Forming caravans looks a lot like Forming Caravan: moving and Forming Caravan: wandering

[WeeabooJudas]

So I want my girl to go on this peace talk, so I set up who's going and what she's carrying and the destination. Now she seems to be wandering the same 10x15 square for over a day now and refuse to do anything else including Horseshoes and sleeping in a bed.

I figure I should ask if this is normal, because she just hit Major Break Risk and I don't have enough people to afford that right now.

[Amrak]

I had that issue so I redid the caravan only to find out that I did not set the destination. Not sure if this is your problem but when I set a route then accepted it off they went! Hope this helps. :)

[WeeabooJudas]

It says how to set waypoints, but I do that and I get the wanders. is setting destination a different thing?

[sbmarauderman03]

Waypoints are used for determining how long it will take to get from point A to point B. What you need to do is go to your world map, select your colony, then select the icon titled "FORM CARAVAN". This will take you to a menu where you can select the people/animals you want to send, select the items you want them to carry, and select the exit point/direction from your colony.
Also, make sure you have a caravan packing spot somewhere in your colony to make the caravan formation/loading process more streamlined.

[WeeabooJudas]

Originally posted by sbmarauderman03:

Waypoints are used for determining how long it will take to get from point A to point B. What you need to do is go to your world map, select your colony, then select the icon titled "FORM CARAVAN". This will take you to a menu where you can select the people/animals you want to send, select the items you want them to carry, and select the exit point/direction from your colony.
Also, make sure you have a caravan packing spot somewhere in your colony to make the caravan formation/loading process more streamlined.

The only thing I didn't do on that list is choose a direction and that's because they never asked for one.

[Amrak]

When I go to the Caravan screen, I select who is going, what they are taking, then in the bottom right there is a "Choose Route" click that. It has you use the same waypoint tool that is used to measure. After you set the red flag route at your destination tell it Choose Route again (I believe it is in the center of the page here) and it will take you back to the caravan page. If you have everything then click accept and off they go.

[WeeabooJudas]

I hit 'choose route'.
I set the waypoint.
I hit accept.
They said they will gather the items and leave the area
She does not do this.
She wanders and sleeps outside.
She ignores the caravan meet up spot.

[Amrak]

Hum quite the conundrum. Mine never seem to use the caravan meet up spot so I do not even use it anymore unless I am using animal in the caravan.
OK try this. Start a caravan, choose the person, and supplies then hit accept. The game will tell you in the upper left when the caravan is ready. Go to the world map and right click the location you wish to go. Should say visit or something like that. Doing it this way is like you are going anywhere. As suggested above you can select which side to leave from as well. I think just getting her to leave at this point is what we hope to do whichever side of camp she chooses. LOL

[Amrak]

I forgot to ask are you running the latest version of Rimworld? Mine is updated 1.0.
In the B19 version Tynan really streamlined the caravan workings. Much better Thank you Tynan!

[WeeabooJudas]

Okay, I'm on B19 and the game won't let me form a caravan without choosing a destination. So I choose one and it's wandertown. maybe there's a minimum wander amount before they get the stuff and it's ready, but I hope not.

[Amrak]

OK then choose a point close to the talks or heck just 3 tiles away from camp, and see if you can get her to leave. After she leaves progress her to desired point. Just keep trying different locations until you get her to leave. You can wander all over after you leave camp.

Are you using any mods by chance? Not blaming mods just asking. I used some with B19 now back to vanilla till my mods update, :(

[MagnusGrey]

I only get this with large numbers of animals. the caravan leader seems to check in with them several times each, once at start, once to move, once at edge of map. It can take too long even with the new changes, so i try not to send a million animals and items with only 1 caravan leader anymore.