Stardew Valley Multiplayer Beta: Known Issues & Fixes

Summary of issue: the quest 'Initiation' can not be completed correctly.

Expected Behavior: slay 10 slimes to complete the quest 'Initiation' and become adventurer guild member.

Actual Behavior: slay slimes cannot complete the quest 'Initiation', 10 rock crabs should be slain instead.

 

Issue:game doesn't remember settings.

Every time I start the game it'll always revert back to 1440 x 900 resolution (which isn't my resolution) but even though it says it's running in this resolution it'll look way smaller.

Configuring the game how I want (2560 x 1440 Fullscreen borderless) and then making the options file in %appdata% read only makes the game crash starting up.

 

Issue #3: Bugged Fall Fair mini-games

When I went to play the fishing mini-game, the screen loaded like normal; except that I couldn't move my character, there was a second cursor on the screen, and when I tried to cast my pole it couldn't complete the action. There was no lag, the timer was still counting down; but I couldn't do anything, couldn't even pause. I let the time run out, but nothing happened; the game wouldn't end and I was stuck on the mini-game screen (there wasn't even an audio cue for casting or signalling time was up).

I force-quit and reopened the game, and decided to try the sling-shot game. There was a second cursor with this one as well, but otherwise it worked normally. I then went back to the fishing game, it bugged out again.

I also tried adjusting the settings (first time I was playing in windowed, tried switching to full-screen for the second time), no luck.



NOTE (it might be worth mentioning that with all three of these issues, even while playing full-screen, I had other programs/browser windows open in the background)

 

When i was fishing and my friend triggered the community center cutscene, i was ported there, but my friend saw a fishing line stretching to my fishing spot until I went there and fished again.

If my friend goes to sleep with the watering can in their inventory, I get another one in the morning. We have five watering cans now.

If my friend completes a bundle, the bundle doesn't show as completed from the display in my inventory.

 

I was playing the arcade game (the one on the left where you are a cowboy and shoot the goblins) when my friend went to sleep and advanced the night. He was the host and I was not. I may have passed out due to the time of night but I'm not certain. Status for advancing the night to day was 1/2. This did quit me from the arcade machine and gave me a fee for being exhausted and passing out. The arcade music also never stopped playing and I had the regular soundtrack playing with a second permanent arcade track. If I tried to play the arcade machine I got a third song playing over the first arcade song+normal song. Trying to change the jukebox soundtrack didn't help either. It was day 3 into day 4 of spring that this happened. Exiting to desktop fixed the bug. I'm not sure if exiting to title would have fixed it since I did not try it. I believe the weather was sunny.

 

Hello everyone !

So, we got some strange crashes, after 6PM, with absolutly no reason
I will try to give as much information as possible.

Kuroa_184844397_70339744 (Host) : I crash around 6PM when i try to enter in Pierre Shop, During this day, my friend buy the second backpack, Maybe it's related?

Kaninchen_185117733_70027792 : Crash around 6.30PM around the Lake in The Mountain.

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About the desync, Everyone had at one time, a huge desync, including clock and interactions in the world
After several attempts, we have understood that it came from torches
I am going to explain :

We put torches all over the farm, and every time I entered the farm area, my ping was suddenly rising, I was passing by from 40ms to 200/400ms in the farm area.
So this causes serious desynchronization about the clock and the interaction around the world,
for exemple : 7PM For me
11AM for the others
So we tried to remove all the machines to recycle and the torches then restart everything, and my ping had become stable in the farm area, and no longer desync.
So we think that dynamic light can cause instability of connection in the host.

And a little theory from a friend :

That this would be due to packet loss, So the connection of the host will try to overcompensate without getting there and make others lagging.

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we hope that it could help you, good luck for the future!
Version : 1.3.8

 

Encountered a few bugs so thought I would report here!

First is I got a bug the other day when doing the quest to get Mayor Lewis' shorts. I picked them up off the floor but they were still there! So I picked them up again and got a second pair. This happened yesterday so it was not on the most recent version of the game but I saw a reddit thread someone just posted where they got the same issue so I thought I would report it anyway in case it was not fixed.

A bug I just now encountered is that on day 9 of winter 1st year, the day after the festival of ice, I walked into both my barn and chicken coop only to find that neither my cows or my chickens ate the fodder I laid out for them yesterday! But despite the fact that they should be hungry, none of the animals were unhappy. I have 3 chickens, 1 void chicken (that just grew up from a baby today) one duck baby and 3 cows.

 

Been playing for a couple days with 1 other player and have noticed a couple issues. Nothing game crashing.

1. I (primary player) first unlocked the community center. My friend (farm hand) had already joined the game with me and was the first to contribute to the community center. Everything looks normal to me, but when he goes into his menu and pulls up the community center he only sees the 'Crafts Room' page and doesn't show anything as being submitted there. He cannot click on the left and right arrows to see the other community center rooms. Unless he is actually inside the community center.

2. We have not tested this with other buildings yet, but the farm hand went into Pierre's shop and opened a door to go into his home, and when I entered the shop after him I could not see any door (opened or closed) to Pierre's home. When I tried to walk through the hallway I was blocked by an invisible force. Other player and NPCs could walk through no problem. I did not check to see if hitting an action button might open an invisible 'door'. When I left and re-entered the building, the door had re appeared and was closed.

3. This did not happen in my multiplayer game, but when I went back into my single player game after switching into beta I went into Marnie's room and grabbed the Mayor's shorts. When I did I got 2 pairs of shorts.

4. I have also experienced chests not appearing in the dungeon, but only when the farm hand gets there first and takes the treasure.

I will edit this post if I can find more clarifying info, or if I find more problems. Please let me know if there are more details I can provide.

 

I played with a friend and I noticed that the museum and the community center for me were reset except when I entered, in fact, in the museum and in the community center. I am the guest, and in practice I only see the first incomplete bundle and I can not know what items have been donated to gunther if not in the community center and in the museum.

 

Issue #1: No chest at any level in mines. Nothing else in the mines seems off at all, the chests just... aren't there. Still get the normal notifications/alerts when doing the quest levels in mines, though.
EDIT: I think the game is registering the mines as already having been completed. I just now realized that going through, all of the bags/minecarts that typically have coal in them are all opened as if I'd picked them up already when I haven't at all. I've also had quite a few floors spawn with ladders to the next floor already available (on both minecart/bag levels as well as regular levels). Haven't hit floor 120 yet, so we'll see what happens with the key once I reach the bottom.

Issue #2: Initiation quest requires rock crabs instead of slimes. Initially, when the quest pops up, it'll say 0/10 Slimes killed. If you kill Slimes, it stays at that number- But once you kill a Rock Crab, it updates to 1/10 Rock Crabs. However, in the flavour text above the actual counter, it still says the normal text of "Kill slimes"

Issue #3: When in single player, I can look through the community bundles no problem via the player menu. However, when in multiplayer, you only get 1 option - the foraging bundles, and even if they're completed, they always show as incomplete. You also can't scroll through to any of the pages for the unlocked bundles.

Possible issue, possible bad luck?: In a 3 player multiplayer game, my friends and I could NOT fish up a ghostfish whatsoever. I had near max fishing, one had mid (6?) and one had low (1-2) fishing. We spent weeks in game fishing on multiple levels of the mines (20, 60, and 100) and caught all the normal fish: Stonefish on 20, Ice Pip on 60, Lava Eel on 100. But out of everything, not once did we ever see a Ghostfish. If it was a small amount of time I'd understand, but I went from trying every other day from the 8th of summer to probably about the 27th of summer with absolutely no luck. The only way we ended up getting one is it dropping from the Ghost enemy in the mines- still, nothing ever fished up.

 

Me and my sister wanted to play today and as soon as I joined the server,
tried via LAN and invite code, my game crashes.

From looking thru the error log, I'm assuming the Junimos from the harvester?
but then again, I could be wrong
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Also we could not demolish or move buildings during multiplayer ovo;
I don't know if that should be considered a thing I should mention but I will anyway

 

Winter Star Festival Issue:
Expected Behavior: All players will receive two reminders of who their secret someone is.
Actual Behavior: When Winter Star Festival invites are initially sent, only the players online receive a notice of who their secret someone is. This resulted in two players who logged in after the initial invite to not receive their 2nd reminder, and ended up not knowing who their secret someone was until they were already at the Winter Star Festival.

LAN Latency for non-host users:
LAN connected users noticed sporadic player teleportation. Host never witnessed any instances of teleportation.

Animal Feeding Behavior Bug:
Expected Behavior: Animals consistently eat their fodder daily.
Chickens would occasionally not eat their fodder placed the previous day. Still happy and laid eggs.

Host Cabin Bug:
Expected Behavior: Floors stay where they are placed in the host's cabin.
Actual Behavior: Floors flipped inside the cabin, and the kitchen floor because the bedroom floor. The kitchen floor became the default checker tile. I was unable to intentionally replicate the bug. It has happened three times. Picture is attached below.

Audio Issues:
Expected Behavior: Players cannot hear what other players are doing in other parts of the map.
Actual Behavior: Players outside of the mines can hear other players inside the mines fighting mobs. Have to exit and re-enter an area to stop the audio from being played.
Suggestion: Have it so players only hear what other players are doing if they're visible.

Hay:
Expected Behavior: Hay collects for one player without any visual indications for others.
Actual Behavior: Regardless of location, other players see when hay is collected as it appears over their heads. This includes while they are in the mines.

Thank you for the hard work!

 

Client crashing after heart event's.
It Is co-op in year 1 i am a client Est 20 ping.
Crashed After Leah's Abigail's and Emily's first heart event's.
I did not get Leah's carving.
Emily's and Leah's second events worked fine.
All logs are the same so i will post only the first.

 

I have more details on the chests; they seem to only appear for the host of the game. The other player is not able to receive chests. I'm not sure whether that is on purpose or not, however I do think it is a bit unfair. I also discovered an issue with the Stardew Valley Fair in fall, where when I try to enter the fishing game in co-op, it will not let me move. It lets me attempt to cast a rod, however it doesn't actually do anything and the character goes back to the idle position with the fishing bar at 0 above its head. I will attach a screenshot as it has happened twice now. Below is what it looks like.

 

When I tried to interact with the chest in the mines that contained a stardrop, which a friend of mine already opened, the chest just disapeared. Is it intentional that only one player gets the stardrop in the mine? Are stardrops that you can buy also only avalable for a single player?

 

Me and my friends found an issue with the community centre in your inventory.
For some reason they can't scroll through all the bundles, only the host can.

 

If obsidian edge used on singing stone after multiple times of producing sound, character will make defense animation, sword would turn red like in battle aswell as Scythe will do same thing, both in same time

 

slimes seem to have a broken attack animation

 

1)my bf managed to finish the introduction quest (finally halfway summer after giving marnie her amarath), he talked to everyone already, but i think it didnt pick up marni. Although it didnt show ???? but just her name.
2)when someone is in a cutscene and the other walks through it, you can see them. The walker doesnt see the one in the cutscene.
3)mine rewards only giving to 1 person.. seems a bit unfair for some things.
4)went to pierre's shop, walked by abigail and started a convo, she asked me about dying her hair. While there came options for me to answer, she walked away. When i answered, she answered and was gone before i clicked the convo away..
edit: 5)my bf couldnt go into the adventure's guild, idk why, he mined more levels down than me. but no experienced adventurer.
6)only one person can "love" the animals, if the other wants to do it, nothing happens. Bit unfair if relationships arent shared. Or are they for animals? chickens and cows still give large stuff tho..
EDIT2: 7)the car nearby the hardwood forest is always out of stock..

not a bug but a wishful thing: option to give more than 1 thing per time to the other player, for example if you are in the mines you dont have a chest to put it in to.. then it's gonna take some time to give 10 stone to clear space.

 

Another bug. I'm hosting a new game with 1 other friend. Entering the Night Market (Winter Event) would crash the host. Other players are able to enter. I was able to go to the beach before it turned 5pm (event starts at that time) and the moment it turned 5, it crashes. Here is the save file on the first day of the event.

Edit : unable to upload the save file. it says "The uploaded file does not have an allowed extension"
Edit 2 : Here are the 3 error logs that I have.

One is me teleporting in using the beach warp totem.
One is me entering as per normal from the entrance of the beach.
One is me entering into the beach early in the morning and just waiting for it to be 5pm where it instantly crashes.