Disappearing Ingot Pile

[Borgie 1]

Hey guys - love this mod.  I've been playing a bit too much lately.

 

I've noticed a bug that I can officially confirm now.  Occasionally entire piles of ingots will disappear on me.  Just gone.  I can't seem to find anyone else reporting this.

 

The first occurrence was odd.  I had a stack of 14 copper (enough for an anvil).  It some point while picking up the pile, ingots disappeared and I was down to 8.  100% certain of the lost ingots, not sure about how/when.

The second occurrence, Maybe about 50% sure, but I had a stack of bronze that I think vanished.  At this point I started labeling my stacks with a sign with quantity & type.

The last time, today, I had a stack of 1 wrought Iron ingot that I was lucky enough to loot off of a zombie.  It stuck around for some time.  Now gone -- didn't touch it.  It was there a minute before I noticed it missing.

 

 

Version I'm running: TFC-0.77.21

Mods:

  -ReiMinimap_v3.4_01

  -backpack-1.18.17

  -extrafirma v1.0.3

  -OptiFine HD C4

 

Note I was probably only running optifine (if that) on the first problem.

[Kittychanley 1,002]

Are you playing on single player or on a server? Have any creepers exploded nearby your base?

 

Ingot piles behave essentially like a chest, so there shouldn't be any cases in which the contents just "vanish"

[Borgie 1]

Valid questions....

I'm playing single player.  Definitely no creepers -- I keep my piles indoors and nothing else has been damaged.

I understand what you're saying about the mechanics of the pile being like a chest.  This is why I'm suggesting this is a bug (either compatibility or otherwise).   If no-one else has ever noticed this, It's also possible it could be related to my specific configuration.

 

A few more details

-Running Java 7 64 bit (1.7.0u45)

-Minecraft 1.6.2 (of course)

-Forge 9.10.1.871

-Windows 7 Pro, SP1

 

Something else that may not be related, but worth noting:  For the last instance, I was taking ingots from a separate bronze pile around the same time (within 5 minute of iron vanishing).  But to reiterate, however, I did not touch the iron pile.  This bronze pile was about 3-4 blocks away.

[Kittychanley 1,002]

I will try to see if I can reproduce it, but as far as I can tell, this is a random fluke. You may have right clicked on the pile and removed an ingot without realizing and didn't pick it up since they can go flying, which resulted in it despawning. Ingot piles do not interact with each other in the current build, so touching the bronze pile 3-4 blocks away is no different than breaking a block, or taking something out of a chest nearby.

 

The only thing I could possibly think of is if you unloaded the chunk and there was a problem with saving the contents of the pile, but even that shouldn't happen.

[Borgie 1]

I'm not sure how to repeat it myself, but if I figure it out I'll let you know.   I realize this is a key component for any debugging.

I'm also not familiar with the code structure so I'm sure plenty of my details are irrelevant.

 

I don't think it's unloaded chunks - I was in the chunk the whole time when it disappeared (was doing smelting etc at my house).   I considered the possibility of flying ingots, but with the missing copper I searched quite thoroughly (so I suspect it's  not the case there).  Can ingots fly through walls?  Maybe down into the dirt?   But I'm still maintaining that I didn't touch the Iron ingot. 

 

Also it's only ingot piles, which makes this fun.

 

Thanks for your replies, btw.

[Artyom Shegeda 2]

...I considered the possibility of flying ingots, but with the missing copper I searched quite thoroughly (so I suspect it's  not the case there).  Can ingots fly through walls?  Maybe down into the dirt?   But I'm still maintaining that I didn't touch the Iron ingot...

 

Ingots piles have bugs in current build, they behave in strange way. I guess, it can introduce more severe issues eg disappeared piles.

[Kalix 9]

Do you happen to have solid blocks above the ingot pile? I know ingots, when retrieved from the pile, can appear inside the block above, which can cause it to be pushed all the way up to the surface of whatever you are under.