# Broken autodoc couch
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/broken-autodoc-couch/26164
**Category:** The Bunker
**Created:** [March 30, 2021, 1:06pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/broken-autodoc-couch/26164 "2021-03-30T13:06:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Neomonk](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Neomonk)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2021, 1:06pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/broken-autodoc-couch/26164/1 "2021-03-30T13:06:43Z")
tl;dr: Does a broken autodoc couch render the autodoc useless or can it be fixed?
I spent 20+ days (in game) prepping for and raiding a lab being fought over by leech stalks and zombies.
As you’d expect they made a complete mess of the place and it was a major pain in the ass.
When I finished and found the autodoc the couch was broken. I tried putting a sofa next to it but it won’t recognize it. Got tons of bionics and zombie scientists to dissect and a necromancer setup to bring them back to provide better corpses. Need to know if I’m out of luck here and need to find a new autodoc or not. I’m having a hard time finding reliable information. The wiki is out of date and I can’t seem to find reliable up to date information. Seems like a constructable autodoc couch should be added to me.
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### Author:  [@PALU](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/PALU)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2021, 1:26pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/broken-autodoc-couch/26164/2 "2021-03-30T13:26:56Z")
It really depends on whether the couch is just a couch or if it also has a lot of advanced functionality such as supervision of vital signs, administration of drugs, etc. An autodoc is really a two tile piece of equipment, and it isn’t exactly clear if the couch part is just a passive bench to lie on, or if that’s just the tile you can move through and lie down on.
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### Author:  [@Valase](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valase)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2021, 3:54pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/broken-autodoc-couch/26164/3 "2021-03-30T15:54:36Z")
> [@Neomonk](#):
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> Does a broken autodoc couch render the autodoc useless […]
Yes.
I remember a topic that stated that the autodoc couch isn’t a normal couch, as it has an anesthesia admitting system built in, as well as some complex wiring and hence can’t be replaced.
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### Author:  [@Neomonk](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Neomonk)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2021, 12:23pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/broken-autodoc-couch/26164/4 "2021-03-31T12:23:33Z")
Thanks for the responses, I have two other lab locations so hopefully it will work out.
A little apprehensive knowing that zombies can spawn in autodoc rooms now.
They used to be safely ensconced.
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### Author:  [@Valase](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valase)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2021, 12:25pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/broken-autodoc-couch/26164/5 "2021-03-31T12:25:32Z")
> [@Neomonk](#):
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> They used to be safely ensconced.
I usually had some Zombies, failed Cyborgs and/or a Nursebot spawn in them, so I don’t think that’s a “recent” change.
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### Author:  [@PALU](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/PALU)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2021, 12:31pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/broken-autodoc-couch/26164/6 "2021-03-31T12:31:40Z")
Never had any zombies spawn in the autodoc room in science labs in 0.E2 stable. There sometimes was a nursebot (that may or may not be insane) in there. Locked away adjacent to the room there usually were zombies and/or cyborgs, but you didn’t have to release them.
In the hospitals, however, everything was trashed by the time I managed to clear them out.
Obviously, things may have changed since then.
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### Author:  [@Valase](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valase)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2021, 1:13pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/broken-autodoc-couch/26164/7 "2021-03-31T13:13:12Z")
> [@PALU](#):
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> Locked away adjacent to the room there usually were zombies and/or cyborgs, but you didn’t have to release them.
I know. No, I’m talking about the tiny room itself.
And not only since 0.E-2, it goes back to sometime in the year 2018.
Funny enough - according to the [code](https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/blob/b991a1bab26d0fb8a6f9068ab4e9c9639ab76e26/data/json/mapgen/lab/lab_floorplans.json#L563-L568) - there should not be any other monsters than Nursebots in that room.
Maybe it’s a random spawn (more than likely, given that I’ve also found Zombies smashing the computers and equipment, even though there should nothing spawn outside the cells and operating room)?
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### Author:  [@GiggleGrassGatherer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/GiggleGrassGatherer)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2021, 2:06pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/broken-autodoc-couch/26164/8 "2021-03-31T14:06:24Z")
There is some wackery going on with monsters returning to RB from the map, see last episodes of Vorm’s Battle-Ark series where shoggoth and zeindeer mysteriously relocated to other tiles after being left out of reality bubble for some time in _one-tile_ vehicle cells.
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### Author:  [@Valase](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valase)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2021, 2:59pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/broken-autodoc-couch/26164/9 "2021-03-31T14:59:06Z")
> [@GiggleGrassGatherer](#):
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> […] mysteriously relocated to other tiles after being left out of reality bubble for some time in _one-tile_ vehicle cells.
Oh, yes, this is also a thing for quite a while now… (autumn 2019, I think?)
However, I’ve never found it to affect anything else than vehicles, so I just use road barricades to trap monsters now. Also, it does not affect all vehicles (or orientations).
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### Author:  [@AcidAntOnAMinefield](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/AcidAntOnAMinefield)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2021, 10:50pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/broken-autodoc-couch/26164/10 "2021-03-31T22:50:24Z")
There is a specific finale with an Autodoc that spawns with a Shocker Brute inside it.
It’s not common, but it happens. Although I don’t remember seeing actual spawns inside it that aren’t a nurse bot, except from way back when the Z-Levels/Wander Spawns would screw up and it would occasionally lead to monsters falling through Z-Levels for no apparent reason.