iOS Farmhand freezing in mobile co-op

[Jakobo]

Hi there,

Playing on iPad, the experimental co-op, and just wanted to report this bug we encounter often. The person who is not the host (farmhand) will often encounter a freezing issue where they are unable to move. They can’t access any items in their inventory, etc. The game around them does not freeze. It happens most often in the mines and secret forest, but can happen anywhere. It seems to potentially be related to the automatic tool switching as it happens more in environments when the tool switching is happening more.

We have found a workaround where I (the host) goes and offers them an item from my inventory. Occasionally, getting attacked by a mob also wakes them up.

Version 1.6.15.0, but was happening before this most recent update as well. I’m on my iPad now and it won’t allow me to attach my save game file otherwise I would! Thanks so much!

 

[Whiro]

We got the same Problem with freezing farmhand. We play with two IPads. There are some situations that seem to trigger this. Digging Artifac Spots. Host in Mine, Farmhand in Quarry. Both in Mine. But it happens sometimes without the upper conditions.

for me it looks like it got something to do with the touch controls one workaround for me is to select the control mode “Tap to move and Joysticks“ so you are able to click the gameplay symbol to get joysticks. Now when freezing enable the sticks and move with the stick. Disable joystick and farmhand will work normally again most of the time.
Sometime these sticks will be in the upper left corner of the screen instead of normal position and after starting the game again sometimes the settings are different. We got an gaming weekend with friends playing an coop game with host and 3 farmhands 2 PC and 2 IPads the pads been freezing a lot but with this strategy game was playable.
Another method is to quit and rejoin for the farmhand.

Anyway thanks a lot for adding this opportunity to play coop on mobile devices!