Heyo, hope you are well
Since the most recent update we have been having issues with persistence after a server restart. It doesn't seem to happen every time, but it does happen often.
I help out as staff on some community servers with a pretty big community, and we see a lot of tickets coming in about this. I will show an example of 1 of the tickets here :
Basically after a server restart, sometimes there is a small role back for player positions, meaning sometimes they might be like 300-800m away from where they were standing when the server went down. But also we are seeing an increased number of items disappearing. Things like backpacks in this example that were dropped before the restart seem to be vanishing once the server comes back up, here are some more examples of tickets coming from players regarding this :
I hope I am describing this properly, if you need any more info let me know. Thanks for reading