How to set crafted items importance, not crafting in general

[Swato85]

How to set it so that these droids craft some items immediately when they are low but craft other from the list only if they bave no other task at hand.

E.g.: craft medicine items whenever they are low, then go farm, cut, whatever... and only after those tasks are completed: return to crafting and craft the other stuff from the list.

[Flin Fredstone]

I think you can only manage that when you use Times orders and not Until orders. Or if you use only Until orders you have to pause the other orders. Or use a mix of both.

Edit: Here is a workbench order list with a mix of order types i have for instance.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3134649178

[starlight78sso]

You can move the orders around so that the ones you want to make sure are prioritized are first in the list. Also use the priority menu to set crafting to 1 and then farming, cutting, planting, ect to 2 or what ever for each person you want to craft.

[Swato85]

Yeah, this I know and I am using combination of areas and crafting units instead of untill. The issue is to automate the flow based on items required so that droids would follow the sequence like:
Craft prio 1 items-farm-harvest-scavenge-craft prio 2 items.

While current system allows only that craft will continue untill out of resources or completed.

I can have this automated if I use more crafters, but I am searching for a way of how to do it with one crafter without the need for manual adjustments afterwards.

[Flin Fredstone]

I don't think you can. When an order is set in the crafting station the system will add the task to a queue of any eligible survivor.

[Stimpacker]

Dang Flin. How do you collect so much scrap and carbon by end of Year 3? On good runs, I have about 2K of each and thought I must be doing very well, haha. Nobody sells scrap and I doubt you're buying carbon. If mining from shriekers, you must have hit every nest on the map, lol.

[Flin Fredstone]

I did hit every nest on the map, but the robots do all the mining and scavenging.
I cleared a few nearby nests right from the get go with Jayla and her pistol.
For far away nests i rest up 2 or 3 people and have them fed, then run to clear the shriekers.
In doubtful cases i made them carry a survival kit.
The scrap comes from all the wrecks that keep falling. They seriously need to check their spaceship designs.

Robots go out to salvage all the debris.
At the point of the screenshot there were no nests or debris left on the map.

I must add that i use Jaggid Edge's unlimited expeditions so ore for smelting isn't that hard to get in the later stages.

[Swato85]

Originally posted by Flin Fredstone:

I don't think you can. When an order is set in the crafting station the system will add the task to a queue of any eligible survivor.

I know, thats why I asked in general. To get feedback whether i did not miss something or whether anybody has found a way around. Well than it means I will have to do with two crafters in order to automate crafting subgroup priorities. Thanks for your feedback guys.