3.5.8 Disappearing deck and pieces

That is my assumption and what I’ve been told, yes. You can see that the visual game state at the end of log 002 matches the beginning of log 003. It’s only after the first step that things get weird, due to some underlying problem.

How do I manually invoke the action that log 003 is recording that is broken?

Right click on the player name in the top right (well, any player name on the board, among the ones that have text saying “click here to…”) and select one of the five colours listed.

3 cards from the bottom of the World deck get sent to the Window that opens when you click Hand on the toolbar (assuming your PlayerSide matches the colour/map you selected to send the cards to).

If starting a new game, you first have to get the player names on the board, by clicking the new game button to open the setup window, then click any one of the first 3 setup options listed.