Auto Chest Won't Work Properly

[night remnant]

The auto chest do not work properly every new day started. This happen every each of the day in game. The auto chest do not "collect and transfer" the material from auto chest to the attached Artisan Machine. Refer to the attachment, I need to open the auto chest that attached to cheese press everyday to make it working, and the other photo that shown auto chest just stop working even there is a material inside the auto chest.

Game Platform: Steam

Game Version: V1.1-1223

Input Mode: Keyboard and mouse

Save file; refer to attachment.

[subtle hemlock]

Hi there! Thank you for your report. Did you recognize how many in-game days you've played until the Auto-chest doesn't work?
Can you also share your backup folder in a zip file here? To find the folder, you can copy-paste this file path to the File Explorer: %localappdata%\ProjectCoral\Saved\SaveGames\Backup

[night remnant]

this backup contain the Auto Chest Issue in the Shed and Cellar, some backup file already rewrite because of the latest gameplay I had. The latest save backup do not have the auto chest in the shed because I already remove it from the shed. You can find the old backup file from the winter, there is a lot of auto chest issue in the shed and cellar.

[subtle hemlock]

Hello! Thank you for providing the files.
I see! If you happen to be able to replicate the issue, can you let us know the details of when the Auto-chest works, and then how many in-game days you've played including the activities that led to making the Auto-chest not work again?

Our team will need the detailed steps to be able to replicate the issue. If you could provide a video of it, it would be very helpful as well!
In the meantime, I will also relay the Backup files to our team for checking. Thank you!

[dusky plinth]

https://discord.com/channels/623097219628662784/1272975718636191815 (sorry for accidental duplicate, didn't realize this was the report for ALL autochest related stuff)

[tender flame]

to add more details,

auto chest was bugged and yeah. i just lost 999 osmium melon inside it to be processed in keg.

so if the issue still the same. (i haven't been playing the game lately)

• the auto chest couldn't handle a variation of item.
  if i have turnip, potato, milk, cucumber and other stuff. the process will stuck. the auto chest will not collecting the item on example mason jar or keg. and it actually depends on how much artisan you connect to the auto chest and only that amount of stuff can be put inside. in my case, i connect 16 mason jar. so when i tried to process 18 variants. it got stuck.

• the item missing from auto chest
  yup, this is right, it makes people effort wasted. seems like if you only do a single auto chest doesn't make the item gone. but if you connect with other auto chest than its a goodbye.

• the repeat, if you can reprocess item on aging barrel like kimchi it will keep circulating. and you weren't able to take the product put from it.

[wheat thicket]

additional things ive noticed for this one: autochest wont process golden items (milk/eggs)

i can make the autochests start working by entering decorate mode (all of mine are in my shed) and interacting with them, i know other folks have found workarounds as well

[glossy monolith]

My auto chests have not worked since version 1.1-1222. None of the versions since have gotten them to work again. I’ve tried picking them up and placing them again, but they are still not working

[dreamy talon]

I have similar issue with my autochest processing into scrap, like after each sleep it just stop. Need to destroy it with pickaxe and put again, but it is not nice need to do that everyday...

[short crescent]

Do you have to pick up and drop each chest in decor mode?

[cyan stone]

My autochests also stop distributing goods overnight. If I destroy the first one in a line(conveyer) with pickaxe this makes it all works. Happens with both my autochests conveyers with kegs and Mason jars.

[next panther]

as others have described, auto chests will work on the first day i launch the game, but all days after they dont put anything into connected machines, though it does seem they still collect finished products. i've had issues with: keg, mason jar, dehydrator, extractor, furnace, kiln, recycling machine. I gave up on seeing if any others worked.

also worth noting that while i purchased from the lab and am able to craft them, auto chest still seems to be purchasable

[wheat thicket]

oh! right, I'm also seeing that at the lab too
i bought it twice because i couldn't remember if i had already, haha

[knotty marsh]

Hey i have a Question. I have the same Problems, but i noticed that i could buy a blueprint for that Chest again from the Lab, bc it wasnt ticked off. You Guys can buy the Chest a second time too right? Does it "fix" the Bug, or is it just a waste of Money?

[subtle hemlock]

Hello everyone! Thank you for sharing your report here. To help us investigate, could you please provide the following information?

• Do you remember the in-game date and time when you first placed the items in the Auto Chest storage?
• Which Artisan Machines did you connect to the Auto Chest?
• How many in-game days passed after placing the items before they stopped being distributed?
• Could you describe your activities on the day or the day before the Auto Chest stopped working?
• If possible, could you share a video of the issue? It would be especially helpful if the video showed when you placed the items and when the Auto Chest stopped functioning.

Thank you so much for your help!

Additionally, we've also received a report that the items in the Auto Chest storage missing here https://discord.com/channels/623097219628662784/1268835412001161226
Also, about the Auto Chest available in the lab option again after being developed here: https://discord.com/channels/623097219628662784/1266322258431840297

If you experience those issues, it will help us to track them in one thread if you share and follow the updates in their respective thread. Thanks a lot!

[knotty marsh]

Sooo i tried it: i did just running around catching insects and went on a Hangout with Kenny. i can try a few days more bc i experienced with all machines that i connected to the Chest in the Video not just the 2 in the Video

oh and in the morning of the 16. i had the karen mayor election scene... for the 5. time now

[knotty marsh]

and another machine at the evening of the 16.

[tender flame]

i always do it every week on monday. but mine bugged with keg, mason jar & aging barrel.

[subtle hemlock]

Hi Gato! Thank you for adding your report here.
Can you share your save file here too? Also, as for the Karen cutscene issue, we've received a similar report here https://discord.com/channels/623097219628662784/1266090952565592239 Thank you!

[knotty marsh]

oh yeah sure

[subtle hemlock]

Hi Hinoa! Thank you for letting us know about your steps. May I ask, did they get buggy the next day after you placed the items in their storage?

[tender flame]

i only check it weekly. so when i found out everything is stuck only a few still continue processing.

[subtle hemlock]

I see! Thank you for confirming, Hinoa!

[subtle hemlock]

Hi Gato! Thank you for the files. Could you describe your activities in the Spring 15 and Spring 16 too? Do you happen to go to the underwater on those days?

[subtle hemlock]

Oh, can you also share your Backup files here? You can find by copying and pasting this file path to the File Explorer:%localappdata%\ProjectCoral\Saved\SaveGames\Backup

You can compress the folder to zip and send it here. Thank you!

[tender flame]

the last time i checked, this might have something to do with the order of the item that you put inside or might be bugged after the update occurred.

[knotty marsh]

sure here u go

on both Days i went for bug hunting and running errands. Not sure if i did a little trip to farm Osmium Kelp or if that was on another Day on the 17. i unlocked the cave of memories and went there the other days.

[merry karma]

I'm facing the same issue with the auto chest and two recycling machines. It's happening the same way every time. The machine will stop working after both recycling machines complete a run (plus 1 piece) so I will be left with 41 pieces of scraps (same ingame day). Removing everything and placing trash into the auto chest again will not work. I need to remove everything and place it anew. I've been playing through several days of fall and it always happens the same way. Haven't tried with any other setup yet. Restarting the game will not get the auto chest to start working again automatically but when I click on the chest and leave the screen it will start again. So for me the issue is that the auto chest will not feed raw material after the first time.

[next panther]

loaded winter 26
(got the annoying pufferfish mayor cutscene again, lost count)
checked on my watermelon jam, only 1 in the mason jar, but 11 ready to go in the auto chest
closing auto chest put 1 more in the queue
repeated, 1 more in the queue total 3
went to bed

woke up winter 27
mason jar empty, auto chest animation plays
auto chest still has 9 watermelon
this time auto chest doesnt put any in the queue, not matter how many times open/close

and the backups before i did that test

[cyan stone]

Mine I've now seen don't only stop over night, but during the day too. All machines (mason jars, cheese press, aging barrel, keg, bee hive, kiln, furnace, extractor, recyclers, and compost makers) are having the problem. I do also have it for sale in tha lab again. I can't remember the date I first started using them.

[hoary kayak]

My autochests also randomly stop working. The ones connected to my kilns, scrap machine, extractors and dehydrators. The only machines ive not yet had an issue with is the cheese press, loom and mayo machine and theyre on the same loop.

[subtle hemlock]

Hi again folks! Thank you for adding your report here. We still collecting more info to be able to reproduce the issue. Could you add the details based on our question here #1270085763064664084 message? Kindly add your save and backup file here too so our team can take a closer look. Thank you!

[subtle hemlock]

Thanks Gato! We will try to reproduce the Auto Chest issue using your details here.
If you happen to be able to replicate the issue, kindly let us know the update. Thank you!

[subtle hemlock]

Hi Kit! If you happen to be able to replicate the problem, is it possible to share a video of your detailed steps and when the auto chest not working? In the meantime, we will also check your save file. Thank you!

[knotty marsh]

I really can't put my finger on it. I checked the Auto chests when i went diving, some stopped, some worked. I checked if hangout-scene's would cause trouble, again some worked some don't. Next i thought maybe if i select auto sort in the Chest's but nope. I cant say why they arent working, i just can say that the Chest's that always stopped are the one connected to my Kins and my dehydrators, the rest seems to be stopping for a time, but i can always collect the items the next day ( i didnt rly checked if some items vanished in the Chest)

[next panther]

(please dont judge my farm, its a mess XD )

[winter flint]

I cycled different machines on the autochest. Altho it was just one autochest. They all worked just for at most 1 day.
Loading the game doesn't fix it. I need to go back to title screen and load from there to make it work again AND I need to open auto chest to make it start.
Machines I have used Dehydrator, Furnace, Extractor, Recycling Machine, Kiln, and Compost Bin.

[subtle hemlock]

Hi Gato! Thank you for your confirmation. We will try to open your files and replicate the steps.
If you happen to have a video of your detailed in-game activities and when the Auto Chest not working again, kindly keep us updated. Thank you, Gato!

[subtle hemlock]

Thank you, Kit! Do you remember the in-game date when you first placed the Watermelon in the Auto Chest? Your farm is not bad at all as long as you've plenty of money from there, right? 😉

[subtle hemlock]

Hello kuro! Thank you for adding your report here. Do you happen to have a video of the issue? Also, can you send us your save and backup file here too?

[faint jungle]

#1268541216799199243 message Devs are pointing people to this thread because it's a "similar issue" but I haven't seen anyone address offset machines as seen in the linked message. If auto chests were never intended to be used that way then that really sucks but I just want to know either way for sure.

[tropic pasture]

I’m having this issue and I have offset chests as well (one auto chest for four composters has been a great time saver) so I just tried lining them up correctly and it fixed the issue. Guess I’ll need to focus on getting more materials sooner than I planned to now 😭

[faint jungle]

Yeah I just haven't played in a month or two because I don't want to change my setup, especially if it's a bug

[next panther]

unfortunately dont remember the exact date, but probably only a few days. i started just putting only a few things in after hearing about the auto chest eating things for other people (hasnt happened to me, but thought i'd be cautious)

[wary flax]

Adding a +1 to the autochest eating stuff.
I had a stack(999) of gold strawberries in each of my autochest rows in my shed. I had the same set up working for about a month plus before I full sent on a stack. I started save scumming to get rain to catch a fish and then had the autochests delete ~1600 strawberries (one in each row). The finished product however remained (stawberry jam).

Edit: My cellar set up survived, all juice and raw pinapples being turned to wine remained

[subtle hemlock]

Hello @faint jungle and @tropic pasture! For the offset machines for Auto Chest, could you create a separate post of this so we can discuss it there? Thank you so much!

[subtle hemlock]

Thank you for your confirmation, Kit! Our team is currently checking the issue that you've shared about Auto Chest and Mason Jar, as well as about deleting items from the storage. Thank you!

[subtle hemlock]

Hello there! I'm truly sorry that you've lost your Strawberries. 🙇‍♀️ We have received a similar report and discuss about it here https://discord.com/channels/623097219628662784/1268835412001161226
Could you please add your info there too? Our team is currently investigating this issue. Thank you!

[wary flax]

just reposted there thanks for the thread link!

[faint jungle]

https://discord.com/channels/623097219628662784/1268541216799199243

[subtle hemlock]

Ahh, I see! I've reopened the thread there. Could you please share your details and save file there to help us investigate this? Thank you!

[hybrid spire]

• Summer 22, year 2
• I am new to auto chest and kept it simple. I connected two machines to each chest: two looms, two mason jars, two kegs, two cheese press. I only did One oil press. I also tried to do a kiln paired with a furnace.
• One in-game days passed. They stop functioning every in-game day. I can pickaxe and replace, or place another auto chest next to it and it will restart.
• The day I placed the first auto chest was summer 22, and I also did the first mermaid chaperone event. The following day, all chests had stopped functioning. I unlocked the Savanah on summer 23, and went to the Savannah for the first time on summer 24. Every day it will stop working.
• Playing on Xbox series X, no video, sorry

[opaque flower]

Steam PC:
for me the pattern is very clear: the conveyor belt loads the machines once until they are full, then collects the products but never loads any of the machines again. Adding or removing auto chests from the belt restarts it but then it again does only one run and stops.

[opaque flower]

So I had the problem with Recycling Machine and Compost Bin but for some reason Slime of Duplication seems to operate just fine

[winter wasp]

(What ive observed with the bug)

It seems like it could be related to the fact the auto chest is still saying it needs to be purchased after already being purchased. Seems to be something common people are saying. As well as the fact it seems to be working okay when its used as a conveyer belt yet when its used single use it appears to be bugging out more.

Doesnt seem to be related to certain automation objects. Nor does it appear to be related to being indoor or outdoor. Again I believe its something related to it saying you still need to research it after already researching it and something also about when its being used as single use and not as a conveyer(single use being far worse and not workin past whenever you finish one round of whatever ur making and needing to destroy it and put it down again but still useless cus it only will work for one round)

Also I've placed two large sets of converyers. And lately have been experiencing EXTREME lag. To where I can just barely move. I have a sneaking suspicion that it is most likely related to my conveyer belts. But maybe im wrong just thought id put it out there

platform: steamdeck

[royal crypt]

Summary of what Ive experiences mentioned in another post:
-unlocked the auto chest but its showing as locked in the lab menu
-single chest randomly stops working, need to break and replace to fix
-conveyers sometimes not moving an item into any open machine, MOST of the time taking the item out and put it back fixes, or if its in a shed leaving and coming back works.
-conveyers sometimes wont interact at all with a specific machine until I break and replace all connected chests. Seems to be worse/more frequent the more machines and chests there are

[subtle hemlock]

Hello! Thank you for adding your experience here. Could you please share the screenshots or videos of your Auto Chests? We need to see how you arrange them. 😊

[subtle hemlock]

Hello! Appreciate you for adding your report here too. Do you happen to have a video of your Auto Chests that had the issue? Also, can you send your save and backup file of when the issue happened in your Auto Chest? Thank you!

[subtle hemlock]

Hi hi! I acknowledge your point, and I'll relay this to the team as well. As for the lag issue, would you mind creating a new report so we can investigate it further? Thank you so much!

[subtle hemlock]

Hello Naj! For point number one, yes the team has received a similar report and currently working on the fix.
As for the other points, we're currently collecting more information. If you happen to have videos of the issues, could you please share them here? Also, can you send your save or backup file when the issue occurs? Thanks a lot!

[royal crypt]

The conveyer issues were happenening on my old save but luclily for bug reporting its still there when loaded up (only happening on beehives currently but I have experienced it with kegs, aging barrels and I think jars too.) I dont mind sharing my save file but since I now have 2 safe files I'm unsure which files are which save to upload here

[winter wasp]

Im curiouis, has anyone who has this bug and has it say that it still needs researching. Has anyone researched it again? or tried? I havent tried because im not that rich in the game yet. Curious if anyone has or if it lets them reresearch it?

[winter wasp]

With converyers i noticed if I made a conveyer with one that I was using as single use., itd stop working but if all the conveyers were placed freshly as conveyers it wouldnt bug out again. Only when it became single use. Maybe try destroying and out them all down again to continue the conveyer in case any of those were bugged as singles which then affects the conveyer as a whole (may not help but it did for me)

[opaque flower]

For me just removing the last auto chest and placing it again resets the whole belt.

[pseudo stirrup]

This works for me as well, as far as getting them all to function again.

So far I fortunately haven't noticed any lost items... But I've also been careful only to place anything more valuable to me than Trash in small quantities so if it does go missing it's not that big a deal.

I also haven't really scaled up my autochests much because, well, I don't trust them :/

[royal crypt]

This has been happening to me since before the latest update and the single auto chest bug so I dont think its related to that. But yea like I said breaking and replacing the whole conveyer usually fixed it.

[subtle hemlock]

Ahh, I see. You can send your SaveGames folder in a zip file and we will check them. Other than the files, we will also need the details below. Could you please confirm them, Naj?

• Do you remember the in-game date and time when you first placed the items in the Auto Chest storage?
• How many in-game days passed after placing the items before they stopped being distributed? Kindly let us know, both cases where they're in the Single Chest or the Conveyors Auto-Chest.
• Could you describe your activities on the day or the day before the Auto Chest stopped working?

Truly appreciate the help!

Thank you @opaque flower @pseudo stirrup for adding your experience here. I will also take your point as a note to the team. 🚀

[royal crypt]

Sorry I read the message and forgot to come back to respond! I don't remember the details so specifically to answer any of those 3 questions to be honest. It seems to break differently depending on the machines theyre connected to though. New things Ive noticed (Side note, this is all with my machines outside, not in sheds):

• Furnace and kiln, auto chests stop working very quickly. Maybe because I typically try to have both on the same conveyer chain? Ill place all machines and items in the auto chests, itll load what it can until things are full, but when I come back later it'll have collected the processed items without refilling the machines. In general really seems to struggle if multiple different machines are on the same conveyer.
• Aging barrels and beehives seem to be working fine with auto chests right now. Like I mentioned I have had some aging barrels previously stop connecting to conveyers though. Maybe related to it outside instead of in a shed this time?
• Kegs and jars work fine at the start of the day but sometimes auto chests stop refilling them later in the day. Ill manually refill the machines in the evening and then next morning they connect again.

Potential correlation, possibly more automation/chests causing more breaking? The kegs and jars connected fine for the longest time but I kept adding more and more auto chests and machines to other areas, THEN kegs and jars were having trouble automating.

Also potentially has to do with different items in different orders in the auto chest? Since it loads in order of placement in the chest. Using the kegs as an example, Ill put fruit in the auto chest to process, it loads to the kegs. When I return later the processed juices are in the first few slots before the remaining unprocessed fruit. Maybe the chests are getting stuck trying to process the already processed items so they dont move down the line to look at the unprocessed ones?

It would make sense why I see it happen to the kegs and jars (processes multiple items in one day) but barrels and hives seem fine (multiple days to process 1 item.) I move all the processed items at the end of the day, so if that is it and it fixes after I move things/next day it makes sense that fast processing machines noticeably break and the multi day processing machines seem fine.

Current set up I've experienced these things on. Ill be moving things to sheds finally so Ill make sure to note if that makes any differences. (I think Ive been making enough money Im no longer worried if I get the auto shed item deletion bug 😅)

[cyan girder]

I am having the same issue as Naj. Agree that it noticably affects things that take less time to process because it seems to reset each day. I have a set-up with auto-chests feeding slimes of transmutation and that stops re-loading the slimes after the first "type" of item is processed that day, eg if I had 20 gold cactus blossoms, it would keep processing those until they were upgraded to osmium, but then would not move on and start processing the next (different) item that needed processing until the next day.

[subtle hemlock]

Hello Naj and everyone! Thank you so much for giving a detailed report about this issue. It's really helpful!
I'll relay the details to the team.
Also, if you have the save files, you could also send them to us. We will get back to you if we need any other information. Thanks again!

[royal crypt]

Ah right! I knew I forgot something with all that lol
I have moved my machines into sheds since updating but still experiencing the same things

[pseudo gorge]

I'm having issue too
It is working for my kegs fine
I have a setup with one side kiln for coal and one side furnace - kiln won't restock
Trash to scrap isn't working
Won't stack different quality milks for cheese wheels

[haughty pelican]

Sorry I'm messaging so late...I just logged in to coral island after some time of not playing, and i have found a really bad lag....like i'm unable to do anything lag...do you know if there has been a work around as yet?

I was lookin to see if there was a post for lags on steam...but i only saw for xbox, which is why i'm messaging here
I am playing on my laptop (steam)

[winter wasp]

I am playin on the steam deck so could just be related to steam in some way. I haven’t found a fix for it. Still get insane lag randomly

[subtle hemlock]

Got it! I will relay this to the team for checking. Thank you, Naj!

[subtle hemlock]

Hello! Thank you for adding your report too. Can you let us know the platform you use to play and your game version?

[pseudo gorge]

Game Platform Steam
Game Version v1.1-1226
It seems they work when there is more than 1 in a row (conveyer) but won't work with just one

[haughty pelican]

thanks..I guess I'll wait and see ...my lag/stuttering is literally as i log in :/

[subtle hemlock]

Oh, do you happen to have a video or screenshot of this comparison? If you have a video of it also when you the Auto Chest not working for the Kiln, it will be very helpful for our team to see them.

Also, can you share your save file as well here? You can find it by copy-paste this file path to the File Explorer: %localappdata%\ProjectCoral\Saved\SaveGames. You can zip the SaveGames folder and send it here. Thank you

[pseudo gorge]

my recent gamefile is here
#1293061928511475815 message

I don't have any ssc of when it won't work - but my scrap chests only auto when there is more than one autochest in a row, same with my cheese machines now

[subtle hemlock]

Got it! I'll also bring this to the team for checking. If you happen to have any updates or videos of the issue, kindly let us know. Thank you!

[pseudo gorge]

I will!

[polar mural]

I also have autochest issues on xbox. The chest will fill and harvest all machines I've tested so far once, but upon emptying the machine the first time it doesn't refill it to restart production.

Also, (not sure if it's a bug or an intended mechanic because they're technically buildings) the autochests don't work on mills whatsoever.

[pseudo gorge]

Oh another note! It doesn't seem to work with solar panels
I had them alongside my aging barrels (that were working) and they didn't auto-collect

[chrome blade]

same issue - sounds like it does this to everyone 😦 it works well for me for kegs, beehives, and aging barrels, but anything like the kiln, smelter, etc. it will do exactly once and the only workaround is to remove and re-add an autochest, and then it'll again only work once which is not great. Cant' get it to work with the kelp essence machine at all, either.

[gloomy frost]

I don't know if this is a workaround but I found that if you leave the 2x2 on the bottom of the left side of the conveyor belt empty, then the auto chest in that chain will work properly.

[eternal pelican]

can confirm the above works for me, hopefully this eventually gets fixed so i can use it more effectively for the slime copy things

[tawdry stirrup]

This still seems to be a problem for me. Kegs work 90% of the time, beehives 80%, jars 60%, and everything else will run one cycle before stopping every day. I'll try the fix above, but has anyone found another workaround by chance?