# \[Con\] \[1633\] Citizens stop building half way through house

**URL:** <https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/con-1633-citizens-stop-building-half-way-through-house/7729>\
**Category:** Previous Build Reports\
**Created:** [September 25, 2014, 12:02am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/con-1633-citizens-stop-building-half-way-through-house/7729 "2014-09-25T00:02:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![BearByrnes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/bearbyrnes/32/44490_2.png) [@BearByrnes](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/BearByrnes)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 12:02am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/con-1633-citizens-stop-building-half-way-through-house/7729/1 "2014-09-25T00:02:55Z")

</div>

Ran into a strange bug while testing out the new build.

When I place buildings the workers start normally but about half way through the build they just stop and go idle. They bring all the wood back to the stockpile and there is no way to get them to start the building again.

Restarted fresh world twice and ran into the same issue again.

Anyone else run into this with D1633?

Keep up the great work guys, Cheers!

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![FiredHigh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/firedhigh/32/6062_2.png) [@FiredHigh](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/FiredHigh)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/con-1633-citizens-stop-building-half-way-through-house/7729/2 "2014-09-25T00:03:45Z")

</div>

Got a screenshot? It would help in finding out the cause for this  
And what are all the tasks of your workers at that time? Are any sleeping?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![BearByrnes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/bearbyrnes/32/44490_2.png) [@BearByrnes](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/BearByrnes)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 12:09am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/con-1633-citizens-stop-building-half-way-through-house/7729/3 "2014-09-25T00:09:22Z")

</div>

Sure let me hop back in and see if I can get it to bug out again.

No, no one is sleeping just building and then they randomly stop.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![FiredHigh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/firedhigh/32/6062_2.png) [@FiredHigh](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/FiredHigh)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 12:12am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/con-1633-citizens-stop-building-half-way-through-house/7729/4 "2014-09-25T00:12:24Z")

</div>

Most of the time I’ve seen it happen because the person going to place the last block goes to eat or sleep or whatever. But maybe it’s something else, we’ll see I guess

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![BearByrnes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/bearbyrnes/32/44490_2.png) [@BearByrnes](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/BearByrnes)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 12:15am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/con-1633-citizens-stop-building-half-way-through-house/7729/5 "2014-09-25T00:15:47Z")

</div>

Ah shucks,

I can’t upload images yet since I’m considered a new user. Well that is unfortunate.

Hmm let me see if I can find a workaround to get something up here.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![FiredHigh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/firedhigh/32/6062_2.png) [@FiredHigh](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/FiredHigh)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 12:17am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/con-1633-citizens-stop-building-half-way-through-house/7729/6 "2014-09-25T00:17:56Z")

</div>

Try PM me? Just upload it to an external site like imgur

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![BearByrnes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/bearbyrnes/32/44490_2.png) [@BearByrnes](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/BearByrnes)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 12:26am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/con-1633-citizens-stop-building-half-way-through-house/7729/7 "2014-09-25T00:26:05Z")

</div>

I was actually just uploading it to imgur when you posted that. Great minds I suppose.

Here is the link

[http://imgur.com/JE9eljU](http://imgur.com/JE9eljU)

ignore brackets just so the forum doesn’t block it.

As you can see there are 3 buildings that are 2/3 done and all villagers are idle. They wont go back to building but they will do other tasks like farming, getting mats, etc.

Strange,

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![FiredHigh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/firedhigh/32/6062_2.png) [@FiredHigh](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/FiredHigh)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/con-1633-citizens-stop-building-half-way-through-house/7729/8 "2014-09-25T00:29:10Z")

</div>

Hmm… I’ll do some testing when I get home - but thanks for reporting anyway 🙂  
If you discover anything else, let me know 🙂

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![BearByrnes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/bearbyrnes/32/44490_2.png) [@BearByrnes](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/BearByrnes)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 12:30am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/con-1633-citizens-stop-building-half-way-through-house/7729/9 "2014-09-25T00:30:40Z")

</div>

Will do, cheers for the response.

I’ll make another couple fresh starts and see if I run into it continually.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![FiredHigh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/firedhigh/32/6062_2.png) [@FiredHigh](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/FiredHigh)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 12:33am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/con-1633-citizens-stop-building-half-way-through-house/7729/10 "2014-09-25T00:33:00Z")

</div>

If you manage to get a game where it doesn’t bug, screenshot it, just in case there’s something different 😄

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![SteveAdamo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/steveadamo/32/13955_2.png) [@SteveAdamo](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/SteveAdamo)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 2:08am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/con-1633-citizens-stop-building-half-way-through-house/7729/11 "2014-09-25T02:08:27Z")

</div>

hey there @BearByrnes … welcome aboard! 😄

> [@BearByrnes](#):
>
> I can’t upload images yet since I’m considered a new user.

your image has been embedded… once you’re hear for a bit, you’ll be able to upload as well…

have fun! 👍

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![FiredHigh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/firedhigh/32/6062_2.png) [@FiredHigh](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/FiredHigh)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 2:42am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/con-1633-citizens-stop-building-half-way-through-house/7729/12 "2014-09-25T02:42:03Z")

</div>

I’ll do more testing for this tonight when I get home Steve, and I’ll put it in a proper bug report if I can find the relations 🙂

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![daisyj201](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/daisyj201/32/12819_2.png) [@daisyj201](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/daisyj201)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 2:50am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/con-1633-citizens-stop-building-half-way-through-house/7729/13 "2014-09-25T02:50:40Z")

</div>

Yeah I’ve been having this issue as well, since alpha 4 at least. Is this that same AI bug where the villagers aren’t building because the pathfinding isn’t properly directing them to supplies and buildings?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![FiredHigh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/firedhigh/32/6062_2.png) [@FiredHigh](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/FiredHigh)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 2:52am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/con-1633-citizens-stop-building-half-way-through-house/7729/14 "2014-09-25T02:52:44Z")

</div>

I’ve noticed they are slow at building, but I don’t think it’s been very common where they stop working entirely, unless a scaffolding is blocked, so they can’t get to it… So I’m not sure what the problem is here

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![daisyj201](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/daisyj201/32/12819_2.png) [@daisyj201](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/daisyj201)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 2:53am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/con-1633-citizens-stop-building-half-way-through-house/7729/15 "2014-09-25T02:53:59Z")

</div>

Yeah it doesn’t seem to be as much of a problem with crafters, only when building needs to be done.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![BearByrnes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/bearbyrnes/32/44490_2.png) [@BearByrnes](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/BearByrnes)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 3:24am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/con-1633-citizens-stop-building-half-way-through-house/7729/16 "2014-09-25T03:24:47Z")

</div>

Ya it is very strange, gonna do some more testing in the morning before work to see if I can figure it out and isolate the situation. Being a fellow games industry guy myself I’m not foreign to bug testing. 😛

Also thanks for the welcome @SteveAdamo. 😃

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![BearByrnes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/bearbyrnes/32/44490_2.png) [@BearByrnes](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/BearByrnes)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 3:53am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/con-1633-citizens-stop-building-half-way-through-house/7729/17 "2014-09-25T03:53:19Z")

</div>

Haha eureka!!

I couldn’t let this one lie and had some time tonight to do some controlled tests.

So it seems to have to do with the roof on the houses. I’m able to get them to build houses with partially flat roofs just fine. But when I make houses with fully peaked roofs the bug rears its ugly head and they stop building.

If anyone else wants to test this to confirm my theory that would be great.

Here’s a shot of it in action, they built the house on the left just fine, minus the door since I didn’t craft one. But they stopped working on the house on the right just before the roof.

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/stonehearth/original/3X/8/6/8668b9d17563450f687cf892ef973c582dedd3a5.jpg)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![FiredHigh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/firedhigh/32/6062_2.png) [@FiredHigh](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/FiredHigh)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 4:43am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/con-1633-citizens-stop-building-half-way-through-house/7729/18 "2014-09-25T04:43:36Z")

</div>

I’m heading home soon, so I’ll test as soon as I get there 🙂

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Kaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kaz](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/Kaz)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 5:21am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/con-1633-citizens-stop-building-half-way-through-house/7729/19 "2014-09-25T05:21:24Z")

</div>

I can sort of confirm this, I had the same thing happend to me when maxing the roof peaking. However I did not build a 2nd house with the default peak.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Didis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/didis/32/40460_2.png) [@Didis](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/Didis)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 8:17am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/con-1633-citizens-stop-building-half-way-through-house/7729/20 "2014-09-25T08:17:34Z")

</div>

Me too I had this bug too and I don’t know why.

[Next page](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/con-1633-citizens-stop-building-half-way-through-house/7729.md?page=2)