Stardew Valley Multiplayer Beta: Known Issues & Fixes

My game crashes when i try to load or create a save file, and only on the beta. I have went through all of the procedures described on the steam forums (verifying integrity of files, reinstall, reinstalling xna and direct x 9 etc) however none of that works.
When i check my errorlogs folder there is nothing in there.

 

So, friends and I were working on the multiplayer beta, and we stumbled across what seems to be a really really bad bug... Upon entering the museum on the second day of summer, our entire collection was gone. We lost a good chunk of items, but most of it was from geodes at this point... Uh, we just restarted the collection and started back up on it... don't think its a "intended feature" as my friend "suggested".

 

About the time desync...

I've attached the save file from where we left off Wednesday evening.
(Un?)fortunately we didn't have any more desync yesterday, though it was only me (who had the worst before) and the host playing, one of the other two joined later, still no desync, unfortunately the 4th one didn't have time to join us.

However shortly after starting on that save, I went to look at the calendar, cause there was still the ? on that bulletin board and as I was in there, the host went into the village as well and it triggered the first Community Center cutscene. My screen went black behind the calendar and my game then crashed, I have attached the error log for that. Didn't see it in the list on starting post here, so I thought I'd mention it.

 

There seems to be a problem with the time in this game. For cutscenes, time does not pause and time does not pause when both players are in a house. This makes time runs super fast.

 

Im playing with my friends and we a nearly getting no tree saplings from trees or mixed seeds from grass

 

I found a bug yesterday. When you are at the festival and do the fishing challenge you can get a infinite loop. When you are still fishing and the moderator announces:"this is it, we've found a winner" you cant get out, you are stuck while fishing and can't do anything. Had to restart game and wait for my friends to complete the festival. After that i could join and play normal again.

 

It's very difficult to find posts where a bug is already posted. Even with the search function.
So I try my luck and just post it:

1. When I play with my two friends and one of us tries to milk a cow what can't give any milk
the other players get the message too the cow hasn't any milk to give.

2a. When we finish some bundles the symbol of the bundle normally turns into a blooming flower.
It still do this in the community center. But in my inventory when I look into the book the flower isn't blooming.

2b. And I don't know it is a bug, but when one of all players finish a bundle, the other players have to finish it too.
But I'm wondering. It's a coop mode. So why can't one player finish the bundle and everyone else get finished it automatically and can take the reward?

Edit:

3. If you already built some buildings, normally you can go to Robin and move or demolish the buildings. But in multiplayer you can't do anything but building new buildings. Not even the host can do it.

4. Me and my two friends have a dog on our farm. The dog is like a ghost because he moves through every object when he runs. Sometimes he sits on the farm house like a beetle or moves through the static fence around the farm.

5. Everytime or almost everytime I start the game the audio volume sounds like it's on maximum, but the regulator is on the value I set before. My friends have this problem too. It's on singleplayer AND on multiplayer.

 

When using the Shipping Box to sell items while another player was milking cows, it kicked me out of the Shipping Box window when he encountered a cow that had no milk. It popped a message up for me at the box stating "Bessie has no milk" and interrupted my interaction with the shipping box

 

issue #1
item replaced by a bamboo pole after attending fishing contest on festival of ice
After taking part in the fishing contest, the first item in the inventory would be replaced by a bamboo pole, no matter what it was, a tool or a grape or even empty. The original item(if any) would disappear. If it was a iridium axe, the next morning an axe would be send by mayor.

issue #2
gift-giving issue when using existing save
The gifting checkboxes in the social tab should be reset every week, but when using an existing save that player already gave gifts to npc this week, the reseting cannot properly work. As a result player can never gives out any gift.

issue #3
ghostfish is not found

issue #4
(co-op)farmhand updating issue when using existing save
When using existing save to host a game, farmhands cannot update tools or their cabin properly.

issue #5
(co-op)recycling machine and furnace issue
Sometimes the machine produces an empty bubble, right click on the machine and it would say 'inventory full'(in fact not). Ingredients can still be put in the machine and cause it to work forever unless player removes it with a tool.

issue #6
(co-op)chicken issues
Open the coop door to let chicken outside, and they cannot go back at night. Chicken cannot produce eggs in a good mood. Try to sell or move chicken in Marnie's shop would cause game crashing.

issue #7
(co-op)bombs placed by client player cannot explode when the host player is fishing or resting on the bed

 

I was playing prairie king during the day in co-op, and when the time got to 2am, I respawned in the house but the music for the game never stopped playing, it went on even in the main menu.

 

No idea if this counts as a bug,
but no matter where you are on the map, when your friend is on the farm and does things with his scythe, you can still hear it, wich is a bit annoying.

 

The bugs I encountered are regarding the mines:
1) Rewards in chests are only for one player, I dont know if this is intended, but my boyfriend and I mine together, its a little unfair only one gets the stardrop or cool new sword
2) I cant get into the adventures guild house. It tells me its only open for experienced adventurers (or something simmilar) - what I think happened here
When I first went to the mines I got the cutscene for the adventures guild. I received the quests to get to lvl 5 and then lvl 40
I believe my bf unlocked those lvls at some point and I used the elevator instead of reaching it myself. The quest doesnt show up anymore. Im gonna try mining those lvls on my own again to see if that would fix it for now.

 

I am on the latest version and also have this bug (with the same observations, tested it crashing twice). I believe the coop door had been open in my save when it was updated most recently, if that affects things. I played as the client. I think these are the crash logs? (The host has crashed since, but I think that doesn't affect my crash logs so hopefully these are still the correct ones.)

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Some other bugs (that have been mentioned before as well):

- Client cannot see the other bundle rooms in the community center menu (through the ESC button), or even the current updated bundle status, except when physically in the community center.

- Client sometimes receives a new tool if they put a tool into a chest (but not all the time?) This has happened with the scythe and watering can so far. I can only speculate it might have something to do with who made the chest, or where the chest is?

Edit: Other bugs I remembered (same day):

- I also have the bug where all artifacts keep the 'Gunther may know more about this' sort of message on hover, even after turning it in to the museum.

- On one occasion, when I (the client) was in the mines and unlocked level 40 (the ice cave area), the ice cave music began playing in both mine and the host's game. The host was not in the mines at the time. So far, future visits to the mine have not replicated this occurrence.

 

Pam's place of living is still the trailer in the Feast of the Winter Star event even though the community build project has been completed.

 

Crashes on launch


Message: One or more errors occurred.
InnerException: System.InvalidOperationException: There is an error in XML document (0, 0). ---> System.Xml.XmlException: Root element is missing.
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseDocumentContent()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.Read()
at System.Xml.XmlReader.MoveToContent()
at Microsoft.Xml.Serialization.GeneratedAssembly.XmlSerializationReaderStartupPreferences.Read8_StartupPreferences()
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---

 

Hi there! first off my boyfriend and I are having a great time playing. Not sure if this has been reported but I seem to be having a problem where I can only access one page of the community center via the menu (the first one you unlock, crafts room). If I click on the arrows at the top it wont bring me to the other community center bundle groups even though they are unlocked. I also can't see any items within the bundles that have already been donated via the menu. (have to physically go to the community center to check any of these). My boyfriend hosts the farm and he isn't having the problem.

 

Jesus can you please dear god re-enable moving buildings? I've been waiting two fucking days to make my farm the way I want it and I can't. LET ME PLAY THE GAME PLEASE

 

When in co-op if a player does emily's 10 heart event that player spawns in the wall, having the player recconet sets them back in the house, but being stuck in a wall is pretty eh

 

So my Friend bought the 1st backpack and he went into the mine to farm some ores while I stayed at the farm to harvest some crops, while doing so I (the host) got a High ping what happend after was that my friend got kicked out of the game. After he reconnected his backpack upgrade was gone (probably because we did not sleep and the game didnt save?) the problem is the 1st backpack upgrade is no longer available for him at pierres shop only the 2nd one. and another thing we noticed is that he douplicated his tools (maybe its intended?) before he went into the mine he left his watering can in a storage chest (as mentioned he dc'd) and after he rejoined the game he got another watering can in his inventory and the one in the chest was still there.

 

Can confirm this problem. The game froze the moment, I entered the fishing Minigame and used the rod. The timer was still counting, but even after 0:00 the game didn't end and no Keyboard-Inputs were recognized.