Best way to explain it is to have a long chain of ore lumps, where you use the higher tier for the lower. Then, reverse this process, and you can copy the advanced chip as many times as you want.
#Factory 2F - Autocrafter misbehaves when you don't have all the machines
valid bison
celest saffron
to note the save file in question is at mt4, and has not maxed the factory in the construction firm
tall halo
ah yes, just put an advanced chip in the oven
valid bison
and then you get a bunch of super advanced alloys
tall halo
i think this might fall on the exploit level?
valid bison
exploit level?
tall halo
the level of bugs that are useful exploits
celest saffron
that's assuming you can actually do that, mind
(do you have an advanced chip to put in the oven?)
valid bison
I mean, you could overflow using this bug
If you kept on repeating til you had 256, that could lead to an overflow, breaking the game
celest saffron
well, try it and see if it does
valid bison
my fingers are going to hurt
celest saffron
anyway your game is already broken in the sense that the crafter is trying to use illegal recipes
tall halo
i want to know if the recipes are successful
valid bison
It is not
tall halo
alright good
valid bison
It doesn't allow duplication
But, I have yet to get carpal tunnel from trying to overflow
tall halo
I'm just trying to get a grasp of the severity of this bug
celest saffron
I'm trying to replicate it
valid bison
How do I get a copy of my save
celest saffron
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Fire Sword Studios\The Perfect Tower II\saves
valid bison
where do I copy that string into
celest saffron
any explorer window
valid bison
I play through steam
celest saffron
...explorer is your windows shell
tall halo
I play through steam
windows explorer
celest saffron
tall halo
does it actually take you there properly?
celest saffron
...it shouldn't open you into notepad
do you know how to open a new explorer window?
celest saffron
is that your most recent save?
celest saffron
ah that's interesting
valid bison
?
celest saffron
no boiler, so it can't load the 4th recipe right
tall halo
i thought those might be boiler recipes
celest saffron
yep that's exctly it - no boiler but the crafter assumes you have a full set of machines already
I was able to replicate it once I knew that
so it's not factory tier, it's machine availability
valid bison
Can ya blame me? That thing is well over 700 t1 goods
celest saffron
that might also be why your crafter appears to be freezing up
so rename this bug report to "Factory 2F - Crafter misbehaves when machines are missing"
just removing the boiler from the factory floor is sufficient to replicate
valid bison
Factory 2F - Autocrafter misbehaves when you don't have all the machines
That is insanely quick to replicate
I think, then, you could overflow much easier
Just remove all your machines
celest saffron
with the ingot recipe?
valid bison
yeah, I got like 7 of the bad recipes just by removing the oven
tall halo
we need to change this wording lol
valid bison
I am curious, tho, as to what happens when you overflow
celest saffron
somehow I don't think 255 is going to be the overflow point for this...
tall halo
i would recommend not calling it a dupe because people will get confused i think
what even is duplicating
valid bison
somehow I don't think 255 is going to be the overflow point for this...
what will be?
celest saffron
the number of bad recipes in the crafter's recipe selection
he's right, calling it duplicating makes it sound like we're cloning items
celest saffron
probably the only thing that'll happen is that it'll start changing other preferred recipes
valid bison
and if you remove all of the machines?
tall halo
anything could happen, from nothing to obliteration of the game
valid bison
Alright, who wants to get carpal tunnel
celest saffron
NO
valid bison
hollow geyser
The recipe displayed is the raw prefab before initialization. That means something is probably throwing an exception. Log files would be really nice. 🙏
celest saffron
give me a sec to replicate
recreated by removing boiler, then checking recipes for tier 1 dust in the crafter
tall halo
The recipe displayed is the raw prefab before initialization. That means somethi...
wait the ingots area actually cyan?
hollow geyser
wait the ingots area actually cyan?
It's just a raw UI itemstack component. Neither the icon nor the color are related to anything ingame. (Its like the default text of tooltips being "Meow" before the actual component overwrites it)