Has anyone crafted the Great Ring? Possible bug

[JakesCondensation]

I previously posted here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/248390/discussions/0/3112542578508158069/

Regarding 2 items that I couldn't craft, I'm now down to just 1, the Great Ring. I thought I'd make a little writeup of it and just see what I can figure out.

World Type: Two Fortresses
Item: Great Ring
Requires: Skills Ring
Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/S0d7tWp

I can get the crafting recipe for this item, but I cannot find any of the 3 required skills rings. Note that both games were started after this patch: https://steamcommunity.com/app/248390/discussions/0/3104638636516634880/, which mentions: "Added drop rings of power from elves which enhance different skills. Added a Great Ring to the tech tree which can be forged from several regular ones."

I created two new games on the Two Fortresses world type, one on "normal" difficulty and one on the "nightmare" difficulty. On both, I worked my way up to being able to afford/craft tesla towers, which I placed all over one of the areas where elves are summoned. I let the game run for ~8 hours on each difficulty, trying to see if any elves would ever drop any of the skills rings, but I never saw a single one.

https://imgur.com/a/iC7qosW

Is it possible that there's a bug and the elves never actually drop those rings? Or that those rings don't actually exist?

Another thing I tried was loading up the "random loot box" mod (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2150772150&searchtext=loot) and buying a bunch of the random jewelry boxes from the store. I placed them and opened them, but they never contained any of the 3 rings I needed, either. I'm not sure if that mod has hardcoded jewerly items or if it could be any random item from that world, but it didn't work either way.

Any advice? Has anyone actually crafted this item?

[Darke]

Yeah, there is definitely a problem somewhere here. I've killed probably close to a hundred elves in the game I started last night and got zero drops of any of the rings. :(

[Darke]

Ah, this looks to be the problem; the elf's drops in the creatures file are set as:

      <resources value="money-1-80"/>
      <resources value="elfs_ring_01-1-10"/>
      <resources value="elfs_ring_02-1-10"/>
      <resources value="elfs_ring_03-1-10"/>

Which means only the money-1-80 will ever drop since the others will be ignored. I think it should be like:

      <resources value="money-1-80,elfs_ring_01-1-10,elfs_ring_02-1-10,elfs_ring_03-1-10"/>

Which I just tested and got regular ring drops from killing elves and made 2 of the Great Rings (which are, actually, Great).

[Omega aka BigFranky65]

"Two Fortresses world type" is this "Heart of Evil DLC" ?

[Darke]

Originally posted by Omega aka BigFranky65:

"Two Fortresses world type" is this "Heart of Evil DLC" ?

Correct.

[Omega aka BigFranky65]

ah thx, I not own this DLC, so one problem less for me :-)

[JakesCondensation]

Thanks Darke! Can you point me to which file you edited specifically?

EDIT: Looks like C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\CraftTheWorld\data\creatures_6.xml, creature being <creature name="dark_elf_man">

Also, is there a way to put in an actual bug report via Steam? Seems like this is a real issue if it's literally not in the elf drops

[Darke]

Originally posted by JakesCondensation:

Thanks Darke! Can you point me to which file you edited specifically?

EDIT: Looks like C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\CraftTheWorld\data\creatures_6.xml, creature being <creature name="dark_elf_man">

Also, is there a way to put in an actual bug report via Steam? Seems like this is a real issue if it's literally not in the elf drops

That's the correct file.

I'm pretty sure you don't need to add it to the other elf-types they all inherit from the base dark_elf_man so they all drop it. That's the reason for the 'from' in this code block:

  <creature name="dark_elf_woman" from="dark_elf_man">

Assuming the devs change just the dark_elf_man to have all the resources in a single tag it should fix it for everything.