things go crazy when you hook cables

[winged belfry]

tryin to post a video of what i mean

[wind pollen]

Happened to me. I even posted it here.

What I did was uninstalled and then re-install the game. It seems to be fixed the issue. 🤷‍♂️

[winged belfry]

Ill try it.

[vague drift]

My game is also screwed while trying to move from Old Arnold to Rivertown.
Tried saving and loading the game, bought another excavator, and a bigger one, uninstalled and reinstalled the game, but still every time I touch the excavator with a cable It just flies away.
As is I can't finish my move to Rivertown so had to stop playing till some sort of a fix comes out.

[wind pollen]

Okay, I have been using the big excavator to move stuffs - all without an issue. However, I just hook one of cable to Huge Excavator, it went tornado on me. Unfortunately.

[winged belfry]

Its been happening to alit of people since the dlc came out. I know they worked on some glitches involving clipping so im curious if something tweaked the cables when they worked on the other stuff. Its frustrating and hilarious at the same time. I call that video the trommel space program

[analog lily]

after a bit i managed to tame the cables i think i was just lucky

[zenith idol]

Hi @winged belfry , @wind pollen @vague drift @analog lily ! Thanks for opening this bug report. The most important thing is we need to find what happened in game just before the cables started to behave like that. Is it the vehicle transport from another parcel? Please let us know - we need to find a path to reproduce this bug on our end 🙂

[vague drift]

I can make a video in an hour or so.

[winged belfry]

I bought everything from town store and transport it to diamond creek. I was using the 5m cables all weekend no issue. Then i hooked up to conveyor hopper and snapped the cables. Lost one so ordered from the tent. When i hooked to excavator it went flying just like in the video. I reloaded save and started recording. You seen the rest. Talking with other streamers they are having issues since the dlc launch with specifically the 5m cables. I switched to 7m cables after replacing the excavator and no issues @zenith idol

[vague drift]

I think I was using 7m cables and big excavator then switched to the new huge yellow excavator, but same problem.
Even had a save game that started with the excavator flying away out of the bat then respawning.

[winged belfry]

We started nicknaming the 5 m cables "antimatter cables " for the lols

[vague drift]

7m cable edition and at the end of the video the game crashes. I think it does crash every time when I try to hook the cable to the hopper.

https://youtu.be/WSgK0WfWk-4

@zenith idol do you need a copy of the save file?

[winged belfry]

Ive had that one too. Boom disappears or gets detached. And ive crashed 3 times right after my video. Im just happy i was able to switch cables and it works now. Otherwise idk what i would stream tonight

[analog lily]

they seem to be very inconsistent with their stability. I think that it is partially situational.

[zenith idol]

@vague drift - thanks for additional details! First of all, if you have a savefile before the first occurence of this bug it would be super helpful. Please DM it to me for extra tests.
Were you using the cables before the bug happened earlier? Or it was started behaving just like that after the transport from OA to RT?

[zenith idol]

@wind pollen - what do you think made the difference? There's probably a clue there - something made your huge excavator working differently than the big excavator. What was it? Was it different parcel? Transport? Snapped cable? Anything that comes to your mind could be crucial to solve this riddle.

[zenith idol]

@winged belfry - which conveyor belt have you hooked to the cables? The one behind the fence on Diamond Creek?

[winged belfry]

Base game conveyor that i bought for diamond creek

[winged belfry]

i had no issues with the one behind the fence. so far best i can see for pattern is maybe the size of the cable to the size of the equptment, but then in my video you see i had the cable in hand and hooked to trommel and sent it flying, but until you guys are able to figure it out, i have learned that if you sell the glitched cable and get a new one, it works again.

[vague drift]

It started after I've already moved a few bits over from OA to RT. I've placed a few things of the plant then moved some more stuff over then things went crazy and I couldn't do anzthing any more...

Got 3 save games:
1.) Right before the last clean out prior to the move to RT.
2.) The save game I made the recording of.
3.) An autosave at RT which is also buggy , but a bit prior to the video.

[zenith idol]

@winged belfry That would mean that the cables are faulty, not the machines itself. This info might get useful.

[zenith idol]

@vague drift - I could use all of them 🙂

[winged belfry]

The other part was i had to replace the excavator too because when it glitched at the start of the video parts of it were out of sync. I did not try to hook a cable up to it after it went out of sync. I just figured it would cause more issues if i tried it

[vague drift]

I've sent you a message.

[zenith idol]

Has that happened on stream? If so, is there archived recording of it?

[winged belfry]

I actually dont remember if it was on stream or not. I know the video i sent at the start of this thhread was just a recording because you guys like to see what is going on.

[zenith idol]

Ok, we are looking for a longer video to see exactly what happened earlier 🙂