Fledgling Fyora arielv82 Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 i was recently overcome by an urge for some oldschool rpg'ing. as a long time avernum fan i decided it's time to pick up avadon. up to a point everything went great. and then the drop \ pick up mechanics started acting up. at first i noticed the junk bag was filled with fake daggers titled as unused. as i failed to find a fix and didn't have a recent enough save to rollback to that didn't have this problem, i ploughed on and ignored it. but now i find myself completely unable to drop or pick up items anywhere in the avadon castle, main floor and dungeons included. if there is a known fix, i'd greatly appreciate it if someone could point me in its direction. otherwise, i'm open to advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Kelandon Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 That's... odd. Something got corrupted in either the source files or your save file. To check this better, what system are you playing on? (Mac/PC/iPad/etc.?) My first guess is that the save file is corrupted in some way. If you start a new game, do you have the same problem? If not, you may just need to restart. If so, then you may need to reinstall the game. You can back up the save file, reinstall, and see if that fixes it. (Backing up the save file looks a little different on Mac/PC/iPad/etc.) If neither of those works, then you probably need to reinstall and restart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 Item corruption like that is usually in the save file and if you have a save from before you first notice the problem, then it should work fine. Avernum has has a similar irreproducible problem with new item containers being always empty, but you have something new. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fledgling Fyora arielv82 Posted May 6, 2014 Author Share Posted May 6, 2014 yay my own unique bug. seems like it was a corrupt save. and since i save often and don't backup older save files i lost a good 20 hours of progression. i suppose that on this attempt i will backup my saves. oh well, with knowing what to do up to a point, cheat codes and easy mode combined it should take well under 20 hours to get back to where i was. thanks for the replies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fledgling Fyora misterbill5 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Not a unique problem, unfortunately. I encountered the bug where the junk bag fills up with daggers that identify as "unused". I reinstalled the game and went back to an earlier save where I did not have the junk bag issue, and after playing a while, got the daggers back again. When this happened, it was impossible to drop the daggers (msg saying there was no room to drop), and all containers yielded zero loot, even those that required lockpicks to open. I next deleted the saves file, reinstalled again, and started a new game from scratch. I got the junk bag daggers problem a third time, but loaded a slightly earlier quicksave and have been able to continue from there so far (about level 5 party about to do the Dragon/Wraith Lair quest). I am worried that this bug will come back to haunt me again after I have many hours invested in the game, but I love the game and really want to be able to play it. I am really surprised since I have played a number of SW games and never had any technical issues at all... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Earth Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 I got that unlimited daggers in AEFTP but older save worked. 1st time something bugged in played SW-games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fledgling Fyora misterbill5 Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 And only in the remakes or new games with the new engine...hmmmm... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Earth Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 old games (and new games too) have empty boxes-bug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fledgling Fyora Sargrakan Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 There is a simple fix to this. Locate the save date for the game you are having this issue with. Open the item file in notepad. For the most part it will be blank. Scroll around and locate odd groupings of letters, symbols, etc. Erase these save notepad. Bug fixed. Can not confirm if this causes loss of items junk bag. Not sure if i had anything in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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