Can't automate solids in rooms anymore

[Neotuck]

1 minute ago, BlueLance said:

Ugh how stupid of me, i forgot that hydroponic tiles ARE the ground

you can build sweepers above the plants and use pneumatic doors as a barrier, light can pass though sweepers/loaders

2 hours ago, Saturnus said:

If they're in planter boxes, sure.

do planter boxes work on doors?

[Saturnus]

2 minutes ago, Neotuck said:

do planter boxes work on doors?

Last I checked. Yes.

[Neotuck]

3 minutes ago, Saturnus said:

Last I checked. Yes.

must have been patched then

[Supraluminal]

2 hours ago, Saturnus said:

Here's the crux of the matter. If solids can't fall through it why should sweepers (or dupes) be able to pull solids through it?

So mesh and air tiles was an obvious bug. Pneumatic doors? Probably intended as solids can fall through them even when closed. Same with open doors of all kinds. They are obviously also kosher.

Note that an open door still counts as a room boundary, so just leave the doors open.

So the drip-cooling behavior is something that's a great gameplay feature that shouldn't be changed, but sweepers reaching through tiles is an "obvious bug." I see how it is. 

Seriously though, intuitive realism aside, what's the gameplay case for this change? Maybe they didn't originally intend for sweepers to work through tiles, but it turns out that it's fun and useful.  What's the harm in it?

[Saturnus]

5 minutes ago, Neotuck said:

must have been patched then

Nope. Not patched. Works fine.

Maybe I should have specified any doors except pneumatic door but I thought that was obvious as you've never been able to build on pneumatic doors.

[Neotuck]

1 minute ago, Saturnus said:

Nope. Not patched. Works fine.

Maybe I should have specified any doors except pneumatic door but I thought that was obvious as you've never been able to build on pneumatic doors.

won't let me build on them but when I build them on solid tiles, deconstruct the tiles and build the doors seems to work

[Supraluminal]

4 hours ago, goboking said:

Where you see a nerf nobody was asking for I see a bug fix everyone should have expected.

I mean, I actually filed a bug report weeks ago about inconsistent sweeper behavior in which I documented this and other aspects of their operation based on line of sight. So it's not that I wasn't expecting some change, but this is not the resolution I was hoping for (and not what I suggested in my report either).