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The Waterdeep Gond Forge seems be broken. After lighting the fire, it doesnt progress. Fire stays lite, doesnt get hotter or go out for several minutes, then it the fire just dies. Tantras forge seems to be working perfectly.

This has happened before. Typically a mud restart fixes this. Let's hope for one in the near future!

Would someone who uses this give me another detailed account of what goes wrong and when with this?

The object has a very detailed program and so I would love to be able to pinpoint the problem amid the pages of data.

Thanks!

This is what I've observed over the last couple of years (please note, I haven't seen this being a major problem recently, but I think it's probably due to the fairly regular copyovers which may fix it temporarily).

When the forge is working as it should be, after adding coal and lighting, the forge will give a fairly regular echo relating to it heating up and burning the coal. As long as you keep adding coal every so often and don't let it go out, it will keep returning those echoes at a regular rate (typically around 10-15 seconds between each at a guesstimate).

When the forge is not working as it should, the gap between the echoes of heating up vary wildly in timing. Sometimes you will get 3 or 4 in the space of around 5 seconds, then there will be no echo for long periods. I haven't timed this, but it's LONG. I've stood staring at it for several minutes at a time. Then suddenly there will be several echoes in a row within a few seconds of each other.

The problem this creates is that it makes it nearly impossible to monitor the temperature gauge to know when to add more coal to increase it at a steady state, and you often end up ruining the metal by it becoming too hot.

I hope this helps. I can post something here the next time I notice it being like this if it will help.

Edited to add: I've never seen this happen with the Tantras forge. Could it be because it's not used as often?

Okay. So you have to watch it the whole time? I mean to ask, could I reset it after you leave without messing something up?

I'd make a lever to reset it when the forging is done because its possible to misstype and exit or sometimes you go in groups and people come and go. There is an option to clean the forge to empty it out instead of casting, that command might be expanded to reset the room too.

I have added an emergency release lever (look commands for usage info). Please let me know how this turns out.