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I am looking forward to cloud save. I recently aquired an iPad and discovered that if I like to play on it I had to start over. Looking forward to cloud save.

Hi all,

I've been playing this game for a few months, but I'd like to know wether anyone else is experiencing the nasty bugs I am going to describe in this post.

1. When activating a boost, no video is played. The boost is activated anyways, but in order to have the game read any view you have to kill it from the app switcher and open it again. Disabling/enabling VoiceOver when this occurs does nothing.

2. After getting more than 40 or so slots split between various buildings, the game becomes indeterministic. Most of the times not all the automations work appropriately while the screen is locked, so you end up not getting what you were waiting for. The issue affects always the most complex products, while the "ingredients" to produce them are built normally. The issue does not occur if the screen of the iPhone is not locked.

3. While "accelerating" production of a certain product manually, focus ends up moving to the bottom of the screen, thus making you add more and more slots when tapping the screen.

Hi,

For some reason, the princess gifts are not always accurate. I have my gift up to 100% higher, but every four or five days, it knocks me back down to 96% even when I check my gift to open it. It says it is disabled and that the gift isn't available until such and such hours and minutes. I have waited those hours and when I try to open it again, the hours and minutes just gets further and further out. It finally lets me open it, but it knocks me back. Is this a known issue? Is it being worked on?

Thanks,

Jenn

I have not played and expanded enough to get things like 40 slots and such. But I have experienced the thing where an ad won't come up and you have to kill the game to get back and keep playing.

Also, Although I still have a very long way to go based on some quests I've seen you guys doing here. I really want to know whether the game as a whole is finished and you are just fine-tuning features or will there someday be something like a second map with new workshops and stations or whether new products will be added to keep us working forward and not just doing the exact same thing over and over. I know the logs thing and stuff is understandable, but if eventually all I'm doing is getting bigger and bigger quests on Diamond rings, I think I'd be very bored. I want to know if besides things like cloud save (which I am very excited about as it will make things much easier for me) if there are new gameplay features coming as well as just some convenience and bug features.

If you can, please tell me. I don't want you to spill the beans, but if there are beans, I'd like to know they're cooking.

Bookrage.

Hi, just wondering has anyone found if there is a maximum number of production slots you can have in a building? I have scene people talking about 50 production slots, but curious is that as high as you can have? I haven't managed to get up to 50 slots in any of my areas yet, closest I have come is 41 in the workshop but then they wanted 72 million for the next one even with the real estate boost on.
also I have noticed the bug with numbers not being read correctly by VoiceOver is still present for the larger quests when reading progress, I did try letting michelle know so hoping she got that message.

Hi there Michelle
I simply love your game Crafting Kingdom. It is brilliant with Voice Over.
It has some lag/delay when tapping on buttons but on the whole it is pretty solid for VO.
It is currently my favourite iphone game.
However, I am stuck in one of the Upgrade screens and it will not let me out.
I went into view further info on upgrades where it tells you about general upgrades etc.
So cannot progress my game anymore.
There is no way of getting back out of this upgrade screen and I am totally stuck in it.
There is no go back button showing for VO etc.
I was wondering if you could get me out of the screen without me losing all my progress please.
I need to play this game now, it is fab!
Thanks for your time.

Stu

Hi stu,
Try closing the app, then restarting it. You'll not loose your progress and things should be good to go from there. HTH, and good luck!

Well done Justin!!
I closed the app in the double click home button bit where it lists all your apps that are running.
Now I am back in and able to play again.
Not that I am addicted to this game or anything.....but thanks a lot for your help LOL!
I owe you one buddy!

Hi, last night I installed the new crafting kingdom beta, and am wondering if anyone else is having issues with it.
I emailed Michelle, so doubtless she will reply when she has time, but I thought it might be helpful to ask if others are having issues.
the first issue I am having is that the notes say there should be options to save to and load from cloud under the options menu, but I am not seeing these under the options menu at all, I have checked under settings and it says I am signed into game center. I am also signed into iCloud, but also there is nothing in the game so far as I can tell that would even indicate cloud save is a feature unless you know to look for it.
The second issue I am having is with treasure chests, in the beta when I open a treasure chest for a few seconds after opening the chest the screen becomes unnavigable with VoiceOver this is till I hear a kind of chime or chirp sound I can't really describe it, this sound certainly doesn't play after opening a chest in the current stable release. sometimes the sound plays instantly after opening a chest and other times it takes a few seconds, I am not even sure what this extra sound is for, chests seemed to work fine in the stable release.
Anyway I have reverted back to a stable release given the weird issues with the treasure chest.
Oh and the numbers bug is still present for huge quests where numbers are spoken as digits.
Of course I am sure these issues will be ironed out in time.

Hi,
Try disabling VO, then tapping with 3 fingers three times or whatever it said to do, then that should re-enable access mode.

Hi all, well as a test I decided to be really brave and install the beta, save my progress to cloud then delete crafting kingdom from my device and reinstall the beta.
That all went fine, but after reinstalling the beta from scratch I have run into problems,
1. when I installed the beta I disabled the music from the options menu, but then I restored my progress from cloud and the music was reactivated.

2. I then decided to try resetting my game to see if after a reset restoring from cloud would continue to work, but this is where I ran into a bigger issue, I set the reset in motion, and it reset and I claimed all of my completed quest rewards apart from the 2 uncompleted quests I have in this current game, but then it stuck it claimed my last quest reward but then just sat there on the screen saying plus 1 fabric production.
I quit and restarted crafting kingdom and I was back in my original game before I started the reset, so then I tried again same result.
3. the weird treasure chest behavior is still present.

hi all, how do i in the test flight beta back up to the cloud? it states i am nogged in but i see no game center login fields? running ios 11 ipad mini4 iphone 7 has ios 10 for now

you have to log into game center through settings, if you go into settings there is a menu for game center this is where you log in.

Hello,
If I back my phone up to the computer, reset the phone, then restore the phone, will it restore my crafting kingdom data as well?
Also, I seem to be having that bug about complex products as well. I try to do ladder, so I enable logs and timber then leather strips. Logs and timber seem to stop producing and leather strips get produced for nothing thus they get wasted. There is no problem producing logs, timber and leather strips at the same time. It all goes boom when ladder goes into the mix.
The second bug is when I start production in any building and immediately quit the app via app switcher. Time freezes and production stops until I open the app again.

People running the beta might want to think carefully about trusting cloud save at this point, I did some experiments today and as well as the beta not resetting my game properly I have found other issues,
when I restored from cloud all my production slots for buildings vanished including the ones your given by default when you buy a building, and also my princess has been reset to 0, so I am now going to have to build all that up again.
I have also found that I lost most of my boost time, I had 40 minutes of boost before but now I only have 14 minutes, and my bag of gold has gone from around 51000 per minute back to 200 gold per minute. I also lost around 40 minutes of automation time as I had 180 I think and now its gone back to 130 minutes.
I think the cloud save needs quite a bit of work from the looks of things, I have emailed michelle and let her know about these issues as well as other problems, but it seems to me this feature seems to have a lot of issues currently. still I am sure michelle will keep up the outstanding work and sort them out in time, though I am really not looking forward to having to build my princess up again etc. Of course I know this is a beta so of course I ran the risks, but even so wasn't expecting this level of damage to my game, hopefully its a case of progress not restoring properly rather than it didn't save properly in the first place, I really can't face the thought of having lost all those hours of work I put in.

Hi Michelle, don't worry I haven't saved to the cloud since my first save I think it was, anyway certainly not since before I tried my first reset. anyway I did already try reloading from the cloud before and this didn't resolve any of the corruptions my game seems to have experienced.
also a question regarding boost time, I have been stuck on 40 minutes for ages, can't remember the last time I was given an increase in boost time, are boost time quests definitely being allocated fairly compared to other quests? as I get lots for automation time and other stuff just seemingly none for boost time, and so I now have masses of automation time but hardly any boost time, it all got very unbalanced after boost quests were broken by the inapp purchase.

I am delighted to hear that there will be a new version. I wish I could be on the beta too. I think cloud save would be a good feature. I have compared playing CK on my iPhone SE to my iPad Pro 9.7. I actually prefer ck on iPhone because it has a portrait thing so I cannot hold my iPad comfortable. But I have my iPhone wich works even better with this game. I had to reset the game at one point but that is okay. I don’t remember why I did that. Probably I just felt for it. I love the new treasure chest quests. I like the way the game gets harder and harder, but still easier. I bought the boost thing to be able to use boosts without watching the ads. This means that I have a headstart when I start over. I will get back to where I were. Keep up the good work, Michelle.

see my saved game data, the copper awe quest I have for 2000000 copper awe has this problem. In case it makes a difference I am using the alex voice with VoiceOver.
to be clear the problem is that when you flick to the right of the quest the number for progress is read as digits, as well then as the target number of 2 million, so when you first read the quest the title sell 2000000 copper awe is read correctly its when you flick to the right that the digits begin being spoken.
I have another quest in my current saved game data with this issue, sell 100000 wool.

I don't want an easier game, what's the point of making the game easier I mean easier you make the game quicker its over, sorry but suck it up and sell the salt lol, I am not looking forward to selling lots of armor but do you see me complaining? haha no.

Hi Michelle:

Thanks for adding me to the beta. I have accepted the invite, and am now enjoying the game beyond what was expected. Keep up that great work

My e-mail is christeljohn18@icloud.com

My email is brandibryant86@gmail.com

Hello I had a quick question about this date does anybody know how to figure out what level it is that when you are playing or looking at it just was curious and also another question do I keep the quest that I have not finished if I restart

Hi Michelle, wondering can you explain how crafting kingdom works on the iPhone x? given that it has no home button, and things like multi finger VoiceOver gestures don't work within crafting kingdom meaning for example 4 finger swipes to move between open apps won't work. also how will the lack of a home button be overcome in crafting kingdom? given that gestures for opening the app switcher and going to the home screen mean sliding up from the bottom of the screen which is different to flicking.

Also, I sent you some feedback about a numbers bug I discovered with the non VoiceOver speech and numbers, did you get that message? I haven't had any replies to my feedback from you for some time.
I also just noticed another weird numbers bug, this is that VoiceOver speaks the number 767 as digits so 7 6 7.

Hi guys. Crafting Kingdom works just as well on an iPhone X as it does on any other iOS device. As for the home button gesture, unlike within VO, simply do a quick swipe up from the bottom to get back to your home screen. Hold your finger after swiping to get to your app switcher. Hope this helps.

Hi, Michelle:
I have mentioned previously the issue about enabling and disabling accessibility mode. For some reason, it works to disable the accessibility mode but when you wish to enable it the three finger triple tap won't work. I have had to ask for sighted assistance in order to get back into the game. Thank you in advance for your attention and help.
Kind regards.

Hi Michelle and everyone,
Thank you so much for a great game! I seem to be running into something you may have already addressed, I just cannot seem to find anyone else running into the problem in my cursory glance of the most recent comments.
I have completed two of the quests requiring 5 million product to be sold, giving a reward of 50% cheaper automation. My first quest I believe did give the desired reward, as my first lumberyard slot was costing me 40 gold coins after I completed that quest (considering some other cheaper automation quests I had already completed which were in effect). However, after completing the second 5 million sale quest and resetting, my first lumberyard slot is still 40 gold to automate. This has temporarily stalled my gameplay since it took such a long time for me to sell the 5 million that I wanted to see if you had any ideas before I continued. I would be interested to know if anyone else has encountered this.

Thank you!