how do i have aquatic life collectors supply provios fish eggs?

[Wig Bang]

So I set my life collectors to supply everything, which I thought was a nice feature.

But it doesn't work.

All my plankton and eggs sat in there untouched.

When I disabled supply all and changed it to specifically supply the provios fish eggs, they all got picked up by drones.

Why?

To be clear, my plankton storage boxes are full so the plankton in the life collectors is sitting there untouched. But why would this stop the eggs from being picked up and delivered to the requesting (empty) locker?

[Coops]

Once the collector is full of plankton it will not create anything else. so you have to keep emptying it for the rarer eggs to appear.

Same with honey in the bee farms. The farm will fill up with bees and no more honey is made until you empty them.

[starlight78sso]

It may be be because you hadnt collected one or made one yet. Supply wont show things you can make till you have unlocked and made or collected one.

[prtmh]

You should be able to set a shredder machine set to demand and autoshred and to a lower priority for all the things that get stuck in the life collector. Your storage will still stay put but the drones will empty the useless stuff eventually.

[wildbill]

One quirk of supply all, is that it sets it to everything you have unlocked so far. Should something new unlock that a device then starts to collect, it will not be added to the supply list. You have to go in and manually select supply all again. For this reason, I seldom use supply all, since it is hard to tell exactly what is being supplied. And because you can't really tell what is in the supply all list easily, I've no proof this is really happening, but it is my theory of why sometimes an items is not getting picked up when supply all is in use.

[Wig Bang]

None of these responses were relevant unfortunately.

Everything is perfectly unlocked.

Sure the collectors are full but they have eggs in their storage along with plankton.

The eggs were not being picked up. And of course the eggs were unlocked because I had demand set for them specifically at another locker.

[wildbill]

Originally posted by Wig Bang:

None of these responses were relevant unfortunately.

Everything is perfectly unlocked.

Sure the collectors are full but they have eggs in their storage along with plankton.

The eggs were not being picked up. And of course the eggs were unlocked because I had demand set for them specifically at another locker.

So the collector is set to supply, Plankton A, B, & C, plus those eggs, right?

And you have storage set to demand Plankton A, B, & C, plus those eggs, right?

And none of the storage containers are full?

And you have enough drones?

If the storage is full, you need a shredder set to demand Plankton A, B, & C, plus those eggs, but at -1 priority. This clears out the stuff you have too much of and lets the ones you need more of make their way to the storage.

Lots to go wrong, but once you get all the details right, it has always worked for me.

[Wig Bang]

the collectors had plankton and eggs in them. their supply was set to supply everything

i had lockers (which were full) set to demand plankton.

i h ad another locker (empty) set to demand the provios eggs

no eggs were transferred.

when i went to the collectors and changed supply from "everything" to just eggs, then they were transferred to the locker in question

[wildbill]

Originally posted by Wig Bang:

the collectors had plankton and eggs in them. their supply was set to supply everything

i had lockers (which were full) set to demand plankton.

i h ad another locker (empty) set to demand the provios eggs

no eggs were transferred.

when i went to the collectors and changed supply from "everything" to just eggs, then they were transferred to the locker in question

Ah, I never use the supply everything except for the auto crafters. There might be some kind of bug there where it sees something in the list it can't deliver and then doesn't check the rest of the list of items. I'm thinking the "everything" is really just a list of all known things at the time it was set, not actually "everything".

[Wig Bang]

Originally posted by wildbill:

Originally posted by Wig Bang:

the collectors had plankton and eggs in them. their supply was set to supply everything

i had lockers (which were full) set to demand plankton.

i h ad another locker (empty) set to demand the provios eggs

no eggs were transferred.

when i went to the collectors and changed supply from "everything" to just eggs, then they were transferred to the locker in question

Ah, I never use the supply everything except for the auto crafters. There might be some kind of bug there where it sees something in the list it can't deliver and then doesn't check the rest of the list of items. I'm thinking the "everything" is really just a list of all known things at the time it was set, not actually "everything".

Yep I bet you're right. The logic you're describing could easily lead to that kind of bug.

Stuff like this is why the game I'm working on has all assets in place and I've been spending the last nine months ironing out logistics issues.