Jumping down sinkhole crashes game

A friend and I were playing Don’t Starve Together on cooperative mode in a server that my friend hosted. I jumped down a sinkhole and the game crashed/disconnected me immediately. Every time I tried to re-join, I immediately got disconnected - I assume because the game was trying to load me into a sinkhole map but could not. My friend also disconnected, closed the game, and then re-opened the map, but it did not solve the issue and I still could not connect. We ended up having to abandon our progress and start a new world.