Resolved Back items don't give proper status effects

Whenever I travel to an airless area (Be it a moon or asteroid field) the APG does not produce the field of air like it's supposed to. Anyone else have that happen?

 

Hey there,
As saturios said, this is a known issue with that particular item. The current workaround is to make yourself an admin (/admin 1) then spawn a different air tank (/spawnitem spaceairtankback) so you can continue to explore.

I'll leave this thread open since this particular issue hasn't been fixed yet and there's not currently an open thread for it.

 

spaceairtankback doesn't seem to work (anymore) either
or really much of anything that would give you a buffer... type. effect thingie.

also, just /admin is enough to toggle it on or off... saying /admin 1 and then again /admin 1 does the same thing as just /admin, twice

 

Just confirmed this. I took a look in the assets (non-exhaustive, just checked a few) and it appears that items that normally allow you to breathe have had their status effects stripped from the item. I assume this is part of the status effect system overhaul, I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Yes, this has been the case for a while, I had understood that there may have been a plan to change the syntax to this (don't recall where I read that), so I've been giving this out to try to be "forward-compatible", so to speak. I could be wrong about that though, it may not change. Either way it works fine so I didn't worry about it.

 

I actually just spawned it in recently and it worked on the moon base mission. Should be noted of course that the air generator probably isn't working because the lunar base is still not finished, there doesn't seem to be any objectives and the purple crystals still turn into generic crystal blocks instead of whatever they're suppose to be.

 

did you check if you had /admin toggled off? that seems to allow you to breathe even under lava xD
i hope this really works now. will confirm it in a moment, if my internet holds ^^ (it didn't hold)

edit: unfortunately, as of the latest update (i just updated it 20 mins ago), neither back units work.
the only way they worked was by keeping /admin on at all times (with or without the units.. the command works by itself, of course.) - seconds after the player deactivates the mode, the character begins to asphyxiate >.<

edit2: asteroid fields are instant death zones for me if i'm not in admin mode. >.< in which case i'm just stuck at the very bottom of the map, without any actual asteroids. i wonder if this was fixed in today's update o.o will report back on that

 

Just to add to this, I have made a torch on a stick and that does not seem to be working either. It seems like nothing worn on the back will work. I tried the same work around for the air pocket generator with the back torch and it did not seem to work, it is possible that I did not type in right name for the item. This is the command I used

/spawnitem torchonstickback

Anyone happen to know the proper name to use for the item?

Thanks a lot in advanced!!

 

torchonstickback is giving me a perfectly generic item... the right item name is lanternstickback
and i can confirm, it's not giving off any light for me either.
hasn't for a while, actually xD i reported it a while ago as well -- i think. unless i forgot to?

 

Thanks a lot for the reply, I have just been sticking to torches as everything I tried doesn't work. Ah well, it is a minor inconvenience at worst. I hope your day is going well!

 

yep, just noticed the same with the lanternstick.
Thought that the backslot is broken and not the items themself

 

Renamed thread to make it cover all back items that would normally have a status effect of some kind (the issues with the Air Pocket Generator and the Lantern on a Stick are actually the same underlying issue).

 

I really hope the lantern back works now! I can't check in bed now lol. But it was the most useful item ever. Really let me enjoy cave exploring. I hate trying to use candles everywhere lol.

 

No joy here. In the lanternstick.back file, I noticed that the JSON keys seem to have changed slightly from Stable to the current Nightly ("kind" : "glow", "amount" : 1, "color" : [89, 83, 71] --> "stat" : "glow", "amount" : 0.4). Was this intentional?

Edit: Tested by spawning and equipping a brand new lanternstickback in the Nightly build. Also, I haven't seen an update through Steam for tonight yet, so it's possible that the build hasn't yet been pushed through.

 

The Lantern Stick appears to have been fixed in tonight's Nightly build. Tested by spawning a new lanternstickback item and equipping it. The Air Pocket Generator seems to still be having issues at the moment though.

 

Has anyone been able to test the Air Pocket Generator in the latest Nightly build? (Seems that it's now a tech called a Nanosuit, so see if you can get it via the quest instead of spawning one in.)

 

I would test but I can't find coffee beans in Forest that quest person asked me to make a mug of coffee for him/her!

I don't know if coffee bean is available on forest planet or I have to use admin spawnitem then?

 

I just heard from another user in a different thread (can't find it right this second) that they found coffee beans on a forest planet. You can always just spawn it in too (liquidcoffee, then glasscoffeemug, then steelspoon).

Edit: http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/coffee.86137/#post-2296271

 

Lantern stick seems working now