This is probably one of the biggest disasters I cant fix in a very, very long time.

You may have noticed a few very long term players have lost claims and posted in the forums, CrazyPirate, Markusi13, JavaInvader and admin claims. Today we managed to hit the nail on the head, and its not a good nail.

The design of the claim plugin has a table with a “next claim ID” in it, this is a terrible design, there is no need for it with auto incrementing ID’s, what this does is give the next claim created/changed its unique ID. For an unknown reason in the plugins logic, it was reset at an unknown time, what that means is that every new claim created from that point, was giving an ID from the beginning, so that new claim overwrote the old claim, so the old claim would disappear! we JUST figured this out after months of trying to figure out what was happening. There was no logs of this, at all as everything was working as intended, just with the wrong ID’s.

I wrote a ticket to the developer on September 5th trying to figure out the missing claims, in this I documented that we had claims up to ID
72287, and the nextclaimID was set at 3517. Today over a month later, the claims were still at 72287, this should increment, but it hasn’t! but the nextclaimID was at 4266, this means in the last month alone 749 claims have been overwritten! Oh shit! Now since we have so many claims, it will only effect the first 4000 claims ever created back about 3-4 years ago, unlucky for those long term players only. So check your claims.

• This will only effect very long term players that created the first 4266 claims.
• When claims are deleted, they ID gets lost, so its probably much much less than 4k claims, back then  claims were made and deleted a lot more as there wasn’t an expand function, so lets call it 2k claims lost.
• There isn’t a way for me to know for sure what was effected, and I cant change it, if I put back the old data, then the new claims that overwrote them would be deleted!
• This means there are a hell of a lot of old claims that were purged from the world, I’m going to class this as a mistaken cleanup, feel free to loot/fixup/re-claim anything you like the look of.
• No “claim blocks” would have been lost from anyone at all, those that had their claims overwritten would have got back the “claim blocks” to reuse. Claim blocks are generated dynamically based on your claims you have in the world.
• Its now fixed, I will keep an eye to make sure it dousnt drop again.
• We don’t know when it started.
• We don’t know what caused the ClaimID to reset.
• The developer knows about this and is looking into the cause.
• This shouldn’t affect 95% of the players, But I wanted everyone to know. Only those that have some of the very first claims on PirateCraft V2 from 3-4+ years ago.

Whats so utterly frustrating is this is a 5 second fix, I just fixed the NextClaimID to be the correct next ID, we tested it and new claims are given the correct ID now.