[RESOLVED] Tech have "handling samples" bug and wont move

This problem just recently started happening. I tried making a brand new map and still had the same problem. I even took off all the mods that I downloaded and no change. My lab techs in the histology lab will walk out of the door to the waiting room like they are giving a sample back to the patient but instead it will say "handling samples" and they will just stand there sometimes its 10+ employees standing in the same spot. Others will walk down to the Trauma center and try to use random cabinets with the same caption "handling samples" this is very frustrating because I can no longer play the game since the patients get mad and leave from the wait. I have fired the employees and hired new, I have deleted and redesigned the room to see if the layout was the issue and there is nothing else I can do. please help. It also wont let me upload my game file. Says storage space was exceeded

tylerd345 wrote:This problem just recently started happening. I tried making a brand new map and still had the same problem. I even took off all the mods that I downloaded and no change. My lab techs in the histology lab will walk out of the door to the waiting room like they are giving a sample back to the patient but instead it will say "handling samples" and they will just stand there sometimes its 10+ employees standing in the same spot. Others will walk down to the Trauma center and try to use random cabinets with the same caption "handling samples" this is very frustrating because I can no longer play the game since the patients get mad and leave from the wait. I have fired the employees and hired new, I have deleted and redesigned the room to see if the layout was the issue and there is nothing else I can do. please help. It also wont let me upload my game file. Says storage space was exceeded

Hi and thank you for your report. Can you please try to upload again. We have freed some space on the forum. And does the problem happen even if you start new game without any mods? It is possible that the mods have caused some unpredictable behavior that resulted in hidden error and disabling them wont be enough.

This is the map that the issue was on and I have started a brand new map and the problem still persist. However, I did copy and paste the building layout onto the new map so I am not sure if that has an effect. But my mods are not objects. They were more money for treatments, more insurance companies, and 100% refund for objects.

Hi, thanks for the save! It looks like this wasn't a problem with mods after all, but a side effect of an issue with pathfinding we unfortunately introduced with the last patch. We've rolled the live version back in the meantime (look for version Project Hospital (hotfix) 1.2.22045 in the main menu), so the technologists should get freed in a few ingame hours.

Btw, a quick tip to make this (and sample delivery in general) a bit smoother: feel free to add a couple of sample storage objects to the lab, having just one can be a bottleneck in some cases.

Let us know if everything works now on your side and sorry for the inconvenience!