Drone Getting Lost Due To Teleport

A

ahawksfan

Refugee
Version
2.0 b289
Platform
Windows
If you have a drone and you use in-game vanilla teleport in debug mode to move to another location on the map. The drone stays in the original location. When you return sometimes the drone is there but if the chunk as been unloaded it is no longer retrievable. Also if you are on a dedicated server and you return it is very likely you have lost your drone yet you have one linked to your player. Very difficult to ever place another one.
 
Reproduction Steps
  1. Launch the vanilla game (No Mods)
  2. Enter an existing game or create a new one
  3. Spawn in the game
  4. F1 for console
  5. Enter dm for debug mode
  6. Enter cm for creative to get access to a drone
  7. Hit F1 or exit to close the console
  8. Hit Tab and select the lightbulb for creative
  9. Enter Drone and drag one to your toolbelt
  10. Place the drone on the ground
  11. Wait an arbitrary amount of time
  12. Hit M for the Map
  13. Pick an arbitrary new location on the map and Ctrl Right Click
  14. You will not have a drone near you and your map will show it being in your original location.
  15. You can check the list of entities in the console and it will show the original location.
Link to Logs
http://nologneededforthisbug.com
Link to Screenshot/Video
http://novideoneededforthisbug.com
Just noting, this has long been an issue, but playing around in DM mode, or using 3rd-party server managers that use the console commands hasn't really been supported.
 
SylenThunder said:
Just noting, this has long been an issue, but playing around in DM mode, or using 3rd-party server managers that use the console commands hasn't really been supported.
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No third party Mods, only mods in my folder are: 0_TFP_Harmony. Also noting, hundreds of hours logged in V1.4, and this was not an issue.

Happy to post logs and video if it will get someone to look at it.
 
Thank you for reporting.
This is not intended behavior, and I was able to confirm the issue, so I will be writing an internal ticket for it.

EDIT :
I was able to reproduce the drone not following the player when teleporting, but I was not able to reproduce the drone getting lost. The drone icon on the map and compass does disappear after relog, but I was still able to find the drone by going back to the area I was in before teleporting.
 
chikorina said:
Thank you for reporting.
This is not intended behavior, and I was able to confirm the issue, so I will be writing an internal ticket for it.

EDIT :
I was able to reproduce the drone not following the player when teleporting, but I was not able to reproduce the drone getting lost. The drone icon on the map and compass does disappear after relog, but I was still able to find the drone by going back to the area I was in before teleporting.
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Thank you for looking at this.

Can I ask, were you testing locally (not connecting to a dedicated server)? We almost exclusively play on a dedicated server and that is where we lose the drone. When I tested on a local game I did not lose the drone nearly as often.
 
Just tested on EXP 2.1b5. Spawned the drone in and teleported. It came with (yeah). Waited 2 minutes and teleported again. It did not follow (sigh). Hence, not fixed in 2.1b5.
 
SylenThunder said:
Just noting, this has long been an issue, but playing around in DM mode, or using 3rd-party server managers that use the console commands hasn't really been supported.
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This same issue has happened to us although we never used any commands, mods or other. Kept it vanilla. The server crashed, everyone rubber banded and one's drone was gone and he was unable to find it. LE did not show it existed and yet he couldn't put down another due to being at max. I had also made a post, but it sounds similar to this issue here.
 
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