[Bug???] ants ""stuck"" in the entrace of the nest

[Daniel7Sly123]

can someone tell me if this is a bug or not, because this media is ""stuck"" in the entrace but some time later i came to check and it was no longer there. (it happens with one of my workers to)(this happens to mi in 3.2)
if this is a bug pls makeit a feature because it is similar like a guard in the entrace of the nest. it is quite nice!

 

[HofNerd]

The worker is very likely trying to take the size 3 leaf back to the nest, but can't reach it. Causing her to be stuck there.

 

[JohnSlugDisco]

The worker is very likely trying to take the size 3 leaf back to the nest, but can't reach it. Causing her to be stuck there.

Yea I am in agreement the leaf is unreachable and the ant is still trying to get to it, one for Liam to look into I think

 

[HofNerd]

Yea I am in agreement the leaf is unreachable and the ant is still trying to get to it, one for Liam to look into I think

I have seen ants getting stuck this way regularly since the nest entrance was changed.

 

[JohnSlugDisco]

Logged

 

[JohnSlugDisco]

I wonder if the food has fallen through the floor somehow? It could also be an issue with the entrance itself, we have had a few floating point errors (essentially rounding errors) causing issues with this

 

[HofNerd]

I wonder if the food has fallen through the floor somehow? It could also be an issue with the entrance itself, we have had a few floating point errors (essentially rounding errors) causing issues with this

I am assuming the nest entrance ramps behave differently compared to normal ramps? (I have seen something similar in a dev stream a few days ago, a piece of leaf was dropped on a ramp and became unreachable. Moving it out of the ground manually did not make it reachable again.)

 

[Liam]

I'll set up a test in a bit that drops a few thousand leaf chunks on the nest entrance. With any luck some will fall through, the problem will reveal itself, and we can all sleep peacefully tonight.

 

[HofNerd]

I'll set up a test in a bit that drops a few thousand leaf chunks on the nest entrance. With any luck some will fall through, the problem will reveal itself, and we can all sleep peacefully tonight.

Don't worry, I will find enough for you to worry about for the coming nights.

 

[HofNerd]

Cannot... reach...

 

[HofNerd]

it is similar like a guard in the entrace of the nest. it is quite nice!

Except for the fact creatures can't currently fight inside the tunnels of the overground nest entrance...
A guard that cannot attack, but can it block enemies? Who knows?

 

[Liam]

Don't worry, I will find enough for you to worry about for the coming nights.

We are all forever grateful of the stress you induce!

 

[Liam]

I didn't get the leaves to go underground, but I did get a similar problem with them sticking to the sides. Something is definitely off here. In the picture it's hard to tell if the leaf is actually underground, because it's around that area that we fade the leaves out to stop them sticking out of the nest entrance roof. Anyway, hopefully if I fix the problem I've found, it will fix the other one too... hopefully.

 

[HofNerd]

In the picture it's hard to tell if the leaf is actually underground, because it's around that area that we fade the leaves out to stop them sticking out of the nest entrance roof.

That's something I did not know, but it makes sense to work that way. The leaf chunks check if they should fade out regardless of them being carried or on the ground. It might be interesting to make them fade in when faded out and dropped, as they would become completely invisible without food values on if they get stuck inside the overground nest entrance? (In the work in progress build at least, as an extra thing for spotting issues.)