[0.17.41] Deconstruction bots choose random distant storage chest

[AceJohnny]

When deconstructing stuff using the Deconstruction Planner, bots will choose a (apparently) random Storage Chest chest to deposit deconstructed items in, sometimes very far away, despite the availability of nearby Storage Chests.

I expected the bots to choose the nearest Storage Chests with available slots and appropriate (or absence of) filter.

I attached a save file of a simple scenario I constructed to demonstrate this, as I observed it on 0.17.41. The player is next to a 2-Lane railway T-Junction unconnected to anything, in the middle of a logistics network composed of 3x3 RoboPorts within logistics range of each other. Next to each roboport is a Storage Chest. You can try deconstructing the railway T-Junction using the deconstruction planner. Observe that some of the bots are going to deposit the deconstructed items further away than the nearest 4 storage chests. You can then reconstruct and subsequently deconstruct the T-Junction multiple times to observe different storage chests being chosen each time.

I'm in a midlevel game (before "Logistic system" tech: Active Provider, Requester, Buffer chests) with a significant connected logistics network, and this makes construction robots very frustrating to use, because they will be busy transporting the items much further than necessary.

[DaveMcW]

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[AceJohnny]

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Thanks, that's interesting context.

Nevertheless, even in my example where all the chests are empty (so set 3. per that discussion), the selection heuristic is still random rather than nearest.