Workers not getting supplies from chests

[slug]

Not sure how active this forum is, but my workers used to take materials out of chests to build, but now they do not. Is there any fix for this?

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

which chests?

[yippeekiay]

Couple of reasons this might happen:-
1. Make sure there is room in inventory or backpack for the items they are trying to pick up.
2. Make sure job button is on so Engineering job isn't greyed out.
3. Make sure there's items in storage and/or you have an actual designated storage for the items you want them to build with.

All I can think of at the moment ;o)

[Stromboli]

If it is a navmesh issue you can refresh it with control + shift + f11

[Grimmrog_SIG]

I have experienced the same problem and shift and F11 doesn'r fixes this, yet it is not a constant one. Characters sometimes can't fidn pathes they already did like 10x before or sometimes can't find them even if they are unblocked.
Sometimes deliveries they already did many times make them stuck at the container and doing the drag and drop on that container (as if they do not properly loot form the container or immediately lose path to the goal and dropping it again) then the taken and immediately dropped items flicker wildly int he inventory.

[slug]

Strom, that fixed it for like an hours and it is not working anymore :(

[zartury]

Have an idea. How many game days has it been?

For me, I start to notice bugs that come on with character jobs that worked normally before I start pushing beyond 45-50 days. There are particular character doing their job and soon after start bugging out and can't perform any job, while as others can do it without issue. In a squad of 40, 3-5 characters start behaving like that after so 45 or so days. At that point I already know its time again to perform an import, since it is the only thing that clears these issues, other than purposely killing those malfunctioning characters.

[BigRowdy]

You probably already know this but priority in Jobs takes absolute precedence. But tb honest I usually have one character manually deliver the resources to the builds and the engineers all run to and finish them.

[slug]

Not working at all anymore, neither will dumping :(

[slug]

They are in chests, does that effect anything?

[zartury]

Hey, did you put stuff in "general chest"?

Anything that is considered general storage will not allow characters to take out or put in automatically, even if you put it as a job.

For someone to automatically take out or put it in, you have to use storage specifically for the thing you are trying to store. So for automatically storing and using building materials, as an example, use "building material storage". For food, use food basket, for wheatstraw use wheatstraw barrel, etc.

AI doesn't play well with general storage just yet, use it only for manually storing stuff.

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

Originally posted by Slug:

They are in chests, does that effect anything?

this is why i asked which ones are you using.
please name them so we can know if you're using the right ones.

[slug]

All supplies are in General Storage Chests

[slug]

Huh, they used to do it. I guess I will switch.

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

Originally posted by Slug:

All supplies are in General Storage Chests

that's why
it has to be resource specific.
general storage will not haul.

[yippeekiay]

I said that too in reason 3 of my first post ;o)