mod for now. But hey, at least it's paying your back for bugs eh

 
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