Complete map corruption/destruction with no changes made

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#1

I came back from a week of not working on my game to find my game map completely corrupted. Attached are pictures of both before and after.
Before:

Battlespoons_Map_Pre_Corruption
Battlespoons_Map_Pre_Corruption963Ă—469 98.8 KB

After:
Battlespoons_Map_Corrupted_3
Battlespoons_Map_Corrupted_3963Ă—439 117 KB
Battlespoons_Map_Corrupted_2
Battlespoons_Map_Corrupted_1
Battlespoons_Map_Corrupted_1929Ă—402 110 KB

I was alerted to the issue when a member of my community reached out and sent me screenshots of the corrupted map. I have no idea what caused the corruption. The console has no errors when a server is launched. Additionally, and perhaps most strangely, the corruption appears to have affected both the live version of the game that was uploaded to Roblox, as well as my locally saved .rblx file, and my BACKUP .rblx file on an external hard drive that was not connected to the computer or any network at all over the past two weeks. I connected to the game a few days prior to this incident and everything was fine, but now all instances of the game have a completely corrupted map. I might also add that the time it takes to start up a new server of the game has increased from a second or two to well over thirty seconds.

Anyone have any thoughts or ideas as to what could have caused this?
Thanks,
FlashHawkAssassin, Game Dev

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#2

Nope.

The issue for me is kind of the same, but a different.

So I have a ban gui, ban hammer and kick hammer.

I was using it and everything was normal.

I think after I shutted down a server, the ban gui did not work anymore.

A banned user should be unbanned but I can’t unban the banned user due to this issue.

I’ve tried rejoining multiple times and shutting down servers, along with even changing the script and shutting down the server.

#3

Mabye try reverting your game to the previous version it was before when the map was not corrupted?

#4

Nope, no luck. Even reverting to older versions does not seem to fix the map corruption. I am thoroughly stumped.

#5

It’s possible a plugin is acting dumb, which would explain an external copy being affected too.

Disable all your plugins and load an old version. If that doesn’t work, ask forum staff on what next steps to take with reporting this.

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#6

The only plugins I had enabled were ones related to UI constraints, but I went ahead and disabled them and reloaded the file anyway like you suggested. Unfortunately, no luck, the map corruption still persists. I’m relatively new to the dev forum, how would I go about reporting this to the forum staff?

Thanks,
FlashHawkAssassin

#7

That is one of the strangest corruptions I’ve seen…

Did you use any sketchy models from the toolbox? Sometimes they have virus scripts in them called “vaccine” or something like that.

If it’s not any plugins, maybe you have a script that reaches all the descendants of the workspace that doesn’t fully work?

#8

model scripts cant do tht since they only make changes for tht server while the game is played

#9

Nope, I haven’t used any free models, everything was done by hand.

This is actually possible. I do have a script that automatically assigns a .Touched event to most of the parts in the map, however that’s the only thing it does, and I’m not sure how that could corrupt the positional and rotational data of so many parts so severely. And of course, everything was working fine only a few days prior, I hadn’t changed anything in my game for at least a week before the corruption occurred.