Smelter stops working, indestructible

22 votes

One of our smelters, very suddenly, stopped working. It showed the remaining items in the smelter, but it's impossible to interact with. I can't store or remove items nor can I remove or damage the building itself, yet it's still preventing me to move through. Multiplayer session, with a shared save.

Known issue Suggested by: Whoopar (19 Feb, '21) • Upvoted: 20 Mar • Comments: 8

Comments: 8

21 Feb, '21
TolkienGeek
I had something similar to this and just restarted the server. It worked when we came back.
03 Mar, '21
Bill Bishop
Going to try rebooting, but it allowed me to put a bunch of materials in first, so I lost a bunch of copper ore. Please fix.
21 Mar, '21
Rah
Had same issue 2 times, had to restart server which fixed the issue, but lost the items.
04 May, '21
KillswitchNL
Got the same problem. Smelter stays dark and won’t produce metal. Yet it did swallow my metalscrapts.

Upon a restart the smelter show to be empty. I lost 😡 60 metalscrapts.
03 Aug, '21
pieter
We noticed the same, error apears to be server side.
We tried breaking the smelter, didn't work (not with the hammer or with a pickaxe).
Repairing it for some reason did.
We left it to mine some more silver and when we returned someone tried to load it again and then it worked again.
21 Sept, '21
Strigon
This bug still exists, just had this happen on our server as well. We dug out the ground beneath it as well to see if it would break on its own, but now it just floats there. The immortal, unworking smelter.
26 Sept, '21
Lagerthas Love Interest
One of two smelters on my multiplayer server seems to be freezing, the flame animation and everything just stop and then suddenly it pops into life and spits out an ingot and then goes to sleep for like a minute or two...
11 Oct, '23
Jenn D
Same here, on the restart; but it’s definitely a bug.