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Dunno if this is the right place for this but I thought I'd share this.

EDIT: This seems to only work for the other members once, once they rejoin its gone. So this doesn't work fully yet. Trying to figure out a way to make it work for the other members as well. EDIT 2: Seems like it created more guilds again, deleting them seems to have fixed it for now, not sure what's causing them to show up, might be people joining the guild, for now no new instances of the guild are being created, will keep updating this issue. EDIT 3; It mostly works now, sometimes the other members need to relog, haven't gotten a new guild entry in the level.sav file yet.

This is from a server where we switched from Windows -> Linux.

We had the issue with not being able to pick up Pals after the migration, I was able to find a fix that seems to work.

After doing some testing with my friends I found out after looking into the level.sav file that there were 2 instances of our guild. Presumably this happened with the migration or some time after, since we only had one guild I was easily able to find the data for our guild and the second "fake" guild that also included our data, since they were both the largest ones inside the level.sav. There might be multiple of these "fake" guilds in there, not sure how they are being created, or what the cause is. By deleting the second guild everyone was able to pick up Pals. This might not work for other instances of this bug but I saw other people have the same problem like in #55 and #58, so I thought I'd share how I solved this.

-> Main issue: Multiple guild instances are being created in the level.sav with what seems to be the same data. What causes them to show up I'm not sure yet. But they seem to be the cause of the pick up bug.

Process: This might destroy your world save to be sure to backup the save.

• backup save
• Convert level.sav to json
• search for all instances of "guild"
• find your own guild (in my case this was just the biggest one with the most data and also the first, might be able to find this with the player GUIDs)
• look for other guild entries in the file that match somewhat up with your old one, I found them by them being the only other guild data with a lot of data in it and them being further down the file
• delete the other guild entries
• convert back to .sav
• load world back up
• Guild Master (me) was able to immediately pick up Pals
• some members might need to rejoin guild -> this might actually cause the main issue again?
• all owned Pals were not assigned to the guild -> just drop them on the ground and pick them back up

Side note: Searching for GUIDs of the guilds can show which one is original one, since the original one had more entries than the guild entry itself, being some kind of references to objects that have the guild GUID in their data.

This all seems to have been a permanent fix in my case, so far even after restarts and stuff everything seems to still work (only 100% sure for the guild master), will keep updated on this though. If there are any remaining issues with Pals, dropping them and picking them back up might solve those. If members of the guild can't pick them up after rejoining or a server restart then there probably was a new guild instance created in the level.sav.

If this also works for other people then maybe writing up a guide and putting it in the ReadMe would be a good idea.

something else I noticed; issue seems to be fixed if my character levels up then reconnects to the server.

in my experience this breaks once the server restarts again.

edit: not a fix, found at end!

Phew. Thanks for letting us know. Unfortunately we've got PLENTY of guilds and I have no clue how to figure out the issue here now. We're like 15 players and none in the guild of another player. I'm the only one facing the said issue.

I also have this issue. Sadly, both “fixes” didn't seme to work for me. In the converted level.sav json I could only find one instance of "guild". And the level up and reconnect didn't helped either. But fyi, newly catched pals on the server can be picked up by the player, only pals catched before the server conversion are bugged.

I also have this issue. Sadly, both “fixes” didn't seme to work for me. In the converted level.sav json I could only find one instance of "guild". And the level up and reconnect didn't helped either. But fyi, newly catched pals on the server can be picked up by the player, only pals catched before the server conversion are bugged.

Not the case for me. Just caught some, also can't pick them up. Ugh, that's really a pain, since we can't use the breeder this way.

could you explain where the beginning of GUIDs data column start and end ? I cut out the parts that expected would be beginning and end that column. u can see guild_name column. "key": "9df335d5-4fad-fdb5-bc22-8487e76e440b", "value": { "GroupType": { "id": null, "value": { "type": "EPalGroupType", "value": "EPalGroupType::Neutral" }, "type": "EnumProperty" }, "RawData": { "array_type": "ByteProperty", "id": null, "value": { "group_type": "EPalGroupType::Neutral", "group_id": "9df335d5-4fad-fdb5-bc22-8487e76e440b", "group_name": "", "individual_character_handle_ids": [ { "guid": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001", "instance_id": "2e7b6a58-4b2b-f6f3-d563-32b4bdf27c0d" }, { "guid": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001", "instance_id": "2f7d29bc-4bae-2896-cb54-599c1f425d20" } ] }, "type": "ArrayProperty" } } }, { "key": "d4afd619-48d3-41f3-9faf-6d9ee2ed80b3", "value": { "GroupType": { "id": null, "value": { "type": "EPalGroupType", "value": "EPalGroupType::Guild" }, "type": "EnumProperty" }, "RawData": { "array_type": "ByteProperty", "id": null, "value": { "group_type": "EPalGroupType::Guild", "group_id": "d4afd619-48d3-41f3-9faf-6d9ee2ed80b3", "group_name": "34DD734B000000000000000000000000", "individual_character_handle_ids": [ { "guid": "34dd734b-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "instance_id": "f6465586-4325-647e-72cc-d89348d4a075" } ], "org_type": 0, "base_ids": [], "base_camp_level": 1, "map_object_instance_ids_base_camp_points": [], "guild_name": "無名のギルド", "admin_player_uid": "34dd734b-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "players": [ { "player_uid": "34dd734b-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "player_info": { "last_online_real_time": 702778830000, "player_name": "John" } } ] }, "type": "ArrayProperty" } } } ], "type": "MapProperty", "custom_type": ".worldSaveData.GroupSaveDataMap" }, "GameTimeSaveData": { "struct_type": "PalGameTimeSaveData", "struct_id": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "id": null, "value": { "GameDateTimeTicks": { "id": null, "value": 34237640000000, "type": "Int64Property" }, "RealDateTimeTicks": { "id": null, "value": 702778830000, "type": "Int64Property" } }, "type": "StructProperty" },

This worked for me the first time, but after restarting the server I was back to not being able to interact with pals again :(

Okay, I think I got it to work, i did this:

• As per the issue instructions you look for a guild in the file that does not make sense, in my case I found a guild where I was alone in. -Assuming this is the extra guild that is causing the problems you want to delete all the contents associated with that guild in the .json file. BUT FIRST copy the key value that is associated with this category.
• Searching for that key value of the guild block that you just deleted will lead you to another block. Delete this block as well.

Deleting the second block that had the "bad" guild's key associated with made the fix "permanent", at least on my side

thanks for this, will try! what are you using to edit the .sav/.json file?

thanks for this, will try! what are you using to edit the .sav/.json file?

https://github.com/cheahjs/palworld-save-tools

i would also like to know what @guksg mentioned, its a bit messy, i can see guild with my new guid and old guid, i dont know which to delete

Okay, I think I got it to work, i did this:

* As per the issue instructions you look for a guild in the file that does not make sense, in my case I found a guild where I was alone in.
  -Assuming this is the extra guild that is causing the problems you want to delete all the contents associated with that guild in the .json file. BUT FIRST copy the key value that is associated with this category.

* Searching for that key value of the guild block that you just deleted will lead you to another block. Delete this block as well.

Deleting the second block that had the "bad" guild's key associated with made the fix "permanent", at least on my side

This seems to have worked for me, thank you so much for this fix!

Chiming in to say deleting the extra blocks worked for me as well! Ty for the find. To add some context:

I had my true guild with all player names inside, as well as 3 extra "fake" guilds with their own IDs. For two of those "fake IDs," I had to delete one extra block. For my last "fake ID," I actually had to go and delete 68 blocks. All working now after doing so though!

For me i can't find any extra guild in json files. Can you guys make a video or some screenshots how should it looks like? Btw what program do u use for edit a json file? I used Notepad++ but it seems very not confortable

Okay, I think I got it to work, i did this:

* As per the issue instructions you look for a guild in the file that does not make sense, in my case I found a guild where I was alone in.
  -Assuming this is the extra guild that is causing the problems you want to delete all the contents associated with that guild in the .json file. BUT FIRST copy the key value that is associated with this category.

* Searching for that key value of the guild block that you just deleted will lead you to another block. Delete this block as well.

Deleting the second block that had the "bad" guild's key associated with made the fix "permanent", at least on my side

This seems to have worked for me, thank you so much for this fix!

I only see one EPalGroupType:Guild listed but i see a lot of key vaules with my old local save GUID (0000000000000001) saying EPalGroupType:Neutral. Is this what is getting deleted?

I made changes to the script to delete the newly created group and update the old group with the new player ID. I also adjusted the OwnerPlayerUId and OldOwnerPlayerUIds of the Pals. This resolves the pickup problem on my site. Since I didn't want to interfere with binary data, I had to modify the script significantly. Consequently, I created a new repository for it at JannikBirn/palworld-host-save-fix instead of submitting a pull request.

If this solution works for most of you, I can submit a pull request if @xNul agrees. This would involve substantial changes to the code. Alternatively, you can adjust your code to incorporate the adjustments I made to work with your binary modifications.

@JannikBirn my friend, is there any way you could guide me through this in a dc call or something, i am completley lost. been sitting with this for 4 hours

I made changes to the script to delete the newly created group and update the old group with the new player ID. I also adjusted the OwnerPlayerUId and OldOwnerPlayerUIds of the Pals. This resolves the pickup problem on my site. Since I didn't want to interfere with binary data, I had to modify the script significantly. Consequently, I created a new repository for it at JannikBirn/palworld-host-save-fix instead of submitting a pull request.

If this solution works for most of you, I can submit a pull request if @xNul agrees. This would involve substantial changes to the code. Alternatively, you can adjust your code to incorporate the adjustments I made to work with your binary modifications.

What steps would you do if you already moved to the dedicated server? We are a day into the dedicated server with this issue? So doing the host-save-fx will just remove all progress.

I made changes to the script to delete the newly created group and update the old group with the new player ID. I also adjusted the OwnerPlayerUId and OldOwnerPlayerUIds of the Pals. This resolves the pickup problem on my site. Since I didn't want to interfere with binary data, I had to modify the script significantly. Consequently, I created a new repository for it at JannikBirn/palworld-host-save-fix instead of submitting a pull request. If this solution works for most of you, I can submit a pull request if @xNul agrees. This would involve substantial changes to the code. Alternatively, you can adjust your code to incorporate the adjustments I made to work with your binary modifications.

What steps would you do if you already moved to the dedicated server? We are a day into the dedicated server with this issue? So doing the host-save-fx will just remove all progress.

I don't think this is easily possible, you probably need to look manually into the save files (you can convert these with this tool). Then you need to find the different guilds with your old and new player guid and remove the new guild and replace the player guids in the old one with your new player guid. But this might have unintended consequences, that you will be unable to pick up your newly caught pals since these might now be associated with the new guild. Tbh. this all sounds pretty difficult and might not work, so the best thing could be to lose this day of progress and start with the save state before you moved to the dedicated server.

@linus551000 write me your dc name, and I'll see what I can do for you. But maybe you can tell us with what you're struggling so we can help other people as well.

@JannikBirn dc: gizmo551000. tbh i was struggeling with getting my own save file into the world at first, im not very good at understanding all this but after a couple of hours and many yt vids i managed to get the savefile to work, but the problem i encounterd when loggin in is that all the pals captured BEFORE trandering from co-op world to server is not able to pick up, and the ore on my ore farm is not farmable by any pals. able with my pickaxe tho, and i tried to understand this, but when i succesfully made the file into a json file i lost it, might aswell been in chinese. Did not understand anything xD

I tried removing this unnamed guild and I either did it wrong or it didn't work. I got the new character creation. I also tried adding another account to the world and transferring ownership which seemed to partially work. Some pals I could lift and others I couldn't. It seemed to be new catches were fine and old were not. So I purged my box and got to work. But what I found was some newly caught pals were bugged while others were not. This is pretty much game breaking since I can't consistently breed.

What I believe caused this issue. I used the "Palworld Host Save Fix" to change my dedicated server save from the Old player ID to the New player ID post 0.1.3 release. I followed some general directions of join server create the new player save and then use the script. I have my 0.1.2 backup still. But I really put a lot of time into this before I realized I couldn't pick up pals anymore. I'm not sure what to do at this point try and roll back or wipe server. Both kind of take the wind out of my sails for a bit.

@linus551000 I wasn't able to get in touch with you, but I might have something even better. I created a simple UI for my tool and added an executable to the latest realese, this should be pretty easy to use. You can find it here: https://github.com/JannikBirn/palworld-host-save-fix

So, i did a little digging myself in our Level.sav and this is what i found out:

After Running the Script and People have joined the Server again, i have found two Playerentrys with the same GUID (i suspect one is the old, transferred and the other is the newly created.) The newly created had a different groupid, which seems to be the identifier for which Guild the Player belongs to. When the new Character is created, a new Guild is also created.

So i deleted the new Guild (most likely called "Unknow Guild"), and all corresponding Data (Take the Key and search the Dokument for it. You may finde other entries, like Pals connect to them). Then i deleted the new Account and double checked if the old account has the correct Key in the groupid, corresponding to the original Guild.

After a bit of testing, this seems to have eliminated the Problem of not beeing able to pick up pals.

So, i did a little digging myself in our Level.sav and this is what i found out:

After Running the Script and People have joined the Server again, i have found two Playerentrys with the same GUID (i suspect one is the old, transferred and the other is the newly created.) The newly created had a different groupid, which seems to be the identifier for which Guild the Player belongs to. When the new Character is created, a new Guild is also created.

So i deleted the new Guild (most likely called "Unknow Guild"), and all corresponding Data (Take the Key and search the Dokument for it. You may finde other entries, like Pals connect to them). Then i deleted the new Account and double checked if the old account has the correct Key in the groupid, corresponding to the original Guild.

After a bit of testing, this seems to have eliminated the Problem of not beeing able to pick up pals.

Yes, this is exactly what I did with my script. The problem was that the newly created player and group didn't get deleted, when running xNal's script.

So, i did a little digging myself in our Level.sav and this is what i found out: After Running the Script and People have joined the Server again, i have found two Playerentrys with the same GUID (i suspect one is the old, transferred and the other is the newly created.) The newly created had a different groupid, which seems to be the identifier for which Guild the Player belongs to. When the new Character is created, a new Guild is also created. So i deleted the new Guild (most likely called "Unknow Guild"), and all corresponding Data (Take the Key and search the Dokument for it. You may finde other entries, like Pals connect to them). Then i deleted the new Account and double checked if the old account has the correct Key in the groupid, corresponding to the original Guild. After a bit of testing, this seems to have eliminated the Problem of not beeing able to pick up pals.

Yes, this is exactly what I did with my script. The problem was that the newly created player and group didn't get deleted, when running xNal's script.

Yes, I thought so, unfortunately I had made the original transfer with xNal's script and could no longer use yours. I'll probably do the next characters with your script, then I won't have to do it by hand anymore

So the easy method I think just remove any guild record that not correct one right? Then restart the server

In my case, I noticed some players who can't pickup belong to multiple guilds. I've removed such guilds with comparing last_online_real_time.

Here's the actual script I executed: https://github.com/mtsmfm/palworld-utils/blob/2c54db823fcea86211fca9e752a6e4a96284e3f0/cli/index.ts#L114-L160

Hope it helps.

Hi @mtsmfm , thanks for the script but actually i cant execute this because my level.sav.json is to big. The error encountering is a limitation of the Node.js runtime environment. The maximum length of a string that can be created using the Buffer.toString() method is 0x1fffffe8 characters, which is approximately 2GB. My save file to load is likely larger than this limit, which is causing the error.

Can someone help guide me through this please? Under my guild block i see what seems like hundreds of lines similar to this { "key": "8857efca-48ba-4226-0e5e-4c812169ef49", "value": { "GroupType": { "id": null, "value": { "type": "EPalGroupType", "value": "EPalGroupType::Neutral" }, "type": "EnumProperty" }, "RawData": { "array_type": "ByteProperty", "id": null, "value": { "group_type": "EPalGroupType::Neutral", "group_id": "8857efca-48ba-4226-0e5e-4c812169ef49", "group_name": "", "individual_character_handle_ids": [ { "guid": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "instance_id": "44987eb1-499d-49fb-a449-3ab91c144761" }, { "guid": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "instance_id": "c9c77d7e-4166-cb5a-f946-7fb4cfc1de28" }, { "guid": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "instance_id": "c4f5a2d3-4070-7839-b0e8-b79dc1739798" }, { "guid": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "instance_id": "84a5b16f-4bbd-f2ee-e8e0-03abc58c7d39" }, { "guid": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "instance_id": "8c3f8118-4984-8283-f1a8-929a6945196a" }, { "guid": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "instance_id": "7733553f-434d-9b43-2135-0686a17adab4" }, { "guid": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "instance_id": "124ac876-4547-b2d6-95e2-8e8c806b0874" }, { "guid": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "instance_id": "85602832-4371-c31e-c314-bb881b7e841e" }, { "guid": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "instance_id": "a18877ff-49de-2060-3aff-6aa28b130a4e" }, { "guid": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "instance_id": "ed9becd9-4b74-4e3b-49a5-d8b680bf0143" }, { "guid": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "instance_id": "ed657955-4125-9c0b-8615-bcab4bf674ea" }, { "guid": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "instance_id": "b72a1c97-4e83-5c75-790d-08b82d1a7aad" }, { "guid": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "instance_id": "29e71fca-425a-e192-075b-b49232ae8043" }, { "guid": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "instance_id": "192cfa5c-4e6e-e960-b13c-308d3287b09c" }, { "guid": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "instance_id": "1f116fb9-47c5-5e08-0dd7-b4a21e018ff4" }, { "guid": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "instance_id": "fe0dc6ff-4913-5937-250c-16996cf0b852" }, { "guid": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "instance_id": "7c9173a1-4a8a-e671-931b-55a1fd02daca" }, { "guid": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "instance_id": "d31767f0-4073-0796-8b66-84ae58063ff4" }, { "guid": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "instance_id": "4ccdd078-4494-51f5-9e9b-d7ab1184e84a" }, { "guid": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "instance_id": "d9d45d20-4a90-6c42-651b-5784dd6d758b" } ] }, "type": "ArrayProperty" } } }, { Unfortunately my friends and i have played 100 hours combined with the ability to pick up pals intermittently being a problem for everyone. now it seems to be just affecting me.

Has anyone tried removing guid values with all "0"'s for pals within your active guild? I have a ton that are registered to the host but towards the end of the list there are some empty guid values that are similar to the empty guilds. Just want to make sure I'm not deleting my buddies party pals or something