Assigned Construction PLEASE

[Jumo747]

Holy ♥♥♥, i have literally held their hands all the way to the construction site, made sure they are fed and have no weapons in their inventory and ONLY the construction on priority 1 all the rest Ø....still these mfkrs dont work they go back to base wtf is wrong with them?

There needs to be REAL assigned slots so we can drag which villager we want to work on what, its super frustrating when you bring them so far only for them to start walking back at a snails pace....

[Tanyon]

Did you have all the materials needed for construction already at the site?

[Jumo747]

Originally posted by Tanyon:

Did you have all the materials needed for construction already at the site?

Of course, it seems 2 random villagers made their way up to start working on it but im confused as to why the 2 i picked didn't they have 5/5 labourer and had the hammers in inventory and were fed so idk tf was up with them

[Tanyon]

Originally posted by Jumo747:

Originally posted by Tanyon:

Did you have all the materials needed for construction already at the site?

Of course, it seems 2 random villagers made their way up to start working on it but im confused as to why the 2 i picked didn't they have 5/5 labourer and had the hammers in inventory and were fed so idk tf was up with them

Did you make building their #1 on the villagers priority list?

There is also a good chance that once you placed the building and before you could try to assign the workers you brought the computer already assigned 2.. and so yours left because the other two were already on the way.

Not 100% sure but I do think they could make assignments to jobs.. that would be nice.

[Grizzly Bob]

you can only have 3 builders if you have 4 or 5 selected they like to switch around a lot AI wonky that way

[Jumo747]

Originally posted by Tanyon:

Originally posted by Jumo747:

Of course, it seems 2 random villagers made their way up to start working on it but im confused as to why the 2 i picked didn't they have 5/5 labourer and had the hammers in inventory and were fed so idk tf was up with them

Did you make building their #1 on the villagers priority list?

There is also a good chance that once you placed the building and before you could try to assign the workers you brought the computer already assigned 2.. and so yours left because the other two were already on the way.

Not 100% sure but I do think they could make assignments to jobs.. that would be nice.

Yes I did and that makes sense maybe that's what it did.

[Jumo747]

Originally posted by Grizzly Bob:

you can only have 3 builders if you have 4 or 5 selected they like to switch around a lot AI wonky that way

No only had 3

[Grizzly Bob]

cool

[Scooby Doo]

If the NPC/villager does not have the Building skills they can not build. If they do not have Logging skills they can not cut down trees. More to it then just hiring random people to do your bidding but it all 100% works once you know what you are doing.

Discord is a much better resource then Steam. Plenty of people not only to help but you could join their game and learn.

[Legadian]

If you're trying to start an outpost (build away from your first starting location), I'd suggest this thread:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1812450/discussions/0/4361250264575719206/

I usually find a location, drop a travel sign, pull mats for a stockpile and build it and a housing tent myself. Then I transfer two villagers there to do to rest, while I travel-sign-teleport mats that they need to them.

[tr0mp]

If they were not building, what were they doing?
What symbol was over their head?

Only three dots mean they do nothing. I think when they are over-loaded they do some weird stuff.

[dragon6097]

Did you create it as an outpost and forget to assign the builders to it? I don't think anyone will touch an outpost except for those assigned to it

[Jumo747]

The ones i selected all had the ability to build, i'm familiar with this type of game thus my confusion when it didn't work. This is not an outpost but part of the settlement, but as someone said earlier when i finished adding the materials 2 workers were auto assigned to it and when i selected 3 of my own only 1 stayed the other 2 kept going away, there was no indication of the 2 assigned so i didn't notice until they walked up to the building.

Thanks for all the help/suggestions, the idea of priorities is good but they should just let us drag a workers icon and drop it in the slot that shows who is assigned as it doesn't always work well when you have 20+ villagers and growing a big settlement, early access so im sure ill run into more issues as i have, sometimes I just have to RESET all the villagers and it helps but its annoying to do it over and over.