Stardew Valley Multiplayer Beta: Known Issues & Fixes

Having an issue with the Beta Multiplayer. Everything with the MP aspect runs nice and smooth, however running a session for longer than 45 minutes results in a complete Crash to Desktop. I've tested this three times so far. Twice was on the same file, which was a brand new farm I created for my brother and I. The last time was on an existing farm, also with my brother joining. After about 45 minutes, crash.

Also of note, as a few others have said.. consistency with weather reports seems to be off. I'll check weather, and it tells me it's raining the next day. My brother will c heck weather, and it tells him it's sunny.

 

I have a slightly altered window size, and when checking the tv, the first text box is invisible but then reappears after the first comment. I guess it's related to the whole resizing the window affecting visual layouts, but here are screenshots of the smaller window size, and then again from a larger window. (the picture is from a video I took, so the camera viewpoint is the same size)
I play on MacOSX

 

I'm not at home rn, I'll put more details when I'm back, but I tried to install this c++ and my Windows said that it was not compatible with my computer, so it did not word for me.

 

I have gotten 40 levels down the mine and no chests have spawned and neither has coal in the mine carts.

 

My frame rate drops at night on the farm to very low frames. I did have a recycler and removed it and that seemed to fix the problem. My game was in the summer of the first year.

 

Is it intended for there to be a way to unpause the MP after the host does /pause? Nothing is interactable afterwards so I couldn't figure out a way.

 

I also just registered to report this issue. Not sure what caused it, but around day 30, the property of our farm experienced huge frame drops it seems to be a permanent issue, we've restarted a couple times but hasn't worked.

The odd thing is it only affects the outdoors screen of our farm property.. Will remove the recycler in a sec and test it. Would like to add, though, that we've had a recycler for several days now and I've been using it pretty much constantly since I crafted it, but only recently seems to be causing a problem. Wish I had more details

 

Grubs still become invincible once they reach their panic state, well before they actually turn into a cocoon. There are a lot of floors with tons of grubs in it that are a complete nightmare right now, because they'll all start to rush me and I don't have a weapon strong enough to kill them before they panic.

 

Having an issue with the Beta Multiplayer. Can't move or destroy the buildings

 

Any progress on the desynchronization issues that some players are experiencing? For my group of friends, it's made the whole beta unplayable, because any time we try to play with four people, someone (not always the same person, seems to depend on who is hosting) desyncs and can't interact with things like chests, nor can they sleep at night, etc, and it concerns me that I don't even see the issue referenced in the first post despite numerous players reporting similar problems.

 

There is a bug when a player is fishing. Occasionally when one person is fishing in a location, there will be a fishing line across the area that is visible to other players. Like fishing at the river in town, there was a fishing line all the way across town from the north entrance from community center down to the river.


There is a bug with the community center bundles. In single player you can open your inventory menu and scroll through the community center bundle pages without having to visit the center. In the multiplayer beta, this is bugged. It is only displaying one bundle and it won't let you scroll between them. Like only pantry is displayed and you cannot scroll to fish tank or boiler room, etc.


Not sure if intended or not, but the rewards for descending in the mine are only available to 1 player. Is it possible to make this available to every player in the game?


There was a sudden framerate drop while playing, this was only experienced while in the same area as the host. It was unplayable, 1 frame per second. This could be related to the recycling machine.


When smelting ore in the furnaces, there were popups showing it was finished, but the bars were not able to be collected (it kept saying "inventory full" but inventory was not full).


For the quest at the beginning to introduce yourself to all the villagers, there was a bug I experienced when in a game with 2 other players. I am at 26/27 introductions and there is no one left on the villager list with a "???" next to their picture. I am not sure why this is happening. Normally every villager is in the list and the ones you have not met have the "???".

 

This isn't a bug - they've removed that functionality for the moment, as they try to address the issues related to it.

 

I think I found a new bug. After getting level 5 in farming our session crashed during the night. I (the host) was stuck at the "waiting for other player (4/4)" screen while all my players had a CTD. Good news is that even after f4-ing and restarting we still had our progress.

 

It worked for me too! thnks!!

 

I don't know if this is a personal problem or general, but i'm playing long distance (i'm in SA, she's EU) and lag is bad. Sound is fine somewhat, but she can't see my actions until a lot later (i'm the host), like hours in-game later. I can see her actions fine. It wrecks the whole sleeping situation, where we can't sleep before passing out because she doesn't receive my confirmation that am in bed. Also sometimes my loot is doubled, like when axing a tree it drops the wood, then a few hours in-game later it drops again, and it's doubled in my inventory.

 

I was playing with 2 other friends; I am the host. I went to the beach to refill some crabpots after my friend took what was in them. He was fishing as I entered, and we had the glitch where the farmhand's position is different than their actual location. (He was on the lone dock to the bottom right, where you need build the bridge to access. For me it looked like he was on the bridge connecting the two areas. After he caught the fish he shifted to where he actually was.) When I refilled the crab pots, they changed to many different sprites rapidly, and eventually to black bars. I managed to take a gif of what happened with the second crab pot. My friend did not see this at all- It did not look like I refilled it on his screen. Hope this helps!

 

For some odd reason, when fishing near the ocean or by the river I'll occasionally get the cave fly noise that won't go away until I leave the area which is pretty weird. Nobody else can hear it bar me but it hasn't occurred when I'm not fishing

 

I'm having a bug trying to play with 3 friends in which on the second day of the game, if anyone tries to go to the beach to get their fishing rod before the host, the farmhands will crash and not be able to rejoin. The host restarting the game does not fix the problem and the save becomes unplayable.

 

Another bug I encountered ( a rather lucrative one) is that one when one player is creating a building, a different player can buy items even if it puts it below the money to buy the building. For example, having 10k and having one player build a 4k coop. While they are placing the coop, another player can buy something else (like 2 apple trees for 8k total) and having 2k remaining. It will drain the rest of the money when you place the coop, but basically you get to "double" you money to buy anything else you want.

 

I'm so happy this will be gone, but I can also hear the coal monsters, sometimes bats and skeletons when my friends are in the mines. It appears when I'm (host) anywhere on the map, entering buildings resets it and sometimes when they kill them.