[Solved] Can't right click a Forge

[Calvissuperman 1]

I had a working forge, and now all of a sudden I can't right click it anymore. I broke it and re-made it in the same spot, and after I light it up I'm still unable to fight click it. I even remade the forge itself and it won't let me click it.

 

Recently my house caught on fire and burned down, but other than that nothing has changed. I really don't want to move it somewhere else...

[Kittychanley 1,002]

Is it raining/snowing? If your forge has a direct chimney to the sky instead of a bent one, precipitation will put out the forge.

[Calvissuperman 1]

No, it has a bent shaft.

[Kittychanley 1,002]

Has a tree or anything grown over the top of the chimney? Could you post some screenshots of how it's set up? Usually when you can't right click a forge to open it, it's because it is either being rained on, or it doesn't have sky access.

[Calvissuperman 1]

[Calvissuperman 1]

 

Yes, I took this With my phone. 

[Kittychanley 1,002]

Is the block directly above the forge chiseled at all? Also, there is a button on your keyboard that says something like PrtSc which stands for "Print Screen". You can use it to take a screenshot, which will be put on your clipboard. Then you can paste it into a program like Paint to save and upload... instead of using a phone to take an actual photograph of your monitor...

[Calvissuperman 1]

I don't have internet on my computer, only on my phone. Yes the block Is chiseled

[Kittychanley 1,002]

To clarify, when I say "chiseled" I mean have you used the stair, slab, or detail mode of the chisel on the block? Doing so would make the block transparent, and therefore the forge will assume that is the chimney directly up, instead of the bent chimney. It doesn't matter if it is a smooth stone or raw stone block.

[Calvissuperman 1]

No, it is regular smooth stone you collect with the chisel. I switched it out with other blocks and nothing changed

[Kittychanley 1,002]

Alright, just a few more troubleshooting steps.

• Stand at the base of your chimney, and look directly up. Do you see any blocks at all directly above that are not air? Torches, lumber, chiseled blocks, leaves, anything?
• Break the actual forge block, and create a new one, making sure that you actually light it.
• Break the block directly above the forge, can you access the forge now?
• Replace the block above the forge, and break one of the other adjacent blocks so that the chimney isn't diagonal from the forge.

[Calvissuperman 1]

So when I break an adjacent block, it works. But there's nothing above the original chimney! This is annoying

[Hubertus 29]

I've gone and done some testing, and have found your problem. That is not a valid chimney. From your pictures, I can see the hole in your roof is 1 left, and 1 back, from, your forge block. BEHOLD!

 

 

The red squares are your chimney hole, and the block it is situated over. Note that that block diagonal to your forge block. This is not allowed. The dark green square is the block directly above your forge. It is valid. The lime green squares are also valid. I tested these in a creative world, and as long as one of the green squares was left open, it worked. The moment I closed them and left only the red square open, it stopped working. The following image is a useful reference:

 

 

Note that the bend can only happen in 1 direction, not two.

[Calvissuperman 1]

Oooooo thanks man!