Why 75 tile Work Range?

[djj00111]

I've recently started making my village more interesting and noticed that my main island has an outer ring of land separated by a river on the far West Coast. It is just wide and long enough for big houses so... I put 1/2 dozen large and interesting houses and it looks good. However, when I moved some villagers over, I found that they wouldn't do much. I certainly expected more travel time in the AM/PM, but they just didn't get much work done all day. Then I noticed they were ~70 tiles from the farms (on the other side). Just close enough to do a little but then they ended up standing around a lot, not getting much done.

I'm both a long-time Dwarf Fortress player and a programmer. Even a fairly big village has a lot of straight paths and would be pretty simple for A* path finding. I'd think that 75 tiles would be unnecessary for performance reasons. And I can't see any gameplay/balance reasons for the limit.

Is it possible to change the limit with a configuration? Maybe a way to turn off the limit completely?

[Pretentieux]

I'm now trying to figure out what the tile range is based on. Is this range from their bed location?

[Rallianto]

To my understanding, the limit is 100 tiles and is based on the bed.
To solve this issue, I have workers houses next to the area they work in. The only problem is for haulers, they will max deliver items 100 tiles away from their beds

[Pretentieux]

Thanks for the info that will help a lot.

I'm thinking of setting my main base up with all of the houses lined up facing inward in a circle, with all my crops, crafting, etc located in the middle of the circle.