standing bug

[Kody]

so my colonists randomly decide "hey i want to just stand here forever untill i need food and not do jobs" what do i do to fix this

[VitaKaninen]

Try not to necro threads from years in the past because the game is on a newer version since then.

Try disabling any mods you have related to beds.

[Astasia]

Originally posted by Sutti:

my pawns get stuck when they try to go to sleep or something else. it keeps flickering from resting to standing and they just stand still. does anyone know a fix?

That error you posted is entirely unrelated to beds or sleeping. It looks like a modded item failing a check to see if it's smeltable or not.

As for the sleep thing, make sure you don't have any child/adult pawns assigned to sleep in a crib.

[G7_Connoisseur]

The one I get is pawns obtained from a quest will all try to assign themselves to a new bed each night. If there is already a person assigned to a given bed including themselves they won't be able to continue any actions and will stand. The fix for me EVERYDAY is to unassign them from their beds. Ring any bells for anyone? I don't believe it's to do with quest mods as I've had no issues with the ones I'm using before. Probably something else

[VitaKaninen]

I had that several times and it was related to 2 or 3 specific mods that were fighting with each other. The Set Up Camp mod, the Carry Bedroll mod that causes pawns to carry their bedroll/tent in their inventory, and another mod that causes them to not lose bed ownership when they caravan. There are several mods that do this, and I forgot which one I was was using. I think Better bed assignment, and possibly one more.

This caused 2 bugs. When on a camp tile, they would whip out their tent from their inventory and place it, but it would be assigned to whoever had it during the last caravan, so they would get caught in an infinite loop of placing and picking up their tent. I could stop the loop if I pause the game right as they place the tent, and then manually unassign it.

The other bug would cause them to just stand still for days until they starved to death on my regular map because they could not take possession of a bed and no matter what I did could snap them out of it. I tried removing all the beds, having them place their own bed when everyone else was drafted, destroying the beds and rebuilding them, anesthetizing them, sending them on a caravan, and bringing them back, and a few other things. I had to eventually just kick them out of the colony because nothing worked.

I did find a solution of mods that work well together. I think what fixed it was going from a mod that locks bed assignment when pawns are on a caravan, to a mod that allows pawns to freely choose which bed to take following some simple rules and they will always pick the best bed automatically, which breaks any standing loops.

Here is what I am using in order :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2404555784
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2407128339
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1323773476
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1353625821

[HorHorHor]

Happened to my prisoner colonist. He snapped out of it once I made the prison cell 2 free blocks larger. No idea why but it helped.

[Nanami]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.