Possible Bug: I see my guys are taking long work breaks is there a way to prevent that?

[Astro]

I see my guys are taking long work breaks is there a way to prevent that?
When I log back in they are all in work break, I have weapons in my chests and they are assigned to works but they don't start right away or not at all. Is this a bug?
Could it be the don't have tools close enough to them?

[Rogue]

What sort of "work"? Patrol, craft, wild collection, etc

Different stuff need different criteria, e.g not enough raw materials or no tools. Or it's just lunch break...

[Astro]

Wild Collection, I also noticed that either they don't have weapons when there are tons of weapons in the chest or some they are encumbered

[Astro]

yep seems like the problem is that they don't grab weapons from the chests at times :( definitely a Bug

[Astro]

the once that don't work seem to have around 450 mood, could that be it?

[Replica]

Usually at on the list of your workers and jobs list it tells you if they are missing materials if stopped.

But I have only used them so far for tools.

You can set up looped crafting mats as well keep that in mind, for example.

I find that if you have been collecting and saving up beast carcasses and have built a Butcher's Table, you can get x4 worth of Bones that my friend told me about.

Have your storage chests well laid out and room for your workers to move around with each chest.

You can press the L key to set what kind of stuff your workers store in them and have set my workers to store them away into any chest but those chest are marked with what items are only allowed.

Have a worker or two prioritize the bench to craft Beast Bone Tools by looping a Quest Job in the Carpenters Bench to create Wooden Handles every 30 minutes or so with the amount based on demand.

Also use the other bench to craft the actual Beastbone tools 3 in every 30 min or so depending on demand and have a Tool Chest they can store the tools into automatically.

That way they have been working long hours for me non stop even when I go do other things or sleep for the night and come back later in the morning to play again if playing on a server.

The jobs on my workers have been set to discard the tools when the durability runs out so they can just fetch a new tool from the Chests when they need to.


This way they keep farming non stop without me needing to repair them and it has better Durability for those tools than Stone.

You also have to make sure that in the chest they take the tools from that it's not disabled to prevent Tibesmen from taking stuff from it.

Not sure about the ranges of chests.

[Astro]

Ok all you are saying I have done it, the only 2 things are...
1) How do I tell them to discard broken weapons in the repair bench?
2) and maybe sleep is the main issue, I see my friend build lots of benches around the bon fire, do they actually prefer beds to recover their sleep and increase their mood even more?

[Astro]

ok interesting I moved the chest near buy and they all went to grab the tools, so I think and I was suspecting, npc in this game don't like stairs :(

[Replica]

Could be an AI pathing issue some say that it's better to have open space for the AI to not get buggy, I have mine go up a one stairs as one block in height but one time they were getting stuck on the corner of the stairs so I blocked it off which prevented them from going up it at least one of them.