1.0B Hotfix on the Experimental Branch

I am still getting a crash any time I try and dissect a fishperson corpse - is that still a Mac specific thing? I've literally never had a build where that action didn't kill the game.

 

Any news on what ever may be causing colonists to spontaneously haul goods off to the middle of the wilderness and dump them?

Frequently seeing it happen with butchering corpses and a colonist will pick up the raw food and then walk in a seemingly random direction for a short time then drop it on the floor and stroll off back to the colony.

Also had it happen once or twice with a colonist dumping planks just outside the colony... but mostly it's the butchering instances that are the most noticeable as it completely murders kitchen output, especially if something eats the raw food that got dumped in the arse middle of nowhere before someone from the kitchen slowly prances over to pick it up.

If it helps attached a 1.0 replay, console and save where I've had it happen yesterday. Though seem to recall it was something reported a few times recently and so is probably a known issue, just raising it again as it wasn't mentioned for the todo list and is kinda a biggy as far as impact on the player goes in situations where you're heavily reliant on hunting for food but 8 out of 10 of your butchered raw food gets eaten by wild critters after a colonist just dumps in randomly.

 

+1 on the random dumping thing.
I've seen it happen a lot with stuff like mine shorings and ammo too.

 

When i took a look at such incidents it always resolved to a path finding error . The drop item behaviour was actually a follow up error.
From the console.txt it always looked like

Code:

 
walk_to_adjacent_position_for_item_drop
=> triggers a series of pathing_start, pathing_walking...
One of the pathing_ events cannot compute a valid path after 4 retries => abort

Drop item is then triggered by executing the NEXT job due to require_empty_hands

But that was for workshop jobs only, i didn't look at butchering

 

Just had a really random and frustrating case of it happening resuming from the previously attached save. Morning had just started and kitchen staff go collect raw food from where it was left on the farm plot and an nearby source of yesterdays random wilderness dumpage.

Whilst hauling the raw food to the kitchen a critter turns aggressive and charges into the middle of the colony attacking anything it can before a combination of my military and naturalists gun it down.

My two kitchen staff on needing to flee walk at a leisurely pace off into the wilderness a good mile or more with the job of "Drop item". Certainly not the only trigger condition for this but it definitely seems to be something broken with the "Drop item" behaviour that's used in a lot of different situations that is causing colonists to pick a seemingly random point in the wilderness to dump the item they're carrying.



Attached the files that cover this more recent case of it happening with the aggro critter which should be much easier to track and see what's going on.

 

Much deseved, seriously. I'd say a post launch week off is in order at least for everyone.

 

Lightning speed

 

Works like a charm.

Naturalist now hunts, kills, butchers then hauls it to stockpile, and perhaps unconnected but all my colonists on loading the save promptly hauled all the random dumpage straight to stockpile where before it was left there for who knows how long.

Cheers 'Guv!

Now enjoy that day off and try wrangle it so it extends to the following week. Definitely due at least a weeks break at this point.

 

Minor but made me chuckle, when placing a rally point for a barracks the top window that holds the 'done' button for the order actually says "Place decorative plant".

 

Actually that is a very snide item,it will become standard military issue.

 

I can't find the option to make rugs anywhere in the carpentry workshop, I have carpentry workbenches, workbenches and decor workbenches and I can't see the option to make one in any of them. Yet I know I've made some recently in the EA builds, am I missing something?

 

You have to research carpets now.

 

I just came after building a lab and discovering this to amend my post, but you're too quick! Cheers Tiki

 

Another tiny little observation that I hadn't noticed until today as I rarely use the minimap to move the camera, but when you move the camera using the minimap it resets your camera distance to some arbitrary default value every time.

As far as things go, probably right down the list of "Things to be bothered about" right next to something like any potential 0.3ms gap between ambient track transitions. But figured if there's a list somewhere of things to get someone less trustworthy to do whilst Nicolas is taking a break, might be something to add to the end of it.

 

Hey the old "Random dumping" bug has a fix now ! Huzzah! That one has been annoying me for awhile.