Dragon Fogel
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Attached is a quick sample hold.

The citizen next to the horizontal gentryii chain does not treat it as an obstacle with respect to pathfinding. This is inconsistent with how engineers treat it (demonstrated in the room; they walk around it to the build marker).

Worse, the citizen next to the diagonal gentryii chain will step right through it and go to the relay station.

Dragon Fogel
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Yes, it's 5.1. Can't easily check earlier versions.

Did some more checking, and citizens don't consider snake bodies obstacles to pathfind around either, which has probably been the case for a while so I guess that's probably not changing. In that case, I guess it's best if the chain is treated like a snake body.

Crossing the diagonal chain is definitely a bug, though. In the sample hold the chain moves, but I tested and it still happens with an immobile chain.

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Bumping this. Maybe it's been magically fixed along with other bugs relating to gentryii chains?

To clarify: citizens not considering chains to be obstacles is probably not a bug (it's consistent with how they treat snake bodies) but crossing diagonal chains definitely is.

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I agree that the precedence with citizens not understanding snake bodies as obstacles means they should not understand chain corners to be obstacles either.

Posted a PR that fixes their ability to cross gentryii chains diagonally.

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kieranmillar
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Can confirm that in 5.1.1.alpha.2020-10-16, a citizen will not cross through diagonal gentryii chain, but will try to pathfind through it.