I unity recovered it then decided to send a bug report a bit later, but my tree planter had a warning saying it couldnt find destination, and I found it stuck in this hole in the forestry zone. This likely isnt a serious or common bug (i've had it once in 2000 hours) but it did happen and it is a bug so I thought I'd put it here. Early game it could potentially stop tree planting for 20 years (or until the blocking trees are harvested) if not noticed.
I've had it too (in U2, esp. in hilly areas like the golden peak #2). Won't get stuck 20y early game, unless you willfully ignore the warnings for 20y.
Yet, I kind of remember, recovering should not be needed. Other unsolved case are the landslides burrying vehicles or cutting off vehicles path. Or trapping vehicles with buildings. Or, new, vehicles trapping themselves between tracks.
I think there can always be cases where new trees split a driveable area in two, unless you forbid new trees to be planted close to anything (including non driveable ground). The green (driveable) zone must persist to be contiguous (could be a U afterwards). That way wherever the planter came from, it can leave to.
Actually, in that 2nd pic:
It's a harvester (green), not a planter (blue).
And it did not plant, nor harvest a tree. (Only big trees, and non driveable bushes. no stumps no planted saplings visible)
There is a big tree that wasn't there in the navi overlay pic (do I see a small tree there?).
So 2nd pic is different from what I understood before. Did the harvester drive there (why?) and got stuck?!
I’m not sure what happened with the harvester but I think this might not be an uncommon thing
Could be a flaw in the path finding on small scale. You need to upload a save, ideally just before it happens.
Just based on two pics it's a bit hard to reproduce. Searching the root cause without being able to test for it, most developers do not like.
Yeah it’s a very minor bug that fixes itself anyway it’s not a big deal
it could be that a tree grow up after the planter (or harvester, or any vehicle for that matter) was already at a spot where there is no way to path away if a tree grows there (does that make any sense ?)
It happened again. Is there any plan to attempt to resolve this?
I have had this happen to planters from time to time. In a similar way, trucks will raise themselves on a platform that they dump under themselves when the offset for dumping is low (raising the ground by +1 or so).
The issue is that when deciding where to do their work, they don’t check for an “escape path” for afterwards.
At least I’m not getting an alert that said planter is stuck or out of gas. It might be that they’re basically following the tree cutters.
I got a truck that got stuck between fully grown trees, it somehow forced itself in there.
This happened to me too, unfortunately i have no pictures nor a safe file, a tree planter planted 4 trees around itself and couldn't exit which is very hilarious to think about. The person driving the machine just planting the last tree being like: "guess ill wait a few years". I did prevent it further down the line by allowing tree planting only in stripes. This obviously increased the area needed for the same production rate and i hope that it could be prevented somehow.
