Placing Utilities

[JorshRod]

When I try to build utilities, like the pumping station and the water pump, I get install failed "no route." What does that mean? I tried building a road, didn't work, tried building power cables or pipes, no go. Any suggestions?

[RMJ1984]

are you building them in a room with no doors? or blocked or something.

Normally you just plop them down and they start building them.

Maybe its just another bug, its alpha, tried reinstalling?

[FatFreddie]

I've noticed that the 'no route' will also hang around for a few (in game) hours after you've created one. I guess there's some sort of polling cycle there that the game engine will eventually get around to and realise that you've opened the route.

[ronanc]

I wouldn't worry too much about this one now. Absolutely loads of room for optimization in the jobs queuing when we get further into development.

[JorshRod]

In that save I never did get to place either for some reason, but I started a new game and it worked okay.

[Bedders]

If this happens to me, and I know that the route isn't in fact blocked, all I do is cancel the instruction with a right-click and reissue it. This seems to solve it.

[Andersen]

When you get that error, there's a worker stuck somewhere or the materials are stuck somewhere (because a worker who was sacked carried them)
The only reason why you get "no route" is because the stuck worker has been assigned the job and he can't get to it.

Sack the worker and pick up any items if any. Will solve the problem.