Weird happenings on my server?

[mattyb0209]

Hi, so I host a vintage story server for me and a group of people right? And for the last hour or so, I've been on solo, tending to my farm, and as I've been doing my things, watering crops or getting firewood from our stores, I've noticed a few things, Hay beds at the foot of doorways, all placed facing the door, okay, not too bad, one of my friends is messing about probably, so I go break it, and put the beds in a storage vessel, because since we don't need them, they could be good fuel for a fire, or good if we ever do the resonance archive, I'm coming around again like 15 minutes later, to harvest whatever turnips are done and replace them with carrots for crop rotations, and I see the beds are back, three of them, one on every doorstep, So I go round and collect them again, thinking it's gotta be desync, since I'm the only one on, I collect them again and put them in the same storage vessel, now I'm a little weirded out by this, and it's starting to look like the start of an ARG, so I just do something else to occupy myself, So I start making turnip stews and crock potting them, when I'm done I go back outside, and there's A hay bed on my doorstep. so my conclusion is this is haunted And I'm slowly being driven mad by desync and then. there's a green playermodel, breeches, no hair, standard face, just stood in the farm, and At that point I just log off. any ideas on how to fix this are really appreciated because at best the server's being plagued by desync, and at worst I'm hallucinating at this point lol

[LadyWYT]

Welcome to the forums!

4 minutes ago, mattyb0209 said:

there's A hay bed on my doorstep. so my conclusion is this is haunted And I'm slowly being driven mad by desync and then. there's a green playermodel, breeches, no hair, standard face, just stood in the farm, and At that point I just log off. any ideas on how to fix this are really appreciated because at best the server's being plagued by desync, and at worst I'm hallucinating at this point lol

The haybed thing sounds a little too specific on the timing to be an issue with desync, especially when you mention seeing another player. Was there a nameplate to go with the playermodel? Players will always have a nameplate, and you should be able to check the server logs to see who logged in and when. My guess is that either one of your friends is messing with you, or another player has accessed your server and is trolling. If you're not playing with a whitelist, I'd recommend enabling one to keep out unwanted guests. 

[mattyb0209]

1 minute ago, LadyWYT said:

Welcome to the forums!

The haybed thing sounds a little too specific on the timing to be an issue with desync, especially when you mention seeing another player. Was there a nameplate to go with the playermodel? Players will always have a nameplate, and you should be able to check the server logs to see who logged in and when. My guess is that either one of your friends is messing with you, or another player has accessed your server and is trolling. If you're not playing with a whitelist, I'd recommend enabling one to keep out unwanted guests. 

Hi! thanks for your comment! I've checked, for the past two hours, the only connections have been me, there's just me online and the server's password protected

 

[LadyWYT]

2 minutes ago, mattyb0209 said:

Hi! thanks for your comment! I've checked, for the past two hours, the only connections have been me, there's just me online and the server's password protected

 

Weird. Any mods that you're running? I don't know of any that would cause behavior like this, but it doesn't hurt to check anyway if you're using mods. I'd still recommend a whitelist though, since while a password is decent protection, passwords could be more easily shared, whether willingly or by accident.

Desync can sometimes cause player ghosts to appear, but to my knowledge that only happens when there are other players around--ie, you shouldn't be encountering a ghost of yourself. I think most, if not all, of the player ghost bugs have been fixed as well, though I suppose it's possible there could still be a bug lurking around. If you're certain that no one else is logging in to mess with you, friend or otherwise, and there's no mods that could be causing strange behavior like that, you might consider reporting the issue over on Github. Unfortunately that's about the best solution I can think of right now; hopefully someone else can chime in with better insight.

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