# Crafting bug in .71 causing infinite loop

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/crafting-bug-in-71-causing-infinite-loop/2662>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [August 11, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/crafting-bug-in-71-causing-infinite-loop/2662 "2013-08-11T17:56:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![youtoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/779978/32.png) [@youtoo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/youtoo)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/crafting-bug-in-71-causing-infinite-loop/2662/1 "2013-08-11T17:56:23Z")

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happens when you map craft until finish  
happens when you are making clean water and doing it next to a never ending water source like a river.

There is an inventory bug in .71 where multiple inventory items appear to have the same letter. I am ‘auto crafting’ clean water. I have a plastic bottle that is set to ‘a’, when I press ‘a’ it says that ‘your mp3 player cant hold water’

This has happened in the past when I was not auto crafting and then crafting stops. The resolution is to drop and pick up the item.  
However, I am now stuck in an infinite loop.

Goes to inventory screen  
press ‘a’ for plastic bottle. quickly flash back to inventory screen with the error about mp3 player above  
if i hit ‘escape’ it asks if I want to pour water on the ground. Doesnt matter if I press Y/N. Goes back to inventory screen.

looks like auto-craft continues until you run out of something and no way to break this since I dont have a valid inventory number for my plastic bottles and I will never run out of water.

NOTE: Ended when the fire went out. Luckily it didnt last that long.

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**Author:** ![HeadWar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/headwar/32/2685_2.png) [@HeadWar](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/HeadWar)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2013, 8:33am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/crafting-bug-in-71-causing-infinite-loop/2662/2 "2013-08-12T08:33:37Z")

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Did that next to a RV kitchen…

(There’s a thread about it in the bug forum.)