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Buddha Bob has 7 Days to Die

Jun 29, 2018 @ 9:01pm

Mining helmet not working

Hey folks,

The light on my mining halmet isn't turning on. Any suggestions? Tried unequiping/reequiping and reloading the game with no luck. Didn't see anything current in a discussions search.

If I hold a flashlight, it cycles on and off fine but no luck with the mining helmet.

I'm running Valmod and it may be out of date. Wouldn't think that'd be it but who knows.

Thanks in advance!

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systumseng has 7 Days to Die

Jun 29, 2018 @ 9:33pm

Sometimes recipes get messed up transistioning between Valmod and Vanilla, but mostly going BACK to Vanillla.

My first guess was that you didn't have the right key fro turning the mining helmet on and off, because as far as I know, short of scraping a mining helmet, nothing keeps it from working.

If you have the resources, you could try crafting another...maybe there was some sort of glitch when you created that one?

Only other thing that I can think of is that it's damaged down to ZERO.
In that case, you need to repair it (I think Mining Helmets need Forged Iron for repair).
That's similar to the situation where you run a minibike into spikes: The bike gets damaged down to ZERO, and won't work until repaired.

Good luck.

Buddha Bob has 7 Days to Die

Jun 30, 2018 @ 11:06am

I repaired them all the way up.

It's strange. Night vision goggles toggle on and off fine but the mining helmet and a lighted helmet I built (Valmod add) don't.

Mining is turning into a pain in the backside.

rondo1972

Sep 8, 2018 @ 7:53pm

Chiming in since I just barely had this happen to me as well. I scavanged a higher level mining helmet, and switched it out with the one I had. Now I can't get the light to work. Switchted them back, fixed them, restarted game, and nothing. Flashlights, bike light, and lights on weapons work fine. Just the darn mining helmet.

Scooby Doo has 7 Days to Die

(Banned) Sep 8, 2018 @ 7:56pm

Originally posted by rondo1972:
Chiming in since I just barely had this happen to me as well. I scavanged a higher level mining helmet, and switched it out with the one I had. Now I can't get the light to work. Switchted them back, fixed them, restarted game, and nothing. Flashlights, bike light, and lights on weapons work fine. Just the darn mining helmet.

If you are playing single player check your logs in the install folder/Logs. If you open it with Notepad++ you can use the Search at the top tell it to find Error. That may or may not help. Sounds like it is an issue with the mod though. Modded versions of the game you really can never tell.

Ch53dVet

Sep 9, 2018 @ 10:01am

I'd replace the default key to another and see how that works, then I'd reset the controls to default and see if that recorrects the problem or make a test game and (giveself mininghelmet) from within the console and see if it works there.