How to make cook drop meal on floor?

[Lwara]

I want the cook to just cook and not waste time hauling the meals to the stock pile.
Ive tried disabling hauling on the cook but he still does it.

Any ideas?

[Bisquetz]

make a stockpile right next to the kitchen or dining area exclusively for cooked foods.
Problem solved.

[lux3y]

Click on your stove/campfire -> bills -> details -> Take to best stockpile -> click on it and change it to Drop on floor.

[Lwara]

Originally posted by lux3y:

Click on your stove/campfire -> bills -> details -> Take to best stockpile -> click on it and change it to Drop on floor.

There ya go! Excellent thanks alot!

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Originally posted by 7BlacK7JacK7:

Originally posted by lux3y:

Click on your stove/campfire -> bills -> details -> Take to best stockpile -> click on it and change it to Drop on floor.

There ya go! Excellent thanks alot!

Know that meals dropping on the ground not in a stockpile won't count towards your bill, so the cook may over produce. Get around this by putting a stockpile where they drop, set it to hold nothing. They will count, but still be hauled away by your haulers.

[Radiosity]

Originally posted by BlackSmokeDMax:

Originally posted by 7BlacK7JacK7:

There ya go! Excellent thanks alot!

Know that meals dropping on the ground not in a stockpile won't count towards your bill, so the cook may over produce. Get around this by putting a stockpile where they drop, set it to hold nothing. They will count, but still be hauled away by your haulers.

Yes it does O_o I have my cooks in a dedicated kitchen dropping meals on floor and bills finish just fine.

[Emmote]

Originally posted by Radiosity:

Originally posted by BlackSmokeDMax:

Know that meals dropping on the ground not in a stockpile won't count towards your bill, so the cook may over produce. Get around this by putting a stockpile where they drop, set it to hold nothing. They will count, but still be hauled away by your haulers.

Yes it does O_o I have my cooks in a dedicated kitchen dropping meals on floor and bills finish just fine.

It really doesn't. Anything outside of stockpiles are not counted for your total in a colony.

If you have 5 meals in a stockpile, 5 on the floor by your stove and the bill set to Do Until 10, the cook will continue making because they think the colony only has 5 meals.

If your haulers can move them to the stockpile quick enough, then yes, they will get counted, but not until.

[Radiosity]

Originally posted by Emmote:

Originally posted by Radiosity:

Yes it does O_o I have my cooks in a dedicated kitchen dropping meals on floor and bills finish just fine.

It really doesn't. Anything outside of stockpiles are not counted for your total in a colony.

If you have 5 meals in a stockpile, 5 on the floor by your stove and the bill set to Do Until 10, the cook will continue making because they think the colony only has 5 meals.

If your haulers can move them to the stockpile quick enough, then yes, they will get counted, but not until.

Then you're not being efficient enough with your haulers. I drop on floor and almost immediately they're hauled to a stockpile, meaning they're counted.

[Emmote]

Never said anything about my haulers. I'm saying that's how the game mechanics work, and you said no that's not how it works.

I always have at least 30% of my colony as dedicated haulers, so yes, everything gets hauled basically immediately, but it doesn't stop the dropping on floor bill setting from not counting the dropped meals as completed until they get put into a stockpile.
So if you don't have enough haulers, then the cooks can overproduce, which is exactly what BlackSmokeDMax said, and showed how to avoid it.

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Originally posted by Radiosity:

Originally posted by Emmote:

It really doesn't. Anything outside of stockpiles are not counted for your total in a colony.

If you have 5 meals in a stockpile, 5 on the floor by your stove and the bill set to Do Until 10, the cook will continue making because they think the colony only has 5 meals.

If your haulers can move them to the stockpile quick enough, then yes, they will get counted, but not until.

Then you're not being efficient enough with your haulers. I drop on floor and almost immediately they're hauled to a stockpile, meaning they're counted.

They WEREN'T counted before hauling, which is all I said in the first place. Sometimes you just can't have efficient hauling, you may end up with a bunch of no "dumb labor" idiots. Note: I don't use any mods to enable all labor for everyone, nor do I use Prepare Carefully.