Bucket of gems crash

[RagingTeaPot]

I suspect it's because I have thousands of gems in a bucket but I can't pick it up as when I interact with it the game grinds to a halt and then freezes. If I wait I get about 0.5 FPS. I will try using clear raw resources thingy option and see if that helps, but think it needs optimisation.

[x0_Maro_0x]

What it needs is for you to put gem press and press all the gems you produce.

[vanbushi]

You have thousands of objects that need to be rendered individually in a single location, then try to move them all at once. That's what makes you think the game needs to be optimized?

[Klandor]

If the Clear Raw Resources button doesn't work, try this trick that MAY (or may NOT) work:

Get the BulkBuyCrate MOD, purchase a SINGLE BulkBuyCrate, and place it in front of the Bucket (or is it a Pan) with all the Gems. What MAY happen is that Pan gets sucked into the Bulk Buy Crate. Take the Crate to the Jewelers and try to get the Pan (or Bucket) out of the Crate. You may drop to 0.5 FPS, but try to have yourself positioned such that the Pan (or Bucket) will have it's Drop point over the Jewelers table. Try dropping the object onto the table (that you've pre-positioned yourself for) and then walk away from your computer for a while (just check it intermittently to see if ANYTHING has changed). If you get get the object (Bucket or Pan) onto the table and can get the FPS to settle, you may be able to press the button to SELL all those Gems.

Then check around the Shop at the bottom of the hill from the Jeweler. You should find a Gem Compressor. Place all future Gems into the Gem Compressor and make sure it has a water supply. Pull the handle on the Gem Compressor ever now and then. This will compress all the Gems into 4 LARGE Gems and keep the Nugget count down.

[Marilith]

Click a magnet stick at it and be ready for a show!

The minerals will remember they don't like overlapping and should be physics enabled all at once and while you'll have a slideshow for a moment as they all expand and fling themselves everywhere in a spectacular blast. The resulting piles will be easier to scoop up in smaller quantities, again using the magnet stick to make that easier. Maybe build a quick room around the area to contain the gem-splosion so they don't scatter across the whole zip code.

No mods needed~

[Klandor]

Originally posted by Marilith:

Click a magnet stick at it and be ready for a show!

The minerals will remember they don't like overlapping and should be physics enabled all at once and while you'll have a slideshow for a moment as they all expand and fling themselves everywhere in a spectacular blast. The resulting piles will be easier to scoop up in smaller quantities, again using the magnet stick to make that easier. Maybe build a quick room around the area to contain the gem-splosion so they don't scatter across the whole zip code.

No mods needed~

The one concern with THIS solution is if he's already experiencing FPS lags due to the number of Gems in the Bucket. If his FPS is already close to ZERO, he may not be ABLE to go get the components to build a room. Clearing the Raw Resources will completely avoid that. Yes, he'll lose the Hc from all those resources that'll get deleted, but he'll keep his save and can then produce those resources again.

With reactivating the Mine after clearing Raw Resource (and maybe Dirt), I highly recommend all Raw Resources go through Sorters and straight into Smelters, and Raw Gems to through a Gem Polishing Hook and into a Gem Compressor that is either manually activated on a regular basis or a Logic Automation System to automatically compress it down to 4 Gems either based on a Gem Counter or Gem Weight. BOTH of these solutions have been covered in other Discussions...

[Valgarius]

i have the feel why you i get buckets off gems but cant compress while this is too laggy

[Klandor]

Yeah, the Dev's know there are issues related to Physics and too many Nuggets in play. They know about the issue and there's nothing they can do to fix it without a game rewrite. They have a plan to address it, but I believe that won't happen until v3.0 and I believe it'll be part of an upgrade to Unreal Engine 5 Graphics Engine (which is part of the solution to the issue, as the issue is PART of UE4). So there is a PLANNED solution, but it will not come anytime soon, as they JUST got done with the rewrite that was released in March 2022...

[RagingTeaPot]

I figured out a way around it, there is a gem mod to remove all loose gems, did the trick. Then I put compressors there so it wouldn't happen again.