0005573: When several are available, dwarves don't always choose the closest possible job tile

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0005573

Dwarf Fortress

Pathfinding

public

2012-03-07 13:29

2012-03-07 14:25

Reporter

Edrin

Assigned To

Logical2u

Priority

low

Severity

minor

Reproducibility

sometimes

Status

resolved

Resolution

duplicate

Platform

Windows

OS Version

7 SP1 x64

Product Version

0.34.05

Target Version

Fixed in Version

Summary

0005573: When several are available, dwarves don't always choose the closest possible job tile

Description

Some jobs can be made from several tiles, like, say building a wall in the middle of an empty field. It can be made from either the north, south, etc. tile. The dwarf often choses the north tile if available, then the west one and so on (but not always) with no regard to logic. In the process, they often end up walled in and starving to death if you don’t watch them closely. Sometime, they will make an insane trip to the other end of the map just to start digging on the other side, even if it may have been done by walking one tile to the nearest side.
It is especially annoying when digging, building walls or floor, but also building pretty much anything, smoothing, engraving, carving fortifications, and felling trees.

Steps To Reproduce

Order a dwarf to dig a wall than can be mined from the south and the north, he will tend to dig the north side, even if he is located one tile away to the south.

Additional Information

This one has been around from at least version 0.31.25