Sweepers are pointless if dupes prevent them from working

The only solution i find is to prevent dupe access to the area

13 minutes ago, tzionut said:

The only solution i find is to prevent dupe access to the area

Not always an option. Farms are the perfect example. Yes, they do drop the fruits after a while, an you can fully automate them. The problem is, if they need water, and you dont have tons of excess, they consume and consume, while not growing beyond 100%, until they drop the fruit. Its just a waste of ressources.

The best solution indeed would be, the sweepers would gain a higher priority, so dupes wont be assigned to the job, if a sweeper can do it.

Changed Status to Known Issue

We're looking at improving this in a future update.

@Brook Glad to hear it, and thank you for the response. P.S.-The plant there was actually my own foolishness, bad sweeper placement. But the problem does still happen with valid targets often enough to be a problem(I had to lock up all my dirt!).

Edited April 11, 2019 by Dyrewulfe
Poorly written sentence

I have the same issue. I have a pressurized room for oxylite production. When oxylite is being produced and dropped on the ground, the auto-sweeper doesn't act fast enough to pick it up and put it into a storage, but lets dupe to do it instead. 

On 4/13/2019 at 8:48 PM, Jackie1213 said:

I have the same issue. I have a pressurized room for oxylite production. When oxylite is being produced and dropped on the ground, the auto-sweeper doesn't act fast enough to pick it up and put it into a storage, but lets dupe to do it instead. 

I do this to, my workaround is to use a smart storage that opens a pressure door once it is full (and you can set the amount of storage capacity by yourself). The pressure door is closed by automation when the oxylite refinery is activated (via signal switch or timer and a memory gate). If you want to open the door earlier, just change the storage capacity of the smart storage).

P.S. The oxylite refinery can produce something around 1400kg of oxylite with a full charge of gold.

On ‎2019‎-‎04‎-‎17 at 12:24 AM, ThirdEye said:

I do this to, my workaround is to use a smart storage that opens a pressure door once it is full (and you can set the amount of storage capacity by yourself). The pressure door is closed by automation when the oxylite refinery is activated (via signal switch or timer and a memory gate). If you want to open the door earlier, just change the storage capacity of the smart storage).

P.S. The oxylite refinery can produce something around 1400kg of oxylite with a full charge of gold.

I just lock the room until I need to use oxylite