Labouring

[[MNI] Kisune]

Quick Question what does the laboring skill actualy do?
I mean both buildings and ore nodes seem to always reach the same Eficiency no matter how skilled the worker is and there are no qualities to the ore

[Morkonan]

It increases the rate at which they can get the ore node to produce ore. If you watch a low-skilled Laborer plink away at an ore node, they are very slow. Once their skill reaches a certain point, you'll notice their rate increasing up to a maximum rate.

It's..

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:)

[flu007]

Labouring makes them work faster.

(That efficiency thing on ore nodes etc... Not totally sure, I haven't looked at that in a while, but I think it's a pretty simplistic indicator that mainly relies on how many people are working the node vs. how many availble spots, but it doesn't take the skills of the workers into account.)

[crispy D pancakes]

I think labouring also affects work speed on some of the machinery.

[[MNI] Kisune]

Alright yhea couldnt realy tell since most of my people just shoot up early game and later i do not watch it since its anyway automated
Another quick question do Villages repopulate over time?
one of my Hive villages (the one near my base) Got mostly wiped bye beak things and i am wondering if they are gonna secure it agein at some point (currently gotta run from house to house while the ocassional guy steps out of the door)

[crispy D pancakes]

I believe the local populations are quite dynamic. Bartenders and unique characters don't repopulate. If you lose an useful bartender just import game.

[Hobo Misanthropus]

It says in the help text, Labor skill of under 60 results in a penalty to production speed, over 60 results in a bonus.

[flu007]

Originally posted by MNI Kísune:

Another quick question do Villages repopulate over time?
one of my Hive villages (the one near my base) Got mostly wiped bye beak things and i am wondering if they are gonna secure it agein at some point (currently gotta run from house to house while the ocassional guy steps out of the door)

They should slowly re-populate over time, but I'm not quite sure how this works either.

Because I have a base near a Hive Village as well, and its population was also whittled down significantly by Beak Things. And the population doesn't seem to grow back, it's been at a constant 21 inhabitants for the past... I dunno, 150-200 days or something.
So I'm thinking perhaps it will only restore once the zone becomes inactive (which isn't going to happen any time soon, with my main base nearby.)