MP Survival Ore Smelting

[Joker]

I thought in the latest patch this was fixed but maybe I'm doing something wrong. I have copper ore, tin ore, and I am trying to put it in the smelter but I hit E and click feed ore and nothing happens. I've tried dragging and dropping from my inventory as well and can't get the smelter to work. Am I doing something wrong?

[Joker]

Does noone know anything about the ore smelting and MP survival

[steveman0]

I didn't have any problems with it. Does this happen every time? Even if you restart the game? I had a one-off UI problem on launching the game recently but when I restarted everything was working fine.

Are you a client in a multiplayer game? I'm not sure if that is working properly yet.

[Joker]

Yes I am a client in the MP part of survival. The host can use the smelter and drag and drop ore but it's very funky to say the least with the smelter heating up and down up and down and then smelting and then the ore disappearing completely and with me not being able to place anything in the smelter.

[steveman0]

Okay well I know that was broken in the last beta patch. I think they were supposed to have fixed it from what I can tell from the patch notes. It is hard to say because the patch notes include the details from the previous beta versions where they first fixed it so I'm not sure if he actually got around to it for 1.13e or not.

Can you at least place ore in hoppers? Once you get a hopper on the smelter you won't be using the smelter UI directly after that anyway. If that works you can use the easy mode hopper for the smelter input rather than burning coal. Of course I'm not sure if clients can add coal to the CPH.

If there still is a bug I'm sure it'll get addressed soon. We probably would have caught it if we were able to have the MP test yesterday but since we didn't it's a good thing you reported it so they can look into it.

[Joker]

Right now to get to the point to get ore to make a hopper is the issue. Can't craft anything that far because it takes bars and can't smelt to get bars.

[steveman0]

If you start on easy mode on the newest version you start with a hopper. Even if you can't smelt anything the host should still be able to use the smelter as though it were single player. Have him make a hopper for the smelter.

[Joker]

It was weird that the host started with some items but we didn't we had nothing in our inventories when we joined the MP survival session.

[steveman0]

That is intended I believe otherwise you'd have a large quantity of extractors, batteries, and hoppers (on easy mode) which would trivialize the early game in a large enough group.

[Joker]

Ahhh...ok I see now. Also it looks like the smelter doesn't work unless you have 25 ore. We didn't know that either. The host seems to be able to add to the smelter but we still can't as clients but at least now he can smelt for us and we'll try out the hopper idea! Thanks for the info. Love the game so far and I've played a ton of sandbox games and I think Fortresscraft Evolved has the opportunity to beat them all. Love the tech tree stuff and the crafting now to get more of a survivival feel with mobs attacking you endlessly and getting to craft a base with defenses and stuff I hope that is coming in the future. That is the biggest thing I think alot of sandbox games lack is the "fear" factor of how can I survive the first night and then how to deal with that progressive "fear" factor as the nights go on and to keep the tense always looking over your shoulder feeling going.

[Joker]

Is there a way to trade with others in teh game to give them items? We have tried using a storage crate but what we drop in basically disappears. It also looks like our host did not get a hopper by default in the world we are in.

[steveman0]

The hopper at start is only on easy mode in the latest beta patch so if you started this world more than a few days ago you wouldn't have it.

You can't trade items but in the future you won't really have to. Items dropped on the ground aren't synced yet between client and host. The same is true with items put into crates. These both should be coming in the near future as the core of survival MP is finished.

The requirement of 25 ore to get a smelter running seems like it might be a bug. Are you playing on easy resources?

[Joker]

Ok we restarted an entire new world on latest e patch and we did get the hopper. We placed it next to the smelter but it's still bugged for clients. When we put ore in it it takes away breifly from the total slots but then goes back to 100 and then the smelter starts to heat but then goes to 0 again when you highlight it and when you open it there are no smelting and no bars.

The host was able to add to the hopper and it did take away slots as it should and add them to the hopper however clients can't access the bars to get any and as the host can't trade or anything we are limited in what we can craft.

[Joker]

Ok..just figured out if the host does the smelting or the storage in the hopper then once the smelter is done it will add those bars back to the hopper and then a client can pickup the hopper and get what is inside then reset the hopper and start again. So that would seem to be a work around for now but of course you need to make sure your host is on or no smelting can be done by clients yet, or that is the case with our group playing. We have a clan of about 50 or so and 4 or 5 are testing and are so far loving the game. Hope we can contribute to helping as most of our team are full blooded gamers and we have a few developers and IT Guys as well. :D

[steveman0]

Okay well I guess that didn't get fixed yet. I believe that it is supposed to sync with clients but there may have been a bug with that and it hasn't been fixed yet. At least that is the impression I got at the last MP public test. I could be mistaken and they just haven't gotten around to coding that yet.

[coconut_willy_97]

The1TruJok3r, I've been looking to play MP on a server, or get someone to play on my backup computer. Can you pass me data on your machine and allow me to work with your group for a while?

TIA