Transport Wagon does not collect from deep mines

[ilter]

Transport Wagon does not collect from deep mines. Its realy annoying please fix it

[railrunner130]

I feel your pain. I'm in year 357, so my town is well established. I've done a few things to try to expedite the production of, say iron. I've got two deep iron mines side-by-side, with a transport wagon down the street. There is a large stockyard a little further down, then another transport wagon, several smelteries and several blacksmiths. Getting iron to the smeltery is always the weakest link.

[garthurbrown]

Deep mines are the slowest in production and wagons won't pick up from them until they reach ~40 storage. It's almost impossible to keep up with the demand you need using only deep mines. Always go for regular mines when they are available. They produce more quickly and wagons pick up at 20.

[ilter]

It should be fix. Whats the purpose of them then? Why should i use it if its not working? I made a massive city and growing but they developers does not want me to grow any more. I think i will wait 1 year for an other new start. It's shame they dont made transport wagons and deep mines on good use. Logistic is realy a problem in this game

[garthurbrown]

Deep mines are there for late game to tide you over between buying minerals from the traders who aren't necessarily bringing what you need every year.

Normal mines are faster, but run out eventually.

Wagons work. You just need a bigger output. You can't sustain a city on one mine.

[Jeffus Maximus]

This is driving me crazy right now. My deep mines are located way out in the middle of nowhere, and the wagons won’t go pick up from them so I have a parade of laborers streaming down the road to each grab a basket of ore and carry it to my smelter. This leaves no laborers to do any other work, so nothing is getting build, repaired, etc.

I’m about to rage quit this game for another six months again. Cannot wait for modders to fix the issues after full release.

[Vrighty]

Originally posted by Jeffus Maximus:

This is driving me crazy right now. My deep mines are located way out in the middle of nowhere, and the wagons won’t go pick up from them so I have a parade of laborers streaming down the road to each grab a basket of ore and carry it to my smelter. This leaves no laborers to do any other work, so nothing is getting build, repaired, etc.

I’m about to rage quit this game for another six months again. Cannot wait for modders to fix the issues after full release.

I also have deep mines far away from my city. I do not get the prob you describe. Getting things going on is a little bit tricky. Make sure there is a massive influx. I have a sand mine pretty far away. I made a temp home, build some fruit trees near it and a well. So it became a tiny town. Filled all mines up with max workers and made sure all stock in the "main" villagers were full. Then you get the flow going on. Laborers pick the sand from teh stockyards. and the wagons pick the sand up from the deep mines.

try to figure out the game and its mechanics. Not: I play this way, and then it should work. It is like asking a puzzle to make itself.

[garthurbrown]

Originally posted by Jeffus Maximus:

This is driving me crazy right now. My deep mines are located way out in the middle of nowhere, and the wagons won’t go pick up from them so I have a parade of laborers streaming down the road to each grab a basket of ore and carry it to my smelter. This leaves no laborers to do any other work, so nothing is getting build, repaired, etc.

I’m about to rage quit this game for another six months again. Cannot wait for modders to fix the issues after full release.

This means your output of minerals is lagging behind your usage of those resources in production. In other words, you need more mines.