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(Apologies if this has already been mentioned and/or discussed)

I'm having an issue using buckets in automation. I have one Basic Autobot whose only commands are [Repeat forever[move to water storage][take from water storage][move to crude wash tub][add to crude wash tub]]. Grabbing water and putting it in the tub, forever. For some reason, once in a while the bucket will remain full after adding to the wash tub, leading to a confused bot trying to fill an already-full bucket and getting stuck. The wash tub is usually full, so the bot spends time waiting for the water level to drop, if that's relevant.


Any advice would be appreciated! Thanks!

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Here is a suggestion that might help you.  If you add loops that say "Repeat times 1" and include the down-arrow at their ends, the down-arrow will check to see if there was a failure within the loop and in that case will exit the loop.  In this example, a failure could happen at the top if the water bucket was already full and the bot could not "Take from Water Storage", and so the bot would then "Move to Crude Wash Tub" and continue.  A failure could also happen at the bottom if the bot could not "Add to Crude Wash Tub" because the tub was already full, and so the "Repeat forever" loop would go back to the beginning.  (Another failure could happen if the Water Storage was empty but this example does not include steps to deal with that.)

 

You do not need the second "Repeat times 1" if you have another bot set up which adds dirty Folks or dirty Clothes or dirty Soup Pots into the Wash Tub.  If you don't have that second "Repeat times 1", this bot will simply wait until after the Wash Tub has cleaned something and then has room for more water.

Wow, that's a cool tip. I just used it to make a production line. Each bot handles a different material, and delivers the that material to 3 different clay stations. If the clay station doesn't need that material yet, he just goes on to the next one.

Hi! Yes, sorry about this I think it's a pesky bug. I'm not quite sure why it keeps happening as it's difficult to catch. However this won't be an issue when we finally release a new version on Steam as we no longer use the wash tub any more. Sorry for your inconvenience.

I'm sorry to hear that the Wash Tub will not be included in the new version.  I thought that the Wash Tub added some interesting activities to the game and allowed players to solve lots of challenges with keeping Folks and Clothes and Soup Pots clean.  I wonder if the "Besom Broom" will also no longer be included, since it is also used for cleaning after the Folks eat the Soup.  Please don't drop out of the new version too many features like the Wash Tub and the Besom Broom.  (I don't mind if you drop out the musical instruments though.)

Sorry :( Most feedback suggested that cleaning wasn't much fun. However the Folk will require certain things to be happy (food, shelter, clothing etc) so it's something we may reintroduce in a later release. We've not removed all that much from v21.2 and we've added in a whole load so you won't be short of things to play with :)

That's great news.  Just like everyone else, I can't wait to see the new version.  Thank you.