encountered a bug with the crane

[quatermass]

at the 2nd tower controlling the crane i lowered the ice block as far as possible where it got stuck and didnt let me raise it again, moving the crane forward caused the cables to stay in place while the moving platform/winch would move as expected

[90s 3D Render Silos]

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I tried riding the crane, ice block still in tow, all the way forward trying to ride around the mountain only for the ice block/crane claw to get stuck in the geometry. Moving forward was disabled, trying to move backwards causes a horrendous noise but no movement. Softlocked five minutes into the game.

And then the autosave didn't load.

[Bandanner]

I have also managed to break the crane! Edit: I also realised this is the second crane in this section not the first, sorry for any spoilers.

The back? (ramp) end is stuck in the ice wall and the crane does not move at all.

It's at the end of my live stream if I can post links here:
https://youtube.com/live/q6b339kGs5Y

I should note I went off and did the other areas as far as I could first then came back to this area. So would appreciate a fix after being 3 hours in. :)

[zombielicorice]

Same problem. Got the crane stuck and had to go back hours since autosave sucks and does not take you back far enough, or at least have like 3 autosaves spaced 5 mins apart.

[PolygonSlayer]

Same, crane puzzle with the two cabins is super buggy... I just have to keep using the "teleport to safe place" function in settings over and over.. hopefully until I get it to work.

Update: Finally did what I wanted to do, took me a good few tries by "teleporting to safe place", but eventually I managed to get everything in the places I think I needed it to be. Extremely fiddly.

Rest of the game has been great up to this point though, so hopefully its just a buggy puzzle that gets patched :)

[TheBrad]

To all those who think that the crane being stuck in several places is a bug: This is not correct. This is rather part of the puzzle, which is quite tricky. My crane also got stuck several times, but in the end i solved this puzzle. Of course, i don't want to spoiler more... good luck!

[KidGluv]

Same thing just happened to me :(

[quatermass]

Originally posted by TheBrad:

To all those who think that the crane being stuck in several places is a bug: This is not correct. This is rather part of the puzzle, which is quite tricky. My crane also got stuck several times, but in the end i solved this puzzle. Of course, i don't want to spoiler more... good luck!

you can see the cable of the crane on the left side while the platform is on the right side, if this isn't a bug then cyan has a very unique idea on how cranes operate https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2977523229

[Jabberwalkie Doodlebug]

Originally posted by TheBrad:

To all those who think that the crane being stuck in several places is a bug: This is not correct. This is rather part of the puzzle, which is quite tricky. My crane also got stuck several times, but in the end i solved this puzzle. Of course, i don't want to spoiler more... good luck!

I will just say you are correct. This is not a bug. I too figured it out but I also will not spoil it for others.

[hellphish]

I ended up doing the same thing I think I progressed by breaking the puzzle, not solving it.

[GothPanda]

So, I'm also running into the stuck crane issue, but when I say it's stuck, I mean there is no way to move it whatsoever. It is jammed enough that it won't move in any direction, with any control, from any location. If the teleport to safe location can let me get off the crane, then it should reset things to start over, but I wouldn't think that the crane should be able to completely bind up in all directions.

[Feorun]

Originally posted by spiral organ:

Originally posted by TheBrad:

To all those who think that the crane being stuck in several places is a bug: This is not correct. This is rather part of the puzzle, which is quite tricky. My crane also got stuck several times, but in the end i solved this puzzle. Of course, i don't want to spoiler more... good luck!

you can see the cable of the crane on the left side while the platform is on the right side, if this isn't a bug then cyan has a very unique idea on how cranes operate https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2977523229

yep its bug 1000% lol .. I didnt have crane bug at all, maybe restart game from beginning? its early area..

[jahmenmyst]

Yeah I sent in a ticket for my crane game issue. Spent like 50 minutes trial & error with trying to place the ice block on or in the ice shoot. I'm thinking the crane cables, clamp and block of ice aren't supposed to be moving through/ passing through the solid rock of the mountain.
And Yes, I'm thinking I'll just start a new game to get past this obvious game glitch. Especially since I've seen so many others posted here about this.
I should mention the design graphics and concepts are spectacular!

[Austruck]

Originally posted by jahmenmyst:

Yeah I sent in a ticket for my crane game issue. Spent like 50 minutes trial & error with trying to place the ice block on or in the ice shoot. I'm thinking the crane cables, clamp and block of ice aren't supposed to be moving through/ passing through the solid rock of the mountain.
And Yes, I'm thinking I'll just start a new game to get past this obvious game glitch. Especially since I've seen so many other posts here by others about is it.

Exactly my experience. But some here are saying it's not a glitch. Whaa?

Anybody? Anybody? Bueller? :D Seriously, I spent an hour moving that block "through" the mountain, watching the vertical yellow lines on the Adjunct screen when I couldn't actually see the crane itself... then brought it back toward me enough to see the chains only, with the block supposedly underneath the chains with the clamps, all supposedly embedded in the mountain below.

How is that not a glitch?

[PolygonSlayer]

Originally posted by GothPanda:

So, I'm also running into the stuck crane issue, but when I say it's stuck, I mean there is no way to move it whatsoever. It is jammed enough that it won't move in any direction, with any control, from any location. If the teleport to safe location can let me get off the crane, then it should reset things to start over, but I wouldn't think that the crane should be able to completely bind up in all directions.

This is where I had problems as well. I think everyone is getting confused as which cranes this post is about, I actually think the OP is about the starting rail ones actually which I didn't encounter bugs with myself.
But yeah, the 2nd crane (large circular one with two cabins) I found actually gets stuck easier than not so its almost impossible to avoid it. It gets wedged in place and you can't move it in any direction, extend, raise etc. nothing works, just says blocked constantly... trying from either cabin as well. You get forced to use the "reset to safe place" function to fix it. I eventually did it and past that area now, but yeah.. lots of just carefully moving it bit by bit hoping it doesn't wedge itself, running back and forth between the cabins to check. It doesn't help that you can see so badly what is going on while doing it.. Kind of ruins this puzzle which in itself I can see be quite fun if it didn't bug out so much.

[Austruck]

In my case, it was that very first crane that glitched into the mountain, though I could still move it around. (I could just see the chains dangling down, not the crane arms or ice block.) Once I came back here and saw that it was glitching, I went back in and just, well, moved the crane back up out of the mountain and continued. :) I just feel silly that I spent the better part of an hour thinking that was part of a puzzle, maneuvering the chains-and-embedded-crane-arms around, back and forth, raised and lowered, around the back of the mountain where you can only track it on the Adjunct screen. Duh. :D