[0.98.20] Characters not doing any jobs

[Chompster]

In one of my towns none of my characters are doing their jobs. They just stand around and when manually ordering them they'll say the machine is full so they're not taking the items from the machine to put in storage either(and no, storages aren't full either)

[yippeekiay]

Are their inventories or BP's full?
Try shift+ctrl+F11
Try shift+F12 and click fix, then save.
Hit head against wall.
Send them all for a cup of tea & you too, then come back later to see if they're still sat on their backsides lol.
Good Luck ;o)

[Chompster]

No.
Already did that, doesn't work.
Already did that, doesn't work.
Ow.

they've been doing these jobs for a long time without fault. it's happening since 0.98

[easterngames]

i am having same problem. no will move along a supply chain. iron ore sits in node and worker refuses to haul it ro storage also wont be brought to get turned into iron plates. have to backpackit manually. entire wheat straw chain also broken. people also refusing to return to turrets after getting lunch.

[Bonk]

having same issue. workers aren't collecting resources from the appropriate containers to complete jobs. I have to manually resupply like @easterngames

[easterngames]

shift +f12 then fix fixed it

[jtmarquez]

One thing that happened to me was there was a hidden bandit somewhere in my base that made it count as getting "invaded". After I couldn't figure out why my workers were also not doing anything, I saved and exited the game and came back in. This forced a bandit who was "playing dead" to get back up, which immediately lead to him being killed and produced the message saying that a bandit group had been forced out of my base. After that like magic everyone started working again. If you run into this, check any corpses near or in your base to see if one of them is playing dead. You can try picking them up and moving them away, or save, exit, and re-load the game.

[Bonk]

Originally posted by jtmarquez:

One thing that happened to me was there was a hidden bandit somewhere in my base that made it count as getting "invaded". After I couldn't figure out why my workers were also not doing anything, I saved and exited the game and came back in. This forced a bandit who was "playing dead" to get back up, which immediately lead to him being killed and produced the message saying that a bandit group had been forced out of my base. After that like magic everyone started working again. If you run into this, check any corpses near or in your base to see if one of them is playing dead. You can try picking them up and moving them away, or save, exit, and re-load the game.

Thanks. I'll have to try this. Not sure if it will fix the issue I'm having where members aren't grabbing resources from containers to complete projects.

[AtomicObject]

I too am noticing workers letting mine inventories fill up but not hauling the materials to the stone bin right next to them, even if i set "haul to" as a perma job

[easterngames]

whats happening to me is reset squad position is breaking teh AI. ctrl shift f11 and and shift f12 - fix, then save and exit game completely.... when you reload everyone will run like loons to get to work.

[Osium]

I used shift-12 fix it, and all the signs on all the shops vanished.

[Chompster]

Imported save with 0.98.3 and suddenly characters are doing their jobs again.

[yecknsmesh]

all my characters had engineer as a top job, and i had queued about 9 batteries in a watchtower all at once, some obstructing the ones in the back, and i think that was bugging everyone out because they wanted to work on the ones in the back but couldn't. Removed engineer as a job, everyone went right back to work.

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

this is nearly a 3 year old bug report.
it will be locked.