[Resolved-ish]: Cannot open chests [wooden containers]

[cylus80]

Is anyone else having issues opening chests? I am using the keyboard, I go up to the chest where is it highlighted and says "Press E to pickup, Press Tab to open" but when I press tab it will only open my inventory (backpack), not the chest's inventory. I have reset the input controls to default, tried with a controller and the same result?

I cannot find anything on this anywhere and I am surprised.

[Dimebonics3]

Are you holding tab down? I never had that problem except on coop when two players try looking in box at the same time

[cylus80]

I have tried pushing it quickly and holding it down. the behavior is the same

[Qxiey]

Having the same issue

[cylus80]

I have uninstalled, deleted folders, reinstalled, started a new game, even used a completely different PC, everything I can think of. This has to be a game bug that more people are seeing. Makes the game unplayable.

[raistln1971]

Funny thing. I haven't played this game in months. Loaded it up, can't open chests either.
Never had any issues before with the hundreds of hours of play opening chests. I did before have a mod to extend chests capacity and allow stacking of items, but that got removed after it quit working in the last update and didn't have a problem after that, until now.
I tried the same thing, verifying files, uninstalling, restarting, reinstalling, and nothing is changing it. And yes I tried to remap the key, tried it with no luck, remapped it back, set defaults.
So it's not a random hardware/software issue.

[raistln1971]

The last time I play I had issues because of the mod, I deleted those mods and verified the files, game worked fine. Been awhile since I played, so I started the game and could not open containers. I then verified the files and tried again. Still can't. I then uninstalled the game, deleted folder in steam, deleted folder in appdata, removed all entries from registry, restarted my computer, reinstalled the game, open game, still can't open containers.

The system hardware, software, and peripherals are the exact same as they were before with the exception of a few visual novels and 1 game on steam.

The only difference between then and now is the update that occured since I last played.
The rest of the game works fine. I can open my bag by pressing Tab, the container says to press E to pickup and Tab to open, yet it will only open my bag instead of the container.
The fact that it does open my bag shows it's not an issue with key remapping.
The fact that it worked before the update, and doesn't after when nothing has changed but the update, suggests it's a bug.

[raistln1971]

I got it to work the 2nd time I reinstalled. No clue what the difference was, perhaps I missed a folder, but it's working now. Shame I had to lose saves that I spent weeks working on, especially my massive base :(.

[cylus80]

Thanks everyone for the responses

I had deleted all my folders when I reinstalled. It had been awhile since I last played, so many updates in between, and I could previously open the chest no problem. I have never used mods for this game.

I will try uninstalling and deleting everything again. fingers crossed

[cylus80]

I uninstalled, deleted the game and appdata folders, and cleaned the registry of any reference to beam or SD, and now I can open chests.

Thanks everyone.

[cylus80]

I figured out the issue. The Devs shrunk the number of slots in the wooden chests. so the chests that have more than that do not open anymore... awesome.

[fuzzybunnyslippers]

did you have a mod previously? because I don't recall the number of slots going down--only up. for example, it used to be only 4 fish per 'slot' in a chest, now it's 8.

But I do recall a mod where you could have more than the default--so it makes sense (to me anyway) if you had version N-1 + Mod with more slots in the chests... then upgraded to version N... and the mod naturally was wiped out. And then your "saved game" with additional, not-valid-Number in slots is no longer working makes sense to me.

[cylus80]

That is weird because last I played I remember it being ~8 slots and now it is only 5. I have never used mods with this game.

[cylus80]

Even stranger. I installed the "IncreasedStackSize" mod from Nexus mods, and I was able to open chests in my old save games. Interestingly enough one of the things the mod does is set the chest slots back to 8. It also increases stack size, which none of the contents of my 30 plus chests was using (all were max 4 except for food and fiber which nativly stack more)