Mining limestone on map #1

[onehalf83]

I'm on my first game and started on map #1. I built a bridge and building to mine stone and limestone right in front of limestone (limited source) but it says something like "no limestone to mine in range". They can mine stone just fine walking across half map. Then I built another building in front of unlimited limestone source - with same result. I've read in other posts that it might be known issue, but others reported they made it work on map #1. Questions I have:

1. Can someone confirm it is known bug with map #1 and mining limestone doesn't work there?
2. Is there workaround or it just works or doesn't work randomly on map #1? In this case if I start new game is there a way to figure out from the start whether it works or not? I'd hate to spend hours to develop colony to figure out it doesn't work at all.
3. Is there any other map where there is unlimited limestone source and mining of it works?

I'd appreciate any tips or suggestions. Thank you!

[garyoa1]

Works fine for me. Been a while since I've played but I think you need more than one building to get it going. Just forget what! LOL

[SLIPPY]

Map 1 is actually the newest map it used to begin with map 4. If I recall correctly the early maps were not good for the game release but the names like map 1,2 and 3 had been all written into the code too far to just rename maps. Since map 1 is a rework of a old map there has been some pathing issues and other bugs that people have reported. Since the dev is busy with the war in Ukraine I would suggest skipping map 1. There are no other maps with unlimited limestone though.

[Bjørn]

I've played 2 games on the map, and had no problems with limestone, other than that they sometimes took from the unlimited supply even though the limited was closer.

I remember seeing someone else with this problem as well. But I also think I remember that it was fixed in a hotfix? Or maybe it was put on a todo-list. Map 01 is the newest map, and the only one with unlimited limestone, so there might still be undiscovered bugs.

I can't help with how to solve it once it's happened.

(posted at exactly the same time as SLIPPY, I noticed... :))

[Paph]

I just fired up a new game on map 1 and I found 2 piles of limestone with 10,000+ and one pile that says it's unlimited. It shows the infinity symbol where the count usually is.

[onehalf83]

Originally posted by Nutshellfish:

I've played 2 games on the map, and had no problems with limestone, other than that they sometimes took from the unlimited supply even though the limited was closer.

So it seems like it does work for some of us :) Do you remember by any chance where you placed your mining building or if you were cutting trees around limestone deposits? If it's pathfinding issue, I might try to mimic what you did to see if it works.

[onehalf83]

Originally posted by Paph:

I just fired up a new game on map 1 and I found 2 piles of limestone with 10,000+ and one pile that says it's unlimited. It shows the infinity symbol where the count usually is.

That's exactly what I have, but when I build mining building in front of limestone deposit (10k+ or unlimited) it says cannot find limestone in vicinity or smth like that

[Bjørn]

Originally posted by onehalf83:

So it seems like it does work for some of us :) Do you remember by any chance where you placed your mining building or if you were cutting trees around limestone deposits? If it's pathfinding issue, I might try to mimic what you did to see if it works.

On both maps I had a mining camp just above the infinite source. Or above... that depends on which way you see the game! Between the source and the river. That is per definition below, but...

On my last playthrough I put the first mining camp (mined both stone and limestone) just about where the portrait of the good mister Matviy Dumych is on this screenshot (or a bit closer to the 2 houses), which I took for another reason:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2758187672
I only used that for stone in the beginning, but used it a bit for limestone before I built another camp by the infinite source. (btw I've abandonded this town now since it started crashing at about 650 citizens, so I'm on a new map now).


You said you built a bridge first then the mining camp in your first post. Have you built other bridges? I think each time a bridge is built, the entire map is 'recalculated' for new pathing routes, or so it seems to me since the game pauses a while.

So try building a bridge, and see if that solves it.

[onehalf83]

Thank you Nutshellfish, I'll try few more things based on your suggested locations. As per bridges - I think I built 1 or 2 after building first camp (definitely built at least one bridge to support 2nd camp near infinite limestone deposit), so it seem didn't help, but I'll try to build another one just to see if it changes anything.