Drones repairing no pipes or cables

[JimBean]

It's geting to the point I may as well start a new save considering I have 18 cables and 7 pipes going unrepaired, manually telling the drones to do it does nothing. Any help?

[Mizi]

I didn't have that problem, though resource distribution seems slightly broken, make sure the drones have direct access to metal, you may have to move it with transports. just plop some down close to the problem area.

Is there a chance that you were hit by a dust tornado? I've noticed that repairs stall hugely when those are moving through, because they also disable any drones going to help.

[JimBean]

No dust devils have hit me, and the resources are stored right next to some of the leaks but nothing... I just need metal for the repairs and I have 800. I really don't get why nothing is being repaired.

[vivas]

How is the workload of the drone hubs?

[JimBean]

Low on all of them.

I do have a few mods running that could be affecting it, but I doubt it because I've used all these mods before and things worked fine.

[vivas]

Might be listed in the large thread about bugs after patch?

[Stevo]

my drones do the same...nothing...they come with Metal, drop it into the Pipe/Cable, but they wont repair... they drive away, without repairing... that sucks ...

[JimBean]

I continued anyway and... Still nothing, I read about 20 pages on that bugs forum and there's nothing about this. It's gotten to the point that I can't simply build more energy producers as my network will be bigger, and the bigger it is the more frequent a cable breaks, meaning the energy network would get bigger and... So on.

If anyone has a solution please say it.

[Pax]

Experiencing the same problem here. I'm at sol 178, drones stopped repairing pipes after a dust storm. Everything else gets maintained, new constructions are no problem, but pipe leaks get 100% ignored. If I have to leak, I have to work around it by destroying the stretch of pipe network, and then rebuilding it. At least this stops the leak and it does end in a working network again. Still, very clearly a bug.

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by DerpyBean:

Low on all of them.

I do have a few mods running that could be affecting it, but I doubt it because I've used all these mods before and things worked fine.

You know just because a mod did not cause problems BEFORE a patch does not mean a mod can not cause problems AFTER a patch.

You still should have disabled mods to check anyways.

[JimBean]

I never solved the problem, disabling them didn't work. That's the single reason I haven't played the game for a while. Verifying game files didn't work.

[Bored Peon]

Did you try a different game or a new game that never used the mods?

The mods could have corrupted your save permanently with the changes it made.

[JimBean]

I tried a different game. I really don't understand the issue, I'll start another new one later today and I'll see how it goes.

[Pax]

The problem actually went away by itself after I removed and replaced the affected pipelines. It's still unclear to me why it happened. You'd think drones were busy or didn't have resources, but they had plenty of resources around and the drones either were ignoring the leaks, but using the resources to build other lower priority stuff when I placed it in their area.

[JimBean]

Played the game again and it's fixed. Yay finally.

[ChoGGi]

If anyone still has a broken savegame, would you mind uploading it somewhere so I can take a look at it?