[BDS-8855] When view-distance is <5 clients are unable to connect Created: 11/Sep/20  Updated: 17/Sep/23  Resolved: 09/Mar/21

Status: Resolved
Project: Bedrock Dedicated Server
Affects Version/s: 1.16.20, 1.16.40
Fix Version/s: 1.16.210

Type: Bug
Reporter: ambient Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Fixed Votes: 1
Labels: None

Confirmation Status: Confirmed
ADO: 416275

 Description   

Summary

When view-distance is set to 4 or less in server.properties, joining clients get stuck on "Locating Server".

Steps to reproduce...

  1. Unzip clean copy of the latest affected BDS version
  2. Leave all settings as default but change view-distance to 4
  3. Start server
  4. Join from any client

What I expected to happen...

As both the how to document and the server.properties file claim that "any positive integer" is a valid value, BDS should function when view-distance is set to low +ve value (1 through 4)

What actually happened...

Clients are unable to join when view distance is set to between 1 and 4.

Notes

  • The server console shows the player as connecting, so it appears a successful connection is in fact made.


 Comments   
Comment by ambient [ 03/Dec/20 ]

apparently this is resolved in the 1.16.210.50 beta but we have no way of checking

Comment by IonicEcko [ 11/Sep/20 ]

Managed to reproduce, updated the description to match our normal template.

Would you mind testing again and confirming which screen you get stuck at? You mentioned the loading resources page but mine stops at Locating Server.

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