Beavers stuck at pile or warehouse re-arranging (take and put back) logs or other items

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Builders are stuck at entrance of Large Pile (Logs), just standing there and picking up and dropping off logs for the whole workday, when the next building in the queue is a Large Warehouse, that was set to Empty instead of Accept Goods preemptively before completion. Other buildings in the queue are not being built because of this either.
I guess this is very logical in the code (not transporting goods to a storage set to empty), just a missed edgecase to only apply this logic after the completion of a storage.

Done Bug Suggested by: Aaftorn (12 Dec, '22) • Upvoted: 04 Feb • Comments: 39

Comments: 39

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09 Dec, '22
Mathyell Merged
Hi,
in my current game with folk tails in experimental mode I have recently opened my 2. district. There I have a strange situation with some or all of my builders standing in front of one log pile or the other, picking up one or two logs and putting them back immediately. This is repeated until the end of the beavers working time and even keeps them from starting new building tasks.

I'll also send send a save game for you to see the behaviour to logs@mechanistry.com
The beavers behave the same after closing the game and restarting the save.
10 Dec, '22
Steven Merged
I had four log piles around the map and multiple buildings that needed built but the 4 building beaver from the Town Center would just get stuck in the log piles picking up logs and putting them right back down in the pile.
1. They made no progress on any buildings.
2. trying to disable or delete a log pile just caused them to go to another one and do the same thing.
3. Emptying a log pile would cause them to move all the logs to another pile and then have the same issue there.
4. Emptying a log pile while there is no where to move the logs would cause the pile to empty and the logs to disappear.
14 Dec, '22
Gin Fuyou Admin Merged
Should have been fixed by now
14 Dec, '22
Gin Fuyou Admin Merged
"[Experimental][Bug]Beavers get stuck rearranging logs at log piles" (suggested by Steven on 2022-12-10), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
16 Dec, '22
Torres Merged
beavers move around logs in the same pile for no reason
17 Dec, '22
Martin Merged
when large pile set to store planks beavers stand at it and shuffle stock around
17 Dec, '22
Joel Merged
Evening,

I am having the same issue, only with my farmer's and carrots, I would assume they will do this for other crops too
17 Dec, '22
Gin Fuyou Admin Merged
Opening up again since issue was not completely resolved by patches.
Please, make sure your game is updated to latest main branch version and send your save files that have this problem: https://mechanistry.com/bug
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19 Dec, '22
DutchPro Merged
Basically for some reason around 10 beavers are constantly putting in and taking out resources. I had this happen to grilled potatos and bread so far.
It hovers between 30-180 and they literally just stand there.
https://youtu.be/G7P7VpBSAVM sorry for the video format :O No big deal, just wanted to share this for possible bugfixing

Have a wonderful day (and holidays!)
20 Dec, '22
Gin Fuyou Admin
"bug: beavers are rearanging the new storage for no reason" (suggested by Torres on 2022-12-16), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
20 Dec, '22
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Large Pile Freakout" (suggested by Martin on 2022-12-17), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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21 Dec, '22
Gustavo Poblete
Happends the same to me, beavers keeps in the entrance of the pile, small or large
23 Dec, '22
Gin Fuyou Admin
"New medium warehouse bug" (suggested by DutchPro on 2022-12-19), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
23 Dec, '22
Giedrius Merged
I have updated game and started new game. I now have two districts and in the second I have large pile. When it started to fill up I deleted path of second district and placed path to first to empty this pile. After that I switched paths back and now this happens: https://youtu.be/wis1KoDxtq0
Beavers from first district comes to the same pile, takes goods and instantly places back. This repeats constantly.
25 Dec, '22
Mathyell Merged
have the same bug again (save file in your inbox) - this time in the main version of the game (not experimental). By now I did observe this erratic behaviour only in a new district - for some reason my beavers in the home district have a better work organization.
26 Dec, '22
Gin Fuyou Admin
"[Bug] Builers stand in front of a log pile picking up some wood an putting it back directly" (suggested by Mathyell on 2022-12-09), including upvotes (3) and comments (5), was merged into this suggestion.
26 Dec, '22
Charles Ferguson Merged
Playing with the experimental branch (which is probably the same as the regular branch) I've twice seen problems with the log pile filling/emptying. The symptom is a (or multiple, I'm not sure) beaver will go to the log pile and the number on the pile will rapidly increase and decrease +/- 15 or so. This has happened both with the small pile and the medium pile - once I saw it with logs and once I saw it with planks.

I tried to capture a video of it happening - it didn't quite capture the insanity, as the numbers in reality changed many more times per second than is visible here. The beavers wouldn't leave. I tried pausing all the woodcutter flags, and pausing the district center, but this didn't stop things. Eventually night fell, and the beavers left.

Hopefully this video will be accessible:

https://share.gerph.org/s/RQVUZ4EjnGZGTXs
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27 Dec, '22
JackofKell Merged
On the latest update, when I have storage between two districts both attempt to take from that storage. BOTH districts send beavers to take from the storage. But only one can. So it happens that there is a long line of bevers that just stand there repetitively taking and putting back inventory.
27 Dec, '22
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Strange behavior of beavers from another district with large pile (video)" (suggested by Giedrius on 2022-12-23), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
29 Dec, '22
Phoenix Merged
If game runs long, beavers go to Mid warehouse take explosives out then put it back. It make lots of beavers come and go, but do nothing.
Restart game can help.
01 Jan, '23
Straud Merged
https://youtu.be/qiGzIctwVbY
Additional information:
One Distribution post in this district with four instances of metal blocks at 0 - infinite ratio.
The industrial pile the metal blocks are being transferred between are in the same district.
There are two hauling posts, one regular beavers and one bots.
01 Jan, '23
Blake Merged
Haulers keep taking and putting back recources constantly from storages. I have made the warehouse take stuff in from other storages to fill it up.
01 Jan, '23
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Pile filling problem with update 3 (experimental branch)" (suggested by Charles Ferguson on 2022-12-26), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
01 Jan, '23
Gin Fuyou Admin Merged
That's is not the case, beavers don't use buildings from other districts.
01 Jan, '23
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Bug: Districting/storage" (suggested by JackofKell on 2022-12-27), including upvotes (1) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.
01 Jan, '23
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Bugs about Mid warehouse store explosives" (suggested by Phoenix on 2022-12-29), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
02 Jan, '23
Joey Merged
Fix the Timber Bot Bug where if you have a hauling post the Timber Bots keep taking and placing while not going anywhere.
03 Jan, '23
Gin Fuyou Admin
"[BUG] infinite item redistribution" (suggested by Straud on 2023-01-01), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
03 Jan, '23
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Storage bug" (suggested by Blake on 2023-01-01), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
03 Jan, '23
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Timber Bot Bug" (suggested by Joey on 2023-01-02), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
04 Jan, '23
Dizzy Beaver
Similar problem.

When asking transporters to ''fill'' a storage, they will start frantically pick the ressource and put it back very fast. Happened with carrots, scrap metal, maby more that I haven't noticed.

It's like they think ''I must feed this storage. I will pick ressources from here and put it in this storage.''

But ''source'' and ''deposit'' is the same storage.

Currently this bug is happening with a storage for which I change pathway to a different district. Maby that helps figuring what's wrong.

Update : The guilty transporters seems to be comming from the wrong, nextby district.
07 Jan, '23
David G. Merged
After having selected the "Empty" options on the Medium Warehouse, when switching back to "Accept" delivering Beavers can get stuck in the doorway constantly rearranging the items (has happened with both logs and planks). The only way to "fix" the glitch in-game is to set it to "empty" and that will clear the stuck beavers. However, this reduces the versatility of the Medium Warehouse compared to the apparent design.
08 Jan, '23
HootzMcToke
I'm having the same issue here's a YouTube video

https://youtu.be/dtrDdAv4rz4
11 Jan, '23
Mads Høj Merged
When i move logs (or other goods) from one pile to another pile, the bevers just stand in the dooropning taking out stuff and putting stuff back.
17 Jan, '23
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Moving goods from pile to pile" (suggested by Mads Høj on 2023-01-11), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
17 Jan, '23
Gin Fuyou Admin
This should be solved by recent patch
17 Jan, '23
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Medium Warehouse Bug" (suggested by David G. on 2023-01-07), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
06 Jul, '23
C2211
Bug has appeared for me again
04 Feb
Stacy
Started for me yesterday. Builders won't build anything that requires logs or planks because they get stuck grabbing the materials.