[Solved]Bucket of Milk

[Feycat 3]

I'm not sure if this goes under the "various and annoying bucket and barrel bugs" so I thought I'd throw this out to see if anyone else has had this?

 

I get a bucket of milk from a cow, go to the barrel to pour it in to make cheese. The bucket empties as soon as I open the barrel UI. The cow is still milked, the bucket is actually empty, and there's nothing in the barrel. Emptying the barrel, breaking/replacing the barrel, and using a different barrel all do not work.

 

I was making cheese just fine til this bug hit, and now I can't do it. This has happened on multiple maps, so it's either just me or it's reproducible, but I'm not sure what triggers it.

[Guest Elagn]

This commonly happens to me too in several worlds, in my experience, it happens to the milk about every day if you are milking and making cheese every day. If you miss a day, it may or may not happen

[Kittychanley 1,002]

The best way to check if this is a bug with the barrel, the bucket, or the cow is to log completely out and close the game right after you milk the cow, and before you put the bucket into the barrel. If the milk is gone when you log back in, then the issue is with the cow and the bucket. Another option instead of logging out is to open a different inventory like a chest before trying to put the milk in the barrel. If the issue is with inventory tracking and the client/server sync, it shouldn't matter what new inventory you open (barrel, chest, forge, etc), the milk in the bucket should disappear in all of them. If the inventory tracking is the case, it can likely be fixed by moving the bucket to another slot right after you milk the cow.

[Feycat 3]

It seems to be some sort of time sych problem. 

 

I made a second fresh bucket, just to make sure my specific bucket wasn't bugged. Then I went and milked both my cows, logged off, shut down the game. Logged back in. Both buckets were empty AND I could milk the cows again, which ordinarily it won't let me do after I vanish the milk by opening the barrel. I did it twice more, same thing.

 

I opened LAN to enable cheats and did the /time set 1000000000 recommended in the mini cow thread. It did indeed grow all my mini cows to adulthood (and killed me with starvation) and now my buckets/milk are working properly again.

 

Since this is the first time I've ever messed with time in any way in the game, do you have any idea why my time would be de-syching like that?

[Kittychanley 1,002]

Since it's single player, its hard to tell. Sometimes your computer might not just be able to keep up in making sure both the client and the server are synchronized. If you've ever edited the year length in the config, its possible that might have screwed something up as well, since the game originally was going off of one length, and had to switch and do its calculations off of another one when you changed the config.

[Feycat 3]

Since it's single player, its hard to tell. Sometimes your computer might not just be able to keep up in making sure both the client and the server are synchronized. If you've ever edited the year length in the config, its possible that might have screwed something up as well, since the game originally was going off of one length, and had to switch and do its calculations off of another one when you changed the config.

 

I've never edited the year length, but I do lag rather badly. 

[PaoloEmilio 53]

It's lag maybe what it's affecting you

[Feycat 3]

Okay, it's un-fixed itself again, both the mini animals AND the milk bucket bug. And I'm not hosting the game on my own computer anymore, so it seems to be a map issue of some sort? I tried setting time again and it did not work this time.

[Kittychanley 1,002]

Just noticed that you used the /time set command instead of the /time add command. It worked the first time because your time probably wasn't anywhere near 1000000000, or 1 million hours since day 1 (aka 41,666 days or about 434 years using the default config yearLength of 96). So even if you were a few years into the game, /time set 1000000000 jumped you forward at least 400 years and started ticking up from there. The second time you used the command, you actually went back in time because you were already past the time of 1000000000, and set it back to that number, travelling you back in time however long it had been since you first used the command.

 

Try using the /time add command, which will always move time forwards instead, or change your config so that your client is in debug mode, then open the calendar and use the provided buttons to add a few years (Don't forget to change the config back out of debug when you are done).

[Temujen 31]

Had this happen a few times last night, so played with it.  Pretty sure it has something to do with the bucket checking time until cow can be milked again.

 

Try this:

Cows can only be milked every x hours (seems like 24, but not 100% sure)

Milk cow

Empty bucket

Log out

Log in

Milk cow

 

You should now have a bucket of 'ghost milk'.  You can use it to get the drinking animation, but no nutrition.  If you right click a barrel, the bucket will suddenly appear empty.

 

Somewhere in the logic, TFC recognizes that the cow can't be milked yet... but the bucket logic seems to check that fact *after* filling with milk, so you get all the appearance of a full bucket but it's fake and vanishes on use.

[Kittychanley 1,002]

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