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Unknown Signals not Spawning

Dakota shared this bug ago

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Unknown Signals are not spawning in my current save. All appropriate settings are set correctly, and in survival mode. The save was set to creative temporarily after creation to spawn in specific planets, but is now set back to creative.

Looking at the sandbox file;

In other survival saves where the container drops are spawning, this containerID is not a zero value, and appears to be the root of this issue; however I cannot find a way for this value to stay as non-zero, and new saves that I am creating are setting the value to 0 now as well.

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Richard Bruce King ●

I don't have the exact same bug, but I do have something similar. when playing together with a friend, unknown signals are not spawning for them and we are yet to see any strong unknown signals.

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Dakota ●

Weird. I should also have mentioned I am playing in a solo world, on a planet surface, but haven’t seen unknown signals of any strength

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Dead Battery ●

I had the same bug on a very old save that I just started playing again. For a work-a-round try this:

set <Active>true</Active> just above the <ContainerID>0</ContainerID> line.

This fixed it for me.

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Keen Support ●

Hello, Engineer!

Thank you for your feedback! Your topic has been added between considered issues.

Please keep voting for the issue as it will help us to identify the most serious bugs.

We really appreciate your patience.

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Keen Software House: QA Department

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LJ Williams ●

I can confirm this also occurs on keen official servers. It has happened to me on NA#5 and NA#6.

Are there any administrators for the Keen official servers?

Any indication when it might be resolved?

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Mouse_73 ●

has there been any solution that doesn't require an admin to alter character files? f

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Laura K ●

Hello, Engineers!

Is it possible that you could please supply a save file that you are experiencing this issue with? Are you using any mods at all?

You can access your save files by typing %appdata% into your Windows search bar and you will be redirected to the hidden Roaming folder. After that just follow: \Roaming\SpaceEngineers\Saves. There should be a folder with your SteamID and your saves.
Please zip the file and attach it here. If you are having difficulty attaching files you can optionally use Google Drive. When sharing a google drive link please make sure it is set to be downloadable by anyone with the link.

Kind Regards

Laura, QA Department

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DarcDeath ●

I know at least three people that are having this issue on Keen server NA #3 - any updates on how to fix this?

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Martin Vondrák ●

I have same problem, on EU2, do you have correct or not?

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Axlotl Questions ●

This is still a problem for me on Keen NA #3. This issue is not outdated nor is it fixed.

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Captain Stubing ●

There are reports that this occurs when you save a game and exit with an unprocessed unknown signal, and that it is fixable by changing the following:

Go into the relevant Sandbox.sbc save file
Find the <PlayerContainerData> entries
Set any <Active>false</Active> flags (in that section) to <Active>true</Active>

Source:

https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceengineers/comments/ndr0nc/unknown_signals_no_longer_spawning/

There is also a recent reddit post that automates this change:

https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceengineers/comments/1529sr2/drops_stop_dropping_workaround/

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