Release 169 - Report issues here

[Nibuls]

I tried to dig out an ancient tech fragment from the cave ceiling, i spent 10 minutes to finally get it, and only now i finally realized how it works are, thx . I checked, you were right!

[NerArth]

Something’s wrong with edge climb?

On the 4 block height space, jumping and climbing works (great!)

On the 3 block height, it doesn’t…

BUT:

Clearing the space above, made it work on the 3 block height space too.

[Stretchious]

I thought I would do a quick diff check on the english.json file before I imported into my site (so I can set up any redirects etc). Looking through the changes, there are a few discrepancies, which I will list out below as they appear in the file…

"ITEM_TYPE_ROCK_METAMORPHIC_STONES_WALL_DESCRIPTION"        : "Steps made from metamorphic rock stones. Used for building.",
* Steps description used for Wall block

"ITEM_TYPE_WOOD_LUSH_LEAVES"                                : "Lush foliage",
"ITEM_TYPE_WOOD_EXOTIC_LEAVES"                              : "Exotic foliage",
"ITEM_TYPE_WOOD_WAXY_LEAVES"                                : "Waxy foliage",
* Should be capital F for Foliage

"ITEM_TYPE_CRYSTAL_GLEAM_REFINED_DESCRIPTION"               : "A crystal block, which can be used to craft decorative items.",
* Has taken on the same description as ITEM_TYPE_CRYSTAL_GLEAM_BASE_DESCRIPTION - correct or not?

"ITEM_TYPE_ITEM_MIXTURE_BRICKSEDIMENTARY_DESCRIPTION"       : "A Crafting Ingredient required to make igneous bricks.",
* Should be sedimentary bricks, not igneous bricks

"ITEM_TYPE_ITEM_EXTRACT_FOSSIL_SUBTITLE"                    : "Common Crafting Ingredient",
"ITEM_TYPE_ITEM_EXTRACT_FOSSIL_DESCRIPTION"                 : "Rich minerals extracted from ancient fossils. A key ingredient in advanced Tool crafting.",
"ITEM_TYPE_ITEM_EXTRACT_FOSSIL_SUBTITLE"                    : "Rich minerals extracted from ancient fossils. A key ingredient in advanced Tool crafting.",
"ITEM_TYPE_ITEM_EXTRACT_FOSSIL_DESCRIPTION"                 : "A key Crafting Ingredient for advanced Tools.",
* Same line items, but overwritten with the incorrect information on by the 2nd set

"LEAVES"                                                    : "foliage",
* Should be capital F for Foliage

"ITEM_TYPE_TOOL_SPANNER_AMETHYST_DESCRIPTION"               : "A Spanner made from titanium alloy. It can be used to repair damaged Crafting Machines.",
* Should be "made from amethyst" not titanium alloy

"ITEM_TYPE_TOOL_SPANNER_SAPPHIRE_DESCRIPTION"               : "A Spanner made from emerald. It can be used to repair damaged Crafting Machines.",
* Should be "made from sapphire" not emerald

"ITEM_TYPE_TOOL_HAMMER_RIFT_SUBTITLE"                       : "Rfit Tool",
* "Rift Tool" - actually should be "Hammer Tool" like all the other hammers

"ITEM_TYPE_TOOL_GRAPPLE_DARK_MATTER_DESCRIPTION"            : "A Grappling Tool made from blink. It can be used to traverse across the world.",
* Should be "made from Darkmatter" not from blink

"GUI_SKILLS_COMPASS_UNLOCK_DESCRIPTION"                     : "Unlocks the Compass. Orange s are your Beacons, Green represents your Friends and their Beacons, Grey represents a Settlement, and Brown represents other players.",
* "Orange s are" ?

"GUI_SKILLS_MACHINE_CRAFTING_RECIPES_2_DESCRIPTION"         : "Unlocks the ability to craft common items with a Machine. Recipes can be found in a Machine's Recipe List.",
* Advanced Machine Recipes - Should read "Unlocks the ability to craft advanced items ..."

"GUI_SKILLS_WARP_DISTANCE_1_DESCRIPTION"                    : "Increases the distance you can open a Warp to by ${ATTRIBUTE(Warp Distance)} hops.",
"GUI_SKILLS_WARP_DISTANCE_2_DESCRIPTION"                    : "Increases the distance you can open a Warp to by ${ATTRIBUTE(Warp Distance)} hops.",
"GUI_SKILLS_WARP_DISTANCE_3_DESCRIPTION"                    : "Increases the distance you can open a Warp to by ${ATTRIBUTE(Warp Distance)} hops.",
* "Warp to by ..." should read "Warp by ..." 

"GUI_ACHIEVEMENT_LEAVES_GATHERED_100_DESCRIPTION_TASK_1"    : "foliage gathered",
"GUI_ACHIEVEMENT_LEAVES_GATHERED_500_DESCRIPTION_TASK_1"    : "foliage gathered",
"GUI_ACHIEVEMENT_LEAVES_GATHERED_1000_DESCRIPTION_TASK_1"   : "foliage gathered",
* Should be capital F for Foliage

… and from what I have seen… the new Sanctum is going to be epic!!

[XxymoxX]

Couple of things I noticed:

1. I have added fuel for a spark several times and I get spark but the achievement always says to add fuel for spark. Never updates.

2. I cannot make glue it keeps saying I am Missing basic skill receipt but I believe I have that skill bought.

3. I have added fuel to a beacon and it partially fills. I add more and nothing happens.

4. A couple of times I have added items to a crafting table only to have it say I could not do so. No I was not adding to the output area.

[knightsb]

I’ve just noticed that creeping up on Roadrunners doesn’t really work anymore. I would creep, but before it is within range it would run, as if I never used creeped at all. I am using a Gold sling atm.

[vdragon]

@NerArth

The social menu lacks a hotkey, and there is no option to configure one in the controls menu.

That’s more of a suggestion than an issue, but your feedback will be noted nonetheless.

@Dekina

As soon as I leave Sanctum I get the Unstable Connection error, every 10-15 seconds. While being close to anything I can interact with, like Furnace, it speeds up to every 3-5 seconds. The error is displayed for a max of 6 seconds, most of the time it is about 1-2 seconds.

What is your Chunk Download Rate and Chunk Cache Size like? Try lowering them to see if they make a difference as explained in the link below:

Engine: Fixing lag with "Chunk Download Rate"

The Chunk Download Rate option limits the number of chunks the game will attempt to download from the server. If the client attempts to download more chunks than your connection bandwidth can support then the game may start to lag. This will often happen when you’re in areas that contain many portals. The Chunk Cache Size (in MB) option limits the size of the chunks cached locally. The more chunks the client can cache the less chunks it will need to re-download from the server when entering wor…

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@NerArth

Sometimes when breaking rock blocks, specifically meta, sedi and igneous rock, there isn’t a breaking animation, the block just vanishes. This doesn’t happen all the time, but I haven’t found a way to make it happen every time, so I’m not sure what the cause is. No sound is made for the breaking when this happens.

Were you using any specific tools?

@Lawrey

Edit: [SOLVED] turns out it’s just an incorrect message, I have full inventory when I tried crafting the campfire.
Additional: Dropping item is really hard, it doesn’t work most of the time so I need to repeatedly drag the item out of my inventory.

We have logged a bug for this when it was reported in Testing 168.

@Spoygg

Wrote an extensive report on beacon plot distance limit issue here, it came back with this update

I see that you have a reply for this in the linked topic. As already mentioned, we will be looking at ways to remove the limitation.

@Nibuls

GUI_MAX_OBJECTIVE_REACHED

Thanks for the report, we have logged a bug.

@Nibuls

sound of warp is stuck after it disappears

We had a look at it and found that it can also occur if they fail to open. A bug has been logged.

@Nibuls

Fossil Extract description is too long for price list

We should have a fix for this in the next update.

@Nibuls

in the “set price” tab in request basket, all blocks are painted in one color of item that you want to buy.

The GUI menu will not display every colour for a block, but as long as you have not set a specific item colour, then the Request Basket should accept all requested items of any colour.

@boundmore

The new feature of automatic transfer to sanctum when connection gets bad doesn’t always work right. Normally it puts the avatar in meditation/prayer position and there is a timer allowing to be back in game if connection gets better and before transfer to sanctum is finished.

However, I was thrown to sanctum straight away two times already, without the prayer animation and any timer available. The second time I also got stuck in sanctum’s floor.

We will log a bug, as it shouldn’t send you straight to the Sanctum without the countdown and without clicking on the option to return to the Sanctum quickly. In the meantime, what is your current Chuck Download Rate and Chunk Cache Size set to? Outside of that, have you had the issue occur again since?

@NerArth

On the right hand side, under Forge LakeValley, it says Plantary rank. It should probably say Planetary?

It should indeed. We will log a bug.

@OmniUno

Stairs/slopes badly broken, can’t get up these without jumping:

Does this occur with both running and walking? We are currently looking into this.

@OmniUno

I see there’s a separate thread reporting similar issues with slopes, etc.

Out of interest, which topic is it?

@NerArth

I just noticed now there is some sort of issue with the jump in regards to the behaviour; it should be that we hold down the jump key to go to the maximum height of the jump, but holding down space or not actually makes no difference at all, and this makes it really awkward to make small jumps, in secluded spaces especially.

Basically, if I quickly tap jump, it’s the exact same thing as if I hold down the jump. Quickly tapping should make a much smaller jump.

Sounds like it may be broken. We’ll log a bug.

@NerArth

Something’s wrong with edge climb?

On the 4 block height space, jumping and climbing works (great!)

On the 3 block height, it doesn’t…

BUT:

Clearing the space above, made it work on the 3 block height space too.

We haven’t been able to reproduce this. What Abilities have you currently activated for jumping?

@Stretchious

I thought I would do a quick diff check on the english.json file before I imported into my site (so I can set up any redirects etc). Looking through the changes, there are a few discrepancies, which I will list out below as they appear in the file…

Thanks for checking this, we’ll log a bug.

@XxymoxX

Couple of things I noticed:

I have added fuel for a spark several times and I get spark but the achievement always says to add fuel for spark. Never updates.
I cannot make glue it keeps saying I am Missing basic skill receipt but I believe I have that skill bought.
I have added fuel to a beacon and it partially fills. I add more and nothing happens.
A couple of times I have added items to a crafting table only to have it say I could not do so. No I was not adding to the output area.

1. What’s the name of the Objective and requirement?

2. It’s a bug. It should say that you need more fuel.

3. Can you provide a screenshot showing how much fuel you currently have?

4. Can you elaborate a bit more on this? What items are you adding and what recipes have you unlocked?

@knightsb

I’ve just noticed that creeping up on Roadrunners doesn’t really work anymore. I would creep, but before it is within range it would run, as if I never used creeped at all. I am using a Gold sling atm.

Could you check that your character is creeping in third person view? It might be that creeping is probably broken, so we’ll log a bug.

[Spoygg]

I’ve noticed something about gold hammers etc. E.g. gold hammer, I guess it should have 1 hit chance on rock, but from 1200 max health of rock it gets down to 6, and you need two hits to take it out, that second hit looks like not really needed but have to do it anyway . Can this be error in calculation with max power and max hammer mastery?

[knightsb]

No. I was creeping in first person.

[NerArth]

@vdragon

We haven’t been able to reproduce this. What Abilities have you currently activated for jumping?

All the jumping abilities, and the edge climb. I think that’s 5 skills invested in total. I will edit this once I’ve confirmed in-game when I have the chance.

@vdragon

Were you using any specific tools?

I noticed it with copper hammers only; it hasn’t happened with another tool yet.

[treyvoni]

I can’t load the game for some reason.

edit: image removed as issue was resolved

The game literally worked yesterday. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game and switching between the testing and live servers.

[james]

@treyvoni

The game literally worked yesterday. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game and switching between the testing and live servers.

Please restart Steam. This is likely a glitch in the Steam service. I would hope it starts working again in a few minutes.

[vdragon]

@Spoygg

I’ve noticed something about gold hammers etc. E.g. gold hammer, I guess it should have 1 hit chance on rock, but from 1200 max health of rock it gets down to 6, and you need two hits to take it out, that second hit looks like not really needed but have to do it anyway . Can this be error in calculation with max power and max hammer mastery?

When you said 1 hit chance, do you mean the hammer should have broken the rock block in 1 hit?

@knightsb

No. I was creeping in first person.

There definitely seems to be an issue with creeping up to Roadrunners, so we’ve noted this down.

@NerArth

All the jumping abilities, and the edge climb. I think that’s 5 skills invested in total. I will edit this once I’ve confirmed in-game when I have the chance.

Thanks for the reply, we have reproduced it, so we’ll log a bug.

@NerArth

I noticed it with copper hammers only; it hasn’t happened with another tool yet.

Thanks for the information, we’ll take a look at it again to see if it happens.

[Lawrey]

Suddenly I’m floating on top of the world while mining. Probably caused by sliding on a slope as I’ve been sliding a lot when this happened. Jumping returns me back to the cave but once I hit the ground again, I’ll be floating in the sky.

After a while (I tabbed out of the game), I get kicked back to Sanctum (due to latency) then once I entered the portal, I’m floating again. I returned to Sanctum again (opting to go to Sanctum faster during latency issue notice) and I can see that the portal is now opened on the surface of the planet. Once I entered the portal, I crashed and here I am writing this here.

Log files just in case needed: boundless_log.txt.floating · GitHub

Screenshot of me being a god then literally crashed.

Some more weird moments when this happened. I’m in the void alone with this planet.

[Spoygg]

What I meant is:
Gold hammer sometimes hits rock with ~600 per hit, and sometimes it hits with 1194 exactly, that seems odd, I just thought it might be miscalculated attempt at 1200. If it’s meant to be like that, than all is good.

[treyvoni]

@james

Please restart Steam. This is likely a glitch in the Steam service. I would hope it starts working again in a few minutes.

Reinstalling Steam fixed the issue.

[boundmore]

@james

Actually if this is hitting you often I would be interested to see some screen shots with the debugging information available. So that we can see why it’s happening for you.

recent case

[boundmore]

@vdragon

We will log a bug, as it shouldn’t send you straight to the Sanctum without the countdown and without clicking on the option to return to the Sanctum quickly. In the meantime, what is your current Chuck Download Rate and Chunk Cache Size set to? Outside of that, have you had the issue occur again since?

I haven’t played since until now so I haven’t had it happening to me again. We shall see in next half an hour or so.

My CDR is at medium (4) and CCS is at maximum (2). These are settings I applied after @james posted advice on how to beat rubber banding a while ago. I tried all possible settings there and I believe I have it optimized for my computer and connection. I experience very little rubber banding since (even near lava on distant servers) and my game play have improved. However, on certain days I just get slow network messages and can’t play for several minutes, or there are issues like the current sanctum transfer, and before that I had problems with portal lags etc. - all of them basically issues that a lot of players experienced (as unusual for their normal daily performance).

[vdragon]

@Lawrey

Suddenly I’m floating on top of the world while mining. Probably caused by sliding on a slope as I’ve been sliding a lot when this happened. Jumping returns me back to the cave but once I hit the ground again, I’ll be floating in the sky.

After a while (I tabbed out of the game), I get kicked back to Sanctum (due to latency) then once I entered the portal, I’m floating again. I returned to Sanctum again (opting to go to Sanctum faster during latency issue notice) and I can see that the portal is now opened on the surface of the planet. Once I entered the portal, I crashed and here I am writing this here.

Do you have a crash dump generated about that time?

@Spoygg

What I meant is:
Gold hammer sometimes hits rock with ~600 per hit, and sometimes it hits with 1194 exactly, that seems odd, I just thought it might be miscalculated attempt at 1200. If it’s meant to be like that, than all is good.

Thanks for the clarification. That probably may be intentional, @olliepurkiss can explain more about it.

@boundmore

recent case

Is this continuing a discussion from that topic about rubberbanding?

@boundmore

I haven’t played since until now so I haven’t had it happening to me again. We shall see in next half an hour or so.

My CDR is at medium (4) and CCS is at maximum (2). These are settings I applied after @james posted advice on how to beat rubber banding a while ago. I tried all possible settings there and I believe I have it optimized for my computer and connection. I experience very little rubber banding since (even near lava on distant servers) and my game play have improved. However, on certain days I just get slow network messages and can’t play for several minutes, or there are issues like the current sanctum transfer, and before that I had problems with portal lags etc. - all of them basically issues that a lot of players experienced (as unusual for their normal daily performance).

Thanks for the information, we’ll add this to the database. Let us know if you do encounter the issue again.

[boundmore]

@vdragon

Is this continuing a discussion from that topic about rubberbanding?

it was an answer to @james posting in Release 169: Tweaks, Fixes and Performance!, but I decided to place this answer here to not go too much OT there

[james]

@boundmore

recent case

Thanks.

Please try reducing your “Chunk Download Rate” to “Low” and let us know what effect this has.