Pals just won't transport farm items

[DemonchanSama (Lilyia)]

I went so far as to get some Helzephyr's ((Literally only job they can do is transporting)) for my bases and they just don't transport items most of the time, and I've been having this issue with a lot of different pals, not sure if its because specific pal, or if it just doesn't recognize to pick up the wheat off the ground and put it somewhere. The Feed box has plenty of space in it to accommodate newer items.

[Lord Tony]

eggs carry salmonella you don't want your pals to get sick

wool is the sheep's clothing it's impolite to touch their clothes without consent.

And don't even get me started on the milk.

[Commander Joir]

might be also a bug with pathfinding, have sometimes all my pals do nothing, not planting, watering, farming etc. But when i started to pick up a couple of things, they starting working again, inclusive bringing stuff from the farm. Sometimes it happens i can relog in and it is fixed since it respawn them. Altho i play singelplayer save. or they just stand there looking at nothing and then respawn at palbox.

[Mystichaze]

The proximity of the storage to the place you want the pals to deposit is of great importance. I find using pals with 2-3 storage level work best and using at least 1 for every route you have of gathering, if the Pal has to pick up at 10 or more locations it bugs out the path finding. Try to simplify it or you overwhelm the Pal path finding. Also don't try to Farm, Mine, Cook, Craft, etc. all at once. Pick an activity and leave it to just that then switch!

[DemonchanSama (Lilyia)]

Originally posted by Bullslayer:

i use mostly smaller pals as transporters, the bigger ones constantly get stuck on stuff.. I dont hold the ai pathing against the devs, having delved into unreal myself a lot of coding in it is visual drag and drop node based so not the traditional coding most think off, unreal has a lot built in from the start so i imagine they are just trying to use that.

I agree, I don't hold it against them either, they've done a phenomenal job for the small team they have plus learning how to create the game while creating it.

[Crim]

Man, reading this and experiencing similar
but like also for everything

They so so so so so badly need to make pathing upgrades

Also... WHY ARE TREES SO HARD?
I mean... Tree Tops have extremely rigid bodies, that allows pretty much anything to stand on tree tops... Which helps things get stuck up on them... Make it so that the top of trees are 'softer' and allows for things to 'clip' thru it ffs

[The Grand Mugwump]

The issue with pals not picking up farm drops has gotten better with the last patch. Transporting pals used to stand on the farms forever until the player picked up the harvest.

I think what's happening now is that transporting is not a high priority task. Pals which have multiple jobs, including transporting, will drop whatever they are carrying to do a higher priority task (like eating, taking a break, logging, mining, etc.) The best solution I can offer is get a pal who only transports.

It's also a bad idea to keep the logging and stone pit buildings after building them for the base upgrade. They distract the few pals we have from other, more useful jobs at that point in the game. Those buildings become much more useful when bases can have 15+ pals on them at higher work levels.

[Zerixar]

Was a solution to this ever found? I have had a base fhat worked perfectly for the last like 3 weeks. there have been no changes to layout or composition. today randomly none of my pals are capable of transporting farm items. the second a crop is harvested they will all glitch out in a pile staring at it until I pick it up. doesn't matter which plot (i've tested between 1 and 7, destroyed and rebuilt all, removed/readded all pals, rebooted server and client, everything i can think of). This is pretty gamebreaking.

[SL Eranok]

Its a pathing problem between your farm and the place where they are supposed to place the food. I believe that pals cannot transport stuff while doing downstairs. Worst case, just put the farms & feeding basked close to each other.

[DemonchanSama (Lilyia)]

Originally posted by SLǂEranok:

Its a pathing problem between your farm and the place where they are supposed to place the food. I believe that pals cannot transport stuff while doing downstairs. Worst case, just put the farms & feeding basked close to each other.

This is what I did for testing purposes and they still bug out even if both are directly next to each other. Its like they are trying to pick up the item, but can't.

[Pyro Penguin]

Originally posted by DemonchanSama (Lilyia):

Okay so something I noticed, my Dazzi is picking up farm items, but my zeph is just being useless.

I have plenty of room for them to get to the farm items to obtain them, he literally just won't pick up any farm crops.

Do pals _Lock_ items when they're in route to obtain/transport/move them to prevent other pals from interacting with them for efficiency?

i think they do, one bug i used to see but havent encountered in a while involved all of my item transporting pals gathering in a circle around the harvested berries but not picking them up, with the lightbulb popping above their heads repeatedly

i never really did anything to fix it, i assumed it was fixed by the first base ai patch, but maybe there's more to it

[Tymon]

I have the exact same problem with Farms actually. I've literally had five pals standing on top of a farm attempting to 'transport' the berries, but none of them could pick them up for some reason. The second I walked over the berries and picked them up myself, they all scattered to do other things. It isn't a consistent problem for me however. Sometimes they can pick things up just fine, other times? Nope.

[loabearwolf]

Had the same issue, until i saw a thread regarding path finding. Destroyed the ranches and spread them out more, about 1 1/2 foundation squares between them and anything else, no issues now.

Edit, don't build a storage box or anything else in the opening of the ranch, put them to the side as had issues with that as well.

[Whispdragoon62]

Originally posted by magickmynd:

I find that flying type transport pals don't do a great job transporting no matter what you do. Either they will consistently pick up and then drop tons of items in the same spot, get stuck on things like your statue of power or logging area, or they just won't pick up anything.

Try something that walks and transports like Hangyu or Mossanda. They do a much better job.

I was having a similar issues with transport pals in my mining base not picking up ore and once I threw Hangyus in instead, went perfectly.

Alot of the time they are actually picking up and dropping off without it being noticable. They can pickup/deposit I would say about 2meters away.

I've seen them spinning and depositing 30stone per second into a container.

I think on the Ranch they get stuck on the fence. Its VERY IMPORTANT that the container you wish to receive items is directly across from the opening on the ranch.

[TheeWARIO]

"" (Fixed) Found out mine was this""
I know this was back in February, but I was having this issue for a while and didn't know what to do, and so I found this forum.

But then I figured mine out while I was reading 😆, so just incase someone reads this👇

""As long as the chest nearby is selected as Private Locked, No pal will transport items to it""

As soon as I unchecked the
"Private Box"
every pal started transporting items.

PS. It can still be locked and they will transport items to it
""Just Don't Private Lock it"".

[funewchie]

Originally posted by TheeWARIO:

"" (Fixed) Found out mine was this""
I know this was back in February, but I was having this issue for a while and didn't know what to do, and so I found this forum.

But then I figured mine out while I was reading 😆, so just incase someone reads this👇

""As long as the chest nearby is selected as Private Locked, No pal will transport items to it""

As soon as I unchecked the
"Private Box"
every pal started transporting items.

PS. It can still be locked and they will transport items to it
""Just Don't Private Lock it"".

Dude, this thread was from back in Feburary.
The game's been updated several times since then, likely having already fixed the problem.