Ingame decision log

[klaus]

Please add an ingame log detailing why a citizen doesn’t perform certain tasks. Useful entries would include:

• A citizen finds no path to a building or mining site.
• A citizen stops crafting an item (e.g. due to requirements not being met).

Giving the log the shape of a plain-text log with “copy” button like the runtime exception popup would be fine and allow processing in an external editor if needed. Having such a log would allow players

• to better identify and cope with current limitations
• to report limitations that seem buggy

If you don’t want such a log as part of the normal gameplay, it would still be useful as a console command (again: please with a copy option for external processing).

[jomaxro]

An interesting idea.

@klaus

A citizen stops crafting an item (e.g. due to requirements not being met).

While this is not per se logged, you can see when an item is not being crafted by looking at the crafter’s queue.

@klaus

A citizen finds no path to a building or mining site.

This would definitely be useful! Not sure a “log” is needed, but changing the color of the zone, or something similar might suffice. Right now, mining zones are yellow, buildings are semi-transparent…maybe a red tint or the like could be used to indicate there is an issue. Buildings would need more info then mining, though, as there might be resources missing, or something more than just a pathing issue.
Something like this idea might be helpful for building:

Viewing list of remaining building materials for a build

Is there any way to see what remaining items are needed to complete a build? I know you can bring up the list of all items that a build uses by double clicking on the building, but I can’t seem to find a way to see just what is left to build. Sometimes buildings are left unfinished and I can’t figure out what item is missing. Also, is there any way in the crafting screens to see a list of what is needed to make for a building?

[Relyss]

You can enable logging in the user_settings for lots of things. If you see some of Tony’s streams, he has used logging several times for the AI and other things.

Something like this:

"logging" : {
		"mods" : {
			"stonehearth" : {
				"crafter" : "detail",
				"ai" : "detail"
			}
		}
	},

(I think the logging levels were by numbers too).

Also, there exist some debug keys (Fn) that should show you the pathfinder for the entities (by drawing lines on the ground). I don’t know if you need the debug_tools mod for using them, or just enable them on the user_settings ( “enable_debug_keys” : true, ).