Why is my wagon loader not unloading?

[Spirale]

Hi,

Take the following screenshot:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3414977113

The first wagon connected to the locomotive never unloads (there is no problem with the loading of this wagon at another train station, or with the unloading of the other wagons).

I tried the following:
- Rebuilding the wagons
- Rebuilding the wagon loader
- Rebuilding the path and the spark

Nothing helped. Any idea?

[flamethrower]

Bug. You can clearly see the handles on the side in the "locked" position, whereas the other cars' handles are in the unlocked / docked position. It's built correctly.

You cannot run two trains of two cars each without a proper loop, but if you do that it'll probably work as it should.

[HG_Stefan]

Hey Spirale, we found one bug resulting in such behaviour. When you had a space between wagon loaders, a rail will be automatically connect both. But wagon loaders placed in those gaps later on will not overwrite the connection. Thus these wagon loaders cannot load nor unload wagons.
To fix this you'd need to delete all your wagon loaders and place them consecutively to each other without creating gaps.

If this doesn't fix your setup, please send your savegame from %LOCALAPPDATA%\AppData\Local\Oddsparks\Game\SaveGames to [e-mail] and please tell us the location (ideally with a screenshot from the map) of the bugged trainstation.

[Spirale]

Thanks Stefan, rebuilding all wagon loaders fixed the issue.

I don't remember how or in which order I built the wagon loaders initially, so I don't know if it was indeed the case you're describing or another one leading to this bug.

[shrewdlogarithm]

I've run into a problem whereby a wagon would not load or unload a few times

In a few cases I've tried changing the spark, the paths, the item being loaded/unloaded, deleting and re-creating the loader, deleting and re-creating THE ENTIRE STATION and it's still not worked.

Here's a clip showing one such example

https://imgur.com/a/eaMNX21

Note Wagon 2 and 4 loaded AOK and I made that weird track to show it has all 3 'loading' edges and still isn't loading anything...

The only way I could make that work is by moving the station 1 space to the left or right and that makes connecting it IMPOSSIBLE

Note: whilst it worked when moved - it stopped working when moved back so it's something about that EXACT spot in the game...

We really do need a fix for this - I suspect it's related to the places you can't build tracks (nothing on the ground, you just get red "XXX" - particularly common near biome edges)...

[HG_Stefan]

Sounds like another bug with wagon loaders. Do you have a seed and a location for us to check the setup from your clip?

[shrewdlogarithm]

Originally posted by HG_Stefan:

Sounds like another bug with wagon loaders. Do you have a seed and a location for us to check the setup from your clip?

Are there in-game coordinates available anyway and do you have a way I can send you a savegame or?

I've torn-apart that bit of the map now but I MIGHT have a savegame where it's current...

[shrewdlogarithm]

Seed is 50841

Here's a screenshot of the location of the video (facing south)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3427721902

Here's a screenshot of a "cannot build a path" spot - with the map of it's location

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3427719259

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3427719234

and this is nearby - same issue, you cannot build a path for some reason

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3427719212

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3427719289

[hgpn]

I started a game with the seed and could find the two places where paths could not be built.

But I could not reproduce the wagon loader not loading. I built the station and loaders exactly like you and my hauling sparks on the paths would load the items into the wagons.
One thing I noticed:
Where you have a big crate for loading stuff into the third wagon, there is a ancient base in my new save file, not sure how that isn't there in your save file.

Did you check if the wagon that can't be loaded has the little side hatches open (it's not visible in the angle from your video)? When the loader isn't attached correctly (for whatever reason), they are closed and then can't be loaded/unloaded.

[hgpn]

Originally posted by shrewdlogarithm:

Are there in-game coordinates available anyway and do you have a way I can send you a savegame or?

You can send save files to [e-mail].

Save files are located under:
%LOCALAPPDATA%/Oddsparks/Game/SaveGames

There should always be 2 files, a ".sav" and a corresponding "_meta.sav".
Please also include a link to this discussion, so we know what it is referring to.