Auto-sweeper/shipping troubleshooting

[SamuraiJones]

Hi guys. This is gonna sound like a stupid question, but shipping has just never worked right for me. Right now, I've got an auto-sweeper/loader in the hatch farm, and it loads up coal and sends it to the generator room. However, the dupes keep running past the full recepticle to the hatch farms to get their own coal, then run all the way back to stick it in the generator.

And before anyone asks, yes, I've got manual access on.

Further, it seems like auto-sweepers sometimes transfer stuff to/from regular storage containers, but not always? It almost seems like the functionality changes occasionally too. I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding or seeing bugs or what.

Can anyone share some thoughts on these two situations? I'm wondering if it has to do with priorities, but I can't seem to figure it out.

[GeminiEclipse]

If you put another auto sweeper next to the recepticle and set the recepticle priority lower than storage, then the autosweeper will move stuff from the recepticle to the storage.

Well assuming you put storage near the recepticle.

[SamuraiJones]

Are you proposing something like this? cuz the "3" recepticle is full of coal, while the "6" storage box only accepts coal, but nothing's moving. This was how i originally set it up.

Idk, I'm on the rocket beta, so maybe this is a bug. It seems like they rarely work right though, so i want to be sure i'm using em right.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1504053489

[Hedning]

Looks like that storage container is full. Things can't move if there is no room.

[SamuraiJones]

6 storage compactor on the left, not the loader on the right. The loader sends hatch food into the farm, the receptacle takes the coal back out. I want the coal to go into the storage compactor on the little raised platform on the left.

[GeminiEclipse]

It might be a bug with rocketry.

[SamuraiJones]

Update!!! I gave up on it and just left it as-is, and 100 cycles later it started working without anything changing!

Well actually, I did download a rocketry beta patch somewhere... so I'm leaning towards the "bug" thought in this situation.

[RTG]

"Further, it seems like auto-sweepers sometimes transfer stuff to/from regular storage containers, but not always?" They transport from containers (or receptacles) with lower priority to containers with higher priority.

[SamuraiJones]

naw naw, I understand how priority affects storage containers. That wasn't the issue. It went away with an update. I'm sure it was a bug. Probably related to this entry in the patch notes:

"Fix auto-sweeper range visualization incorrectly passing through glass tiles."
https://forums.kleientertainment.com/game-updates/oni-alpha/rocketry-upgrade-testing-branch-is-now-open-282822/

[Hedning]

Perhaps ladders were mistakenly made to block it.