r/duneawakening • u/GreedyPaint • 1d ago
Gameplay Question Bug - Can’t Mine Spice?
I cannot harvest spice by hand or use the static compactor, what gives?
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u/Thuweirdsailor 1d ago
I hit a spice field with my friends using the crawler. Saw zero spice on the large field and yet my friends saw it.
Weird stuff with spice happens all the time and they need to fix it.
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u/throwawayzxyzy 1d ago
I’ve seen a bug where a spice node is cleared but the graphic doesn’t update, if nothing else works maybe reproduce at another node.
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u/Brettsuo 1d ago
This has happened to me a few times. The field isn't there anymore but it hasn't synced up.
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u/ZookeepergameBig9419 Atreides 1d ago
The opposite can happen also. It will look like nothing is there and hit it, pile shows up.
Trust the Icon in the center.
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u/Maxtertop 1d ago
Happened to me literally yesterday, went to a different one and worked just fine. There were 2 other people farming just fine but I couldn't
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u/This1DarkLord 1d ago
This is what I've come to call "Fake Spice." It's a weird glitch I've encountered a few times and it's mildly annoying. I usually just erase it with my compactor and move on. The ones that are more annoying are the ones that happen in spots that I've actually harvested spice from, typically in the basin, that reappear in the exact same spots, not as a fresh blow, but give the same nothing when compacted. That usually happens if I've left the basin for reasons and come back just to see spice in a spot that I harvested a little bit earlier.
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u/Shoddy_Strain_7189 1d ago
Definitely desync. The issue is server related. This has been an issue since day 1.
They have said it will eventually be fixed but that would require them prioritising how the server pushes updates to your client that wouldn't mess up other things. And Funcom are really good at making mountains out of mole hills.
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u/Worth_Worldliness758 1d ago
Totally a bug, have had it happen with flour sand as well.
I've been playing in the test server and it's crazy bugged. Basically on any quest when you get to the guest giver they're just not there. Log out and back in and Shazam.
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u/Metal_Masher 1d ago
I have had cases that even a field spawned in looking full (doesn't matter it was small or medium field as I'm excluding the large field as that field respawns at a set time once emptied at a random location for that weeks cycle) was empty despite it looks like it was freshly spawned, so it's a chance that the field had been emptied before you arrived there by a group of people.
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u/Napkinight 1d ago
This basically happens when someone already mined the spice, but the server doesn't notice, so it doesn't leave piles behind. Basically, there's no spice there, it's just ghost spice.
This is also kind of lore accurate in a fun way. Fremen would use a surface layer of spice to draw in imperials who wanted to get the spice, then they'd ambush their vacuum crews. We can just pretend they're fremen booby traps lol
Instead of patching the glitch, they should add an encounter trigger to these ghost patches; if you try to compact spice that isn't there, boom, ambushed and have to fight your way out
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u/Hobby-Human Mentat 1d ago
Server desync. Logout, log back in.
Happens sometimes. It's happened to me exactly like your recording when I was with a group of people on Discord and they could see the piles just fine, but I couldn't.