npc pathfinding

One annoyance with the game is that quite frequently NPC pathfinding will destroy placed items. If that happens to be a machine (which are quite costly to craft), then they're gone for good. It's not always clear where NPC pathfinding routes are. I'd like to propose that any item or machine...

While going to the beach I noticed a bunch of npc's all crowed together in one spot right where you enter the beach. After interacting with them I tried blocking the way I hopes they start to walk away quickly as they normally would if the player blocked them which worked. It turned out that...