Surviving Mars - Drone stuck in Dome

[gartma01]

Description
Drone stuck in Dome

What is your game version?
227,923

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
A drone will enter a Dome to repair a building but will run out of energy while inside the dome. I try to send another drone to recharge the powerless drone, but the recharge drone will travel to the outer edge of the dome closest to the powerless drone inside the dome, sit there for a few seconds, and then get assigned another task. I've tried directing a drone inside the Dome before issuing a command to recharge the drone with no energy, but the recharge drone will just travel outside the dome, and then will go to the closest outer edge to the powerless drone.

Can you replicate the issue?
Yes, I've seen the issue twice. Both times, the drone ran out of energy inside the dome while trying to repair a building inside the dome, and both times the drone I issued a recharge command would travel to the outer edge of the dome closest to the powerless drone inside the dome.

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[Wuddel]

I have a similar issue, where dozens of drones seem to be stuck an dome entry. This goes for drone hub drones and RC rover drones. The issue only emerged during the game. It was fine for many Sols.

 

[marvinpandroid]

Same problem here on Xbox One X. Drone stuck at entrance of dome, presumably trying to repair it, and is out of energy. It goes back and forth between one side of an entrance to the other side (inside the dome), never leaving, never following other drones that come in and out. Once the dome is completely broken, even after decommissioning the broken drone, no other drone will fix the dome. Have had to go back to an autosave to decommission the broken drone before the dome breaks completely. After that, another drone will repair (maintain) the dome successfully. I am currently at sol 71, but not sure if it matters how long the game has been running.

 

[Cry7]

I have the same problem with recharging drones inside domes. The full drone drives outside the dome and then tries to go through the wall.

 

[KnownUniverse]

depleted drone can't seem to find its way out of the dome on PC as well

 

[ArmaggedonPSA]

Had this happen too, on xbox one with the geoscape dome. Tried destroying all 300 drones stuck, didn't work. Colonists got stuck and died too. Had to restart my whole game.

20+ hours down the drain. NOT happy.

 

[Sardus]

Two things I notice that cause this to happen:

1) You built a stockpile or a drone hub too close to the dome.
2) You built something (like a concrete plant or a rocket) too close to one of the doors on the dome, blocking it off

Either one of these situations will cause the drones to bug out and get lost inside of the dome. At that point they can no longer exit and just bounce around the walls until they run out of power. What makes it worse is that any other drone trying to fix/save it will also become glitched and do the same thing.

Fix:

1) don't build too close to the dome. Give at least one tile distance. Especially near doors.
2) Immediately delete/salvage any drones currently bugged out

It should eventually fix itself.

 

[Bvision]

Same issue, I'll contribute a savegame.

Game version: 228,184
PC, Steam.

Thanks Sardus, I'll salvage the poor thing and will refrain from building right next to the dome in the future.

 

[stridecolossus]

Two things I notice that cause this to happen:

1) You built a stockpile or a drone hub too close to the dome.
2) You built something (like a concrete plant or a rocket) too close to one of the doors on the dome, blocking it off

Either one of these situations will cause the drones to bug out and get lost inside of the dome. At that point they can no longer exit and just bounce around the walls until they run out of power. What makes it worse is that any other drone trying to fix/save it will also become glitched and do the same thing.

Fix:

1) don't build too close to the dome. Give at least one tile distance. Especially near doors.
2) Immediately delete/salvage any drones currently bugged out

It should eventually fix itself.

+1 I had this issue in my latest game - drones inside the dome required maintenance and those outside were just running backwards and forwards until everything started to fall apart. I *think* the problem was that I had built a second drone-hub too close to one of the doors, manually killing the broken drones and removing the offending hub seemed to resolve the situation eventually. Obviously the rover is handy here as well.

 

[skunkthehunk]

Edit: Unblocking a couple of more exits solved the issue, seems to be a limit to how many exits can be blocled before they go haywire.

Same issue here (PC). Drones are clinging to the drone wall "Searching for a recharge station", this is shortly after dismantling and reassigning all drones on that hub:

In addition there's a whole bunch stuck by an exit. Not sure if it's blocked, but there are for sure unblocked exits in the dome.

 

[hombreloco]

Not for recharging drones, but drones stuck in a dome and apparently having a dance party instead of going outside to go back to work.

This is pre-Spirit update.

 

[Loosk]

I have the same issue on PC (steam). I've built both another dome and a drone hub right up to the one bugging out (next space).
Attached save game and screenshots. Hope this is useful.

 

[codex13]

Having this issue with a discharged drone stuck inside a dome, and other drones trying to come repair it but being completely baffled by the dome glass.