Getting the campfire with a Cauldron to work

[oldmanjo2002]

So is my game bugged? I have it built, I have put the ingredients that it needed to make the berry jelly into the cauldron, I have the fire lit below it and nothing is happening. I can see that it has the little window to show the npc that is working on doing stuff there but the npc never goes to it and works on it. Does anyone know if there is a tool they need to have, like a spoon or something that is required to interact with the cauldron?

[Versuchender]

Did you "manage" the cauldron? Works fine for me, no additional stuff required. (Assuming you got water nearby.)

[War Potato]

My friend and I are having an issue similar to this. We have three cauldrons and one of them is just constantly locked out. Shows there is stew in it, but there is no timer, no description of stew, nothing. The other two work fine. When we break down the bugged one, it shows it had ingredients in it. We've rebuilt it twice and still the same bug.

[Spiderthefirst1]

How did you get the water for the cauldron? I have searched for this and others are having the same issue . I'm right next to the lake.

[Vecardi]

You need a water collector or a well for getting water

[BriteLite]

Just investigated why all 3 of my cauldrons suddenly 'broke'. turns out, its not the cauldrons. its a bug within the storage system, at least on my end. go check your physical storage (where you have your actual items at) and compare it to the storage page by pressing 'N' and navigating to the storage tab. If these mismatch, then your stockpile/chest is bugged.

How you possibly broke it: you probably decided to take full advantage of the meticulous storage options and set a specific amount of each item, note that if you're having the same issue as myself, these are the items that are not showing correctly in your storage tab. So the AI is reading it as not having the material when you do and therefor not cooking/crafting.

How to temporarily fix it: a workaround I've found is by constructing new stock piles and only limiting the broad items that go in: food rations, resources and equipment. NOT the specific amounts. you can set the specific items, just not the amounts ( this is how it bugs/crashes even for chests). you will have to move every item that's bugged into a new stockpile and disassemble the old one to prevent your amounts from being bugged.

As far as managing the amounts of items in the chest... well you and your outhouse are gunna be best friends until this gets fixed :)