Hand Crank stopped functioning

digiholic · October 5, 2015 at 5:22 AM

I was attempting to use my hand crank to charge up my Mining Drill in a Bat Box, but it suddenly stopped turning. The animation isn't playing and the energy is not converting. I have it positioned next to a Kinetic Generator, which is next to a BatBox. Do hand cranks break? Am I missing something? Do I need to re-build a new crank every once in a while?

Aroma1997 · October 5, 2015 at 1:53 PM Official Post

What kind of Hand Crank are you using?

Chocohead · October 5, 2015 at 4:04 PM Official Post

The IC2 one doesn't have an animation does it? It's just a cube

digiholic · October 6, 2015 at 4:11 AM

It's the manual Kinetic Generator, a lever and a machine block. There's no animation on the block, but the arm waving back and forth doesn't happen either. Sometimes I can run it, sometimes I can't.

SpwnX · October 6, 2015 at 4:29 AM Official Post

You don't need a lever or anything. You just need to rightclick the manual kinetic gen with your empty hand (or make something else do so for you)

MauveCloud · October 6, 2015 at 5:32 AM

digiholic might have been referring to the lever used in the crafting recipe for the manual kinetic generator (since there was also a mention of the machine block).

digiholic · October 6, 2015 at 5:36 AM

Yeah, it's just a normal Manual Kinetic Generator, hooked up to a Kinetic Energy Generator, hooked up to a BatBox. Sometimes I can crank it and it gives me power, but other times it won't work. No hand waving animation, if I have something in my hand that has a right click effect, it will do that instead, etc. and it won't start working again for a few minutes.

SpwnX · October 6, 2015 at 3:27 PM Official Post

Also note that it consumes your food bar and won't work if you're too hungry.

digiholic · October 6, 2015 at 5:19 PM

The food bar might be it. I figured it was something like that and not an actual bug or anything.

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