I recall reading somewhere that hutches get dirty faster if the player is nearby, so moving them away from your base might help.   I think I also read somewhere that hutches get dirty based on the number of animals in the zone, irrespective of whether they use the hutch - so a hutch inside a pen with sheep, cows, & pigs will still get dirty.   I have no idea whether either of these are actually true.

:   Haha, the "Chicken Apocalypse" reference gave me a good laugh. 😄 That said, I think what I'm seeing may go a bit beyond the usual chicken-related oddities. The main reason I'm concerned is that this isn't just a case of chickens behaving strangely. I'm seeing: persistent duplicated chickens (including identical names), incorrect animal counts, extremely rapid hutch dirt accumulation, mass deaths within the affected zone, periodic stutters that seem to appear around the same time, and multiple Java heap OutOfMemory crashes in the same save. I fully agree that memory usage and animal systems may be related here, but the animal data itself appears to be becoming corrupted in some way, which is why I decided to report it. Either way, I appreciate the Chicken Apocalypse meme. At this point it honestly feels like a fitting description of what's happening in that save. 😅

When I noticed that B42 didn't work after installing B41 I decided to reinstall the OS on my VPS to try hosting again on a fresh system. Following the steps for setting up the B42 version I would still get the same errors (present in the log file). All the other attempts after this one on hosting B42 were done after I uninstalled the pzuser and its directory.   On both reinstalling the OS or deleting the user the outcome is the same.

This is how Indie Stone fixed the Chicken Apocalypse problem.   [Presented without comment.]     Can you upload a console file with these issue from an unmodded game?  

Game Version: Build 42.19.0 Mode: Multiplayer / Host Local Session Mods: No mods enabled / Disabled all mods and the issue persists.   Upon opening the "PLAYERS" menu while connected to a session, the text within the player selection box fails to render properly. Instead of showing the player names or details, it only displays a string of question marks (??????????). Other UI elements on the same screen (such as "Mute", "Voice Mute", "BACK", "REFRESH") are rendering correctly in English.   Steps to Reproduce: Launch the game and join/host a server. Press Escape and open the "Players" menu. Observe the broken text string inside the user box as shown in the attached file   [Resolved - Please delete]