Can't make iron ingots.

[ptmyers01]

I am unable to make iron ingots. I have everything in place, ore and smelter but, id does not work. Is there any way to get around this bug?

[Oakshield]

To work with iron you need to use the improved smelter. Meaning you need to upgrade the one that you used to smelt copper.

Also, check your crafting recipes - especially machines - if there are upgrades shown in there. I found quite often that you needed to craft something else first, before you were even able to craft the machine required to use that item.
And for iron that thing may be a 2nd type of mold.


Thorin

[ptmyers01]

Thanks, I already have that, The issue I'm having is that I select the iron ingot to be made in the craft screen and when it goes back to the select what to craft screen it is not selected. I have tried several times with the same results. I'm pretty sure it's a bug but I can't fins a work around.

[Cougarific]

Publicado originalmente por ptmyers01:

I'm pretty sure it's a bug

It's not a bug that has ever been reported before so I suspect you're not doing it correctly.

Take a minute to read all the on-screen prompts and press the correct key (probably spacebar).

[stretch]

Publicado originalmente por Cougarific:

Publicado originalmente por ptmyers01:

I'm pretty sure it's a bug

It's not a bug that has ever been reported before so I suspect you're not doing it correctly.

Take a minute to read all the on-screen prompts and press the correct key (probably spacebar).

It is always possible you have a genuine bug but if you do it's most likely that it's your game and hopefully a file verify would fix it. It's also possible that a corrupt save might give you errors.

With that said I would say the above comment has a great deal of merit. If it was a legitimate bug I do feel that it would be a very common topic here. It's not, so I would verify your files and restart the game and if that fails then the above comment is your most likely answer.
I don't think there are too many people who if they were honest would not admit to missing something obvious and jumping to the wrong conclusion. I have done it. I know I have. So yeah just look very carefully at what you are doing and if you have to then I am sure Youtube would have a clip showing someone crafting iron ingots and maybe you could follow that to double check.
Do you have fuel? Is it lit? Got enough ore in it?

Good luck.

[ptmyers01]

Well, don't know what happened. Was taking screen shots to show what was happening, did nothing different but, when I went to select an item to craft the silver ingot had a gold diamond (new item) marker and it all started to work. I do not think I did anything different than I had before but. it worked. It did this once before where crafting did not work then worked for a while then stopped again until now. Thanks for the input, I still believe it was a bug of some sort but, maybe it was not.