Mud Forge broken or hard to figure out? (SOLVED)

[PeelingFlesh]

I built the mud furnace and forge, I've harvested mud bricks for the moulds, but i can't for the life of me figure out how to smelt iron ore, it doesn't come up with a prompt when i drag iron ore near the forge or furnace, its filled up with charcoal, I've tried to put the ore in the forge before and after lighting it too...am i missing something?

[RENM]

You gotta fill it with coal (the upper slot)
The lower slot is for the iron to melt.
Then make sure to set the fire.
Cover with mud so it can get done.


If I've helped you please make sure to set the thread as solved

[Chaos Coyote]

RENM is partly right.

- Build Mud Forge
- Insert Coal at Upper Inserter point (recommend building a charcoal furnace to make bulk charcoal)
- Insert Iron Ore/Empty Can into lower slot

- Make Mud Bricks at Mud Mixer
- 'Harvest' Mud Brick to create blank Mold
- Combine Blank Mold with (tool) and Melted Iron Ore (collected from bottom of forge) to create (tool) Mold
- Return to forge
- Add Charcoal (if needed)
- Insert (tool) Mold at bottom of Forge
- Retrieve [baked] (tool) Mold
- Harvest Mold to receive Metal Tool Part
- Build specific tool for the part you created as if you were making one from stone

Ta-da~ You now have a Metal (Tool)

[Oni]

sometimes it's just not working. I already make some metal tool and it stop working(can't put anything in lower slot) or sometimes host can't use but others can use.
the expensive way i solve this problem is to build a new one and it works for a few times.

[PeelingFlesh]

Yeah unfortunately it was just bugged, i woke up today, got on and knocked down the forge and started over again, it all worked perfectly fine, stopped working after a while but luckily i had everything i wanted made already. Thanks for the help guys :D

[도너츠세개]

I experienced same bug
deconstruct and reconstruct might fix, but it's quite annoying because some of the resource is lost while deconstruct, also time consuming.
this bug needs to be fixed

[German]

Same issue here...even after destroying the first forge and making a new one it happened again....hope this gets patched soon.

[Oni]

i see some of streamers hit it and it work so next time check every hit before it's broken guys lol

[WEREWITCH]

Having the same issue lower port is not working after fire goes out. I tried filling with more coal and lighting it again but the entrance is no longer there. VERY frustrating. I already rebuilt it once because of this issue.

[PeelingFlesh]

The way to quick fix is save game then quit to main menu, reload the game and the bottom port should be available, works for me and i don't have to use resources to rebuild another one :)

[Captain Chaos]

yea but when I play with my friends I have to re-invite them every time the mud forge decides to bug out and not work anymore so just cuz it works for you does not make It a fix at all devs need to address several issues as well as the mud shower not collecting rain water.

[PeelingFlesh]

Originally posted by Thee Millennial you Love to Hate:

yea but when I play with my friends I have to re-invite them every time the mud forge decides to bug out and not work anymore so just cuz it works for you does not make It a fix at all devs need to address several issues as well as the mud shower not collecting rain water.

It worked for me in single player and my post says nothing about multiplayer..