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?
Hand Crank stopped functioning
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What kind of Hand Crank are you using?
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The IC2 one doesn't have an animation does it? It's just a cube
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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.
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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)
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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).
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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.
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Also note that it consumes your food bar and won't work if you're too hungry.
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The food bar might be it. I figured it was something like that and not an actual bug or anything.