New Room/Ladder bug?

[Bunnykickass]

50 game hours in game, was trying to start building a third level, but something went wrong. Now I have a single room and a ladder down to the third level but the characters cannot go down there. I cannot built a new room next to it, and even the smallest object wouldn't go in. Also when I moved the cursor to the third level, the word "room" appeared and followed the cursor around.

I've been trying to resolve the problem by restarting the games severals times and frantically moving objects around but none of the attempts seem to work. I wonder whether this is a BUG? Could it be resolved?

I would really appreciate any form of assistance.

[Bunnykickass]

ps. I'm running the game on mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.2

[76561198103597845]

Hey Salli,


Sorry to hear that you're having this issue.
I'm not entirely clear what's going wrong for you.
Could you please link me a video or some screenshots of this?
Once I've got a better idea, I'll look into this a little further.


Thank you,
BenTeam17

[Bunnykickass]

http://postimg.org/image/i471mic2h/

The third level room disappeared when I opened the slot today, but you can still see the ladder going down from the second level. The yellow triangular sign wasn't there when I had the problem.

[Ursa]

same thing happened to me, my survivor built the ladder down but didn't go down and start constructing the room. can't order him down there either.

[76561198103597845]

Hi all,


Thanks for getting back with this info.
It looks like the room is currently 'under construction'. It should be possible to resume construction by clicking on the room and choosing the appropriate actions.
If this isn't the case, please let me know what options you get when you interact with this room.

Salli, please let me know if this is what you saw as well:

"...survivor built the ladder down but didn't go down and start constructing the room."

Thank you,
BenTeam17

[Ursa]

have tried interacting with the room upon reloading the game, hovering with the mouse over the unbuilt room now gives a text box that indicates "room" but no actions are avaliable. nothing happens when you click on the room or tries to interact with it. i built a new room-area to test repeatability and same thing happens, the character builds the ladder down, but does not go down to start the excavation of the room. this new room does not have a textbox while hovering over it (it does show up upon reloading the game though).

[Prismaa]

I'm having this same issue, character built ladder down but never went down to build room, and I can't interact with that room at all, it does show under construction.

[Ursa]

ok, have tried a few things now and it seems to be connected to (at least for me) having traps in your bunker (paint traps specifically in my save). removing these and trying to build a new stair/room works. adding a new paintrap and constructing a new room with stairs fails. the rooms that you have already built and failed with are still bugged regardless.

[Able Jones]

Same bug, tried building with a kid twice (bugged both times) then tried with an adult & worked fine, however still cannot interact with the bugged sections.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=611484383

After I managed to connect to a bugged section the survivors will use the ladder in the bugged section but nothing at all can be done to cancel the build.

[huge eddie]

Isn't working for me either, I did build another stairway going down and it did get built, however I can't get rid of the room that's bugged. So now I'm stuck with a room that can't be fixed and that I can't build to the right without making another ladder. If this does get fixed there should be a way of removing ladders if there isn't already, because I really don't want to have two sets of ladders going down.

[idefix--211]

I got the bug, too. After finding this thread I played around with my savegame a bit to find the trigger. The savegame was started after the recent bloodlines update.

I can reproduce the following:

1. Have an adult bulid the first section of a new level (including ladder, of course).
Everything works fine. He will bulid the ladder, then move down to the section to dig that.
When it is finished, it's usable like always.

2. Have a child do the same ( I reloaded the savegame, so same starting conditions).
Here I get two possibilities:
a) the child is tired --> it will build the ladder, get very tired in the process and after finishing that, stop doing anything because the child is exhausted. In that case there is still the yellow symbol in the place where the new section is supposed to get built. But there is no interaction possible on right mouse-click like on other building-sites. (no cancel, no continue, nothing).

b) the child has slept right before starting to build the new level and is not traumatized from anything. In that case, everything works out fine like in case 1 with the adult.

An adult can be very tired an will still complete the task. So, it has to do with children stoping their assinged task when they get too tired.


Can anyone please try to reproduce this to help the developers find this bug. Savecopy your savegame beforehand, so you will be able to go back and continue with your family like it was before.

Cheers,
idefix

[Gantros]

I think I have the same problem as described in post #11. Had a kid build a ladder and room, got interrupted after the ladder was finished, couldn't resume afterward. Under Construction sign is visible, cannot be interacted with.

[mistergelato]

I have this same problem, but I didn't have a child build it. I had an adult who wasn't tired at all do it; he built the ladder and now I can't do anything, I just get an "under construction" icon and I can't interact with it at all.

One thing of note: As soon as the ladder and the vent finished, my cat went through the vent. He's currently sleeping in the ground where the room should go. Possibly related?

[Vali]

I have the same problem.

Dont really know anymore how I signed to build it, but its just the ladder.

My Dog hasnt any Problems to go down and sleep ins the ground, but my human charakters cant finish the job.

[matt1184]

Same problem here. It was with a child building for me. I attempted it twice at different locations, no dice. Why this error all of a sudden Dev?