THis happened to me twice now :

• disconnected from a server 2 min befor restart

-minimized the game (did something in windows)
after 5 minutes i maximized it again (my friends which were on the same server already said my character would be spawning !! but i didnt connect to the server i just went into the game menu again , so after that i connected to the server and there was a second me ! but my reproduction didnt despawn we did wait 5 minutes.

sry for my bad english