Sawmills Not Working

[SerWind]

https://i.imgur.com/wfrdSK5.jpg

Anyone had their sawmills just stop working?

[Bobywan]

Your screenshot does not show time of day nor the top of the sawmill window.
Place the cursor on the top of the sawmill window to see what's wrong: people in treatment ? ceremony to bury someone ?

[SerWind]

It was working hours, they were at 100 percent, etc etc. A lot of the trees in the picture are just not real trees apparently.

[Ceejay]

Those are real trees. Is your wood storage maxed out as they would also stop if that was the case.

[SerWind]

Some of them are real trees but some of them don't provide anything at all it seems. You can tell by hovering buildings over them and seeing whether it warns you about destroying resources or not. Moving the sawmills fixed it.

This is gonna sound snarky but it's not meant that way, I have 100+ hours in the game and have beaten every scenario on survivor, I wasn't missing anything stupid like people in treatment, no one assigned to the building, it being non work hours, no workers being there yet for some reason, or filled out wood storage.

[Ceejay]

Originally posted by SerWind:

Some of them are real trees but some of them don't provide anything at all it seems. You can tell by hovering buildings over them and seeing whether it warns you about destroying resources or not. Moving the sawmills fixed it.

This is gonna sound snarky but it's not meant that way, I have 100+ hours in the game and have beaten every scenario on survivor, I wasn't missing anything stupid like people in treatment, no one assigned to the building, it being non work hours, no workers being there yet for some reason, or filled out wood storage.

To be fair according to your screen shot, the sawmill did seem to think there was 250 wood within its area, so why they were not collecting was weird :p

[...👑 JOST AMMAN 👑...]

Sorry for necroing this discussion, but I'm currently playing the same exact map (on endless) and I have the same problem/bug. I guess it could be the map/scenario then.

I had to switch to the Wall Drill since my Sawmills don't work anymore (at least not in that area). I even tried to dismantle and rebuild them in different places near that area... but, no joy.

[Shining Hector]

Yeah, it's a bugged map. Some trees are normal and can be destroyed by building over them, some have to be cleared by Sawmills, but sometimes the sawmills stop seeing the undestroyable ones and you're stuck.

[...👑 JOST AMMAN 👑...]

Originally posted by Shining Hector:

Yeah, it's a bugged map. Some trees are normal and can be destroyed by building over them, some have to be cleared by Sawmills, but sometimes the sawmills stop seeing the undestroyable ones and you're stuck.

K, thanks for the info.

[Alcator]

Is it the Arks map?

If so, the description of the map says "Frozen trees hinder expansion". I _believe_, but don't have the means to test this that you would be able to harvest those trees if you placed a Steam Hub near them and 'melted' them.

[...👑 JOST AMMAN 👑...]

Originally posted by Alcator:

Is it the Arks map?

If so, the description of the map says "Frozen trees hinder expansion". I _believe_, but don't have the means to test this that you would be able to harvest those trees if you placed a Steam Hub near them and 'melted' them.

Yes, it's the Arks map on endless mode. The way I solved the problem is by simply moving my sawmill farther and farther away after they stop "working".

[Wakko]

I have seen this bug too and thought that the problem was with the Builders mode.
Now that I hear that the map is the problem, I will try Serenity mode on the Arks map, and Builders mode on some other map.
It's a shame because the Arks map is nice.
Anyone told the devs about this bug? I did back when I thought that the problem was with the Builders mode, and haven't got a response.

[Lord Dem]

Had that happen in the Arks map as well but only once so have no idea what triggers it. Even moving the sawmill they gather wood for a while then stop again.

[Wakko]

Originally posted by Wakko:

I have seen this bug too and thought that the problem was with the Builders mode.
Now that I hear that the map is the problem, I will try Serenity mode on the Arks map, and Builders mode on some other map.
It's a shame because the Arks map is nice.
Anyone told the devs about this bug? I did back when I thought that the problem was with the Builders mode, and haven't got a response.

Well if anyone still cares, it took me awhile but I can confirm that the problem is with the Arks map, and not the Builders mod.