Excavator is Sniffing for Ores

computerneek · 5 days ago

Got a funny one today. Made several attempts to reproduce it, but while I have concrete steps, I was unable to manage it- it kept resetting, like it's supposed to. I suspect the trigger may have been frame-perfect.

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The arm snapped back into the standby position when I issued it another command, but it did not reset when it completed the movement command that started the glitch and picked its own path back to the mine.

Update 4.2 | v0.8.6c (b612)

Reproduction:

The excavator picked a spot to mine, traveled, then started rotating and extending its arm to pick up terrain. During this motion, I paused the game, issued a move order, and resumed the game. Later attempts were either too early (arm reset into position) or too late (terrain damaged, arm reset). Having a large angle between its neutral cab rotation and the one necessary to dig might be an important ingredient.

Edited 5 days ago
computerneek · 5 days ago

A setup somewhat like this (on the left of the stacker tower, specific structures not necessary; designations are flat, camera facing downhill) appears to make an "excavator digs behind it" situation fairly predictable- one where it descends a hill, then turns around to cut into that same hill. Probably makes reproduction easier.

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