Checking what the pawn is doing

[naryl]

Is there an easy way to check what a pawn is doing at the current tick? I only found pawn.pather.Moving to check if the pawn is walking. I also need to know when a pawn is constructing, crafting, cooking, taming, etc. It would help if somebody can at least point me to the sources of a mod that does it.

[RawCode]

then you should search a bit longer.
probably you may want to open savegame with text editor and check how such data is saved, pawns keep their task after save-load you know?

[naryl]

thing.Pawn/jobs/curJob is the closest there is but it seems to contain the job the pawn currently intends to do. I had one pawn smoothing a wall and another one walking to smooth another wall and they had the same data (other than target IDs etc). When I saved the game the second pawn was walking, not smoothing.

Did nobody really ever do that in a single mod?

[RawCode]

and job pawn intents to do have no state at all, no progress, no location, no target, just "Job" without any data, right?

[naryl]

>> they had the same data

> just "Job" without any data, right?

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Well, same except loadID, targetA, startTick, and lastJobGiverKey. But it's not obvious how any of these can help.

[mikeejimbo]

Jobs are pretty complicated, and to tell what a pawn is doing at any given time I think it'd help to have a general understanding of the system itself. It's an important topic because - as you are likely aware - almost everything a pawn does is a job.

I'd start here: https://github.com/Mehni/ExampleJob/wiki. I'm sure there are mods that do something similar to what you're trying to do, but I don't know of any offhand. What are you trying to do anyway?

[naryl]

pawn.jobs.curDriver.curToil looks appropriate but Toils are plain objects with delegates. There's no way to tell them apart. I can use toil.activeSkill to at least tell which skill is used. Hopefully that would be good enough.

[naryl]

What are you trying to do anyway?

I want to make a trait which makes pawns *sometimes* have accidents while working. Of course making them hurt themselves all the time would be tedious so it would be avoidable.

Thanks for the link too! I think I saw it somewhere on rimworldwiki earlier but couldn't find it yesterday. >_>

[mikeejimbo]

Ahh neat - maybe you should look into Run and Gun. That mod adds a check for a nearby target whenever the pawn's job is moving, so it kind of interrupts and modifies a job. I know that's not quite where you need but it might be a decent place to start.