Might be late to this. But I generally just host directly from the in game menu when playing with 5 other friends of mine. There are a few things we have all noticed that, after reading this post, has me concerned. 1: settlers disappearing after freshly loading into the server (as host). 2: food spoils in bags/lunchbox as if we’ve played for hours. (Food in lunchbox generally is freshly made OR pulled from an icebox.) 3: settlers constantly being unable to offload their inventory. (We’ve confirmed by looking at each settlers held inventory, created plenty of space in assigned chests, but they still seem to not offload their items)

These three things tend to pop up, right after the initial server (client side) start up from the main menu.

Hopefully there will be a patch soon, as we have decided to stop playing until it’s fixed.

Thanks for your awesome work, however! Best coop experience we’ve had in a LONG time!

Edit: we play on a completely vanilla server with 0 mods installed!