Originally posted by Morberis:

I didn't know about inverting zones! Thank you.

Aaaand no this doesn't help either. Doesn't seem to matter the mod order. Even if I get rid of all my penned animals.

When I have time I'll have to start removing animal related mods 1 by 1. When I find a mod that fixes it I'll post about it. I'll also post if I don't find it...

Originally posted by Morberis:

Originally posted by Morberis:

I didn't know about inverting zones! Thank you.

Aaaand no this doesn't help either. Doesn't seem to matter the mod order. Even if I get rid of all my penned animals.

When I have time I'll have to start removing animal related mods 1 by 1. When I find a mod that fixes it I'll post about it. I'll also post if I don't find it...

My final suggestion before you do is to look into those animal-proof door mods, see if there are any that you could pop in. Like I said, I'm using one of the RimmuNation mods that adds in the Reinforced Doors, which animals are not able to open.

Im getting the same problem. Assigned owner is any animal i have tamed. Only using Vanilla expanded mods for animals and the random animal sex mod. I've also tried moving the load order around to no avail.

I can manually carry them to the bench, but I can't hack them from that point on.

I managed to get it to work. I didn't realize I had to go into the health panel and set hack as an operation. Once I did this, I was able to use and hack the mechs. Everything is working now.

Originally posted by Sly Tacitus:

I managed to get it to work. I didn't realize I had to go into the health panel and set hack as an operation. Once I did this, I was able to use and hack the mechs. Everything is working now.

i have a question,what's the health panel?I added a hacking task to the surgical schedule, but it still shows no hacking table working.

Originally posted by ukpkmkk:

Originally posted by Sly Tacitus:

I managed to get it to work. I didn't realize I had to go into the health panel and set hack as an operation. Once I did this, I was able to use and hack the mechs. Everything is working now.

i have a question,what's the health panel?I added a hacking task to the surgical schedule, but it still shows no hacking table working.

It's the status panel on the Mechanoid when you click on it. The tab that shows injuries and whatnot - from there you can check its operations, and order a new operation to hack it on a downed mechanoid.

I am having the same problem, but if I put a storage zone right on top of the hacking table interaction spot my pawns decide the table is not a bed.

Uhhh.... Anyway why it's so important for you? It dosent even affects the gameplay at all... I can try to remove this "feature" from hacking table but for what? WTH has bugs that much more serious than this! (See my last comment on main mod page)

And what is the problem? I have some kind of hacking bench (not for mechanoids unfortunately) in real life and my cat is always uses it as a bed... So I think it normal that it's labeled as animal bed... Cat bed I mean...

Originally posted by M.A.G.Gen.:

Uhhh.... Anyway why it's so important for you? It dosent even affects the gameplay at all... I can try to remove this "feature" from hacking table but for what? WTH has bugs that much more serious than this! (See my last comment on main mod page)

Originally posted by M.A.G.Gen.:

And what is the problem? I have some kind of hacking bench (not for mechanoids unfortunately) in real life and my cat is always uses it as a bed... So I think it normal that it's labeled as animal bed... Cat bed I mean...

The problem was, as an animal bed - the bench would not function as an operation table. Nor could it be re-labeled. However, we've found our workarounds as it seemed. I haven't played Rimworld in forever since like... 3 weeks after this thread went live.

I implore you to read the whole thread, or perhaps try to replicate these issues yourself so you can see our issues. Either way, that's the problem.

So I read through this thread and had a similar issue where the game would not read the hacking table as valid.

Checked through everything
- power
- work order under health to hack
- mod load order
- functional workbench, tech and parts

Had hacked once earlier in my play through but was unsure what how now rendered me unable to, seem table sometimes would and would not register.

Also had pawnmorpher and a few other animal mods.

Fix seemed to be linked to zoning / areas. Created a inverted allowed area for the whole map and assigned my pawn to it and they were able to hack, I also ensured no animal were assigned to it.

No animals shared zoning with the room before but it was linked to my home zone. Very odd fix but if it works it works.

Update to my last post.

The relationship between how mech are put on the table seems to be very important.

I have been using a system of drafting -> carrying -> place on table -> attempt to hack. but this kept rendering the table to not register.

It seems the real fix lies in hauling the mech once a hack health task has been set then this enables the hacking, without using haul it wont read the table as being valid.