Using the dredge in multiplayer

I love this dredge, it makes the game for me. My question is, is there anyway we can use it in MP? I have a small server usually 2 people and we would like to incorporate the mod. Is there any chance of making it MP compatible?

Short answer: officially not yet, the dredge is singleplayer only for now. 🛠️ We haven't tested it with a second player ourselves, so I can't promise anything.

Have you already tried it on your two-player server? Whatever happened, please send us the log.txt from the host right away (the server log, if you run a dedicated one) and tell us what you saw, for example the dredge doesn't spawn, only one of you can use it, or an error comes up. Then we can look at it before we decide anything.

Thanks for the kind words, glad the dredge keeps the game interesting. ⛏️

Thanks for the response. It would not even load onto my gportal server. After i try to upload i get a message that says Mod has no multi player support. I have not tried it hosting through my PC

Thanks for the screenshot, that explains it 👍

That message comes from the mod, not from GPortal. The dredge is marked as singleplayer only in its modDesc (multiplayer supported="false"), and a dedicated server refuses every mod with that mark on upload. Hosting from your PC won't get around it either: when you set up a multiplayer game, FS25 only lists mods that support multiplayer, so the dredge won't show up there.

The mark is there on purpose. The dredge runs a lot of its own logic: the bucket chain, the washing plant and gold output, the crane, the spuds. We have never tested any of that with a second player, so switching multiplayer on blindly would most likely give you a dredge that behaves differently on each screen.

Your request is noted. I can't give you a date yet, but if multiplayer support comes, you'll read it in the changelog and here in this thread first ⛏️

Quick follow-up from me 🙂 Would you and your buddy be up for testing a multiplayer test build of the dredge on your GPortal server? We'd do a first round here on our side, then send you a test version. All we'd need from you is a short report of what you both see, and the log.txt from the server and from both players. No promises it works on the first try, that's exactly what the test is for ⛏️

100 percent we would love to test it, have a perfect place for it on yukon valley

Hey minter357, that sounds awesome! 🙌 Yes, I'd love to test all our mods in multiplayer on your server. Yukon Valley sounds like the perfect spot.

Honestly, I just don't have the time to run and manage a server myself right now, so this helps us a lot.

Please send me a DM/PM with the server IP and whatever else I need to join, and we'll set it up. 😊

Best regards, looking forward to it!
Tommy