Villagers Drop what hey are carrying

[dasclay]

I notice this happens when the season changes, sometimes during the Save game, or when they are hungry/water. They just drop whatever is being carried.
I'm sure someone has posted about this, but I didn't search too deeply.

[dasclay]

:(

[SgtScum]

Workers abandoning menial tasks because they get distracted is a commonly reported issue. At times they will be literally just a few steps or labor ticks away from finishing their task and then they go off to eat or stock the house or gawk at the cows in the fields across the road. I'm sure the ai snaggles will get worked out over time but probably not a huge priority atm since optimization and bug fixes are primary right now. Stuff like this will probably be in a few months when the majority of game breakers and overly annoying stuff gets fixed.

[winslm]

When you have a fire they leave water buckets all over...

[Don Cool]

Originally posted by SgtScum:

Stuff like this will probably be in a few months when the majority of game breakers and overly annoying stuff gets fixed.

To me villager AI is the number one bug, go play Dawn of Man and you will understand why, that game had the AI as priority from the beginning, it´s far easier to deal with number juggling than actually creating an AI that does as you expect.

The two games are very similar in many aspects, Dawn of Man also deals far better with raids which are identical to Farthest Frontier. You create a focus point, two or three, all villagers grab a weapon which you can visually see and off they they go to defend those points, when the villagers are done defending they will head to the storehouse to deposit the weapon and grab whatever tool they need for their current job. Actually everything any villager does is visually telegraphed.

A villager in Dawn of Man will however die trying to carry out your specific orders, be it hunting or picking up an item in the far reaches. They will also gather materials from various places if near them to finish a construction.

[Dallas]

Originally posted by winslm:

When you have a fire they leave water buckets all over...

This is so crazy sometimes it's funny. The worst aspect is if you have a stockyard anywhere on the map with water storage enabled, they will fill your stockyard with water leaving no room for anything else. I'm sure the devs will have a fix for it in an update soon.

[Djsstorm]

They actually did this right as a fire broke out and the season switched to winter. They dropped their water buckets and went home leaving the building to burn down. Hope that gets fixed soon.

[dusecutter]

Originally posted by Djsstorm:

They actually did this right as a fire broke out and the season switched to winter. They dropped their water buckets and went home leaving the building to burn down. Hope that gets fixed soon.

That happened to me, too. Mill caught on fire. Season changed to winter. Helplessly watched my mill burn down. Fortunately, I bought two Heavy Tools so I had a spare.

[SgtScum]

Winter fires are annoying but they have only happened rarely to me. Rebuild and move on.