Problem with a mod, or am I just seriously buggy somehow?

[Brian Cherrick]

This has happened to me 3 times over the course of the last week, twice in the last 4 hours. After the first time it happened, I had an unfortunate accident with a reactor and reset my server, but it still occured.

The issue is as follows:

In Twilight Forest, I set up a quarry at one of the large hollow hills to get some more resources for some of my higher end builds. I move high above the ground .. to around level 110 or so (above the trees). I see up my landmarks, my quarry, my tesseracts (item + energy), and chunk loader (to keep it running while I am gone). After about 30 minutes I notice I am not bringing in any items. Chests are almost bare, and I fly back out to where the quarry is at, and the quarry is missing, as is the chunk loader, and 1 of the 2 tesseracts.

Foul play isn't a possibility because I am 1 of only 2 people on my server, and my nephew is the other one, and we're constantly together on the server. It even happened when he wasn't on tonight.

Is there something amiss here either with quarries running in TF, tesseracts, or something?

Would appreciate any input that can be given regarding the matter.

Thanks

Brian

 

[MilConDoin]

There have been many reports during the last months, that chunkloaded quarries in the twilight forest are faced with chunk resets. I'm not sure if this was only reported for 1.4.7 or also for 1.5.2.

 

[PoisonWolf]

There have been many reports during the last months, that chunkloaded quarries in the twilight forest are faced with chunk resets. I'm not sure if this was only reported for 1.4.7 or also for 1.5.2.

Thanks for the heads up. I was just about to set up a quarry in Twilight Forest.

 

[Brian Cherrick]

My server runs on 1.4.7, but before last week I never had this problem using DW20's modpack. I wasn't sure if some bug manifested itself all of a sudden, or if it was something simple that I was just missing. Now is it just the chunkloaders themselves that cause problems, and world anchors would be better, or just things in general that keep chunksloaded that foul em all up?

Not to mention it is totally random. It could happen now, then not happen for a week.

 

[PoisonWolf]

My server runs on 1.4.7, but before last week I never had this problem using DW20's modpack. I wasn't sure if some bug manifested itself all of a sudden, or if it was something simple that I was just missing. Now is it just the chunkloaders themselves that cause problems, and world anchors would be better, or just things in general that keep chunksloaded that foul em all up?

Not to mention it is totally random. It could happen now, then not happen for a week.

Hmm. Try the same setup, but try doing a small 5x5 hole, and make sure that the quarries, etc, are not within the range of the landmarks (though I think you've checked for this by now), and make the chunkloader as small as possible, within the area, also, go all the way up to 200 for height, just to be safe.

If something has been working for a long time before, I see no reason why it should suddenly stop, unless if your twilight world is corrupted somehow?

If all else fails, try resetting just the twilight world and let it re-create a new world afresh and see if that helps.

 

[Brian Cherrick]

How do I reset the twilight world on my server without borking the rest of it? As for being random, that was without resetting it. Does quarry size effect it you think? The size of the quarry was 9 chunks (8 for the quarry itself, plus 1 for the other crap). Does starting high up effect it as well ?

 

[egor66]

The easy way to reset TF is to delete DIM7 in the /saves/gamename dir, then reload & pop into tf portal, this just regenerates TF, as you can guess anything that was there is lost, the chuck resets is a know bugs as stated above.

 

[PoisonWolf]

How do I reset the twilight world on my server without borking the rest of it? As for being random, that was without resetting it. Does quarry size effect it you think? The size of the quarry was 9 chunks (8 for the quarry itself, plus 1 for the other crap). Does starting high up effect it as well ?

As I understand chunks, it includes all vertical height. So when they say 1 chunk, it means from bedrock to the limit of the sky. Thus, it shouldn't matter where you place it vertically. I was thinking of whether random mobs were messing with your stuff lol (though I've read that it is fairly peaceful in twilight forest (overworld, that is).

I'm not sure if the quarry size effects what's going on, hence why I suggest testing a 5x5 BLOCK area (i.e., really small).

I read somewhere that it could be done, but I may have mistaken, with regards to resetting the twilight forest. I'd suggest googling around to see if anyone has been able to do it.

I can only suggest ways to isolate the culprit causing the issue.
1) Making a small quarry area to see if that's causing it.
2) Not using the chunkloader and manually standing there to see if that's causing it. If you have one, use a bee with the beatific effect (regeneration) to ensure that you don't do from hunger while you stand by your quarry).

If it disappears from 1), maybe it is as the other poster suggested (i.e., chunk loader issue due to large amounts of chunks).
If it disappears from 2), it could be the size of the quarry.
If it disappears when combining 1) and 2)....then something is really wrong (i'm not sure what outside of some sort of problem with mining in twilight forest). I suggest you watch your quarry when doing this approach to see exactly what happens.

Do you have access to server logs to see if any error messages pop up?

Sorry that I'm not much help. I can only suggest options to troubleshoot. =(

I personally do not go into the twilight forest because it is too laggy for my personal server to handle. I quarry out oceans instead because it doesn't (to the naked eye) destroy landscape lol.[DOUBLEPOST=1374254557][/DOUBLEPOST]

The easy way to reset TF is to delete DIM7 in the /saves/gamename dir, then reload & pop into tf portal, this just regenerates TF, as you can guess anything that was there is lost, the chuck resets is a know bugs as stated above.

Thank you. This is good information to know.

 

[Mirality]

My server runs on 1.4.7, but before last week I never had this problem using DW20's modpack. I wasn't sure if some bug manifested itself all of a sudden, or if it was something simple that I was just missing. Now is it just the chunkloaders themselves that cause problems, and world anchors would be better, or just things in general that keep chunksloaded that foul em all up?

I can't answer that particular question, but: why are you using chunkloaders at all? Buildcraft quarries automatically chunkload themselves and their mining area. You just need to make sure that any support (power, item transport etc) is in the same chunk as the quarry block. F9 is your friend.