Surviving Mars - Underground elevator cannot be built

[SosthenG]

Description
Underground elevator cannot be built


Windows


Steam

What is your game version?
1010838

What DLC do you have installed?
Space Race, Green Planet, Below and Beyond, Marsvision Song Contest, Colony Design Set, Project Laika, In-Dome Buildings Pack

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
Drones won't build the underground elevator. They seem to start working on it, carrying resources to it, and then stop for no reason and won't complete it. I tried to put all necessary resources manually next to it using a transport rover, but they still don't care and do nothing.
Annoying as I cannot find any other accessible way to go underground, so cannot play the DLC I bought...

You can see in the following video the drones starting to work and then stopping. I also attached some captures of the resources I have next to the building site, what the elevator needs and the drones doing absolutely nothing.

Can you replicate the issue?
On the same game after reloading the save / restarting, same issue.


File(s) attached

 

[SosthenG]

Looks like I found some sort of workaround, I completely cleared the entire area, moving all things near the building site elsewhere, then deleted the elevator and put it back, and now drones are working on it.
Still, I'll leave this open as they were no apparent reason for the elevator not being built before.

 

[ploedman]

I have the same issues.

Tried to clean the site, but didn't fix it.
Drones pick up the building material but halfway lose it and go back to the drone hub.

 

[SchneeLeopard]

i have the same issues and clearing didn't change it.
And when i start a new game and pick the Spelunker Commander Profile with the Elevator prefab, i can place it and the drones build the Elevator, but when it was finished, the game crashed or i can click it once and then the game crashed.

i also choose a other landing place, both tunnels (if you have the choice), completly uninstall the game and reinstall it, but nothing changes.
no mods are used.

 

[ElScorchio]

Exactly the same issue here. Drones pick up the resources, all of which are available next to the potential elevator, and then they just put the resource back down and wander back to the hub. Have tried deleting the blueprint, smoothing the ground around it, stockpiling the resources instead of having them on the ground, bringing in a mobile construction crew instead, etc. Nothing fixes it.

 

[AndrewT]

Can you please attach here a save game that shows the problem? Thanks!

 

[ElScorchio]

Can you please attach here a save game that shows the problem? Thanks!

Hello,

Save game attached. The underground entrance is south of the domes. In order to see the issue in play, just place an elevator blueprint.

Thank you.

 

[Cheekyaussie]

I’m having the same issue trying all work arounds found with no success I’m on windows using steam all latest versions

 

[ElScorchio]

Yeah, getting a response would be great.

 

[Kagemusha]

Same problem heere.
I put enough resources in univrsal depots around the building site, even put an RC Commander (in addition to the drone hub) into range,
but nevertheless, drones (when manually ordered to the site) will take a resource and then drop it again, as if the site is unavailable (which seems to be quite strange)

Even dismantling the blueprint and putting it on again didn't change anything

 

[Mr Karl]

Hate to be just another "same here" but I have yet to see a solution that works and I suppose the more people who report it the better. Exact same situation as everyone above. Drones picking up resources and then stopping half way. No resources being delivered to the building site. Its like they forget the blueprint is there after going to the depot

 

[protonicus1]

i just wrote temporal solution before fix in another thread. use single drone and deliver resource with drone 1 by 1.
better if you have them really near. when all resources in place - drones will finish construction by themselves. anyway you also can command them to do it.

 

[Cheekyaussie]

sorry mate but that doesn't work, well didn't for me that was the first thing I did, I used a rc commander with a single drone attached and a bunch of stockpiles with more than enough rss to build it, the drone did the same thing it always does " picks up rss then drops it" ugggh

Thx for the try tho much appreciated

 

[protonicus1]

sorry mate but that doesn't work, well didn't for me that was the first thing I did, I used a rc commander with a single drone attached and a bunch of stockpiles with more than enough rss to build it, the drone did the same thing it always does " picks up rss then drops it" ugggh

Thx for the try tho much appreciated

did you manually command this drone? I did so - i selected drone, right click to storage - tooltip get resource, then right click on building - tooltip - deliver resource. and it just drive to it and put resource in place. so drone absolutely on your manual control. always selected. it is a bit annoying. but if all three storages just before elevator it can be done with 100*2 clicks.

 

[Cheekyaussie]

did you manually command this drone? I did so - i selected drone, right click to storage - tooltip get resource, then right click on building - tooltip - deliver resource. and it just drive to it and put resource in place. so drone absolutely on your manual control. always selected. it is a bit annoying. but if all three storages just before elevator it can be done with 100*2 clicks.

i'll try it again but yeah that was my first idea in trouble shooting this issue before i came to this forum

 

[Tallguy1117]

This is happening on xbox one ever since the last update. No workarounds work yet

 

[Paukgor]

The problem exists at the moment. Nothing helped me

 

[Bsgilmore100]

So I wanted to try something thinking that maybe the reason why they weren't building was that the bottom side wasn't clear enough, so I went around and built another elevator to go send some drones and clear around the base. As soon as I built the other elevator and sent down another commander, the drones suddenly all started working on the first elevator.

I don't know why but on top the drones started to make the other elevator but I have a bug theory. The only thing I suspect made the bug is that my first underground anamoly I sent an explorer into, the second one I scanned the anomaly and chose the research build elevator option instead. Perhaps it did some kind of flag making you unable to build on the first hole until the another hole gets an elevator on it, but I dunno bugs are weird. I hope this at least saves some people a few resets at least.