[0.17.3] Placing ghost pipe under a tree does not mark tree for deconstruction

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[0.17.3] Placing ghost pipe under a tree does not mark tree for deconstruction

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I've only seen this issue in one specific case. The save is attached.

Steps to reproduce:
  1. Load the attached save
  2. Try to place a pipe at the output of the pumpjack next to the character. It fails (correctly) with the reason "Tree is in the way"
  3. Place a ghost pipe in the same location. Ghost placement succeeds but the offending tree is not marked for deconstruction (this is the bug).
  4. If you try to place a normal pipe again it still fails because "Tree is in the way".
This save was created in 0.17.1, and I think the chunk with this pumpjack was generated in 0.17.2 but I'm not sure.
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Re: [0.17.3] Placing ghost pipe under a tree does not mark tree for deconstruction

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The tree is not actually in the way (it's one tile southeast of the output), its hitbox simply prevents you from placing the pipe normally. This is the real bug.

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Re: [0.17.3] Placing ghost pipe under a tree does not mark tree for deconstruction

Post by Rseding91 »

Thanks for the report. The issue is: in ghost form the pipe doesn't collide with the tree - the bounding box expands when the pipe is built to connect to the pumpjack fluid output and once expanded it *does* collide with the tree.

I don't consider it worth the time and complexity that it would add to try to handle this specific case so I'm going to move this to minor issues.
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Re: [0.17.3] Placing ghost pipe under a tree does not mark tree for deconstruction

Post by beiju »

Thanks for the explanation. I can see how that wouldn't be worth fixing.

Perhaps one day pipe ghosts will connect, and that will fix this issue.

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