forge crafting

[djkillerr]

i have materials in the forge and know how it works etc. but ive noticed that it wont use all the materials in 1 go, for instance it takes 10 stone to make 1 cement, i currently have 1600 stone in the forge and itll only make a max 120 cement, then i have to click it again to make the rest, any ideas?

[onanonehand8]

More of your basic items need to be smelted down.

[sketchywyvern]

i just started having this bug! crafting steel in the forge. i have 4843 iron and 11625 clay, but it won't let me use all of it at once. the max i can craft is 156 steel, then it'll let me queue up 55, then 20, then 7, an then the crafting queue is full. i restarted my game and it's still happening.

now that i think about it, i just respecced and maxxed out advanced engineering. I wonder if the reduced forge crafting materials has anything to do with this? i'm going to go do math, will report back

[sketchywyvern]

Advanced Engineering is bugged! With lv 5 AE, steel is crafted with 20 iron, which is a 35% reduction from the base of 31. with 4843 iron in the forge, i can craft 156 steel. 65% of 4843 is 3147.95. rounding up, 3147 iron crafts into 157 steel bars! going to go make sure this is reported properly now

[sketchywyvern]

Bug has already been reported and confirmed! [community.7daystodie.com]! It's been about a month, so hopefully it's fixed in the 1.1 patch.

[Shurenai]

Originally posted by sketchywyvern:

Advanced Engineering is bugged! With lv 5 AE, steel is crafted with 20 iron, which is a 35% reduction from the base of 31. with 4843 iron in the forge, i can craft 156 steel. 65% of 4843 is 3147.95. rounding up, 3147 iron crafts into 157 steel bars! going to go make sure this is reported properly now

IIRC this is Not a bug, it's an engine limitation with how the forge and "% resource cost reduced" are implemented.

The recipe cost is hard coded and initialized at client launch by the engine, the % resource cost reduction is applied later via XML patch; The way it plays out in practice is that the Engine Requires you to have enough existing material to be able to craft a given item or quantity of items, and the XML patch then "refunds" a portion of the crafting cost.

Edit to add: Because the base recipe cost is hard coded the engine will check against that First and if that check fails it does not continue onto step 2, which is resource cost reduction. So it Must pass that first check (base material cost x intended number of crafts) in order to then have the cost reduction take place. So you cannot use 100% of your material in one single craft if you have a % cost reduction skill, EG, Advanced Engineering.

[sketchywyvern]

Thank you for the info! I find it weird that they didn't implement a better solution in 1.0, or replace the reduced crafting cost with a different buff, but I guess it's a small detail in the grand scheme of things. It is super annoying tho, so I'm gonna go respec again and forgo Advanced Engineering.

[djkillerr]

but that still doesnt explain why the forge wont let me craft all the steel at once, but say the cement mixer will, and everything else, maybe the forge is bugged because ive never had this problem before, hopefully it does get fixed, its alittle annoying to craft only a % of steel per click, rather than all of it at once