Stardew Valley Multiplayer Beta: Known Issues & Fixes

Hello. My friend and i both opted into the beta and have been playing a couple days. Yesterday we stopped at one point, but when we came back i had been forcefully opted out of the beta and told the access code was invalid. My save files were broken or sonething and i was forced to delete them because any time i opened them my game would crash. I love this game and would love to keep up with the beta but i cant seem to figure out how to opt back in. Does anyone know what to do?

 

I spy two Willy's. This screenshot was taken during version 1.3.6 or 1.3.7 with me hosting one other client. Zemmy was at the beach and I was just heading there to meet her. If I may be so bold to suggest adding a beta version watermark onscreen during this open beta. It may help you guys out in the future.

 

Anniversary gifts have reached the limit per week but do not reset.

 

Me too, not a serious bug but I'd love to have it fixed. Bumping this.

 

Hello! Love the game, opted into the beta. Was doing inventory and moving/making a lot of chests. I hit one of my chests and it came up. I thought it was weird because I thought had items in it. I tried hitting another chest that I knew had items in them and the chest didn't come up. Later I realized I had no ores/stones/minerals and the chest I had hit earlier had all of them. Can't seem to replicate it, but I know they were in that chest.

 

Are you running SMAPI? If you are, what mods are you running?

 

When I tried out the beta, I found a minor glitch/lag. When I went to the secret forest, I noticed that the slimes weren't jumping. They were just walking up to me and attempting to jump, but only moving an inch. This happened again on the next day, though I am not aware if that problem occurs to slimes in mines.

 

alright, got a little nervous about my post being drowned in the sea of other bug posts haha.
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I crashed as soon as my friend named the horse we got while i was going to the spa for the train was there..luckily it was still in the early morning so not alot was lost.
(crashlog attached)

other bugs me and my friend discovered today..

In summer, fall, the host's player sounds such as chopping down a tree, tilling the ground, are not played, and confirmed the sounds are not played by connected players aswell, connected players still hear their own sounds, just not the host's. If the host leaves the farm, the sounds are back, if going back to said farm, sounds gets muted again. Has a chance of un-muting if a connected player is chopping/tilling/breaking stones, all the sound effects gets played at once or a sound from a falling free (jumpscare!) and the host can hear those effects again..until leaving and coming back to the farm which triggers the glitch again.

Cherry bombs won't go off in the Skull Cavern

Both players can see the message "(cow/goatname) has no milk right now" when any player interacts with the animal.

Connected player crashed when game gets an update, host does not crash however.

Recent update caused my friend's fridge to get completely wiped of its contents (cake, corn, tortilla, etc.)

There is a bug with an upgradable watering can and near a pond in the farm (forest farm if that helps) when holding button down for extention, does not work near a pond. e.i: https://i.gyazo.com/c8259a5c3bad7164051968c91a4c9704.gif

Connected players cannot see the "A train is passing through stardew valley" message, only the host can.

Weird walking animation glitch in Stardew Fair: https://i.gyazo.com/29bb7ac8cf9fb058eab896adb0c81c37.gif
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I will edit this post each time i get another list of bugs.
edit 1. i almost forgot 2 more bugs! curse you exhaustion!
edit.2 uh...wow i confused myself. i gotta sleep now...
My friend and i were fishing and at one point his sprite was stuck in this position until he caught 3-4 more fish: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/327390829607911424/442079468081643521/unknown.png

Cat out of bounds...i have honestly have no idea what causes this, had it several times already but its hilarious neverless. https://media.discordapp.net/attach...160691257354/unknown.png?width=400&height=263

 

NEver mind I know what I did wrong, they are too close to my sprinklers... my bad

 

If you disconnect once in a while, I recommend that you are careful when you upgrade a tool. I disconnected on the same day that I started upgrading my pickaxe. The result led to my pickaxe being 'lost' along with the copper bars and money being taken. The pickaxe was not upgraded at all and was put next to my bed. I hope the disconnection can also be fixed since if you don't stay on throughout the day, you lose all of your personal progress like experience and journal quests for that day. It's day 24 of Summer and my farming has never leveled once because I would somehow lose connection each time I try to do farm work. Don't know if this is the same for those that has to leave early but it does feel like a punishment for disconnecting or leaving early when you least expect it.

 

So my husband & I have now played the beta for about 14 hours. These are the issues we've found, in no particular order. Most were found last night.

He doesn't have an option for an invite code, so we've just been using the LAN game option.

There's only 1 item in the chests in the mine. This mostly isn't a problem, but it will be if there's only one Stardrop at the bottom.

All the items that can be donated to the museum say to talk to Gunther even after an item has been donated. This happened for both players and seems to be for every item.

My husband was with me in the mine when we encountered one of the green glowy ghosts. He left and could still see the glow from it on the upper floor of the mine,while walking home, and even on the farm. We're unsure if it disappeared after I killed the ghost, or after I left the mine.

We encountered a cave insect while together in the mine & killed it, but the buzzing didn't stop until we had both left the level.

All my husband caught in the mine lake at level 20 in the mine last night was trash items (broken glasses, broken cd, trash)

At one point a couple of days ago, my husband's character wasn't animating properly on my screen. It just glided around holding whatever item was in his hand at the time. It didn't cause any issues and eventually fixed itself. It hasn't happened again and we never did figure out what triggered it or what stopped it. It lasted several game days.

We had one crash while playing last night. He (host) went down the ladder in the mine and I went down after him. My game crashed. I appear to have not lost anything because of the crash, we assume because I'm not the host.

We haven't had any lag issues, maybe because it's just 2 of us playing instead of 4 people, although we haven't tried using a recycling bin yet, we do have a lot of torches.

There is one issue that isn't specific to the multi-player or beta, which is that the salmonberries are really hard for my colour blind husband to see. We only just got to summer in our game, so I'm not sure about any other colour issues at this time.

I can see the craft room bundles as non-host, but can't look at any others.

We had this issue as well

And this one.

Also unsure if it's a bug or a feature, once in awhile we got different luck.

 

i'm haviing a similar problem. i didn't get any message telling me the jumpingjunimos code was invalid, but even after i re-entered the code, my game doesn't seem to be updating back to version 1.3. the co-op button option is gone and my save file specifically for the co-op testing is glitched out, presumably because the earlier version doesn't know how to react to it.

 

Hey there, just created the account to report this that i think is bug.
In my save file i'm dating Haley, Emily, Abgail, Shane, Leah, Elliott, Maru, Sebastian and Harvey, when i load it using the 1.3 beta everyone of them are single now.

 

Were the sprinklers next to them there the whole time? Those would effect the growth anyways since you have to keep the tiles near them clear when growing, not really a bug.

 

Yea I just figured that out as you posted that, lol

I don't usually keep my sprinklers in that arrangement

 

okay!! sorry to post/reply again so soon, but i found a fix that worked for me. this is, of course, assuming you can get the code to work, seventhtrial.

after i put the beta code in, i MANUALLY opted out of my own accord, then opted back in again. that seemed to wake it up and queue the most recent patch, and i was able to load my co-op file with no problem.

 

Visual bugs for The candles on grandpa's shrine and organizing colored chests still haven't been addressed. It's not game breaking, but still bugs.

The candles don't have flames

And the colored chest icon next to the color selector changes to a sign and something else when the organize button is pressed.

 

Experienced three issues two being a bug while another is simply a problem with balancing with the multiplayer.

First, I gave my watering can to my partner so they could use both without having to refill and then went to the mines. When my character woke up the next day I got a letter stating some of my tools were found and returned to me. I was sent my watering can back, but my partner still had the other one. This actually happened twice (though circumstances are a little unclear on the 2nd time) and we now have 4 watering cans between two players.

Second, this involves the chests in the mines. We have gotten chests every ten levels as one normally does - however only one person in the game has been able to loot them. As a result only one of us got the star-drop fruit, as well as only one of us getting the obsidian sword etc.

Lastly, while exploring the caves etc only the host will see the messages/alerts/"weather" changes when something happens. For example a monster swarm - as the non-host I am completely oblivious to them until I start being overrun with bats etc.

 

My game crashed about 2 times while streaming (so I managed to catch some clips) https://goo.gl/PdnHQL
https://goo.gl/btTbQs


It also looked like certain achievements don't replicate for all players in menu: museum donations/artifacts, Community center, etc. So your teammate may turn in something, but you only see what you've turned in on your own menu.
I want to emphasize that this multiplayer beta has been a blast and exceeded my expectations! thanks Eric & Chuckfish!

 

I'm unable to move/take out this dresser from the cabins.
It's taken the place of the old stationary fireplace.