Shirogane Noel Starts Over in ARK After Base-Building Bug Upends Earlier Stream
The Hololive member said she cried for much of a stream of about five and a half hours, made its archive private and reopened on a new stream, handing the problem to the server’s operators.
HOLOLIVE — Shirogane Noel returned to the Hololive ARK server on Friday night with a new stream after a base-building bug sank her earlier broadcast, telling viewers it was the hardest she had cried all year.
She opened by pretending her newly built house had vanished, then called that a bit of staged comedy. She explained that she had started streaming at 5 p.m., recovered all of her base’s parts and meant to apply a building template to show viewers the finished house. The template would not apply automatically and could only be done by hand. After roughly five and a half hours spent building the house and tearing it down again, she made that archive private. She said she cried because the house kept failing to stand, and that she had a headache from it.
“I’m not going to be beaten down by this much.” — Shirogane Noel, after the setback
As she understood it, the server was not set up to support the mod the house’s look depended on, so even admin rights would not fix the bug. She said she had passed the details on to the operators, who were working on it and had asked for time, and that she would wait for their answer before building again. In the meantime she dropped construction for a change of pace and set off to explore, heading through caves and collecting blueprints. She also fought a dinosaur, then rushed back to rescue her mount, the otter she calls Kawauso-sensei.
Partway through the night she came upon a low-level cat she tried to tame and said she thought she heard “itazuranya” come out of it. Chat identified the cat as Usada Pekora in disguise, and Noel later thanked her as “Cat-sensei” for turning up when she did.
She wrapped up after about 12 hours of streaming in total, counting the earlier stream. If the mod problem could not be fixed, she said, she would build a steampunk-style house instead. She was still weighing whether to open the private archive with a new thumbnail and a content warning, and said that if it stayed private, that was fine too.
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