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Bug with the ranching of critters when ranchers call for critters to be groomed(Update)

Blixzap

By Blixzap

    • Branch: Live Branch Version: Windows Pending

Hiya Klei Developers! Good morning or good evening to you!

Now you may already know me, I think, so I won't introduce myself and get to the point.
I found this major bug that when ranchers go ahead and ranch the different critters, I found out that sometimes the critter would just stand still like frozen when the ranchers call for them.
So essentially the dupe itself would just get stuck there calling for the critter until the dupe either has a different task or goes away due to things like lack of oxygen.
I am not sure if this is for all critters because I mostly found it on hatches and I am mostly just ranching hatches on my usual runs.
And also I am not sure if this is just a bug on my pc or this is an actual bug on the game.

So I do wish you will read this and take note of it.

Either way, thank you for reading this.

From blixzap

Extra Note: I just found out just now that when the dupes are in Atmo suits the bug becomes much less because they have their own oxygen and they can focus more on the job, so maybe due
to the dupes doing more tasks than usual, such as holding their breathe, confuses the AI of the game? I am not sure that is why I would like you to also test it. Thank you again. Also the bug also occurs on Pufts on the animation "Expelling waste".

(Update) So, bug seems to have been fixed, did another run on oxygen not included and the ranchers and the critters animations run smoothly now, so its good.

Steps to Reproduce

Note: This is a bug that doesn't happen on the first calls of ranchers, it usually happens later on, on late games and it becomes an actual bug
1. First do the usual, make a 96 tiles ranch and with the usual tools in it,(Grooming station, etc.).
2. Second hire a dupe with the ranching skill.
3. Put in the critters, it either has to be a full ranch of 8 critters or 7,(That's the usual amount of critters I put in the ranch)
4. Wait for a couple of cycles, (You can make sure to put the dupes on oxygen or Atmo suits so that they won't hold their breath and go for oxygen).
Then the bug should appear, my way of fixing the bug is either move the rancher very far away so that the critter's code would reset or wrangle the critter and place them on a different ranch.

For the Puft, it just occurs after when a Puft is done eating air and would be stuck on the animation of "Expelling Waste".

(Update) You don't get the bug anymore

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Cadrach

I Have the same problem on a new start cycle 50. Rancher trys the whole cycle to lure the hatch. The Hatch is labeled "Excited", crouched to the floor and is not moving. Moving the Rancher away did not help. After he returned, he continues whisteling with no result.

Not sure about this, but i think he even repeated this, after he returned from sleeping the next cycle...
Saving and reloading the game fixes the problem for a while.

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Ipothead

I've had this bug too, mostly with Hatches/Stone Hatches. It doesn't seem to affect Glossy Dreckos. I've been able to wrangle the Hatches manually, disable the Grooming Station, kill the critters and re-enable the Grooming Station. This seems to fix it for a while...

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