crossbow crafting and parts storage for hinges and spring steel

[ppga]

So I have my crossbow bench up, and crossbow part storage boxes around.

I noticed there are no storage boxes for hinges and spring steel, and they can be placed in the crossbow part storage box, so I placed them there.

My crossbow craftsmen was standing aimless and wouldn't work the bench because it was lacking missing spring steel as an ingredient, despite there being spring steel in the crossbow part storage box right beside her. I manually put it in her inventory and off she goes. Are we supposed to put hinges and spring steel into crossbow part storage boxes or will they get their own boxes?

My weaponsmith has a similar issue, I have a loom and fabric chest in the tower right beside her, but I have to manually load her up on fabric from the chest. She'll go outside to grab steel much further away on her own though.

[Omaeka]

Hey this is a real old post but I started manufacturing crossbows and could not figure out where to store them, and making hinges was a pain, so thank you!

[Bones Johnson]

I know hinges can go into robotic storage, and units have a tendency to put hinges in there rather than robotics. Though robotics is kind of buggy too, I've had men stand there picking up and dumping the same items continously before.

[Acord]

i have 5 crossbow benches, each bench for each topic, in that way, i dont need to struggle with the stupid AI who refuse to remove the materials and ad the new once.

[ppga]

Crossbow parts belong in storage: crossbow parts

The problem of getting stuck crafting seems to have to do with queues, as Accord mentions. Seems the AI can get stuck when it has to switch out mats when changing recipes. You can make dedicated benches as Accord suggests, or queue up recipes in batches of 5, because most of the time your guys put 5 ingredients in the bench at a time, so that when the fifth spring steel is made and it switches to the next recipe the bench is already empty.