Multiplayer is totally crap.

[JackyDOS]

Dear Devs.,

what the heck?

Trying now for 2 month to meet with a friend online to get that Pixel-Shard only given if you go into Multiplayer.

First of all: Why I can´t go fishing or do my stuff, while MP? There is no reason.

Why can´t I visit my friend everytime with the same code? It changes everytime I need to deactivate because of doing my stuff.

Frankly: That MP-Option is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and should be removed asap as there is no MP-Content apart from that shards and you can´t even have friends ingame. So you need always to connect with someone somewhere to change codes.

Is that really security against hackers or childabusers?

I really love your game, but that Multiplayer-Option sucks and is straight from the last century.

With love, but I really hate this MP.

P.S. It´s more a burden as fun.

[⚔ Kassandra ⚔]

Jesus ..chill bruhh ...they said it is something new and more stuff will come ..this is like just phase 1 where they see how it does and go ..have patience bro ...and also about codes is because i bet you wouldnt want anyone come to your valley while you might be away or something ...

[JackyDOS]

Originally posted by ⚔ Kassandra ⚔:

Jesus ..chill bruhh ...they said it is something new and more stuff will come ..this is like just phase 1 where they see how it does and go ..have patience bro ...and also about codes is because i bet you wouldnt want anyone come to your valley while you might be away or something ...

Why shouldn´t people I trust visit my village when I´m not there? I wish my friend could visit my village when i´m not there as we have complete different lifestyles and with family you are at the PC when you have time and not when you planned it and with 46 my wish for multiplayer is nonexistent as my husband and me are used to talk to each other while playing our games.

I´m also not living 24/7 on my server because someone could do something and since 20 years my servers always had a password (so even that is not magic). Anyways that is no argument because that teleporter is not static and I can remove it everytime and that people can set an own password is one of the simplest thing which would help a lot.

In common: When I try something out - I don´t involve an item that is only collectable this way and which is needed for automaton, especially my friend told me we need each 40 of it.

In the end there are also people outthere who don´t have access to the chatsystem or voicechat (children f.e.) and will never have the chance to get the shards.

You also missed the fact that the update wasn´t a week ago, it is miserable at this stage since 2 month - a long time where you can fix things or patch quality of life, so people can do something while they are waiting for someone to join.

In the end I paid for a DLC which includes automatic machines I can´t build without MP as the shards are needed for the flame (so for me it is not only the wish to have collected everything). In German we say "Schildbürger" to that "idea", especially it seems that Pixel Shards were/are (?) deactivated without ingame-message. (can´t check this atm. because my friend isn´t online, but read a post from End of January as he was able to collect shards one time, but I didn´t saw any shards in my turn).

[Zekkyuri]

Just as a point to your last paragraph, you can build everything in the DLC without the needs of Pixel Shards. The Ancient Machines from the DLC need Mist, Cores, and gift items to craft, which you can get from daily Timebending (or whenever you do log on for however long). The only hard-to-find item is Glimmer, and even then that is only if you didn't check the list of items in the menu to see where they drop (only in the castle realms at 1-3 drops per day).

The only thing that Pixel Shards do is to help replace items for crafting that you do not have and to create a cooking item that helps increase the meals you make (the next 5-12, depending on the item, based on the wiki page). So, if you are having that much difficulty with multiplayer (and I am having that difficulty as well), rest assured that you don't truly need the Pixel Shards for anything game-altering.

[JackyDOS]

Originally posted by Zekkyuri:

Just as a point to your last paragraph, you can build everything in the DLC without the needs of Pixel Shards. The Ancient Machines from the DLC need Mist, Cores, and gift items to craft, which you can get from daily Timebending (or whenever you do log on for however long). The only hard-to-find item is Glimmer, and even then that is only if you didn't check the list of items in the menu to see where they drop (only in the castle realms at 1-3 drops per day).

The only thing that Pixel Shards do is to help replace items for crafting that you do not have and to create a cooking item that helps increase the meals you make (the next 5-12, depending on the item, based on the wiki page). So, if you are having that much difficulty with multiplayer (and I am having that difficulty as well), rest assured that you don't truly need the Pixel Shards for anything game-altering.

Ah I see there was a hotfix not long ago - before you needed the pixel shards for the eternal flames to have the automaton-process without spending everyday thousands of mist (hope I translated it right, in german we collect "Nebel"). Seems the eternal flame is no longer ingame. (builded my ancient cooker 2 days after Rift in Time came out and it was pure frustration xD).

Now they changed it for the amount of the dishes and turned the price for the mist you need to pay down (at the first days of a Rift in Time it was very expensive). That is something I can live with, cause at Starpath-Time I´m online for more hours.

Thank you for the update, unfortunately there was no update about Patch-Details or Hotfix on Steam and I´m waiting for the next Starpath, so I didn´t play for 2 weeks apart from trying to MP. So if you don´t use Discord, X or Facebook - all I got was a ingame-message with some Dreamlights (why Dreamlights?). Even my "all-reading-Friend" didn´t tell me that this changed.

Well with the Glimmer I have less issues as you have everyday some at the Realms (like you wrote before, it´s a nice and cozy farm-routine).

Haha...you have saved my soul xD.

[Meralie]

Originally posted by ⚔ Kassandra ⚔:

Jesus ..chill bruhh ...they said it is something new and more stuff will come ..this is like just phase 1 where they see how it does and go ..have patience bro ...and also about codes is because i bet you wouldnt want anyone come to your valley while you might be away or something ...

I really hope your right^^, unfortunately the multiplayer is a bad joke at the moment :/

[Tilarta]

I built my Autocooker and 5 watering machines, all level 3 completely without multiplayer, just by timebending, a lot of timebending.

So multiplayer is not in the least necessary to construct these machines.

[JackyDOS]

Originally posted by Tilarta:

I built my Autocooker and 5 watering machines, all level 3 completely without multiplayer, just by timebending, a lot of timebending.

So multiplayer is not in the least necessary to construct these machines.

As I wrote, it is an old item patched in with 1.8 and seems no longer existent/needed to UPGRADE the automatons:

https://dreamlightvalleywiki.com/Superior_Pixelized_Cooking_Flame

Close after release of "A Rift in Time" you needed it for the cooking-automaton as it was an upgrade for the machine to reduce the mist-price for cooking/multiplies the dishes. (that was the only item I wanted the shards for).

One meal was about 300 mist or something (can´t remember exactly as it was in December, but to cook it was almost more mist as you can farm - that was my personal feeling after 30 hours around christmas-time). But as it didn´t work seems this upgrade/enchant got patched out.

I also read somewhere in the Discussions that people lost Dreamlight/Mist by using the shards so it got disabled complete with that January-Patch.

I wrote it in my second post that it is not longer needed and i missed it cause there were no patch-notes on Steam. (maybe the writer for steam was on vacation cause for the todays patch notes are up again ^^).

Thank you for the late information <3. Zekkyuri explained it before very well, so I was able to find out about the patch and that it is no longer needed.

I´m looking forward for today´s patch.