Implemented Clones not working

So i have noticed this issue in the past week or so with some players, but all-in-all thought nothing of it other than that they may be doing something wierd to mess with the Sync cloning system. Now i followed the whole keep a spotloader on top of a clone (and i do mean on top, though there were some where it was just in the same chunk) and yesterday while i was offline skyping my friend who was playing, he freaked out to find that when he died from a large fall (no more than like 30 blocks, he had 15ish hearts and featherfalling 4 so you'd think he should be fine) the game did not load his clone and we ended up losing our island that we had just finished our massive build on earlier that day. I was just wondering if there is something that can be done about either clones not working or somehow recovering our lost island, because unless that were to happen i do not see my friend playing CL again and i probably would follow in his steps.
Thanks:
-godofhell

 

the spot loader is the most likely problem, and keeping a spotloader ontop of the sync clone? i've NEVER heard of that, and though it causes no problems on monster *they don't work on monster but my base is full of them from when other people lived there* so maybe

 

The thing is that one of the server's messages said to keep a clone loaded by using one and when you place a spotloader it actually gives a message to place it on top of a clone, however i had both clones with it on them and just in the same chunk as them, so either way it should have not done something like this. And to ma0ke the matter worse, there were multiple clones of my friend in different chunks so it could not have been just one chunk or whatever not loading when he died.

 

thats REALLY strange