I will say this has stopped happening. But I can also say for sure that the other times that it did happen I can guarantee no zombies were nearby/aggroed.

One thing I have been doing after a crash is waiting a full two minutes before rejoining. One of the things I noticed when I would join back and my player would be reset is that as I'm loading back into the server it would say "waiting for previous session to end" or something along those lines. And then I would load in and I would have a new character (or an older/earlier one). Ever since I started waiting, I haven't gotten that message and I haven't lost my character progress.

I still crash a lot though.

Amazing, thank you! Fingers crossed.

I have seen plenty of people in Reddit comments experiencing the same issue. I'm guessing most don't create bug tickets though.

Here's mine after joining a server

Has happened exactly the same way 2 times since I uninstalled the game and reinstalled it a few hours ago. Both times lost my character and all progress.

It just happened again... Interestingly when I loaded up the game about an half an hour to an hour ago the character on the screen was the old character I described earlier but when I loaded in the character I had lost last night was back. So I happily started playing and right as I killed a chicken my game crashed again and when I loaded back in this time I was a fresh character and I lost all progress on my old one.

One thing to note: When loading up the server after crashing it says "taking longer while waiting for previous session to end" or something like that.

This is a real bummer I am loving the game but I have lost SO much loot and play time.

Going to try uninstalling the game and reinstalling and hope that fixes it.

Details of this crash:

Official Server: 3245 North America - NY

Time of crash 5:10pm pacific time

Version: 1.30.163631

I'm confused, I did provide you with all of that information in the details above. I typed out that info but also included a screen shot from the main menu that showed that info.