Plank Placing Bug

[Hyena Grin 92]

I am not entirely sure how to reproduce this, only that it frequently occurs during complex plank-structure building. But I have an idea I will get to.

 

Behavior: When placing a plank, the plank is positioned one cube-distance away from the position it was intended for. If another plank is placed in the same location, the first plank vanishes and nothing else happens. The plank is lost entirely. This behavior will repeat itself ad-infinitum and will consume as many planks as you are willing to throw at it. The only way to fix it is to place a second plank in the gap starting at the newly placed plank, and then either destroy the 'phantom' plank or keep building with it as required.

 

 

 

Reproduction: I think it happens only (but not always) when you place a plank perpendicular to another plank where the last 8th of the plank is embedded in the other plank.

 

 

II

II

II

II               v

+ - - - - - - -= = = = = = = = 

|I

|I

|I

 

... where the + is where the two planks intersect, the - - - - - - - - is where the plank was supposed to go, and the = = = = = = = = is where the 'phantom' plank ends up. The 'II' is the plank that was present at the start, and the V is where a second plank must be placed against in order to overcome the bug and fill the gap.

 

Again, this doesn't happen with every 1/8 intersect, and there are probably specific circumstances which cause it to occur, but the presence of the 1/8 intersect is the only common feature to the bug that I could suss out.... well, also that the vertical plank in the diagram is always on the inside edge of the 'cube' area that it occupies. So that the phantom plank and its gap always line up end-to-end. Suffice to say, any sufficiently elaborate plank structure is liable to run into this bug once or twice.

[Ranadiel 5]

I have came upon a situation, where there were a couple rows of plans and i couldn't add one in a manner:

 

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Where there are more than one plank in a row, placing one in a wrong place puts it in a block next to it, instead where it should be. Most likely due to some mechanics not allowing to place planks in some places. Don't know if it's associated with the problem, but observed it a couple times.