Vehicles · medium severity · found in the console
Vehicle has no handling entry and is driving as an Adder
The server console prints a line like this.
What the console says
Couldn't find handling for hash <hash> - returning ADDER instead Couldn't find handling data for hash <hash>
What it means
A vehicle has no handling entry, so the game substituted the Adder's. It drives nothing like it should.
How to fix it
- The hash is the vehicle model name hashed — find the car whose handling.meta is missing, empty, or failed to parse (see A vehicle's meta file was rejected by the game).
- Check the handlingId in vehicles.meta actually matches a <handlingName> that exists in handling.meta. A typo here produces exactly this.
- Until it is fixed the car has Adder physics: wrong speed, wrong grip, wrong mass. Players will report it as 'this car feels broken' without knowing why.
When it is not this
A handful at boot can be base-game or DLC vehicles the client has not streamed yet, and is not worth chasing. Volume and repetition are the signal: dozens every session, on multiple days, means real cars in the fleet have no handling.