Sweepy Makeover! PLEASE!

I mean, Sweepy can move across the ground slowly, but it should pick up as much material in a squat as an auto-sweeper holds. Maybe Sweepy can hold more material than an auto-sweeper before going back to the dock? I think Sweepy already holds more material than an auto-sweeper before going back to the dock? That's fine and dandy.

The main thing is, it is not emptying and it should be able to empty liquids without dupe intervention (and solids too!)

If I may:

Errands are generated at the destination point for the materials sweepy has collected. Storage bins with a "sweep only" or bottle emptiers are recommended spots to check for the errand.

I agree that sweepy should be able to take more material per sweep opportunity. Buffing the amount would be great.

I would argue this post goes into the "suggestions and feedback" part of the forum.

You're missing the biggest upside of sweepys - you can place cute artifacts on them

6 hours ago, JRup said:

If I may:

Errands are generated at the destination point for the materials sweepy has collected. Storage bins with a "sweep only" or bottle emptiers are recommended spots to check for the errand.

I agree that sweepy should be able to take more material per sweep opportunity. Buffing the amount would be great.

I would argue this post goes into the "suggestions and feedback" part of the forum.

Since I was seeing no errands being generated for Sweepy, I started this as a bug report. It does also include the suggestion and the title makes it sound like a suggestion. It is both, but inseparable in my opinion.

Now that I see that I was in error, and not the game, it is only a suggestion, I agree.

I never noticed the "Sweepy Only" option and what if I want the storage bins to be "Sweepy plus anything?" I'm confused, why should they be sweepy only to work? Shouldn't the docks be emptied and sorted to any storage bin?

6 minutes ago, Sasuga said:

Sweepy Only

Sweep only, not sweepy. Meaning any sweep errands. Sweepy's storage is considered a sweep errand

1 minute ago, Sasuga said:

I never noticed the "Sweepy Only"

 

Setting a storage bin or a bottle emptier to "sweep only" will most likely become a target for sweep errands generated by the player as well as by sweepy's dock; dupes also like to steal stuff from sweepy itself once it's picked stuff up, however. Of noteworthy status is that "sweep only" was a thing before Sweepy came to be from the brains up in Klei. (Not "Sweepy only", sorry. )

It'd be great if the actual materials (or sweepy/associated dock) had a note to indicate something in the order of "Check destination storage(s) for more info." in their errands tab as this is a common issue that crops up from time to time (more often than you'd suspect).

If it was something they emptied like an incubator or declinator, that would probably help a bit, maybe?

It's been hours since I posted this and I've been playing the entire time (I've got a cold or flu or COVID (or something) and playing helps me not remember I'm sick), and they still have not emptied the sweepy. I have storage bins on "sweep only" and others not on sweep only, I have storage bins on 1, 2, and 7 (edit, not 8), and I have sweepys on 1 and 8, and they haven't emptied them yet.

Also, I have dupes dedicated to Life Support, dupes dedicated to Supply, and dupes dedicated to Storage. I don't know which category of errand it is, but I feel like it would be Supply or Storage and it is not getting done.

Oxygen Not Included - Sweepy Won't Empty 2 - 2024.03.23.zip

Edited March 23 by Sasuga

 

 

I literally locked a dupe in with a storage bin and they didn't empty it!

It's not all in the video, but I realized I didn't try all the different priorities without it being "sweep only" so I've done that as well, and nothing.

Things we cannot see in this clip:

1. Door permissions.

Can any other dupe besides Nails access this dock at the moment? Nails may be locked in, but other dupes having access to the area can still have the task to themselves and set to other storage option. Other duplicants except for the "volunteer" must be excluded from the area.

2. Dock contents.

Only the materials shown for reception in the storage bin are shown. We cannot see what the dock has so where it goes is yet to be seen.

The zipped file included in your post does not have a save file to check even further so that's as far as I go.

On 3/24/2024 at 7:01 AM, JRup said:

Things we cannot see in this clip:

1. Door permissions.

Can any other dupe besides Nails access this dock at the moment? Nails may be locked in, but other dupes having access to the area can still have the task to themselves and set to other storage option. Other duplicants except for the "volunteer" must be excluded from the area.

2. Dock contents.

Only the materials shown for reception in the storage bin are shown. We cannot see what the dock has so where it goes is yet to be seen.

The zipped file included in your post does not have a save file to check even further so that's as far as I go.

Fair points. The bin was set accept things from the sweepy, that I'm certain of. Other dupes might have had access, I can't recall... I think I only locked nails in. I'll reperform the experiment in a little while and report back the results.

(Still haven't reperformed the experiment yet.)

It would be nice if it showed information in the errands list.