brucemo

I got a crash in today's release after I'd played a few cycles with it. One of the first thing I had done is turn on lower quality textures. I tried to reload the autosave and crashed. I tried to reload the autosave from two cycles ago and crashed. I tried to reload the autosave from three cycles ago and crashed. I turned the higher quality textures thing back on. I tried to reload the autosave from three cycles ago and it worked. I tried to reload the original autosave and it worked. If you would like save games I can provide them.

The transit tube in the screen shot has been disabled for several cycles. A dupe just went up it. Maybe this has to do with residual charge. The tube is not recharging after the dupe used it.

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I don't have a screen shot but it's kind of ridiculous sometimes and it's pretty easy to repro, you just set up an exo suit area whose entrance is in a CO2 pit. The dupes will arrive at the exo suits in a state of low breath and sometimes weird stuff happens. If a dupe needs to catch breath, it doesn't take into account that it's wearing an exo suit that's full of oxygen. I just watched one that obviously needed to catch breath run and put on an exo suit, then go through a water lock, then catch its breath in what was beyond the water lock, which was a place where an exo suit should be necessary. If a dupe is wearing an exo suit this should obviate the need to catch breath. A dupe shouldn't put on an exo suit in order to get to a place where it can catch breath. As it stands now they are putting on a protective atmo suit in order to get to a place where they can breathe a bunch of germs, *beyond* an atmo suit checkpoint. I don't know if they are exhaling CO2 but if so that is bad, since one of the points of exo suits is that you can isolate gas environments.

In the screen shot I have my mouse over a tile that contains an egg shell, algae, slime, more slime, and polluted water. I'm in the material's overlay and have selected organics. If a wad of slime is sitting in a tile, this will normally highlight the thing in icky green (good choice). As you can see, nothing is highlighted. Everything in the tile except the polluted water is organic. Egg shells don't show up in the organic display even when they are alone on a tile. So your overlay has a few problems with organics it appears.

I want to dig out this heavily piped nonsense but I don't care if the pipes are built yet. So what I did is select dig priority 9 and paint the area. As you can see in the first image, I have set the yellow-circled tile to have a dig errand priority of 9. My dupe walked over, dug out the tile immediately to the left of the indicated tile, and before my eyes the priority of the indicated tile changed to 1. I expected it to remain as it was. This is very reproduceable.

There is absolutely no tile there. It's waiting on delivery of sandstone. He walked up to this spot, which I don't think has ever had a tile on it, natural or unnatural, and decided to just stand there and dig. When he was done, he jumped down and dug the other two tiles there, then he jumped back up on this invisible empty tile and climbed over it. He went back to town and got some materials and brought them back. I increased the priority on the tile and another dupe walked up and dug 510 kilograms of sand out of the tile (now that I think of it there had been falling sand above there), then the original dupe came back and finished. No save/reload monkey business.

Preview branch, if that is not clear enough. The screen shot should be clear. Incorrect "learning" value in "Skill increase" tool tip. I have seen this happen in other cases, perhaps only with learning, but dunno.