Every 3 seconds > Spr1large.Y + 65

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Or if you want it to be smooth use the MoveTo or Tween behavior

Thanks, but your file doesn't do what the original does.

Whoops, I didn't even look at what it was supposed to be doing. Here it is:

gofile.io/d/5abZNS

Thanks everyone for your suggestions!

blackhornet was almost there with collisions. I added a "Turn off collisions" action right after the "on collision with tree" event, and everything worked as normal. I guess it just kept colliding and restarting the timer each tick!

I then turned them back on once the character had finished collecting wood, so that they can drop it off at the storehouse.

I told you about collisions a few posts ago!

"However, I can anticipate there being a possible problem if the character's collision box changes during it's animation. It may repeatedly collide with the res_tree as it's frame changes. Try opening the game in debug mode so you can get a better look at what the timer is doing"

blackhornet is right about the solution as well, it's a good idea to have a sprite that acts as a hitbox and then a skin that you pin to the hitbox. It will make your life a lot easier. Disabling collisions is not a good long term solution. Imagine your character gets attacked while collecting wood. The attack won't collide with your character because collisions are disabled!

I was about to do that, but I decided to re-check the Debug Preview one last time. It turns out the "gatherResource" timer is being reset every tick, which I didn't notice before (I only just discovered the Watch tool!):

It tries to go up, but only ever gets to 0.1/0.2 seconds before being reset. There aren't any other interactions with that timer in the Events Sheet, except for the "On Timer" condition below it.

The parent event to that set-timer-event is just checking if the Human has a variable of job->woodcutter, in case you were wondering. No reason for any clashes.

Thanks for your help so far!

So If Human's job = woodcutter -- > Set timer?

If that's really the only parent condition then the timer is going to be constantly restarting, which is going to override itself and never let it complete. Try adding a 'Timer "gatheresource" is NOT running' condition before you set the timer. That'll prevent the timer from being set if it's already running

> Put 'On Timer' as it's own top-level event, not as a sub-event

Ok, I did that but still no joy. This is what I have now:

There are no other events impacting these two, they could effectively run on their own.

I'm wondering if because it's not a sub-event of the collision condition, it now doesn't know which tree to deduct from? If so, how would I re-link it?

To link the tree and the character you can use UIDs.

Give the character a variable called TreeUID

Then, when the character collides with the tree set TreeUID to res_Tree.UID

When the character's timer goes off use Pick Tree By UID: character.TreeUID to pick the correct tree

However, I can anticipate there being a different problem if the character's collision box changes during it's animation. It may repeatedly collide with the res_tree as it's frame changes. Try opening the game in debug mode so you can get a better look at what the timer is doing