Caravan not leaving

[RayzRay]

My caravan recently stopped to pack. They keep wandering without doing anything and won't leave. Was looking for a solution but couldn't find anything. Someone knows how to help?

[Markus Reese]

Tough to say. Is something to take unreachable? A mental break? Mods?

[RayzRay]

Colonists are fine, everything is accessible. Got lots of mods, but I think it began to happen after I added Alpha Animals and Paint Job.

[Security Cam #7]

I have this problem too. Mine happened after adding extended pack animals or something. I just use the dev mode and press the button "send instantly" when I choose everything for them. If you feel it's kinda cheaty to disappear in the middle of your base you can always send the colonists manually to the edge of the map and then create a caravan and press the "send instantly" button

[Plurples]

Caravan is pretty bad regardless of mods. The moment a single animal decide it's sleeping time, all the colonist will stop whatever they are doing and start wandering around. Sometime when I form caravans they'll refuse to leave even if no one is having a mental break/sleeping. Caravan formation will also stop and not leave if they can't find an item(ex: meals that were eaten).

Try to avoid making very large caravans. Make many small ones instead and set a rendez-vous point one tile over.
If a caravan refuse to leave kick one member at a time until they do.

If you end up with a massive caravan with 10+ animal you may not want to let it back in, ever. Just let it sit outside your colony and ferry stuff back and forth with smaller group. Herbivore don't need to any food(if your on a good tile), training does not decay and wool/milk production does not stop(just set up camp once in a while , if you don't have the set up camp mod you can take advantage of caravan ambush.

There's also things that you can do nothing about. Like a manhunter pack showing up at the caravan exit placement seconds before it leaves. This actually happened to me, that caravan was pretty hard to set up, I paused the game immediately after receiving the warning and my colonist was already down by the time I looked my colonist was already down and surounded by the 10 carnotaurus that popped on top of him. The only more unfair thing was when a fire burned down an ancient danger steel wall while I only a a single tribal with a short bow releasing a few centipeds.

Caravan formation is probably the most frustrating thing I've had to deal with when I started playing rimworld but this what I did in my first few game.
I usually don't bother with caravan anymore since it's frustrating and not very fun.

[martindirt]

Originally posted by RayzRay:

Colonists are fine, everything is accessible. Got lots of mods, but I think it began to happen after I added Alpha Animals and Paint Job.

I ave Alpha Animals mod, and never cuzed caravan issues for me. BUT not tried to use all of the animals from that mod as pack animals, maybe one of them is broken. Try to read in the mods forum, or ask the mod creator.

[RayzRay]

Got it working again after I unsubbed Alpha Animals

[Da2in]

Try drafting the whole party, it'll reset their tasks and hopefully get their butts in gear.

[RayzRay]

bro this was like a year ago lmao

[Punyrock]

Originally posted by RayzRay:

bro this was like a year ago lmao

I wonder how threads get revived like this. Accidental click too far? 'More Discussions' making a mistake?

[Hermitus]

I found this thread using a simple google search, looking for an anser to the same problem. What I do now, is when forming caravans, keep them small and don't add goods initially - manually order goods to be loaded on to the caravan while it is forming up.

[Genevieve]

Originally posted by Hermitus:

I found this thread using a simple google search, looking for an anser to the same problem. What I do now, is when forming caravans, keep them small and don't add goods initially - manually order goods to be loaded on to the caravan while it is forming up.

But how do you do that, though? I also have the same problem, but I don't know how to deal with it since I'm new

[WaKKO151]

Its been three years and I still can't form a caravan.

[Dyspeptic Icarus]

same

[Unikatze]

This bug is really annoying.

[MadArtillery]

It really is, hell the caravan system itself is just irritating, especially if you are trying to abandon a base mid attack or on any sort of time crunch at all. Need a just GTFO already button. Never been improved and i hate it.