[BUG] Clone tool replaces floor unnecessarily at inflated cost

[grandbuddhapest]

As discussed on a thread on Reddit called "Clone Room floor issue?", the clone tool replaces flooring unnecessarily when the cloned tile has the same flooring as the destination tile. This means that cloning roomsis more expensive than manually creating the same room. The impact of the bug is that the player is driven to micromanagement to avoid the bug and this significantly reduces enjoyment.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a foundation
2. Observe that the new foundation has concrete flooring
3. Clone the contents of an existing room with concrete flooring onto the new foundation
4. Observe that jobs have been queued to replace the concrete flooring with concrete flooring and you have been incorrectly charged for the flooring

 

[cняis™]

There are more bugs with the clone tool: It won't clone pillows, radiators or laundry baskets. When successfully cloning an area, it will remove all radiators (if existing) and also replace any flooring and charge you, even if it was the same flooring or override the existing flooring (this should be excluded from cloning). When cloning an area, it will also buy all equipment again, even if it's already in your storage. And selling stuff from your storage / delivery area won't charge you any taxes.

 

[Enigmaticrose4]

As discussed on a thread on Reddit called "Clone Room floor issue?", the clone tool replaces flooring unnecessarily when the cloned tile has the same flooring as the destination tile. This means that cloning roomsis more expensive than manually creating the same room. The impact of the bug is that the player is driven to micromanagement to avoid the bug and this significantly reduces enjoyment.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a foundation
2. Observe that the new foundation has concrete flooring
3. Clone the contents of an existing room with concrete flooring onto the new foundation
4. Observe that jobs have been queued to replace the concrete flooring with concrete flooring and you have been incorrectly charged for the flooring

There’s definitely something odd going on with the clone tool. I’ll pass this on to D11. Thank you.

 

[Enigmaticrose4]

There are more bugs with the clone tool: It won't clone pillows, radiators or laundry baskets. When successfully cloning an area, it will remove all radiators (if existing) and also replace any flooring and charge you, even if it was the same flooring or override the existing flooring (this should be excluded from cloning). When cloning an area, it will also buy all equipment again, even if it's already in your storage. And selling stuff from your storage / delivery area won't charge you any taxes.

Radiators are classed as utilities and so don’t clone. Laundry baskets move around and so have never fallen under the clone tool. I assume pillows are similar.

 

[cняis™]

Radiators are classed as utilities and so don’t clone. Laundry baskets move around and so have never fallen under the clone tool. I assume pillows are similar.

Yeah, but the clone tool should not dismantle radiators because they are classified as utilities.

 

[Enigmaticrose4]

Yeah, but the clone tool should not dismantle radiators because they are classified as utilities.

I'm not sure how this is happening for you, I just tested it and the radiator wasn't touched.

 

[cняis™]

I'm not sure how this is happening for you, I just tested it and the radiator wasn't touched.

1. Create a building 8 x 8 tiles
2. Add two radiators
3. Now clone an office 6 x 6 tiles
4. The radiator will be flagged to be dismantled

 

[Enigmaticrose4]

I see that now. Very odd, I'll report it on. The Clone tool won't copy radiators, but it's demolishing them.

Edit: This is intentional as it happens with any item that takes up space, whether they're a utility or not. It occurs with anything that's seen on the regular map (not cables or pipes, for example). This is due to how the game was initially designed as the clone tool was added later.