Smokeleaf / Drying Racks driving me INSANE!!!!

[fefnir3284]

How do I force my dumbass survivors to NOT shove all smokeleaf on shelves OR the drying rack. I tried the 1 item per slot thing and my survivors still dump all 1000 on the rack. I tried bobbing and weaving, same damn thing. I want HALF drying and HALF for tea. How do I do this???

[HOUSE_D]

Yeah I was wondering that myself. I have been trying to make tea. Saw them harvesting and tried to direct someone to make it and they had already put it on the rack. I couldn't direct anyone to remove it.

[Stimpacker]

Here's how I did it.
1) Set drying rack to 0 slots.
2) Set selection filter on drying rack to allow smokeleafs.
3) Set drying rack to 1 slot.
4) Handlers will then load that one open slot with 100 smokeleaves. The rest (raw) will remain in storage and be available for tea.
5) Set drying rack to 0 slot. This is so that when the 100 is dried out, handlers don't load another batch of 100.

Then depending on how many raw leaves you have left, you can do another batch of 100 as you wish.

[Zep Tepi]

Drying racks are automatically set to tell survivors not to remove raw resources. You can uncheck that and revoke permissions for that resource to get them to remove it if they're already put it on there.

But I agree, more control over the number of things, like a minimum-in-storage setting would be good to have. Glittercaps are also a pain to manage because they are used for so many things, and then they're not available when you run out of healing balm or your shroom torch runs out.

[Sirnir]

Ya i have this problem to finally wen i found a dogo they threw all my dry mead in his feeder over 400 or so. its kinda insane there is no control over how much you put in to these things. Tried editing one for the feeder mods and it seems you cant control the individual resources you wish to be put in it, like 100 or 200 in a slot can only control the slot number.

[Bjørn]

Building the small driers gives some control, in that they can only hold 200 or whatever it is.

More control would be welcome, but for now it's just another one of the game's many challenges to figure out, so not a big deal once you know about it

[Kelreena]

Originally posted by Bjørn:

Building the small driers gives some control, in that they can only hold 200 or whatever it is.

More control would be welcome, but for now it's just another one of the game's many challenges to figure out, so not a big deal once you know about it :lunar2019smilingpig:

the inability to actually command your people to load the rack is really dumb. Fortunately, once you get a drone or two, that problem solves itself.

But yes, after running about a hundred different maps, I think I've built the big rack once. Every other time, it's just one small drying rack.

[Flin Fredstone]

Yep small rack(s) all the time. Likewise i used the large one once.

[flo125]

i use always the big coz it has a roof, and you can let everything inside. for your solution i suggest you start with drying meat and tabac and then you close the function, the next harvesting / butcher will go into the stockpiles. PRoblem is when you want to dry meat again, you will need then to survey that your meat does not go full from your fridge to the dryrack. needs direct commands sometimes. and yes its boring sometimes

[Look: A Lizard]

Drying rack is definitely a nightmare. If you need to feed animals red meat, its completely impossible to also have a drying rack work nicely so you can tame dogs

[Kelreena]

Originally posted by flo125:

i use always the big coz it has a roof, and you can let everything inside. for your solution i suggest you start with drying meat and tabac and then you close the function, the next harvesting / butcher will go into the stockpiles. PRoblem is when you want to dry meat again, you will need then to survey that your meat does not go full from your fridge to the dryrack. needs direct commands sometimes. and yes its boring sometimes

I just put it under a shelter. Out of curiosity, does that increase the drying rate? I've never really paid attention.

[flo125]

i didnt test but i dont think so, the advantages for me are stockplace and roof. specially in the merchant scenario you can buy a big ammount of skin sometimes, make it dry and sell again with a benefits, can be a good help on early game (you have the place to dry 3000 units)

[flo125]

just tested and.. the small rack seems to dry 10 to 20 % quicker than the big one. curiosly on one of my test the big rack dryed skin quicker,... but only one time, could have been a bug, or may be something like ... direction of the sun? seems weird tho. My method is to bring 2 piles of meat and skin in front of the racks, on the floor, then i command to make them dry together, so it has nothing to do with what i put first.
i also did another test: on the small rack it was at 30% and on the big it was at 20%, then i commanded to empty the big rack, the skin and meat went to the small, and the assembled pile was ... 20 %, should have been 30 for me. that was weird. if you add new skin on a pile that already started to dry, there is no change...

[Treveri]

Storage management is the game breaker of this game, as I said elsewhere, it pathetic for a game of 2023 ... and I further believer this game would be better, and even more popular than Rimworld of the Dev's would provide us with a resource management tools of the same level or even better would be nice.

[flo125]

what a game should be for you in 2023 concern only the idea of what a game should be IN YOUR MIND. this game is the result of evolution, 3d feature that works, immersiv. but yes, complex, need to be trained. i do not personly expect that an AI guess everything i expect that will happen. could be better, yes, like every game. is good enough for me, i spent a lot of time on it and still enjoy.