Bartenders Cleaning Duties

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Description
Bartenders are amongst the least useful service NPCs. It is therefore only right to give them more purposes than tending to an old object of limited uses. Inspired by jonasn's edits that make baristas clean up around their vicinities, bartenders will now clean up around as well, if they idle for even 15 minutes!

Bartenders of this mod have larger cleaning range than jonasn's baristas. They will also repair and clean the objects they use regularly, best for housekeeping hotels. Note that assigned bartenders - Sims performing the "Bartend" interaction, will also perform the same duties while idle, with all aspects identical.

A minor change to assigned bartenders is they will not be autonomously interacted with. Effectively, other Sims will not bother them with a chat or try to play with them. Useful for owned bars in general.


Summary
  • Bartenders clean up the following objects: dishes, coffee cups, keg cups, dirtied sinks, puddles and trash piles.
  • Bartenders also repair broken dishwashers, sinks and trash compactors.
  • Bartenders have their priorities set: repair > clean up dishes and cups > clean up sinks, puddles and trash.

  • Bartenders will start cleaning and repairing after idling for about 10-15 minutes.
  • Bartenders will return back every time after a clean or repair.
  • If they have customers while they are heading out, bartenders will run back once they finish the clean or repair.
  • They don't do so while heading back, however.

  • On the same floor, bartenders look for objects to clean up within 20 tiles.
  • On a different floor, bartenders look for objects to clean up within 8 tiles.
  • For different floor, the distance is measured directly from above or below where the bartenders are.
  • For puddles, bartenders will only look for those in their room, or within 8 tiles if they are both outdoor.
  • For repair, bartenders have no range limit.


Issues
This mod is still fairly experimental and have not been tested on all possible conditions. If you notice an overly eager behavior, such as the bartender snatching an espresso cup from its machine, please report or check for the update.

Distance finding is straightforward, as oppose to finding the number of tiles needed to walk across. Thus, bartenders may not pick the most sound objects to clean, and they may happily walk to another building just because a dish is technically on the same floor as they are.

Please report any other bugs in the comment section.


Conflicts
This mod adds to or modifies the Bar Semi-Global group (0x7F67FE05) in the following instances:


This mod adds to or modifies the Bartender NPC group (0x7F8BA532) in the following instances:



Credit:
jonasn for inspiration from the Espresso Machine and Barista Improvements mod.

TeaAddict for testing out the mod on owned bar.
Creator Recommendations:
jonasn's Espresso Machine and Barista Improvements mod, which makes baristas clean up like this mod, plus general improvements to the espresso bar.

My SuperCommercial Buffets mod will be served well having a bartender to tend to the plates.

Lord Darcy made an improvement to the 3 base game bars, allowing them to spawn bartenders and updated to OFB standard.
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