How to use drying rack?

[orcs]

My drying rack never gets used. How do I use it to convert the stuff from my storage area (i.e. meat and hides) into dried meat and leather?

I have played 3 different game now... and the racks never get used. There must be some way to activate it, but I just can't figure them out.

[CatSlave]

I would like to know this too, I have one person that is out hunting everything with a rifle and a pile of leather....just sits there. I did get one stack of dried meat...one only though

[melomellow]

Originally posted by orcs:

My drying rack never gets used. How do I use it to convert the stuff from my storage area (i.e. meat and hides) into dried meat and leather?

I have played 3 different game now... and the racks never get used. There must be some way to activate it, but I just can't figure them out.

When you right-click on it, look at the 2nd tab and make sure that you have meat and hides selected

[morph113]

Just bring the hides or meat to the drying rack, easy. Remember that hauling jobs are the lowest of all priorities by default. Your people will do literally anything else first before hauling stuff.

[orcs]

Originally posted by melomellow:

Originally posted by orcs:

My drying rack never gets used. How do I use it to convert the stuff from my storage area (i.e. meat and hides) into dried meat and leather?

I have played 3 different game now... and the racks never get used. There must be some way to activate it, but I just can't figure them out.

When you right-click on it, look at the 2nd tab and make sure that you have meat and hides selected

I do have all the items selected. I am having the same issue with both the small and large drying rack -- nothing gets taken there ever -- even when I have idle people.

[orcs]

Originally posted by morph113:

Just bring the hides or meat to the drying rack, easy. Remember that hauling jobs are the lowest of all priorities by default. Your people will do literally anything else first before hauling stuff.

How do I transfer items from my stock area, to the drying rack?

[DarkHorse]

I found if I put my drying rack ' INSIDE ' my storage building .... they don't want to use it. Make sure you leave the rack outside.

[madpraxis]

You have to have people doing nothing else...
If you don't have people hauling anything, then you need to re-prioritize someone(s) to do so.

[Diamyo]

The way I have forced them to use the rack is by un-checking the hides, meat and leafs from all other storage. Unfortunately they wont move anything that is in storage already. Also I had to manually tell individuals to pick up the hides after butchering animals. I hope this helps.

[Lori37]

strange... I can use drying racks just fine... both inside AND outside

[Martin]

Originally posted by orcs:

My drying rack never gets used. How do I use it to convert the stuff from my storage area (i.e. meat and hides) into dried meat and leather?

I have played 3 different game now... and the racks never get used. There must be some way to activate it, but I just can't figure them out.

Either you have deliver on default which is 3 in priority, or too many commands in motion for the peeps to deliver to the racks. Both work fine for me, if you butcher an animal the default for the meat should be the rack.

However the small ones have very little capacity, I prefer to use the big one, you also need to block access for tobacco leaf from time to time so you can make the tea.. or they put it all on the rack. Except in your case it seems you can't make pipes..

[Elgar]

Originally posted by DarkHorse:

I found if I put my drying rack ' INSIDE ' my storage building .... they don't want to use it. Make sure you leave the rack outside.

Wrong, mine is inside, and is always used as soon as hides or meat are available.

As with 90% of the complaints on this forum, the problem is that players don't use or don't know how to use the Activities table to manage the task priorities. You HAVE to change the default priority of Handle and Deliver columns to be sure that some of your survivors will do these tasks right away.

[Daiska]

Filters are everything. Not only should you have hides and meat enabled on the rack, but also have it *disabled* for whatever storage it's going to. You also need to look if they're actually in storage, or out in the field somewhere. Things show on the top menu summary, even if they aren't picked up. Hides always get left out, and then you need to manually tell them to pick them up.

[Elgar]

Originally posted by Daiska:

Hids always get left out, and then you need to manually tell them to pick them up.

Not if you have someone with a high priority in Deliver, i.e. a priority higher than the other columns, since Deliver is the last one and tasks are done from left to right column. I never use manual orders, except in very rare occasions, like to prevent someone to take a walk outside during a toxic ash episode.

[WhamyKaBlamy]

Originally posted by orcs:

Originally posted by melomellow:

When you right-click on it, look at the 2nd tab and make sure that you have meat and hides selected

I do have all the items selected. I am having the same issue with both the small and large drying rack -- nothing gets taken there ever -- even when I have idle people.

It's a delivery job I think, or at the minimum a handling job. It seems to be pretty low priority too. What you can do is when you send someone out to butcher an animal, follow them, select someone else then right click on the hides and tell them to haul those items.

One thing I've found particularly useful is not to have a storage for the raw hides. That way people won't take it to storage. You don't seem to be able to force people to carry from storage, but you can force them to haul stuff on the ground.

[Daiska]

The thing ith a high delivr priority, is that it's a double edged sword. If I set it to 2, whoever has that priority starts doing stupid things.. like harvesting one plant, delivering, going back, doing one, delivering, etc. Or whatever it may be.. butchering a pile of bugs... whatever. Hides honestly are the only thing I need to tell them to get. Not a big deal.