Problems with Frostcrag Spire

[Cryziz]

The stuff I buy for Frostcrag Spire won't show up.

I have bought everything, and enter only to see a room with icy circles and a hand in the middle.

[Malchik]

Walk to the back of the room. The interior door will open automatically after a few seconds.

[Cryziz]

Tried it, but nothing is happening.

[Sojiro]

Tried it, but nothing is happening.

 

You read the book on the hand, correct? That's how you know where to buy everything.

 

Now, did you take the book? You have to take the book and then wait a few seconds for the interior door to open.

[Cryziz]

Yeah, I've picked it up, read it and taken it. Nothing happened.

[wizardmirth]

Tried it, but nothing is happening.

 

You read the book on the hand, correct? That's how you know where to buy everything.

 

Now, did you take the book? You have to take the book and then wait a few seconds for the interior door to open.

 

You don't have to actually take the book. After reading, I left mine there and the tower opened up fine.

[cartuner555]

Your problem may be that if you read the book and immediatly leave, the big door will never open.

 

To fix, go somewhere (IC for example), save, Exit the game, Go to your data files and uncheck Frostcrag, Load the save, save again( same spot), exit , recheck Frostcrag, then load.

 

YOu will have to rebuy the upgrades. same happened to me. But make sure you read the book, then wait for the door to open.

[xenxander]

I was going to spot a new topic post but as this title says "problems with Frostcrag Spire" I figure I'll post here for anyone else who may have discovered this gem of a problem.

 

We all (or most all) know of how to duplicate items using scrolls right? If not, in a nutshell:

swing your weapon (or punch)

hit 'j' (or whatever your 'journal' key is) mid-swing

double-click any scroll you have multiples of

then drop any item you have one of, and a number of items equal to the number of scrolls will drop instead of one.

end nutshell.

 

Well other mods I have dealing with FrostCrag are:

DEJ harvest flora v3.0.1

FrostCraig Alchemy sorter v1.0.4

 

Well I wanted 100 of every ingredient, for ease of potion making

(afterthought, I should have simply made a potion of the desired effect and duplicated that in lieu)

 

I first tired this on four items downstairs in the main room (carrots, two cheeses, and Deadra hearts, in case you're wondering)

Then, seeing as it worked, I went to the living quarters, stood next to the alchemy bench (and sorter) and commenced to dupe around 100 items (around 120, each 107, for over 12K items, again just in case you care)

I was using 'Gather Ye Rosebuds' to pick them up (as gather ring doesn't work with DEJ v3.x.x and the creator emailed me stating he won't make any more changes) and placing them inside the sorter (fine and dandy)

 

Now I also duped a few potions and of course scrolls, inside this chamber (so I duped more than just alchemy consumables)

 

Everything was going fine until... (dramatic turn with suspense music and a close-up)... the next flora respawn.

 

true to the update for DEJ, the Frostcrag spire respawned its garden flawlessly (yay)... but...

 

so did all the alchemy ingredients I duped....

 

 

Now just stop and think about that last line above for a moment. I duped over 12K items (a bit over 400 were downstairs). When I reentered Frostcrag after some dungeon crawling, something was amiss when I saw a pile of food items all on the floor. I "Gather Ye Rosebuds" and had to toggle god mode (tgm) so I could port them.. thinking.. whatever this is, I'll figure it out... Then I went upstairs ... well.. it was taking... over 7 minutes to load the black screen between portal warps into my room... then when the screen faded in.. I saw...

I saw...

I saw...

A COLOSSAL MOUND of items.. and it was slowly growing by the second. My processor was having a hell of a time trying to generate, and deal with, over 12K items all using the physics engine, all trying to cope for space, all trying to push each other away.. I have a save file with this but not sure how to take a screenshot of it.. but damn it's funny.. seeing all those watermelons on top, and everything underneith just starting to pile up, like a blob monster rising up.. or better yet, the trashie from fraggle rock..

 

Well.. ehem.. I got derailed.. sorry.

 

My point is, after it taking another 10mintues to cast 'Gather ye Rosebuds' I got very suspicious.. I emptied out the alchemy sorter (thinking it was the sorter's fault) of all consumables (keeping the potions and scrolls inside) and dumped all ingredients into one of the many barrels in the valut.

I left the tower and purposefully waited 5 game days, enough for the garden to respawn.. I went back inside the tower and ...

 

a pile of 400+ food items were on the floor again... sighing, I gathered them up and once more portaled upstairs to find another huge mound of food and shrooms and leaves and .. well everything I duped initially, mounding up again... I couldn't cope with it.

 

So I (still in god mode) took EVERYTHING from Frostcrag into my inventory (had over 36K in weight), left the tower, saved...

deselected the tower from the mods list, loaded the game.. saved the game, reinstalled the plug-in for frostcrag.. and reloaded.

 

This didn't help, the pile of food kept respawning...

 

So in conclusion, I feel it's a problem with DEJ's Harvest flora mod for Frostcrag, or some faulty code in Frostcrag itself (though I haven't tested this yet without DEJ installed).

 

So in a word, about duplicating items in Frostcraig.

DON'T..

at least, don't do food or alchemy consumables. It's a nightmare.