Non stop "Can't reach this place" spam

[Luna Nocturna]

Ever since today's update my pals complain non stop about unable to reach places they work at. Thing is they reach and work just fine. It's just non stop spam.

Already tried putting them in the box and out again and even rebuild all work stations. Nothing seems to change it.

I assume the idea was to give more insight in what the pals are doing or struggling with to add more status messages and this always happened under the hood already but this is highly annoying.

[Diabeł]

I have a similar problem after updating. Previous accessible workbenches/buildings are no longer accessible and it just says "Unreachable by pals". But I am not getting spammed with status messages.

[GebTheHermit]

Same issue here. This update broke them even more.

[SilverHawk]

Same, I sort of fixed some of the issues by spacing certain things out a bit more but no matter how much space I have around my electric cooker. It seems to be unreachable once I log out then in the game again. There is nothing else surrounding it and a clear path to the thing after I demolished my item conveyor belt.

Edit: I stand corrected the other issues I thought I had fixed are back again.

Edit 2: I sent a bug report in game.

[Indeed]

Same. I have my base with 2 floors (stairs), unsure that is the reason.
I wish there is a item monitor that I can go through from a list (with coordinate?), so that I can see what is duplicated.

[Nicodemous52]

I don't get tons of messages, some. But I noticed that all my work stations but on not on the main floor say the are unreachable. And it does seem like less pals are going upstairs to work, but there were pals coming up stairs to work at the unreachable stations.

[Semirotta]

heh and they were supposed to improve the Pals of reaching places. We had to make 4 walls high base each floor because larger pals got stuck constantly... Used to be 3 floors, but unfortunately something changed there.

[wildbill]

I'm not getting spammed. All the messages I get about pathing seem to be legitimate.

My theory here is those getting a lot of messages are now just finding out how messed up the pathing really is in their base. Before they just had no clear idea of why some tasks took so long to get done.

These new messages are going to help them improve the pathing and help the players identify problems with base layout much quicker. All good in my book.

[Mokona]

I'm getting spammed, I go check to see what could be happening and some are legit but with I could turn off because its not a big deal, some are not legit and I see the pal that said "cant reach" standing right next to the location and working on it.

[Nicodemous52]

Originally posted by wildbill:

I'm not getting spammed. All the messages I get about pathing seem to be legitimate.

My theory here is those getting a lot of messages are now just finding out how messed up the pathing really is in their base. Before they just had no clear idea of why some tasks took so long to get done.

These new messages are going to help them improve the pathing and help the players identify problems with base layout much quicker. All good in my book.

The one I keep getting spammed with if I'm not at base is either "Grizzbolt can't reach the electic generator is now finding another task" or something like that the other one I keep seeing is "Relaxsaurs Lux / Helzyper Lux can't reach the generator, and working in place"

[wildbill]

Originally posted by Nicodemous52:

Originally posted by wildbill:

I'm not getting spammed. All the messages I get about pathing seem to be legitimate.

My theory here is those getting a lot of messages are now just finding out how messed up the pathing really is in their base. Before they just had no clear idea of why some tasks took so long to get done.

These new messages are going to help them improve the pathing and help the players identify problems with base layout much quicker. All good in my book.

The one I keep getting spammed with if I'm not at base is either "Grizzbolt can't reach the electic generator is now finding another task" or something like that the other one I keep seeing is "Relaxsaurs Lux / Helzyper Lux can't reach the generator, and working in place"

Is this the large generator? They improved that from what I read to make more electricity.

I'll stand by my theory (could be wrong) that they were always having trouble reaching it and now you just are aware of it.

I would expect them to add an option to disable this eventually. It is a great diagnostic tool for when you are building the base though, so we really need these messages.

[Chomp Dude]

I was already annoyed at the pathing in this game so to come home from work to find that it's not only worse but broken...I'm a little livid.

The building system and the pathing system clash in so many ways it's actually frustrating. You can build doors...but most pals can't even fit through them. You can build stairs...but it's iffy if Pals will go up them. Why aren't there doors large enough to fit big pals that snap to the other pieces? It can't be that hard to rework the gates. Make them take up a 2x2 space or something.

[wildbill]

Originally posted by Chomp Dude:

I was already annoyed at the pathing in this game so to come home from work to find that it's not only worse but broken...I'm a little livid.

The building system and the pathing system clash in so many ways it's actually frustrating. You can build doors...but most pals can't even fit through them. You can build stairs...but it's iffy if Pals will go up them. Why aren't there doors large enough to fit big pals that snap to the other pieces? It can't be that hard to rework the gates. Make them take up a 2x2 space or something.

Why do you want doors? Is it aesthetics, or something else?

Anyone can see the building system is incomplete. I assume it is on their road map, but no idea when they will get to these things.

When I saw there were no doors, I just designed my base around that, and if I made buildings with items in them that pals needed to reach (some they don't, like surprising they don't actually need to be able to get to the pal beds), I simply didn't put doors in their way that would block them.

Mostly I simply don't put anything for a pal inside a building. If I do, the building typically has only 3 walled sides. No roof. If a ceiling, it is at least 2 walls high, but higher would be better.

I'm doubting it is actually worse, just now you know how bad it really has been all this time. (Messages now tell you how badly your base is designed.)

[Damsels and Dragons]

Speaking of bases, I think the radius has been slightly shrunk down - noticed that as some parts of my barrier was missing, when I returned to store things (had to do some resizing for it, but luckily that was only thing I had to do).

[wildbill]

Originally posted by Damsels and Dragons:

Speaking of bases, I think the radius has been slightly shrunk down - noticed that as some parts of my barrier was missing, when I returned to store things (had to do some resizing for it, but luckily that was only thing I had to do).

I haven't notice that, but do keep in mind that all of a building piece needs to be inside the blue line. Apparently even a tiny little bit of it over the line, it then decays. This part really sucks, but has bit me several times.

[gameboy78]

I just submitted a bug report to Pocket Pair about this issue and mentioned the details. Hopefully, they will fix it quickly because not having a functional base can make people lose interest in the game. Meanwhile, I'm going to see if it's possible to roll back the update until I see news of this being fixed.