Bale is not supported - SOLVED!

[SaltyDragon]

Hi all, I'm currently having problems with the bale round wrappers and round bale stacker saying "this bale is not supported" when I try to operate them (ie. I bale a grass field and I cannot wrap them or pick them up with the Ursus bale collector). I am playing on Marwell Manor Farm in MP with a friend and I have also tried doing it in SP. Yes I have checked I am doing everything properly and it should work but it isn't. Is there a way I can force the game to support it?

Anyway any help or advice is appreciated. Thanks

EDIT: After some tests it seems to only effect any bale that we make with a baling machine. If I buy a bale it can be stacked without issue on a bale collector but when I try to pick up a bale we made with a machine it says "bale is not supported"

[JPSGT40]

Are you sure you do not have any mod installed that messes with bale capacity or size? Some of the bale-related mods out there actually do mess around with this data even though the mod description does not mention it. I'm talking about the physical size of the bales as well as how many liters each bale contains.

If you pick up one of these problem bales with bale spike or bale fork, look in the lower-right corner near the HUD. How many liters does it say the bale has? Should be exactly 4000.

To test for size, place a store-bought round bale next to one of your problem bales. Do they look exactly the same?

[SaltyDragon]

Originally posted by JPSGT40:

Are you sure you do not have any mod installed that messes with bale capacity or size? Some of the bale-related mods out there actually do mess around with this data even though the mod description does not mention it. I'm talking about the physical size of the bales as well as how many liters each bale contains.

If you pick up one of these problem bales with bale spike or bale fork, look in the lower-right corner near the HUD. How many liters does it say the bale has? Should be exactly 4000.

To test for size, place a store-bought round bale next to one of your problem bales. Do they look exactly the same?

Ah ok, it does say exactly 4000 and its a grass bale symbol, but ill compare the size to a store one. If it is a bale related mod causing it is there a way to fix it without losing all the bales? If not ill just buy the BGA, sell them and uninstall the mod that is causing it.

Also do you know which mods may do this (examples)? I have a lot of mods, but I think I only have trailer and technology type mods that have to do with bales. Thnxs

[JPSGT40]

Are you using the official Giants mod Ursus Z586 wrapper and Ursus T127 trailer? If so, we can rule those out as the problem.

I know people have been reporting problems with the Marwell Manor map, and the author did post some interim workarounds. It's interesting that a different problem with bales is mentioned. maybe you are the first to discover this particular problem with round bales. Maybe square bales are OK?

See Giants forum thread: Marwell Manor V1.1 update[forum.giants-software.com]

Being a mulitplayer situation, I don't believe there could be any easy fix. Selling the bales just to purge them from the game would be the easiest/fastest. But how to prevent future recourence?

[SaltyDragon]

Originally posted by JPSGT40:

Are you using the official Giants mod Ursus Z586 wrapper and Ursus T127 trailer? If so, we can rule those out as the problem.

I know people have been reporting problems with the Marwell Manor map, and the author did post some interim workarounds. It's interesting that a different problem with bales is mentioned. maybe you are the first to discover this particular problem with round bales. Maybe square bales are OK?

See Giants forum thread: Marwell Manor V1.1 update[forum.giants-software.com]

Being a mulitplayer situation, I don't believe there could be any easy fix. Selling the bales just to purge them from the game would be the easiest/fastest. But how to prevent future recourence?

Yes I am using them 2 mods. I also found out that if I disable all the mods on the save the bales will disappear, so it might be a bale related mod (maybe an auto stacking trailer or something like that?).

I will try baling and wrapping a grass bale on a vanilla map and see if that does the same thing, then we can see if its a map related issue or not. I will test with a square baler too to see if that is different. Thnx for the advice

EDIT: I can confirm that the size of a store purchased hay bale is smaller than the custom machine wrapped bale, but it still has 4000L. I know this must be from an early mod I installed because I remember the bale glitching outside of the baler itself a week or so ago

[SaltyDragon]

Problem fixed! It was the John Deere 568 baler causing the bales to be so big and have a different texture, hence the incompatibility with the other machines. Huge thanks for trying to help, I highly appreciate it!!

[gordoIsMyName]

i cannot believe i found this thread! lol. SAME issue. i kept getting bales coming out 1.8 and not 1.3 "standard".

i removed the JD 568 and it all went back to normal.

what a mess to track this one down. thanks for posting this!