# \[Res\] Promoting Footman Causes Infinite Error Loop

**URL:** <https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/res-promoting-footman-causes-infinite-error-loop/6987>\
**Category:** Resolved Reports\
**Tags:** resolved\
**Created:** [August 20, 2014, 12:45am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/res-promoting-footman-causes-infinite-error-loop/6987 "2014-08-20T00:45:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![Aklick01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Aklick01](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/Aklick01)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 12:45am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/res-promoting-footman-causes-infinite-error-loop/6987/1 "2014-08-20T00:45:09Z")

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This is in Alpha 4 build. After a worker picked a sword up the game just starting listing a bunch of errors and the number next to the " ! " in the red diamond just kept going up. Then after the number got to about 4000 I could close the window but the game was very laggy but I could scroll around the map without lag. I could not access the menu to save or exit the game. Eventually the game just crashed.

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**Author:** ![SteveAdamo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/steveadamo/32/13955_2.png) [@SteveAdamo](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/SteveAdamo)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 12:49am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/res-promoting-footman-causes-infinite-error-loop/6987/2 "2014-08-20T00:49:05Z")

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hi there @Aklick01… any chance you can reproduce (and list) the exact steps? or capture a screenshot perhaps?

thanks!

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**Author:** ![Avairian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/avairian/32/47084_2.png) [@Avairian](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/Avairian)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 12:50am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/res-promoting-footman-causes-infinite-error-loop/6987/3 "2014-08-20T00:50:27Z")

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I believe this is the bug @sdee was mentioning that ended up in the release. If so they are working on fixing it now.

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**Author:** ![woollysmash](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/woollysmash/32/12545_2.png) [@woollysmash](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/woollysmash)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 12:54am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/res-promoting-footman-causes-infinite-error-loop/6987/4 "2014-08-20T00:54:14Z")

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Just thought I’d mention that when a footman joins your group from a caravan. I believe the same bug occurs although you don’t get the red screen but the game slows down so much that it nearly stops. I tried to save and load but the game crashed on loading that same save…

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**Author:** ![Aklick01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Aklick01](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/Aklick01)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 12:55am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/res-promoting-footman-causes-infinite-error-loop/6987/5 "2014-08-20T00:55:16Z")

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The second time the list appeared a bit later then when it happened the first time.  
but when I did got the errors I just simply clicked on the citizens list then a worker, promote, footman, and finally approve. And once the worker picked up the sword the list of errors appeared.[screen shot of list of errors, that number in the top left just keeps going up](http://i.imgur.com/Rc8rHKF.jpg)

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**Author:** ![wyre6330](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5fc32e/32.png) [@wyre6330](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/wyre6330)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 1:15am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/res-promoting-footman-causes-infinite-error-loop/6987/6 "2014-08-20T01:15:08Z")

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Yeah the same for me. When I had a footman join me I got the error message

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/stonehearth/original/3X/0/e/0e81f3909b75b03d1197131726b36517e65b8d75.PNG)

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**Author:** ![Lomico](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/lomico/32/12930_2.png) [@Lomico](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/Lomico)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 3:05am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/res-promoting-footman-causes-infinite-error-loop/6987/7 "2014-08-20T03:05:43Z")

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I can confirm that the footman joining you settlement slows the whole game down to a standstill, and a save/re-load causes unending errors

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**Author:** ![woollysmash](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/woollysmash/32/12545_2.png) [@woollysmash](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/woollysmash)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 3:07am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/res-promoting-footman-causes-infinite-error-loop/6987/8 "2014-08-20T03:07:26Z")

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@Lomico Try updating it there was a hotfix… and although I still feel the footmen aren’t working properly this error seems to be solved.

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**Author:** ![Lomico](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/lomico/32/12930_2.png) [@Lomico](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/Lomico)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 3:15am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/res-promoting-footman-causes-infinite-error-loop/6987/9 "2014-08-20T03:15:06Z")

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@woollysmash sweet, hadn’t seen that. and yeah, my save loads fine now! no slowdown either

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**Author:** ![woollysmash](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/woollysmash/32/12545_2.png) [@woollysmash](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/woollysmash)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 3:16am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/res-promoting-footman-causes-infinite-error-loop/6987/10 "2014-08-20T03:16:22Z")

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Edit\* Lomico Ninja’d it haha.

Here is the link where we discussed it and the fix… [Click me!](http://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/dev-blog-alpha-4-official-release/6984/19?u=woollysmash)

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**Author:** ![sdee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/sdee/32/65441_2.png) [@sdee](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/sdee)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/res-promoting-footman-causes-infinite-error-loop/6987/11 "2014-08-20T17:21:17Z")

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Sorry about this one; it crept into our last release at the last minute. @Albert heroically smashed it last night, so it should be fixed in the current build.