Forklift Problem

[Railsplitter]

I LOVE the new forklifts. I've been using them for several hours and they seem to work great...until now.

I have a Prefab Panel factory directly across the road from a gravel storage facility. The factory is fully supplied with gravel and cement and workers. The output storage is FULL of prefab panels, and attached to the factory is a Medium Storage yard with a forklift garage attached.

At first it worked great. The storage yard filled up with panels which I loaded onto both trucks and trains. No problem.

Then, for no apparent reason, all 4 of my forklifts just sit there lined up waiting to move panels into the now-empty storage yard. One forklift will move about every 30 seconds, then the next one moves in to load, and takes about 30 seconds (or more, haven't really timed it) to load.

Meantime, the loaded forklift runs over to the yard and takes its own sweet time to unload (and the yard is empty because trucks are coming in a steady stream and leaving either empty or with very few panels aboard).

The factory output is full, waiting for the panels to be moved to the yard, but the forklifts are moving VERY slowly. I checked their fuel and that's not the issue--the forklift garage is buying fuel as needed. So what's going on?

Has anyone else had (and hopefully solved) this problem?

Thank you!

[Minister Kosh]

Are all buildings still correctly connected to your power grid?

[Railsplitter]

Originally posted by Minister Kosh:

Are all buildings still correctly connected to your power grid?

Yes, everything has power. Everything is working correctly except the forklifts are taking their sweet time. After the last post, I timed it. It takes 50-55 seconds for each forklift to load. I sold off 2 of them just to see if it made a difference, but it didn't. With only 2 forklifts, they are still backed up.

[ryantheskinny]

Send the save to the dev please: https://www.sovietrepublic.net/support

[Railsplitter]

Originally posted by ryantheskinny:

Send the save to the dev please: https://www.sovietrepublic.net/support

I located the folder, but the only file dated today is called Log. It's a Chrome HTML file. Is that the correct one?

[ryantheskinny]

Look under saves in the Soviet media folder. The folders may not always have the current date, but the files inside will

[Railsplitter]

Originally posted by ryantheskinny:

Look under saves in the Soviet media folder. The folders may not always have the current date, but the files inside will

Thanks, Ryan. It may not be necessary now. I've been playing with it and here's what happened:

I had 10 gravel dumpers (far too many) heading into the Prefab plant. I eliminated them to give the plant time to process everything, and I also assigned 3 flatbed trucks to move the output to storage. Once the inventory lightened up, the forklifts started moving again. It looks like they get confused when everything is full. Does that make any sense?

[ryantheskinny]

Sounds like a bug in the forklifts coding. They shouldn't lock up like that

[Railsplitter]

Originally posted by ryantheskinny:

Sounds like a bug in the forklifts coding. They shouldn't lock up like that

Looks like I spoke too soon. Once the prefab factory was empty, I restarted production and, with only 10 tons of panels in the output, the forklifts slowed down again.

Thanks for your input, Ryan. Should I still send the save file?

[ryantheskinny]

I think it would be a good idea

[Railsplitter]

File uploaded. Thank you for the assistance.

[thorstein92]

Forklifts have problems with buffering when storages are full.
So set your factory to "load only" and storage to "unload only".
Also if you use forklifts on more complicated warehouses-/factories use 1 forklift stand for each good type - to avoid problems like 'forklifts stucks with bricks on forks when they need transport panels

[Railsplitter]

Originally posted by thorstein92:

Forklifts have problems with buffering when storages are full.
So set your factory to "load only" and storage to "unload only".
Also if you use forklifts on more complicated warehouses-/factories use 1 forklift stand for each good type - to avoid problems like 'forklifts stucks with bricks on forks when they need transport panels

Thanks, Thorstein92. That is how I have it set now. The forklifts are tasked only to load panels at the factory and unload them at storage. No other settings.

Right now I'm using trucks to help out and that is working, though not ideal.

[thorstein92]

The other problem with panels and bricks is the loading speed. Few days ago i modded micro cheaty warehouse to fix that issue.

[Vimes]

I am still new to the game but decided to try out the fork lift trucks. I use them between various factories and a warehouse.
My design, being new to the game, isn't probably the best but still very functional and the appropriate factory connections and power etc is very much in place.

At first they seemed to be doing a good job but they soon seem to get snarled up and function as the OP described in the first post. I did delete (sold) the one at the front of the queue thinking that something was wrong with it. But then the next one just moved forwards and seemed to stay there for a long time.
My fabric factory stops as it is full and can't export to the warehouse. My clothes factory (I have 2) stops as it is full of clothes, and sometimes short of fabric.
There is room in the warehouse for both of these items.

I thought that it might be that I needed more forklift trucks so I built another of their depots.

I have tried various settings of loading and unloading but overall it is not working ideally, often with log queues of those forklift trucks seemingly snarled up and stuck in a long line.

I have thought of building a second warehouse opposite the other, if they will split up and use them both.

I did supplement the FLT's with a normal truck to help move stuff around.


Here is a screen shot......

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2006941513


I think that I'll reduce the workers, and output, from my fabric factory to see if that helps.

[tea_bush]

Originally posted by Vimes:

I am still new to the game but decided to try out the fork lift trucks.

That was a bad idea :-)