I cannot manna gems?

[Slainpessimist]

This last update has made the game unplayable! manna gem mining is just not an option wtf?
This is the main point of my mission, but I can't do the gem mining thing, what the hell?

[Shadow PCG]

Hey
Sorry to hear you are experiencing problems. Could you be a bit more specific so that we can sort the issue out?

[Slainpessimist]

ok, the gem mining/map placement is not available, cannot be researched. I have had it earlier where I can place gem manna tiles around, but since I restarted, it's not even an option.

[Slainpessimist]

well I just bought the game, I was at the campaign stage where you get the Nagas. A mate came around when I was nearly finished the stage, but it's a mate so I end game to continue later.
Now every time I get the artefact, I can't build gem tiles/what ever the ♥♥♥♥ it is, I can't even progress this stage/mission, because it is broke now.

[Capitan Maximum]

Still not sure what the problem is. Since you're still very early in the game, did you try restarting the mission?

Also, make sure you have excavated the spot which contains the blue mana crystal and have placed a mana chamber marker on the same tile. For this mission, there should be a yellow marker indicating where the mana chamber needs to be placed.

[Slainpessimist]

sorry mate I was pretty drunk at the time and haven't played since. Give me a few day's and I'm sure I'll play again and I'll get back to you.
Though I do know I put the mana chamber/artefact where it was ment to go and I had dug out around the crystals because you run out of space quickly.

[ShEsHy]

Mission "In the swamplands", where you're supposed to place the two crystal chambers, is bugged. When you dig the crystals, only one of them (the bottom/left one) can be built around, the other (top/right one) doesn't allow building.
The biggest indicator is that those stone tablets laying on the ground around the crystals that are supposed to disappear when you get the objective to build the chambers only disappear around one of the crystals.

Here's a screenshot:
http://shrani.si/f/1z/ir/3pWDy4jP/bug.jpg

Also, since devs are reading this, can you please fix the hand (mouse pointer), since it's freaking gigantic and the huge selection radius makes controlling units virtually impossible.
Example: Try smacking away the rally flag when you have 10+ units surrounding it, or selecting a specific unit from that swarm,...
So, make the hand a lot smaller (like mouse in menu size smaller) and decrease its selection radius (make it so that the tip of the index finger is the actual selection point, not a random area around the hand, like it currently is). Or just implement an option to use the menu cursor instead of the hand ingame.

[Shadow PCG]

Hm. Seems strange. We will try to reproduce this today.

[ShEsHy]

Any progress?

[Shadow PCG]

Yes we could reproduce it and are working on a fix.

[ShEsHy]

Great, thanks.

[Imi]

BTW... how did you get 25 snots, 5 goblins, 1 naga and 5 orcs with only 7 population points used? o.O

[Imi]

The bug has been found and a fix will be in the next patch.

Until then: The error is caused when you try to remove or build on the specified area before the quest triggers.

If you don't try to build or remove tiles around the crystal until your are told to build there, everything should be fine.

[ShEsHy]

Cheat engine ;). Was thinking of covering it up in MS Paint, but ♥♥♥♥ it, it's singleplayer, and I need mah diggers.
Great, will try it today, hopefully I still have a save from before I dug them out.

[PumpkinKream]

So any progress or news on this issue? Because I'm having the same problems with this bug... :( But I've thoroughly enjoyed the gameplay of this delightful mix between Dungeon Keeper/ Warcraft, and I'm anxious to continue playing!! Please help

[ShEsHy]

@PumpkinKream
Don't dig out the mana crystals until you get the objective to do so.