Mining Issues

Teawan

We have the following situation:



Issue A.) Why are the two mines not generating stairs? They love to jump, but why?

Issue B.) The Guys are packing them self with Iron but they are not dropping it.
- There are two designated Iron stockpiles
- Yes one is full but they ignored it anyway. The other is pretty empty
- They are working until they are fully packed with Iron. Then they do nothing

In general the Bricktrons are faster now, but a lot less intelligent!

They are often waiting without any reason while building. I try to find out why and update you later on.

And the save: see attached file

Teawan

Ok, after quitting the game to desktop and loading this save again all stairs are done BUT not the one with the iron ore in it.

So they can't pass the iron ore block anymore.

I digged that voxel by hand, now they can use the quarry but need to jump anytime the go up or down.

And why aren't they fill the fullest stock pile first anymore? So there is stone in two to four stock piles but none is full so tho others can build?
Same for the Builders - they take some stone here and some there, but not use the one with the smallest number of stones so the miners can put their dirt there to generate new stones.

Shatojon

Hey Teawan,

Very strange. It could have something to do with you placing a quarry inside of another quarry?

Maybe the tree stumps are causing some issue?

Hopefully we can find how to reproduce that issue.

Teawan

The save is attached. I do not think that there are things in the way. This set up was so basic.
I was just trying different thinks out.

CastleBuilder

I've actually tried to put a quarry, inside of another quarry right next to a crystal to boot, and the only issue I encounter is MASSIVE frame rate drops.

mrmoo90

I'm actually having the same issue. Regardless of the quarry's dimensions and where I build it, there seems to be an issue with generating the stairs. The first 2 stair blocks may generate, but the third may be a solid block that they cannot climb over. This has happened with every quarry without fail. When I try replacing the solid blocks with stone stair blocks, the bricktrons have incredible difficulty path finding to where the stone stairs should be placed.

mrmoo90

Example: Trying to navigate Bricktron out of quarry but unable due to missing stair blocks

Shatojon

Thanks guys! Forwarding this to QA.

CastleBuilder

Might be a little too late for this but I've finally been encountering this too. It seems that for me issues start appearing when clumps of dirt land on the stairs to a quarry. As the stairs to the quarry transform into actual blocks from the dropped clumps. And like in Teawon's pic, blocks of iron appear when clumps of iron fall and are not picked up.

This for some reason breaks the Bricktron's pathfinding, and sometimes it destroys staircases to quarries as well. I'd post a save where this happens but I deleted them out of frustration.