Villager with wheelbarrow sometimes moves like it is broken

[kevinshow]

I don't recall seeing this before years ago when I last played, but recently, with vanilla or with mods, I occasionally see a villager with a wheelbarrow that looks like it is broken. He doesn't push it in front of him. Instead, it looks like he has to drag it along side of him. But when he gets to his destination and loads something up with it, it moves normally in front of him again.

And this doesn't always happen. Other times, he pushes it in front of him even when there is nothing in his inventory, so it's not just a state of "moving from Location A to Location B with no inventory".

It had to have been animated this way, and occurs in specific situations. Does anyone know the reasoning of why this happens?

[dixiechow]

I don't know the reason (if there is even a reason) but I have seen this happening occasionally for years.

[Vrayna]

It's been a quirk of Banished from the start. Market Vendors and Trade Post Vendors are set to push wheelbarrows, but sometimes it gets misaligned, usually when they're doing "other stuff" (ie going to grab food, iddling, etc etc) than carting things around for work.

It's not a new thing and nothing modding can deal with. It's not a game-breaker, just mildly immersion-breaking when it happens if you happen to notice it (It does happen pretty regularly, but you don't notice it most of the time).

Fun fact: That "quirk" is the reason why several modders gave up on trying to replace wheelbarrows with horse-pulled carts. While it was possible to create a model where the vendor would be "pushing" a wheelbarrow using a horse & cart model (with the cart part hiding the legs of the walking vendor), there was no way to make sure it would always be well aligned.
Seeing a merchant drag a wheelbarrow on the side is one thing, but lemme tell you that someone waving around a whole cart with attached horse was just plain shocking. You just can't miss that sight when it happens.

[kevinshow]

thanks for the explanations.

we haven't fully believed that this world of Banished people are on the same earth as what we live on, so there is a possibility they could be people who drag horses and carts around as if it was nothing. or at the least, maybe a particular color of the sun might give them additional strength, since there is never a night time on that world.

[maiden4meldin]

It is funny you should post this today. I was just now playing my game, and saw exactly what you described. lol.

[28rommel]

Originally posted by dixiechow:

I don't know the reason (if there is even a reason) but I have seen this happening occasionally for years.

Agree. The joke I create (and say) is that the kids spit gum onto the floor, the adults step on it, and the wheelbarrow un-noticeably gets stuck to the bottom of their shoe.
:)