Employee crafting

[uRBAN_Spaceman]

I cant figure out employee crafting for the life of me. Im trying to get my first shop to automate apple juice but I just cant get it to work. I want one employee making bamboo cups while the other makes apple juice. Whats the trick to get this working? Or is it just currently broken and not working?

[nancy.duan]

Originally posted by uRBAN_Spaceman:

I cant figure out employee crafting for the life of me. Im trying to get my first shop to automate apple juice but I just cant get it to work. I want one employee making bamboo cups while the other makes apple juice. Whats the trick to get this working? Or is it just currently broken and not working?

HI Spaceman,

We will confirm to make sure a new bug didn't mess things up, but automated shops should be working properly. Can you check the following?
- Are your crafting workstations marked for employee use properly?
- Are things on the correct floor tile tag?
- Crafters don't craft using the items in the workbenches so they have to put them into a chest which also has to be marked for employee use so the next crafter can take the items to use for the next step.

[uRBAN_Spaceman]

What floor tile tag is the proper one? Currently I have everything set to "employees only" tag in the crafting area. I am pretty sure I have all the stations marked for employee use. I have preferred fuel type picked. Ive set aside many boxes specifically for the employees to pull materials from and to deposit crafted goods in. They have their filter set and everything. I feel like Im just not quite understanding how you assign them to craft what you want.

My gatherers are doing their job perfectly. I have apples and bamboo overflowing from the deposit boxes. But my crafters just walk around all work day and I dont know what to do. It would be kind of nice if you added a tab for crafters similar to how the gathers are in the "employee management" tab where you select what resources you want them gathering.

[Vetch]

Seconded, I've been trying to figure this out as well. I set my forge to auto-make armor, which it does, but then once the forge inventory is full of finished products it just sits there. I've done everything uRBAN listed above as well. I agree that it would help a lot to have a drop down menu in the management screen to select which items we want the crafters to make. I genuinely feel that this is likely user error on my part but for me it just feels a bit mysterious as to how to get them to craft something, or how it works in general.
Once i get it figured out i think i'll message the saleblazers wiki and see if they'll add a page about it for future reference!

[nancy.duan]

Come join us over at discord.gg/saleblazers for tips!

(I’m just the bug logger but someone else may have your answer!)

[Seiger]

I just posted a guide on this topic. check it out it might help.