Around 0300 this morning, our service encountered a network outage that lasted last than 5 minutes. As a precaution, the backend panel automatically restarts all game servers to ensure proper performance. Our FiveM servers were set to auto update on restart. Since it had been over 30 days since our last hard restart, it prompted an artifact update. CFX in there infinite wisdom tends to break things in their latest artifacts.
Artifcats 25963 (Released 17FEB2026) up to the latest as of the time of this writing (27092, released 19MAR2026) has an on going issue where the sandbox enviroment for Node.js causes some system critical dependencies to fail their build or activation. This broke many things that rely on "webpack" as it could not initialize.
Following troubleshooting steps attempted:
- Full server cache wipe
- Replacing webpack from fresh install
- Reinstalling artifact
- Bashing head into wall
- Scouring the cfx discord
- Found related issues
- Remembered the link to https://artifacts.jgscripts.com/
- Saw issue
- Attempt to revert back artifact, egg would revert
- Attempt to manually install artifact, broke shit even more
- Installed new egg, it works
- Test changes
- Chat works, but default chat rears it's ugly head for some reason
- Update staging to reflect
- ???
- Profit
DT will be following up on the old chat appearing along with main chat