Stardew Valley Multiplayer Beta: Known Issues & Fixes

1. when opening chat while walking, character will continue walking in direction last pressed. it's actually kind of handy at times, but i'm not sure if it's an intentional choice.

2. when i (the host) followed after my friend into the mines (joined player), all of the monsters were gone, random rocks were lying around, and the stairs were revealed. i assumed i was just following in her destructive wake, but it occurred to me it might've been a glitch, so i thought i'd share.

3. again in the mines, i had unlocked the quest for "reach level 40 in the mines" before i had even entered the mines because the other player had gotten that far. it might just be a shared achievement, but other achievements (kill x number of slimes) did not seem to be shared. again, perhaps this is intentional? it just struck me as odd that some story-based quests were shared between players, and others were not.

4. players share a museum collection but have separate collection reward tiers? player 2 and i both collected the 30 cauliflower seed reward after we each submitted different items to surpass the reward threshold. it seems to me that eventually with this system players would be unable to obtain higher-tier rewards due to running out of items to donate, so i'm a little more sure with this one that it's not supposed to happen.

 

I have also run into an issue where my frame rate almost dies while i am on my farm, anywhere else the frame rate is fine and i can move normally. It first started on a rain day with lots of lightning, i could tell something was up because moving to and from my farm started getting slower, and when lightning struck it took a few seconds for the flash of light to subside. After sleeping, the issue was resolved for most of the next day, but i started running into the same problem around 6:00pm the next day. On the third day i chopped down my trash compactors and brutally murdered about 90% of the slimes that were free roaming on the farm for good measure. On the third day, the same thing happened, at exactly 6:00PM in game, frame rate completely died on the farm. it was nearly impossible to get back to safety of my house. The issue started for me on summer of the 3rd year, 19th day. If only the doctor would save me from the time vortex surrounding my farm.

 

In gunther's muesum, Just moving an object will re-trigger the "Player" donated "item" message, in the chat. Also after donating, being the connected player, I'm not seeing the item descriptions.

 

Heya I noticed a bug where all of my eggs come out as regular mayo. Duck eggs and void eggs only come out as regular mayo. I haven't been able to make void mayo or duck mayo since the beta. I continued on an old save that I've had instead of creating a new save file, I don't know if that makes a difference.

 

Having a lot of fun with the multiplayer add on! Thank you for all the work! Here are the things we saw:

After playing for a few in game days, lag occurs on farm around the afternoon into night time. Doesn't lag anywhere else, only on farm.

Game crashed when one person is sleeping and the other person passed out at 2AM on farm.

Sometimes game exits due to host computer randomly trying to sync data on Steam.

Not sure if this is a new feature, but there are no treasure chests in the mine besides the skull key.

When one player enters an area where another player is fishing, that player will see a fishing lure fly across their screen upon entering the area.

 

Hello! My friend and i are having trouble connecting. I try to send invites via steam or code but we get "connection failed" and "no free slots available". Any way to fix that? Thanks
edit: since its just me and the friend theres only one farmhand house. I read on a separate thread that it could be some glitch with a random game created player taking up the house.

 

Running a 3 player set up, me as the host. Game will freeze and drop frames extremely, lagging very hard when evening falls and players return to the farm. Game will run smoothly throughout all areas in morning or afternoon and work in areas that are not the farm in the evening. Once players are at the farm, they can hardly move or control anything. Even if some or all are able to get in their houses and go to sleep, the game will crash and not save for the night. To correlate with others here, this occurs when we build the recycling machine. Though the machine works fine in the morning and afternoon, every time we build it, the same problems happen in the evening. I have attached the two crash reports to this. Another weird problem is during this time, we noticed that our funds would slowly drop. We went from approximately 2900 gold to 1340 during the lag spike and crashing.

 

Willy Model While Fishing Glitch: https://imgur.com/gallery/V1mhJjv

Another Glitch: One can regenerate energy at an exponential rate while waiting in bed for others to go to sleep

 

I posted this issue: https://community.playstarbound.com/threads/serious-framerate-drop-no-easy-fix.143021/

 

In the mines, a couple of issues with sword breakable objects:

1. On floors where there is no grass/can't be grass (such as floors in the 60s range), swinging your sword will produce the same effect as though you swung through grass, including dropping fiber/mixed seeds, although the grass is not visible nor can it be collided with.

2. Rapid sword swinging in front of a wooden crate/cask/whatever the sword breakable loot boxes are called in the mines can sometimes cause the game to register it as having broken two (or possibly more) wood things, dropping extra loot. Seems like the server doesn't register the crate as being broken fast enough, and allows the player to break it if they swing again before it is registered as broken. Basically doubles the loot you get from breaking those boxes.

 

So this is something that probably cannot be changed but as it is, It is very difficult for a player without a great connection or computer to host or join a game.
While I realize this is not really a thing that could be changed I decided to mention it just on the off chance I am wrong.
I also know that this is a beta and things will most likely get better with time I am just mentioning it.

 

A green slime poisoned the main character and the poison did not time out, main character went to rest in bed and poison reverted.

 

• (Need More Details) Frame rate drop on farm in evening (some have reported removing the recycling machine helps)

- My boyfriend and I experienced this bug starting towards the end of Spring (6 PM on the dot, and we'd already had the recycling machines up for a couple of days before that) and removing the recycling machine completely did in fact fix it, but we've had previous problems before where it would rain and instead of it lagging at 6pm, it would just lag from the start of the day. We still had the recycling machines up at the time, but it's kind of hard to test whether removing them will still fix it when it rains.

- Another bug I've experienced are the white crawlies that turn blue/green when they transform. Instead of them being invincible to damage WHILE they're transforming, I've noticed that once they're in the animation of crawling away to transform, they become invincible until they transform.

- Sometimes in the mines, if my partner is there with me, we will hear the buzzing sound of the flies even if there are none on the floor or none approaching. It also happens sometimes after we've killed a fly. This never happens when I'm in the mines alone.

 

More bugs from the co-op player perspective, me and my partner play exclusively at the same time so only so many world state desyncs occurred, but one major one that happened was when they completed the quest for access to the adventure guild and still could not enter the actual building, still seeing the "prove yourself" note on the door.

 

Game crashed when going to bed after acquiring some item, though I don't know exactly which one. It happened twice. One night, I had several things in my inventory:
Trilobite
Herring
Silver herring
Sardine
Gold Halibut
(other assorted things that I've had before)

After replaying the day, I had the same items, but I sold everything but the sardine and trilobite. I put the trilobite and sardine in a chest before going to sleep, but it still crashed.

 

my friend's having an issue where as if we put stuff in the bin to sell his mouse freezes at night when the moneys being counted up, this happens if his host or if he joins my game, also when we go to festivals it takes both of us to start the festival but only 1 person gets in, The other is stuck in an empty town and then when he is needed at the end he has to leave game in order for me to leave the festival which is a headache.

 

Couple of things i found in both a new game and a saved game on yr3

1. If your moving the character and click on say a shop counter, travelling merchant or the bundles, you can still hear the character running. Its stop when you exit out of those menu and it doesn't happen if you stop pressing the direction buttons first and then clicking on the shop counter or bundle.

2. Nothing happens when i speak to the free coffee merchant at the new night market. He talks to me and sometimes my screen flickers black (as quick as you can blink). Nothing appears in my inventory or no buffs. I may just be doing something wrong.

3. The roster/frog/creepy noise in the morning. Use to happen before the day would start after each save and before you woke up in your house. Now my character has been out of bed and checking the TV before the sounds happened

Hope this helps

 

Did the host restart after removing the machines?

 

My slay 10 slimes quest disappeared after few crashes. Now i cannot enter adventure guild ("proven adventure only" text appeared when i try to enter) because i haven't complete that quest. | FYI : i play as a farmhand

 

• When engaging in conversation with Pelican Town citizens in co-op mode (as a visitor to a server), their photos do not appear. Rather, only their name and a colon are present in a single large block with their dialogue.
• When another person on your server donates to the museum, it does not update the hover description on the item you have in your inventory. (ex: Quartz donated by the host. When I hover over quartz in my inventory, it still tells me that "Gunther can tell you more about this item if you donate it to the museum")
• Level 20 chest disappeared after opening, taking the steel smallsword with it.