@Aquifel A log is usually created in the \Ludeon Studios\RimWorld by Ludeon Studios which you can get to easy with Rimpy by clicking to go to the Config folder and looking for the Player.log file 1 folder up.
https://prnt.sc/sfXkqHNtks3K for an image if it will let me link it.

@Aquifel providing a log is necessary for reasons that are not restricted to errors, there are a ton of things that can be read from a log other than errors

Kind of funny, but looking at the info card for barricade is probably the best explanation of the problem possible:

"A waist-high barrier for use as cover from incoming shots. Barricades are ugly, but provide better cover than other low objects. Barricades will block certain kinds of animals the same way that fences do."

I did already cover that, there are no error logs, not even at the info level, no messages whatsoever in any form when the trade animal is lost. I can load a save directly after the trader enters and when they hit the fence and fail the log remains 100% empty. This is steam and this is not a recently updated mod, we're all up to date.

I already covered replication too, but I will make it simpler:

* Put a fence between where the traders enter and the trading spot.
* Trade caravan will try to cross the fence.
* Trade animals don't cross the fence with the rest.
* Trade caravan ceases to have trade inventory and loses it's question mark.

Main problem you have is that redirecting the trading spot creates a situation where trade animals can be too far from the intended path to get through the barrier (gates/etc) depending on entrance vector, but the rest of the caravan is able to just hop the barrier. Without a redirect, the entire caravan just stops at the barrier.

And like the others, you have not provided anything to replicate or investigate. What version are you on Auifel?

I'm having what looks like the same problem as some of the others below. As soon as the trader crosses a barricade (or a fence), they lose their trading question mark. It does look like the trading animals aren't able to cross the fence and just kind of lose their attachment to the rest of the party and wander off eliminating the trading inventory.

My error log is empty when this happens, there are no log entries, not even at the info level. If I remove this mod, the error does stop, but then they also don't try to cross the fence/etc.

Hmm, I wonder if I pair this with the Not My Fault mod, make them go into a VERY hot room, and let them die.. I wonder..
*Stares with evil eyes*
(Shit so cringe mb gang, had to though)

Thank you for your reply earlier! I’ve successfully stepped into the 1.6 era and the caravan issue is now resolved. Really appreciate your work!

Hey, just so you know, Orbital Drop Spots are not functioning.

Funnily enough, I disabled Trading Control - Dismiss in 1.5 because it became a vanilla feature. You shouldn't even be able to use my mod to dismiss.

Also, log file.

Hi, I encountered a critical red error when using Trading Control on RimWorld 1.5.

The error occurs when I dismiss a randomly spawned NPC trade caravan. The caravan says it’s "dismissed" but doesn’t leave the map, and I get constant red error messages.

According to the log, your mod is calling a method that no longer exists in RimWorld 1.5:

RimWorld.Planet.WorldRendererUtility.WorldRendered

This throws a MissingMethodException because the method was removed in the 1.5 update.

I suggest replacing it with something like Find.WorldCamera != null, which is the 1.5-safe equivalent.

Thanks for your work — just wanted to report this so it can be updated for 1.5 compatibility!

I had the question marks disappearing in a game and was able to reliably replicate it in a new game. However, I'm wondering if it might be a from the game itself and not necessarily something to do with this mod directly.

To replicate, I did a dev quick test with just the base game, DLCs, and this mod. Then, I turned on God mode and created a large room (large enough to not need a roof) with one opening square instead of a door. In that square, I then placed a single barricade.

I then put the Caravan Trade Spot in the far side of the room so the traders had to cross the barricade. I then summoned a caravan via dev mode.

The caravan arrived and entered the room. After a bit of time (it seemed to vary each time), the question mark over the trader's head disappeared.

As far as I can tell the lack of question mark isn't from this. You kinda got to look for the trader among them.

Well thats certainly interesting. I have this on 1.6 and my caravans are fine.

Do you have a save file to share? Are you using any other mods that affect traders, such as hospitality?

I can confirm that something is broken. I can't initiate trade with anybody in the supposed trade caravan after installing this mod. No log entries show up for this so I have nothing to show. But I started a new game with this installed, got my starting buildings made, got a caravan visit. I looked at them and saw nobody with the question mark over their heads. Then I remembered I installed this mod and went to put the trade caravan spot down and it did attract them to the new location, but I still couldn't trade with anybody.

This seems to have an issue where the traders are unable to be traded with since their pack animals just sort of leave the map while the rest of the caravans go to the trade spot

Thanks for the update, all the old ones are deprecated but I like the dismiss option this one has. Thanks for your work! Hopefully you can get the Trade Ships / Shuttle spot working as well.

It should do, I know it's broken however so I've been working on a fix.

Quick question, does this also allow you to control where Trade Ships Drop in? Or do I still need another mod for that?

@Tad Guessing they are talking about the dismiss option that was added in 1.6 which wasn't even the key feature of this mod.

why?

RIP trading spot

Thanks for the update, having to move over to this from an abandoned mod and at least there's options

Dismissal is, designated trading areas' are not.

is this really not already part of vanilla? Wow, thank you

Cheers Elf, i'll modify that now

After the recent update, on 1.5 it’s giving an XML error on startup: <artificalForMeditationPurposes>false</artificalForMeditationPurposes> doesn’t correspond to any field in type ThingDef. Moving <artificalForMeditationPurposes> to inside <building> tag solves the error.

I'm working on it.

1.6 pls

Oh thats a fun thing. I can take a look at it sure.

VisitorGroup cannot be dismissed... But other Trader Events can indeed be dismissed... Could you bring back your own Dismiss Trader option for this mod please?

Can trade with dismissed triads?

No, The GMT trading Spot is a fork of KV's Trading mod which does a similar thing.

Is this mod compatible with the [GMT] Trading Spot mod?

Orbital trades don't seem to respect the marker

weird bug where after you trade you don't get the items and their silver goes to blank

Dragons from dragons descent that enter the map from the wandering dragon event gather at the spot if visitor gathering is enabled.

That's probably the innate spawner recognising the building, more then me doing anything.

Small thing I noticed. If you place a trading spot next to an insect cocoon, it will wake the infestation. Dunno if it works with the orbital spot. Pretty good way to cheese the infestations, but I don't know if you intended for it to work that way.

I second the orbital spots not working.

orbital drop spot does not work on 1.5 - does the code exist on github?

I HAD A MOMENT OF BRILLIANCE BHA HA HA HA!
Put the trading spot next to... the wall of an Ancient Danger. Took down the wall, and boom—Mechs & Insects everywhere
During the chaos, noticing some Traders were not pulling their weight, I moved the spot inside the Danger, pulling the entire caravan in.
Hilarity ensued. Various Traders & Ancients were injured, but I shoved them into cryocaskets—hello, fresh prisoners & slaves!
Bonus: Combat Supplier Caravan! Assault Rifles, SMGs, Bolt Actions... and a Zeus Hammer. Free of charge. I could still trade, and their Megasloth cost me only $97 . No money from the caravan tho, probably cause I walled them in.
Summary: fresh slaves, great weapons, still traded, discounted animals. Not bad for 3 colonists. Got some injuries & infections, but Glitterworld meds now.
PS: Forget bashing slaves to buy 'em cheaper—this way’s way more fun

Oh thanks for that! I'll see about adding an update

re: dabeek's comment, I think they're referring to a missing:

<artificialForMeditationPurposes>false</artificialForMeditationPurposes>

in the def's <building> section in Buildings_Production_TradingSpot.xml. I added it on my local copy for 1.4 for the same reason—without it, your trading spot can't be near your anima tree.

Thanks for the very useful mod!

Finally traders aren't walking around in the killbox clueless and getting shot if there is an attack. Thanks!

Could you expand on that please? Anima trees are a much newer feature compared to this mod.

Oversight: Caravan Trade Spot is not anima tree-friendly even though all other spots are.

I'm finally on 1.5
congrats for your implemented vanilla feature

Orbital pod also ignoring marker for me, on 1.5

Thank you for this mod!