Ruh, roh. Tin bronze rod?

[Thorfinn]

I decided to make a fruit press because I'd left the door to my cellar open, and stuff was hours from rotting. I did not have any copper ingots, but I did have tin-bronze. So after checking the recipe, I thought, what the hey. Finished up the rod, it popped into an open slot, and because I didn't have the rest of the stuff for the press in inventory, decided to quench the rod so I could put away tongs.

But when I mouse-wheeled up to the rod, crash!

Here's the important bit:

   at Vintagestory.GameContent.EntityPlayerShapeRenderer.RenderHeldItem(Single dt, Boolean isShadowPass, Boolean right) in VSEssentials\EntityRenderer\EntityPlayerShapeRenderer.cs:line 322

I can no longer load the world, because when it goes to render the rod that I'm holding, it crashes. Same error message. I was only running a couple mods, I've disabled them, no joy. Repair mode does the same thing.

Did I just hose my save? I get that there's no point to ever using bronze, so maybe it's never been tested. Anyone else had this happen? Is there any way to empty my hand or change to a different hotslot outside the game?

[dakko]

Ashantin did a video of this bug (I've not watched it) but she did continue with more videos so she must have some sort of solution.

eta: her bug involved making a rod but maybe it isn't the same as yours (didn't watch, don't know details).

Edited March 11, 2025 by dakko

[Thorfinn]

I did manage to get it to work. I just changed stuff to render a tin bronze pick head instead because I knew that worked. Something weird about the tin bronze I guess. After I assembled the fruit press, I reverted, and made a note to self.

Curious what her solution to it was. How long ago was that vid? Fairly recent or am I chasing something pretty old?

[Thorfinn]

Ah, yes, very recent. 1.20.5. Guess it's a good thing I didn't try rendering a copper rod -- that was her crash. So it's evidently not just tin bronze. Any rod? Odd that it hasn't come up -- I would have figured someone would have made a lightning rod by now.

Her solution was to uninstall 1.20.5 and reinstall 1.20.4. Must have been a lot more changes than I realized reading the release notes.

[dakko]

I'm so glad you found a work-around and are able to play again. Sorry that I didn't think to let you know the bug (apparently) came with 1.20.5!

[Thorfinn]

Just now, dakko said:

I'm so glad you found a work-around and are able to play again.

Now I'm in a dilemma. I can play my old game, or I could continue the one I had started.

"Nice landmark, kind of a pillow butte, shale, slate, granite, limestone, claystone, I think."

"What are those pink spots doing in my limestone?"

"Wait, is that sylvite in halite? And there's limestone right next to it?"

Followed up in the first couple days with 4 deposits of HFS, just over 2 stacks of flax seeds, just over a stack of copper nuggets, just under a stack of parsnip seeds... Plus black coal, brown coal, lead and borax. I even found bees early on day 2.