Understanding Auto Haul

[Himulaya]

I finally have my base set up with a farm and all, but I'm having some issues understanding auto haul.

1. I have a wooden trader's back pack, which stacks up to 9, but the haulers don't use this? They only bring 6 fruit at a time.
2. How does the AI choose where to haul to if you have multiple containers? I have one near the farm, and another one near the stove. I have one guy hauling from the farm to the nearby containes, so the farms don't fill up. Then I have another one that I want to haul using the trader backpack, from the farm to the stove. If I right click auto haul on the container near the stove, the guy just stands there and does nothing, even though the farm containers are full. Any way to control this?

[johntarmac]

1. If your people loaded their packs with everything that would fit they'd become over encumbered and take forever to get anywhere.

2. As far as I'm aware hauling from container to container is not possible.

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

It chooses the nearest one.

[Mishca_Glendor]

Character 1 is ( Farm > HaulToStorage1)
Character 2 is ( HaulToStorage2 > Cookstove )

It should work for hauling on both character 1 and 2. You might get stuck in a storage loop with character 2 if the distance to the stove is further than a few steps. The characters will check their priority order before doing anything.

Otherwise you should have Character 1 (Farm > HaulToStorage2 ) as when the farm fills up they will haul to any nearby storage automatically so it can continue to be harvested. When the farming is done they will gather items up from nearby storages and haul to where you designate.

[Bored Peon]

Last I did autohaul it collected materials into that particular container. It would grab the materials from anywhere else as in farms or even other storage containers. It will not grab from a machine input storage.

I used it at the end of a farming queue to bring the materials into the cooking buildings, instead fo the cook running to the feilds to grba the left overs in the farms. Since farmers will not empty a farm until it hits 20 units.

It also can be used to dump those stray barrels of water farmers tend to accumilate for some reason. Long as you place it after the farming job. So basically they dump any leftover water before doing some other job betwene farming.