RoyGBiv

Yes, it's the server restart that usually causes it. I had my server set to restart every 24 hours, and every 24 hours I was having to reset my dung beetles.

I'll just post another message rather than add to that novel. My apologies for using the forum as my personal troubleshooting log with all its apparent contradictions and false leads. I'll leave it in case someone may find it useful. TL;DR - I disabled the Dynamic Color mod, and I have not been able to produce a crash. I suspect anything that affects the beaver appearance will do this, and I note others in this thread have mentioned using mods that alter dino appearance. Testing has not been extensive, but I need to go to bed, so this is where I'm at. Longer chain of events: There's definitely something weird going on with the beavers, After the update to 247, I reset the ark to its state when I first began this odyssey around 5pm today, 09/12. I grabbed my bird and flew to the nearest beaver pond. Immediate crash. I could go anywhere as long as there were no beavers, but the instant I was within rendering distance of dinos around one of these ponds, I'd crash. I didn't always see a beaver, but I assume they were there. I eventually went to four separate ones, including in the center island. Crashed each time. Next, I disabled beaver spawns, destroyed all wild dinos, waited five minutes or so, then flew to a beaver pond. Immediate crash. I flew low and circle around waiting to be kicked off and saw no beavers. I concluded at the time the issue either wasn't beavers or that I had a syntax error in the code to prevent them spawning. I checked it, didn't notice a problem, and so decided to try again just moving the line to the very end of game.ini rather than in the middle somewhere. Destroyed all wild dinos again and flew to a beaver pond, at which point I saw something really weird. I barely saw four or five beavers *rapidly* exiting the area of the pond by sliding across the ground. No movement animation, just really quickly leaving. It was bizarre looking. About the time they were out of sight, the server crashed. Keep in mind this happened with beaver spawns disabled using the "DinoSpawnWeightMultipliers=" ini setting and immediately after a wild dino wipe. For whatever reason, it suddenly occurred to me to disable Dynamic Color mod. So, I did and at the same time enabled beaver spawns again. I, restarted, expecting all my tames to be gone, but only most of them were, including my birds. What was left were dinos that seemed to have no altered coloring from the color mod. I *think* all those that survived I had tamed after the update to 246.71. I am currently hovering over a beaver pond watching an alpha raptor trying to kill all the beavers in it, but I'm not crashing. Hovering over two other ponds, no crash. Want to end the day on a positive note, so I'm not going to the center island yet. Many thanks to the person who pointed to beaver ponds initially. I wouldn't have thought of that so quickly.

I am also experiencing frequent crashes. Center map. This is a new server (less than a week old) as I moved here from a different host. The 246 update happened as I was leaving the other server and shortly before I started here, so I am not sure of the precise connection. I am using the same mods here as on the old server. (I didn't have crashes there. There were other issues.) I have experienced 3 crashes in two days, starting yesterday (09/11). So far, they have only happened when I personally have been online, which is notable because I am currently the only one of the 4 current users who has flown over the center itself. The crashes always happened while I was flying a Pteranodon, twice while traveling through the center, once on the shore of the north jungle island. I was not over a beaver at any time. The mods I have in common with those who have listed them are Structures Plus, Platforms Plus, Reusable Plus, Auto Fire Igniter, Extra Ark 2.0, and Birdges. I also use Dynamic Color Mod. Currently I am experiencing repeated crashes. After the most recent one a short time ago, when I restart and join, it seems to immediately crash. My character is somewhere on the floating island, by one of the rivers flowing out.in the center of The Center map, in the middle of the center. When I join, nothing is moving, all items gone, cannot open inventory, etc. Edit: Confirmed server crashes immediately upon my login, where my character is stuck in the midst of the center island. Deleted character files. Created new character on south tropical. Destroyed all wild dinos and was disconnected, but that seems to happen regardless. Was able to reconnect. Restored previous character. Crashed again. Seems related to where I am, though as mentioned, a previous crash happened while on the shore of north jungle. Only creatures I can see are argys, pteranodon (mine), scorpions, and dimorphs but I'm sure there is other stuff. Edit again: I forgot there's is a beaver pond inside the center island. I'm not using Annunaki Genesys but am using that color mod, which may be causing problems. I restored everything to the state it was in prior to my logging on today. Flew immediately to the center, flew out, then back in again. When I flew back in, server crashed and now crashes whenever I login.