Stuck robots

[Guizin]

https://i.imgur.com/BXhBCbr.png

what do i do to stop this? i tried closing the game but it didnt work :/

[Fighting-Priest]

rotate the deposit, it's a known bug so if you rotate so they come in on the other side it wont happen.

[nDervish]

The surest solution (if you aren't willing to sacrifice the contents of your deposit by deleting it so that you can rebuild facing the other way) is to only have one robotnik, which isn't as painful as it sounds if you have an upgraded model (such as the black ones in your image) and the deposit is directly adjacent to your hangar.

By chance, I was in position one time to see exactly how this comes about. I had a yellow and a black robotnik entering the deposit at the same time, with the (slower) yellow in front. The black bumped into it, then tried to pass it, which is what caused it to veer onto the stairs and get stuck there. Based on this, I suspect that having two (or possibly more) robotniks may be relatively safe in this layout if they are all the same speed (only yellow or no yellow), but I haven't tested that yet. Could still be problems trying to pass each other if one is entering the deposit and the other is exiting, though, which becomes more likely the more you have.

The reason it's not a problem with the deposit turned the other way would seem to be simply that you don't normally have dense traffic bursts through the door to the refinery, so collisions and robotniks passing each other doesn't happen there nearly as often.

[Varon]

I had this bug and thought I'd just destroy the robot, it exploded and took me and one of my clones out in the explosion... 10/10 game design.

[nDervish]

Huh. I've destroyed four robots stuck in that place in the course of my current run, but none of them have caused any collateral damage. And here I was assuming the explosion was purely cosmetic...

[Space Case]

Can confirm... Deleted a robot with a shotgun and it fell to the floor. I went to teabag it and it got the last laugh by ending that run since i had no clones left... Damn robots

[Yoni]

Originally posted by Social.Insanity:

rotate the deposit, it's a known bug so if you rotate so they come in on the other side it wont happen.

How i can rotate deposit?

[nDervish]

Originally posted by Yoni:

Originally posted by Social.Insanity:

rotate the deposit, it's a known bug so if you rotate so they come in on the other side it wont happen.

How i can rotate deposit?

Destroy it and build a new one, which will also destroy any ores and plants stored there.

[CyanDoomdragon]

Originally posted by nDervish:

Originally posted by Yoni:

How i can rotate deposit?

Destroy it and build a new one, which will also destroy any ores and plants stored there.

If you have room in another deposit they'll be moved over instead of destroyed.

[Valius]

sometimes you can push them with your character to unstuck them

[nDervish]

Originally posted by Dru_:

sometimes you can push them with your character to unstuck them

Not when they're stuck in that spot, you can't. Or at least I've never heard of anyone succeeding at it, and I've also tried myself. They're boxed in on multiple sides, plus they're also hovering above the floor at head level (because they're above the bottom of the stairs), so there isn't anywhere you can push from.

[izvon2017]

you can go on planet mission with the captain and this will unload your ship from memory and reload it once you ll get back. in most cases it fixes stuck robots

[Shaka the Zulu]

Turns out its your build path making them stuck. You need to make sure they have a clear path up or down stairs without travel through a room. Elevators and hallways only for cross floor travel.

[JustSayWin]

Rebuild the room and make sure the robots only use the one entrance closest to the room computer. Otherwise they do that eventually. If you don't want to lose the contents you can build another deposit before destroying this one.