ASA: character gone after a short visit on a new map (you logged off soon after arriving)

This is the ASA variant of the guide Character missing after a transfer: the download worked, but the survivor did not outlast your first short visit.

You transferred, played a few minutes on the new map and logged off. At the next login the map asks you to create a survivor, or offers only a fresh level 1 one.
Your old body may still lie asleep on that map, with its inventory out of reach.

A survivor is two pieces: the body in the map's world save and a profile file with your level and engrams. Lose the profile and the body stays in the world with nothing able to log into it.

The profile can be missing or unusable even while the body remains in the world. A short visit followed by a missing character does not establish exactly when a write failed. An admin must compare the map, the transfer state and the available profile backups to determine what remains.

Players on other servers describe the same thing: the new map had not saved the arriving profile before they logged off. One player tested what makes the server save a profile: world saves, taming, travel, death and buffs did not; learning an engram did (Steam, 2024).

This is the ASA variant of the guide Character missing after a transfer: the download worked, but the survivor did not outlast your first short visit.

You transferred, played a few minutes on the new map and logged off. At the next login the map asks you to create a survivor, or offers only a fresh level 1 one.
Your old body may still lie asleep on that map, with its inventory out of reach.

A survivor is two pieces: the body in the map's world save and a profile file with your level and engrams. Lose the profile and the body stays in the world with nothing able to log into it.

After arriving on a new map, learn one engram. Players report that this makes the server save your profile — the community's "temporary fix" (Steam, 2024).
If it has already happened, do not carry on with a new survivor. A new survivor takes the same slot and makes the restore harder (see the guide Character missing after a transfer).
Stay out of the game on that account until an admin answers: a profile is put back while you are offline.

Waiting does not help — a missing profile does not come back by itself.

Right away. An admin can copy your newest profile back from the profile vault while you are offline, after checking that it belongs to the body still sleeping on the map. If you already made a new survivor, the admin sets that one aside first and then puts the old profile back. Whether anything else is replaced is the owner's decision.

Tell an admin the map, the time (the clock in your profile menu shows the server's time), your character's name, what you carried or had uploaded, and the exact message on the screen. For a transfer: both maps and both times. Report the same day — the backups reach back only about two days. Contact admin is in your profile menu; the Guides page has a question box.

Here, also say when you logged off.

ASA Account ID, if the admin asks for it: start a single-player game, open the console, type whoami and copy the "OSS Id" (official article What is an Account ID?). It is a plain console command, not a cheat.

Learn an engram right after every download (Steam, 2024).
Report a loss the same day: the hourly copies of our ASA maps reach back about two days.

Steam (ASA): Character getting deleted (2024) — the engram step rests on this single player report
Official support: What is an Account ID?
Our guide: Troubleshooting: connection timeout, server full, missing character
Our records: docs/OPERATIONS.md §18 (a character is two files; the profile vault) and §25 (backup retention); operator notes on when ASA writes an arriving survivor's profile, October 2026

ASA: character gone after a short visit on a new map (you logged off soon after arriving)

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ASA: character gone after a short visit on a new map (you logged off soon after arriving)

What you see

Why it happens

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