Pawn won't document any technology after running game for a while

[Creslin321]

Hi. I have a lot of mods running, and I ran into an issue where after a while, my main researcher just stopped documenting any techs. I tried a bunch of different things, unassigning all tasks, reassigning, removing bills on the bench, adding them back, etc... But no matter what, this one pawn just wouldn't document anything. Other pawns seemed fine.

I followed the express troubleshooting guide and disabled everything except for HugsLib Harmony, ResearchPal and JPT. I was able to load my game, but I couldn't see anything...however the pawns were still moving around and doing their thing so I figured it was still a valid test. The pawn in question (Cocolgu) still would not document anything.

I got the log as requested and it is pasted below. Please let me know if this helps you nail down this issue or if you need more info.

https://gist.github.com/384b129e10b9d04b47e7b1ab6087a473

[Creslin321]

Okay I may have figured this out. After mucking around a bit, I noticed that I had two unfinished books that my research pawn was documenting technology in and somehow they must have got moved to my stockpile zone. I had my research pawn pick them up, and then all of a sudden, she could document technology again with no issues!

Also of note is that she has the "Highmind" role in her ideology which (among other restrictions) restricts dumb labor. So I'm wondering if the issue was that she needed to haul the book to the bench to finish the documenting, but she just wouldn't do it because she doesn't do dumb labor?

[jptrrs]

Thanks for the detailed info. Your log is filled with errors because you were trying to load a save with a different mod list, and that might break a lot of things, depending on what mods you were using before. This can end up masking a real error, one related to the issue you describe. Ideally, It would take starting a new game in order to reproduce any issue. Let me know if you manage to reproduce it in a new save. But the ideology restriction hypothesis does make sense... What happens if that pawn starts to craft a weapon or a sculpture, then is drafted to interrupt the job, the unfinished item is moved to a stockpile and she is undrafted? Is she able to resume the work?

[Creslin321]

No problem. So I tested the scenario of having the pawn start a tailoring project, drafting her, then moving the unfinished project to a stockpile zone. She was able to start the project again with no issues. She just grabbed the unfinished item and went back to the bench.

No idea why this seems to only effect Human Resources, but this seems like evidence against the ideology hypothesis.

[jptrrs]

Well, let me know if you manage to reproduce the issue then.

[Exidoous]

Hi, sorry to commandeer but I think I've replicated this on the current version (welcome back!)

I do not have a lot of mods running, and have tested it with just the bare minimum for Human Resources, with similar results. Specifically, all of my pawns become unable to document after a brief runtime. Reloading the game resets it to expected behavior, but it rather quickly devolves into not using the study bench(es) to document correctly. Caveats for this report: my setup is an older 1.5 Rimworld. And running on a Windows 7 toaster.

Parameters during observation:
Three study benches, each with a document and study task, alternating task orders per bench, each forever.

Observations during bug behavior include:
While a pawn is not assigned a study bench task, the right click context menu generates no options (none grayed out).
While a pawn is assigned a study bench task, the right click context menu lists only the grayed out pawn not assigned, hint assign on research tree.
Throughout, research proceeds as expected.

Player log attached.

Player.log

[jptrrs]

Would you mind testing it again with the latest version of HR? (1.4)