chopping wood is infuriatingly inefficient

[Rockoloco]

The survivors will grab wood, go to the chopping block, and they will only make 10 sticks, and then they will transport them to storage. This incredibly inefficient, slow and it is kinda hard to keep up the demand. They should chop would until the limit is reached or their carrying capacity is reached. Hadn't use the chopping block before, but now i'm playing a seed that has no bushes and it is clear to me that this is a poor design of the mechanic. Please fix

[Elgar]

Always have your sticks storage right next to the chopping block and the wood storage, for max efficiency. Like in real life : wood next to the chopping block next to the chopped wood storage.

[Sir_Blaze]

to be honest a lot of the handling actions are very inefficient, handle 5 stoves and it's 5 trips even thoguh we know the character can carry 100+ sticks it's 10 at a time to refuel each stove, same with the Furnaces 3 hay for bricks and its individual trips why not just load up and do it in 1 circuit, and furnaces are doubly worse cos they need sticks to fire up too :| so much wasted time i could understand if the timing and resources were all behind the scene and you were just watching the animations and they auto loaded, but since it's not i'd just like my guys to do it in bundles, food is also abysmal you have to get each ingreedient individually and then it takes 6 hours on top to cook when you've spent an hour getting the ingreedients cos you canny do it all in 1 run * may be slight exageration on how long it takes to get ingreedients but it is a time waster)

[Rockoloco]

Originally posted by Elgar:

Always have your sticks storage right next to the chopping block and the wood storage, for max efficiency. Like in real life : wood next to the chopping block next to the chopped wood storage.

It is right outside my warehouse, my issue is that UNLIKE real life, getting one log at a time is something you wouldn't do in real life, you will take out all the logs you need, chop them, and then pick up all the sticks. That's what i'm asking for

[Furball]

Originally posted by Sir_Blaze:

to be honest a lot of the handling actions are very inefficient, handle 5 stoves and it's 5 trips even thoguh we know the character can carry 100+ sticks it's 10 at a time to refuel each stove, same with the Furnaces 3 hay for bricks and its individual trips why not just load up and do it in 1 circuit, and furnaces are doubly worse cos they need sticks to fire up too :| so much wasted time i could understand if the timing and resources were all behind the scene and you were just watching the animations and they auto loaded, but since it's not i'd just like my guys to do it in bundles, food is also abysmal you have to get each ingreedient individually and then it takes 6 hours on top to cook when you've spent an hour getting the ingreedients cos you canny do it all in 1 run * may be slight exageration on how long it takes to get ingreedients but it is a time waster)

Considering the fact that the survivors already do this when constructing walls -- they just grab a pile of bricks and drop 'em off at each construction site.. they should conceivably be able to pick-up all the pending finished resources from the furnaces in one go, put them all into the stockpile, then grab hay/stones and distribute as needed.

Instead of the usual empty-stockpile-replenish cycle PER furnace.

[Sir_Blaze]

Originally posted by Furball:

Considering the fact that the survivors already do this when constructing walls -- they just grab a pile of bricks and drop 'em off at each construction site.. they should conceivably be able to pick-up all the pending finished resources from the furnaces in one go, put them all into the stockpile, then grab hay/stones and distribute as needed.

Instead of the usual empty-stockpile-replenish cycle PER furnace.

I've seen my survivors collect from all the furnaces in 1 round but it seemed to be under specific conditions so there is that, it's just the loading of the furnaces for 2 different requirements aka sticks and either hay or scrap, and multiple furnaces in the line, ( generally i run with 12 early on) and watching them make 24 journeys back n forth is painful, i'd rather it be 2 and they do all the hay/scarp/ore in 1 round then all the sticks in the next

[starkmaddness]

Chopping wood should be a last resort not a primary source of sticks, I assume the insufficiency is intended. Plant bushes.

Also, avoid using sticks in the first place, upgrade to electricity.

Because yea, chopping wood sucks.

[Joe Coffee]

Suggestion: electric wood splitter that can be crafted, or further down the tree starting from a water-powered cutting saw that can create planks.

[Godzealot]

Order them to chop, they'lll chop for a long time. Stupid, I know. Then have your highest physical char gather the logs.

[alation13]

If your delivery priority is higher than your cut priority then they will cut then deliver then cut then deliver etc. If your cutting priority id higher or the same as your delivery priority they should keep chopping for a decent amount of time before switching to the delivery of the sticks as your survivors will always try to do the highest priority first. That said if they are "handling" the sticks then the handling priority NEEDS to be lower or they will cut then handle, cut then handle, instead of cutting a few times THEN handling.

[Rogue]

Or just grow or harvest branch giving plants...

You should just set Cut to priority 1 so your people just strip bare the newly grown bushes or trees in an instant. It won't trigger when you don't highlight anything for cutting, except when harvest is due and the plants are auto-highlighted.

Cut also affect wood chopping so make sure you don't have a high limit or they spend a lot of time chopping wood especially if your base is primarily run on stick power instead of electricity...

[alation13]

Originally posted by Rogue:

Or just grow or harvest branch giving plants...

You should just set Cut to priority 1 so your people just strip bare the newly grown bushes or trees in an instant. It won't trigger when you don't highlight anything for cutting, except when harvest is due and the plants are auto-highlighted.

Cut also affect wood chopping so make sure you don't have a high limit or they spend a lot of time chopping wood especially if your base is primarily run on stick power instead of electricity...

That is what I typically do for all but one of my guys. Spend a few days just clear felling a large area around my base, then swap to have all (but one of) my guys prioritise delivery and everyone first chops as efficiently as possible then collects as efficiently as possible. It also levels up physical pretty quickly which is quite useful for pretty much everyone to have in a pinch.

All that said make sure you leave a single tree of each type, bush of each type and same with grass. Observe them and then you can plant these much needed resources MUCH closer to your base for easy access.

[Rockoloco]

Originally posted by Rogue:

Or just grow or harvest branch giving plants...

You should just set Cut to priority 1 so your people just strip bare the newly grown bushes or trees in an instant. It won't trigger when you don't highlight anything for cutting, except when harvest is due and the plants are auto-highlighted.

Cut also affect wood chopping so make sure you don't have a high limit or they spend a lot of time chopping wood especially if your base is primarily run on stick power instead of electricity...

I'm on a seed that DOESN'T HAVE BUSHES!!! I HAVE STATED THAT LIKE 3 TIMES. So please improve your reading comprehension skills or at least refrain from posting if you can't retain basic information

[Elgar]

Originally posted by Rockoloco:

I'm on a seed that DOESN'T HAVE BUSHES!!! I HAVE STATED THAT LIKE 3 TIMES. So please improve your reading comprehension skills or at least refrain from posting if you can't retain basic information

What is this seed, out of curiosity ?

[Rockoloco]

fast-data or vast-data if recall correctly,it's one of those two

[Elgar]

Originally posted by Rockoloco:

fast-data or vast-data if recall correctly,it's one of those two

You can see it just by pressing ESC, for your information. And it's case-sensitive.