diff --git a/ansible/roles/podman/tasks/containers/home/zomboid.yml b/ansible/roles/podman/tasks/containers/home/zomboid.yml
index d6e9c01..7a9b10f 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/podman/tasks/containers/home/zomboid.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/podman/tasks/containers/home/zomboid.yml
@@ -17,7 +17,20 @@
     - "{{ zomboid_path }}/server"
     - "{{ zomboid_path }}/data"
     - "{{ zomboid_path }}/scripts"
-    - "{{ zomboid_path }}/logs"
+
+# Not a container volume -- nothing mounts it. It holds output from host-side
+# helpers that run as {{ podman_user }}, so it must be owned by that user rather
+# than the container's subuid. Getting this wrong silently broke world resets:
+# the script's first log line failed with EACCES and set -e killed it before it
+# stopped the server, so `@bot` resets did nothing at all.
+- name: create zomboid host-side log directory
+  become: true
+  ansible.builtin.file:
+    path: "{{ zomboid_path }}/logs"
+    state: directory
+    owner: "{{ podman_user }}"
+    group: "{{ podman_user }}"
+    mode: 0755
 
 - name: create podman bin directory
   become: true
diff --git a/ansible/roles/podman/tasks/main.yml b/ansible/roles/podman/tasks/main.yml
index 324ac88..bf5ac42 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/podman/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/podman/tasks/main.yml
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
 
 - import_tasks: containers/home/gregtime.yml
   vars:
-    image: localhost/greg-time-bot:3.16.1
+    image: localhost/greg-time-bot:3.16.2
   tags: gregtime
 
 # Gated on zomboid_enabled (roles/podman/defaults/main.yml) so it can be taken
diff --git a/ansible/roles/podman/templates/zomboid/world-reset.sh.j2 b/ansible/roles/podman/templates/zomboid/world-reset.sh.j2
index d37cb23..12fc8d2 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/podman/templates/zomboid/world-reset.sh.j2
+++ b/ansible/roles/podman/templates/zomboid/world-reset.sh.j2
@@ -11,7 +11,12 @@ SAVES_PATH="{{ podman_home }}/.local/share/volumes/zomboid/data/Saves/Multiplaye
 DB_PATH="{{ podman_home }}/.local/share/volumes/zomboid/data/db/${SERVER_NAME}.db"
 
 log() {
-    echo "[$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')] $1" | tee -a "$LOGFILE"
+    local msg="[$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')] $1"
+    echo "$msg"
+    # stdout is already captured by the journal; the file is a convenience.
+    # Never let it be fatal -- an unwritable log used to abort the whole wipe
+    # on the very first line, under set -e.
+    echo "$msg" >> "$LOGFILE" 2>/dev/null || true
 }
 
 # Ensure XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is set for systemctl --user