Not removing dirt when building roads

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Summary:
When I order my hearthlings to build a road, they no longer remove all of the dirt first. They remove most but leave at least a few.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Build a road. At least 20 blocks in size should produce at least 1 bugged area.

Expected Results:
Bug free road.

Actual Results:
Blocks flash between dirt/grass and road.

Notes:
Probably happens with floors as well. I believe it is due to the new multi block building from alpha 19.

ScreenShots:
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Version Number and Mods in use:
Alpha 19 Release 687
No mods

System Information:

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Hey there @logan, welcome to the Discourse :smiley:!

I just tried to reproduce this, but couldn’t. Are you sure it happens simply by building a road? Could the road possibly be intersection something else?

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So It only seems to happen on the roads I am laying around my city walls. It can’t be intersecting anything because the walls are freestanding with no foundation. The link contains the save.

Screenshot

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B85e3FiO0QRhYlFEUGNxQ2c1N2M

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Awesome, thanks. I’ll look at this tomorrow.

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So I don’t know if this helps but I actually started building those walls and roads in Alpha 18, closed the game, it updated to Alpha 19, and that’s when it started happening. The part I built before that was fine. I will probably start a new save now that 19 is out. If I notice it happening in the new save I will let you know.

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I think it’s a race condition or something, because it’s tricky to reproduce. I managed to get this:

But I’m trying to find better steps and I can’t reproduce it again. I’d say this has happened sometimes even before the multi-block feature.

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I have been getting the same thing with a few blocks that should have been excavated. So far it’s only from the digging from the road tool. Then I ran into the “Can’t select a single block to delete it” bug and which then follows up with another strange bug that when a single block is placed, 3 hearthlings run up and place 3 blocks in a single block. Something is a bit wonky. I believe the dig/delete tool thing was fixed recently though. I’ll try on another game to see if it works better now.

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I had that happen in the game I’m now playing with Raya’s children. I was able to click on the row, it happened at the end of the road. So I destroyed it thinking that the row would be the only place destroyed but it destroyed the whole road. When I rebuilt the road it didn’t happen again. I didn’t report it because I thought I made a mistake when I built the road since I was able to select the row it happened in.

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One thing I’ve noticed, is that while building long roads (usually those that are more than four or more blocks wide and 20+ long), it seems like some pieces of the ground will not be mined out before a block is placed down. This seems to be a result of the new building system where more than one block is placed at a time during construction, as if there is a piece of unmined ground next to a spot a Hearthling is going to build on; instead of being built around or skipped for the time being, the block is placed down in the already-existing ground piece.

Here is a screenshot of this such occurrence:

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I wanted to add to this because I used to experience this but it stopped around Alpha 20 but recently I have been seeing it again.

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In this case it’s worse because its a stretch of 4/5 tiles not just one.

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Apon closer inspection it appears to be 7 tiles, also it is a free standing road and is not directly next to anything as I like to leave a one block gap of grass between roads and structures.