Stardew Valley Multiplayer Beta: Known Issues & Fixes

Hey everyone, I noticed you're looking for more information on the "Frame rate drop on farm in evening" issue so having just encountered it I figured I would share what I can.

As people have mentioned, it always happens at exactly 6pm only in the farm section of the map. The CPU load shoots up and the frames tank to around 1-3 fps which definitely impacts on gameplay! Its hard to say what caused it initially, I saw you mentioned the recycling machine but our one was placed and functional for a number of days before the issue occurred.

- It affects all players not just the host and only happens when in the farm section of the map (other players can continue unaware assuming they're not there). The issue then resets on going to sleep until the following day at 6pm.
- The only thing we were doing just before the issue was purchasing the first house upgrade.
- It was on the hilltop map for us, but having looked at other posts it seems to also appear at 3pm and on a number of the maps.
- Started about 7 hours in, around the 18th of summer.

I tried reloading it in single player and smashing the recycling machine and that fixed the issue! so maybe the recycling machine does have something to do with it.

Is it possible to send over a save file or console log to assist in recreating the issue?

 

You don't get 15k gold, it's an achievement for having earned that amount in total. That's not a bug, the achievement has been in game since a long time

 

The flames on the candles after Grandpa's judgement are missing.

 

This is not a bug but a cumulative achievement. It means your farm has accumulated 15,000G in all incomes since the start of the game.

 

That means this number here when you look at your inventory. The TOTAL money you've made while playing. It doesn't say you are awarded that much it says you MADE that much.

your REWARD for that achievement is a new hat sold in the forest.

 

I have more info on "Other player positioning when fishing".
In our playthrough it happens when the host casts a lure in the same time the client comes to the map where host is fishing. Then the host will be shown as positioned wrongly, but the place where the lure is casted stays the same. that means that the line will be drawn across the big distance. After host stops fishing by catching or discarding, everything is good.

Maybe that means that host location is transmitted wrongly while client has a screen transition.

 

you also can hear if another player is using a sword in the mines while you're on the farm

 

• (Need More Details) Frame rate drop on farm in evening

I only started having this issue after I started upgrading my house (I already had the kitchen upgrade). I was returning to the farm late in the evening (Summer 19), barely managed to make it inside the farmhouse before passing out. Everything worked perfectly fine inside the house.

Next day (the house was still being upgraded) everything happened exactly the same, I arrived on the farm past 9pm, it was super slo-mo and the moment I entered the house it went back to normal.

On Summer 21 I decided to stay on the farm all day and see what's going on and if it will continue to happen without an active upgrade. The slo-mo started at exactly 6pm, I couldn't move my character by single pressing my keyboard buttons, I had to hold them to force the character to move. Everything worked fine inside the farmhouse. I went in and out to give it a bit of an on/off solution, but that didn't help.

I'm running the game on macOS High Sierra v 10.13.4

 

The Queen of the Sauce is not the same for all, I (host) will get new recipes on Sunday, my friend will get Stir Fry and on Wednesday he'll get the new recipe.

After closing the game, both my friends lost the recipe for the furnace.

 

Hi!

Firstly,

There's 4 of us, we've been playing for a few days now and have encountered a few bugs. I read the original post with what the developers are looking at, but reading through 87 pages to make sure no one else has reported some of the bugs we've met, I honestly haven't done. (I'd rather be playing Stardew) =D

The two above we've seen. Frame rate. We instantly saw this happening after getting a recycling bin. After a few confused days of random 1fps for all of us, we googled and found others to be suggesting the recycling bins/furnaces. We started by removing the recycling bins and haven't had an issue since then (despite having like 15 furnaces active constantly). We had 2 recycling bins, but now they are just in a box. It seems to be when the item you're recycling is done and shows as "done". It's also only the area in which the bin is station. Any other "screen" is fine.

Regarding the fishing. I'm the host. If I'm fishing, my fishing line would be across the map for the other players, no matter where on the map they are. It's not constant, just sometimes. It seemed to mostly happen if they were walking out of a house/building and I'd throw a line at the same time.
During the Stardew Valley Fair, we did the fishing event for stardrops and when we were all in there at the same time, we saw each others fishing lines, water splashes and I as the host had 2 mice on my screen including at random times I got their mice arrows on my screen as well.

Regarding crashing, it's really hard for us to pinpoint as we seem to be crashing quite a lot. We just laugh as it's beta and restart, but there doesn't seem to be a specific thing or event at least that we can pin point that makes us crash. It happens a lot if some of us are on for a while and then the 4th person joins later in the day, then I crash (host).

Other minor bugs we've encountered:
- Bee houses sometimes drop 2x honey right after each other.
- Villagers cloning themselves (Clint during geodes).
- Preserves/furnaces bug out showing something finished, but there's noting to pick up and we have to take the item off the ground and replace it to get it working.
- The Mayor's Shorts quest, when I (host) picked up his purple shorts I could pick up a second pair straight away. None of the other players had duplicates.
- Bombs, sometimes they don't go off. They are thrown, vanish from sight but still go off after a delay.
- Our miner is using the "Savage Ring" for speed buff, but when he kills anything with a bomb in the mines he does not get the speed buff, I as the host get it.
- Music, I always have the sound of the mine when in combat. Our miner is killing bugs or flies in the mine and I can hear his bug sounds etc. Chopping trees can be heard across the map as well, but this is not just for me.
- New tools, not sure if this is intended or not. We had people not liking one of the cabins so he kept sleeping in one of the other cabins but because he kept leaving his tools in a chest he spawned a bunch of new tools in every day.
- Duping items, this only happened sometimes but if a player dropped an item, we could all pick it up therefor getting 1 of the item each. Even if it was better weapons or quest item. (We only saw this the first day, so not sure if fixed already).

Will update the post as we find more bugs!

- Seb, Ward, Nathan & Alli!

EDIT:
- Farmhands seem to be having some issues with the horse. At least ours are. The horses follows them on their screen, on my (host) it looks like the farmhands are on their horses constantly even when off. But farmhands are saying it's extremely hard to have a horse as it follows them around erratically.
- The night market seem to be a bit buggy for fishing. We couldn't fish at all in the ocean during those two days. we only got trash.

 

Have you seen the posts about removing the recycling bin or furnace?

We had the same fps drop issue, but it completely stopped when we removed the recycling bins

 

So I mentioned this before, how you can place a chest on the porch/balcony of the main house, and after any event, players will spawn on top of that chest (if more than 2 players, the others might spawn to the left of the chest?) which can result in getting stuck. I didn't place the chest back onto the porch after the first time, but it's definitely still placeable there, and probably could cause players to get stuck. Not a crash, but an annoying bug nonetheless.

Also not a crash, but if multiple players attempt to ride a horse at the same time, one player will get on the horse, and the other player will ride an invisible horse, but with their camera locked to the horse. Meaning the first player can ride the horse away, making the second player completely offscreen. It goes back to normal if both players get off the horse, but sometimes I won't be able to ride the horse again until after I leave and reload the area. Also, my second player sometimes says the horse is sliding behind him after he's gotten off it. None of this is game breaking though, but definitely some shenanigans going on with horses. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that we were both able to name the same horse.

 

This is my horse's hat. It tried a few other buildings (like the Clinic and my house) only happened at Pierre's.

Only does it if you are touching the building. If you step back it goes away.

 

Oh yeah, I forgot about this, but I did in fact have a crash during the, I think, early fall festival? The one with the star tokens, where you spin the wheel and play minigames? I was doing the fishing minigame, and then the second player tried to start the slingshot minigame and crashed my game. Crashlog here, but again, we overwrote the save by simply not doing that.

 

Is there a way to get rid of the Coop houses? If I have too many

 

I first tried to make a new save but it crashed the second the intro cutscene ends. It also crashes if i skip it. So i tried to build a new home in my main save and it crashed at the end of the day. I tried this multiple times with restarting, checking and optimizing drivers and now it crashes on bootup from Steam. Great, my plans for tonight is screwed. :I

 

Lag related to the Recycling Machine:
Putting Soggy Newspaper into the machine causes it to create a lightsource. It will continue to create additional light sources in the same spot over and over and over. It keeps doing this till it has finished processing the Soggy Newspaper. It will not produce more lights if you are in a different map.

The best place to see this in action is within the cave. See pictures in the following links.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/sorahjort/screenshot/929308217282374077
http://steamcommunity.com/id/sorahjort/screenshot/929308217282374196

You can see that even the fall off that would normally be on a light isn't there, indicating it is a lot of light sources in a single point.

 

Also apparently no one else is having this problem as well, cool.

 

When i play in coop mode and join someone else on the farm there is a big lag and also i am unable to open chests that i or the host created.

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Found a couple more

1. Grubs become invincible as soon as they start moving away to become invincible (eg. hitting it then suddenly not being able to attack them until they become a cave fly)

2. This. idk why it has a white side but i tried killing slimes but they weren't counting for the quest, i then killed a rock crab and the quest became this