Path blocked

[Buntkreuz]

Path is free.
My builders somehow cant reach a storage placed for the lumberhut, but they could reach it the 20 minutes before when it was already there.
I then moved the builders hut, now they are kind of just standing inside doing nothing, telling they are blocked.
Their path to the destination is free to move, the entrances arent blocked.

[MIDAS]

1. try to remove the builder hut
2. set the blocked path as forbidden land, they should've move
3. exit game and play again, this one works well for me

[Buntkreuz]

Originally posted by MIDAS:

1. try to remove the builder hut
2. set the blocked path as forbidden land, they should've move
3. exit game and play again, this one works well for me

Did that several times-
I kind of fixed it by moving a few parts here and there.
Its just weird because the things that seem to somehow not work anymore are there since basically the start of the game and didnt have any issues.
But suddenly they had.

[cshaw1188]

I have been seeing this as well. I just ignore it like all the other warnings. I figure the villagers will figure it out eventually.

[Buntkreuz]

Originally posted by cshaw1188:

I have been seeing this as well. I just ignore it like all the other warnings. I figure the villagers will figure it out eventually.

In my case my only builders hut was rendered useless as none of the builders would leave and build something.

Which is weird. They constantly wanted to access the storage of the lumberyard, which they dont need as i had a full storehouse filled with like 300 lumber.
But my builders somehow insisted they had to access the dedicated lumberyard storage, couldnt and thus were stuck inside their builders hut.

I later moved the lumberyard storage addition a tiny bit. It was perfectly accessable before for all others, but somehow builders couldnt.
This fixed it and my builders got unblocked.

I assume theres some coding issue in the AI logic (as i have now seen plenty of such issues existing in my few hours of playing 1.0).
The builders somehow were stuck in some logical loop where they wanted to build something with lumber, but their logic told them to get it from the lumberyard, as the construction site was close to it, while the storage house with my 300 lumber was a bit further away (we talk like 10 ingame metres here, but still).
And thus their logic insisted to get the lumber from the closest point, but they somehow couldnt.


I have a similar issue with a fishing hut.

It seems the devs forgot to code their villager Ai properly, so it gets stuck.
What they seemed to have forgotten was adding a failsafe logic.
Like "Move to closest resource point. Closest resource point is blocked/cant be reached, target next accessible resource point instead".
They forgot the latter part of that, so the AI villagers ever want to only get to the closest resource point (including stored resources) and if they cant, their action gets interupted.

They really need to fix that AI loophole.

[28rommel]

Save your game first, and then try an internal quick reload. Do this by hitting Ctrl-Shift-R. That may "dislodge" the problem.

[Celliz]

Same issue here. Im basicly not able to play the game at this point becuse of my builders do not build. All of them are reporting "path is blocked" and just walking in and out of the builders workshop. I have tried moving the building in several ways. making new once. Blocking the path, Then move the building, than allowing them to walk outside the blocked path just watching them walk over to the new location of the builders workshop, And get stuck again.

[Buntkreuz]

^this

[cshaw1188]

If you have an area painted for residential and put a building in there, it seems to cause this issue. I had a lumber yard in a residential area and everything was fine. Then all the sudden I started getting the message that they couldn't reach the lumber yard. I looked and some goofball built a house right in the way. There needs to be better management for home building. I don't like the fact that we can't place the houses in an orderly fashion.

[Buntkreuz]

Originally posted by cshaw1188:

If you have an area painted for residential and put a building in there, it seems to cause this issue. I had a lumber yard in a residential area and everything was fine. Then all the sudden I started getting the message that they couldn't reach the lumber yard. I looked and some goofball built a house right in the way. There needs to be better management for home building. I don't like the fact that we can't place the houses in an orderly fashion.

In this case, nothing blocked anything.
I checked it all through and ANY other villager was able to interact fine.
ALl my lumberjacks had no issue working with the destined object (a wood storage).
Only my builders had issues with it.

Again, i assume the devs missed the mark with the AI behaviour code and didnt bother to implement a pathfinding failsave.
The Villager AI targets a resource destination it somehow cant reach and then doesnt default to the next destination it can reach, but instead loops the attempts that obviously have the same result: cant be reached.

They need to fix those loops and honestly, the entire games "problem" handling is bothersome and underdeveloped.

I constantly have messages of "too few houses", "houses cant be reached" and many more.
I see no obvious problem, theres enough space, materials, beautification and so on.
They could do things, but dont.
Also stuff like "no access to basic food" could mean like a dozen different things.
My market is stocked with berries and fish.
Cant they buy it?
Or cant they reach the market stands?
Is it too less?

I dont know.

The game needs a much much better way to tell you whats wrong. Especially for bigger settlements.
The game wants to promote its free-build feature, but then it should provide the quality to handle that and it currently doesnt.
Its a total mess.

[cshaw1188]

Originally posted by Buntkreuz:

Originally posted by cshaw1188:

If you have an area painted for residential and put a building in there, it seems to cause this issue. I had a lumber yard in a residential area and everything was fine. Then all the sudden I started getting the message that they couldn't reach the lumber yard. I looked and some goofball built a house right in the way. There needs to be better management for home building. I don't like the fact that we can't place the houses in an orderly fashion.

In this case, nothing blocked anything.
I checked it all through and ANY other villager was able to interact fine.
ALl my lumberjacks had no issue working with the destined object (a wood storage).
Only my builders had issues with it.

Again, i assume the devs missed the mark with the AI behaviour code and didnt bother to implement a pathfinding failsave.
The Villager AI targets a resource destination it somehow cant reach and then doesnt default to the next destination it can reach, but instead loops the attempts that obviously have the same result: cant be reached.

They need to fix those loops and honestly, the entire games "problem" handling is bothersome and underdeveloped.

I constantly have messages of "too few houses", "houses cant be reached" and many more.
I see no obvious problem, theres enough space, materials, beautification and so on.
They could do things, but dont.
Also stuff like "no access to basic food" could mean like a dozen different things.
My market is stocked with berries and fish.
Cant they buy it?
Or cant they reach the market stands?
Is it too less?

I dont know.

The game needs a much much better way to tell you whats wrong. Especially for bigger settlements.
The game wants to promote its free-build feature, but then it should provide the quality to handle that and it currently doesnt.
Its a total mess.

I really do like the game but yea, I agree with you 100%. I get those errors too but I completely ignore them and refuse to do anything with them. They definitely do need to do some revamping on the code.