Cleaning bug?

[elminsterrr]

I've just started playing RimWorld (and I have played 100 hours so far – yes it is very addictive) and I think that this game is rather bug free. It has less bugs then some released AAA games and it is still in Alpha stage!

But one thing drives me crazy! Cleaning! Very often I have that one tile that is dirty, and I want my colonist to clean it. And for strange reasons I can't right click that one tile. I have to try 5 - 10 times before I finally hit this magic spot. Is this some kind of bug?

In this case --- > http://imgur.com/a/RF39s it will be easier for me to order DocSnipe to clean this blood in freezer and he will clean it. In that process he will clean this marked by me tile in kitchen as well. But it is very hard to right click this kitchen dirty tile directly.

Do you have same issue with this?

And yes, it is allowed zone for DocSnipe, and all that tiles are marked as home.
See, I can clean this blood without issue - > http://imgur.com/a/eice9

[BlackSmokeDMax]

I've seen that as well. It is pretty on and off. And IIRC if you wait just a few ticks of playing time it will let you select it. Almost like it is a newer bit of dirt where the graphics have shown up and the option to clean it has not yet.

[milon]

I *think* there's some randomness involved in the placement of the dirt graphic(s), and you have to right-click the cell that the game has the dirt registered to.  So if you don't get it the first time, try right-clicking the neighboring cells and see if you can get it that way.

Let me know if that solves it for you.

[eadras]

I've seen that as well. It is pretty on and off. And IIRC if you wait just a few ticks of playing time it will let you select it. Almost like it is a newer bit of dirt where the graphics have shown up and the option to clean it has not yet.

Yeah, newly spread dirt/sand/blood, etc., can not be immediately cleaned.  I'm guessing this is actually WAD, although I'm not sure what the purpose of it is, other than drive us OC people nuts waiting to clean that bloodstain off our sterile hospital floor.   

[Hans Lemurson]

Something I've found in roof-construction and crop planting, is that your colonists will often refuse to change the location of their job to any square adjacent to the one currently being worked on.

Then again, roofs go up in 3x3 areas, and I was planting trees which have an exclusion zone around them, so I might just be conflating things.

[OFWG]

... I can't right click that one tile. I have to try 5 - 10 times before I finally hit this magic spot. ...

I have exactly this issue with the roofing job, so it's not just cleaning.

[hwfanatic]

Looks like the dirty spot is on the door tile. But, I agree, it's difficult to right click these, especially in hospitals that have pawns frantically running around. 

[elminsterrr]

I think that it would be great if when I manually order colonist to clean room they will clean all tiles in that room before going to other activities. Now I must ask my cook 3 times until he will clean all dirty spots in my kitchen, and it is really small kitchen!

In small colony like mine it is impossible to have full time cleaner job, so now when I want to have clean kitchen to avoid food poisoning, I have to do it manually and order the same activity 3 times in a row.