Builder stopped working

[Avarion]

I am not sure how this game works. I just issued the order to build the market. All the material was delivered and it is now on "waiting for builder". The builder stands in the town center with "on working time" but nothing happens. I've waited several minutes now. What do I miss?

[lembos-hauser]

Nothing. Just wait.

[Avarion]

Originally posted by lembos-hauser:

Nothing. Just wait.

Thanks. It took about two ingame days. After completion of the building the game crashed.

[lembos-hauser]

Originally posted by Avarion:

Originally posted by lembos-hauser:

Nothing. Just wait.

Thanks. It took about two ingame days. After completion of the building the game crashed.

Doesn't sound like a pleasant experience

[Avarion]

Originally posted by lembos-hauser:

Originally posted by Avarion:

Thanks. It took about two ingame days. After completion of the building the game crashed.

Doesn't sound like a pleasant experience

[Xecthar]

Nope, don't wait. Check your builders and if they're saying "I'm in my free time" then it means the building part is broken (bugged). It mostly happens when you try to build complex buildings and in the middle of construction you relocate one of the parts. The only solution is to destroy that bugged part and put again. In some rare cases you might need to destroy the whole building.

[Avarion]

Originally posted by Xecthar:

Nope, don't wait. Check your builders and if they're saying "I'm in my free time" then it means the building part is broken (bugged). It mostly happens when you try to build complex buildings and in the middle of construction you relocate one of the parts. The only solution is to destroy that bugged part and put again. In some rare cases you might need to destroy the whole building.

In this case it wasn't anything complex. Just started the game and placed the well and the quarry. The transporters filled the well with wood and the quarry with everything it needed and it just waited for the builder. But he lingered on the central area for some ingame days tand then started to work.

[TowerWizard]

Originally posted by Avarion:

Originally posted by Xecthar:

Nope, don't wait. Check your builders and if they're saying "I'm in my free time" then it means the building part is broken (bugged). It mostly happens when you try to build complex buildings and in the middle of construction you relocate one of the parts. The only solution is to destroy that bugged part and put again. In some rare cases you might need to destroy the whole building.

In this case it wasn't anything complex. Just started the game and placed the well and the quarry. The transporters filled the well with wood and the quarry with everything it needed and it just waited for the builder. But he lingered on the central area for some ingame days tand then started to work.

Same here. How can this be bugged? Both these buildings are in the tutorial, so why has this not been fixed?

[Dietre]

There is two reasons why a builder wont do anything.
#1 if they are standing in the town center doing jack, they are on free time and have no house.
#2 if they are in their building office standing around or leaning (resting/waiting) it means you don't have the require resources to continue building.

The resource tracker at the top is misleading a bit. it could say you have 10 so you build a market but only 9 gets delivered and they will sit doing nothing. This means that 1 log is somewhere or bugged or reserved for something. So you would have to get a wood cutter built.once logs are available it will get built.

I've been playing this game for years. i made a "rookie" mistake when i started my latest town. I had built the lumber camp and marked out an area to cut trees, but I didnt notice that they used all the trees so the builders had no resources to continue. they were doing the standing around routine and i was like OH DOOOOH, expanded the wood area and back to easy mode.

[Avarion]

Originally posted by Dietre:

There is two reasons why a builder wont do anything.
#1 if they are standing in the town center doing jack, they are on free time and have no house.
#2 if they are in their building office standing around or leaning (resting/waiting) it means you don't have the require resources to continue building.

Yeah, and neither was the case. He stood in the town center "on working time" and the building was fully stocked on the necessary resources.

Edit: For clarification: I've checked the bulding place itself for the resources and it was 10/10.

[somebody]

Check the storage spaces and make sure nothing is blocking them. That was my issue.