Transaction out of gas with Remix and Metamask

Question

I'm trying to deploy a contract with Remix and Metamask but I get this error every time I'm trying to do it. creation of ICODeployer errored: Error: [ethjs-query] while formatting outputs from RPC '{"value":{"code":-32010,"message":"Transaction cost exceeds current gas limit. Limit: 12487794, got: 13119230. Try decreasing supplied gas."}}'

I don't know why might be the problem since yesterday I tested it and everything was working correctly. I set a lower gas limit in Metamask(below 12487794) but the contract will fail deploying. When I look at the transaction on etherscan, it is same error "Out of gas". This is the link to the transaction.https://kovan.etherscan.io/tx/0x58b73cde126056e9b9cbab251dfdba89d81c1633bc235e8b80f85062c86d70bb

How can I manage this error? I already tried modifying the gas cost in Metamask to a lower value and the gas limit in remix to a higher value but it's not working. Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

Change testnet, the gas limit per block is not constant and currently on Kovan is about 12.500.000. Yesterday this limit was higher, apparently.

Here you can see the gas limit of the latest blocks.

However, even if the gas limit per block in the mainnet was great enough your transaction would cost thousands of dollars with the current gas price and Ether price. I suggest to optimize the contract, it consumes too much gas.