Cant access build menu

[Goritude]

I need to build a portable refiner. Tutorial tells me to open the build menu. I press the build key. Nothing happens. I remap the build key. Nothing happens. I restart the computer. Nothing happens...

[wubbelflup]

Pressing Z doesn't work?

[Goritude]

No.

[wubbelflup]

Originally posted by Goritude:

No.

Have you tried building an altar for the atlas under your bed and praying the holy hymm to sean murray?

[Goritude]

I'll soon move on to a better quality game. I am just giving it one last chance with this post.

[japp_02]

The key for the build menu is the one displayed in the control menu, but depending on your Regional Settings on your OS the Y key may be exchanged with the Z key.
Another thing is: Portable refiners should not be in the game anymore (in Synthesis) because replaced with a better feature, so there should neither be any tutorial for it any longer. If you play Synthesis it's best to start a new game, or skip this superfluous tutorial.

[Goritude]

I wrote that I have mapped and remapped the damn build key.

I have started a new game indeed.

So the tutorial is obsolete ?? Game really in bad condition. How can I craft pure ferrite if portable refiner doesn't exist ?

[smurfy]

The backpack "personal" refiner technology does NOT replace the Portable refiner. It is a far more convenient tool but since it requires chromatic metal, the portable refiner is actually required to be able to make a personal refiner.
The portable refiner is therefore still available earlier and the tutorial mission should still be valid.

This is clearly not your problem though and is straying off topic.
At present I cannot think of a logical reason the build menu would fail to initialize. What game mode are you playing? Normal, Survival or Permadeath?

[Goritude]

Normal.
I have contacted the dev technical support. But I don't expect an answer...

[Gumsk]

I did some searching and while I didn't find a solution, it seems to be multi platform and go back before Beyond. The only ideas were to make sure the terrain manipulator wasn't out (switch to laser) and to reload the save (not the whole client, just the save). I'm thinking it's a bug where it accidentally skips a flag in the save file to let you build, so I'll go look through that and see if I find anything.

[Goritude]

Thank you. Yes I did some research too before posting and I came to the same conclusion. I don't even have the terrain manipulator yet.

[Gumsk]

I just went through the whole save file and don't see anything obvious. The only possibility in the save I can think of is SpawnStateData / LastKnownPlayerState . The only time I remember not being able to open my menu at all is on stations or in space. Check that value and make sure it says OnFoot .

[Goritude]

Thank you for the time u spend investigating my issue.

I have opened save5.hg using notepad. I can't find the words SpawnStateData or LastKnownPlayerState using the search feature.

[Dr. Kaii]

Have you tried accessing the build menu through the quick menu? TBH I've never used the direct-to-build-menu key. Is Build even available in your quick menu?

[Goritude]

Build not available in my quick menu.

[Dr. Kaii]

Ok so prob need to do more quests or something?