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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0001903 | Dwarf Fortress | Dwarf Mode -- Jobs, General | public | 2010-05-16 14:11 | 2010-06-09 06:45 |
| Reporter | Shaggy Frog | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | no change required | ||
| Product Version | 0.31.03 | ||||
| Summary | 0001903: Stone underneath workshops preferred to stone next to workshops | ||||
| Description | When choosing stone for a workshop task, stone directly beneath the workshop on a lower Z-level is preferred over stone immediately next to workshop, regardless of real distance. | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | 1. Build a stone-using workshop and set a stockpile of stone next to it. 2. Dig out a tunnel directly beneath workshop (miners need to leave stone behind) 3. Start a task to build something with stone 4. Dwarf will choose tile directly beneath the workshop on a lower Z-level instead of taking the stone that is actually closest | ||||
| Additional Information | If you dig a second tunnel after the first, the stone in the second tunnel will be used after the stone in the first tunnel is used up. My guess is that the dwarf is calculating the path to the nearest stone but ignoring the fact that stone at a deeper Z-level may not actually be closer to stone at the same Z-level but a different X/Y position. (i.e. pathfinding is broken) | ||||
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The intended behavior is that it calculates the straight-line distance to the items, since the real pathfinding distance is expensive to calculate when there are many candidate items. If they're preferring items that have a greater straight-line distance than the ones next to the workshop, then that's a bug and it would be helpful to upload a save demonstrating the problem to http://dffd.wimbli.com/ (also, make sure your [z] -> Stones settings aren't preventing them from using the ones next to the workshop) |
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Well this intended behaviour is clearly sub-optimal and actually very annoying. The real pathfinding distance shouldn't be complicated to calculate at all. Using iterative-deepening depth-first search should be very quick -- since there's probably a stockpile of stone next to a workshop, it should find a candidate stone very, very quickly. I think it would be overkill to upload a save demonstrating the problem since it's trivial to reproduce. The stones settings are not preventing the dwarf from using the nearby stone. |
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Well this intended behaviour is clearly sub-optimal and actually very annoying. The real pathfinding distance shouldn't be complicated to calculate at all. Using iterative-deepening depth-first search should be very quick -- since there's probably a stockpile of stone next to a workshop, it should find a candidate stone very, very quickly. I agree, but that places this report in Suggestions territory (currently we're still using the forum for suggestions, not the tracker). There are already a couple threads on this topic: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=31585.0 (this is probably the one to bump) http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=23548.0 Feel free to reopen this report if it turns out there's a real bug (i.e., if they're preferring items that have a greater straight-line distance than the ones next to the workshop). |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2010-05-16 14:11 | Shaggy Frog | New Issue | |
| 2010-05-16 14:23 |
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Note Added: 0006807 | |
| 2010-05-16 14:40 | Shaggy Frog | Note Added: 0006808 | |
| 2010-05-16 15:07 |
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Note Added: 0006809 | |
| 2010-05-16 15:08 |
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Note Edited: 0006809 | |
| 2010-05-16 15:08 |
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Status | new => resolved |
| 2010-05-16 15:08 |
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Resolution | open => no change required |
| 2010-05-16 15:08 |
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Assigned To | => user6 |
| 2010-06-09 06:45 | Toady One | Status | resolved => closed |
