Botanist dont take buds off drying racks

[Carl folkehus bertus d.16]

So i have noticed that my botanists dont take the buds off when they reach gold quality i have everything set up and it should be working but they just refuse to move the buds to the shelfs i have assigned. It almost completely halts my production and i am thinking about removing the drying racks completely because they just wont work

[Xenomorph]

They will prioritize tending to the plants. If you use air pots, the botanists will spend a lot of time watering the plants.
They seem a little slow, but they do move the product to the shelves. Not sure if they wait for the racks to be full on the input and output before moving the product.

[CornedBeef]

The drying racks are bugged out just like the cauldrons right now. If you go up to the drying rack and can't select them then they bugged and you need to restart the game. As long as you used the clipboard and selected a destination shelf for the buds you should be fine.

One thing I have noticed is the drying racks are at the bottom of the priority list for the botanists it seems. They have to have all their other work done before they mess with the racks. As long as your botanists aren't standing around outside they will get to them eventually.

[Hels]

That's strange, my botanists always does this with no issues.
In my current setup in the barn, I have assigned my botanists to 5 pots and 3 drying racks each, with the racks set to output directly to a cauldron (as I didn't want to waste space by using a shelf when I don't really need it).

The botanists seem to prioritise the pots (harvesting and watering) before they move items off the racks or setting them to dry.

[DescipleOfZen]

I gave up on the drying racks, at least for coca which takes for ever to grow as-is, it's much more efficient to just keep a delivery truck of fertilizer out front; deliveries don't expire. I made a few "heavenly" grade weed and coca, it made zero difference in the end.

Originally posted by Xenomorph:

They will prioritize tending to the plants. If you use air pots, the botanists will spend a lot of time watering the plants.
They seem a little slow, but they do move the product to the shelves. Not sure if they wait for the racks to be full on the input and output before moving the product.

I gave up on air pots... I had one side of x16 coca in the moisture preserving pots vs the other side in x16 coca in air ports, the preserving side produced more bricks in the end.

Each side has the same number of employees, equipment and product on the shelving to complete the coca. air pots are stupid.

[Islandsteve]

Assign the rack 1st before the pots. worked for me

[killerdecoy]

Originally posted by Islandsteve:

Assign the rack 1st before the pots. worked for me

I was wondering if the order you put in their routes or stations was a priority system or not. Is this confirmed that it is like this?

[Carl folkehus bertus d.16]

Originally posted by CornedBeef:

The drying racks are bugged out just like the cauldrons right now. If you go up to the drying rack and can't select them then they bugged and you need to restart the game. As long as you used the clipboard and selected a destination shelf for the buds you should be fine.

One thing I have noticed is the drying racks are at the bottom of the priority list for the botanists it seems. They have to have all their other work done before they mess with the racks. As long as your botanists aren't standing around outside they will get to them eventually.

yeah thats my exact problem they sit outside and tell me that a plant is ready for harvest but its destination is full. But the thing is that if they would just take off the already done buds and then dry the ones that are already there, then there should be room for more buds but idk i think i might just remove the racks and then wait for a bug fix.

[Padds]

is the exit for the racks set and does that have room

[vega]

ok ill test this. i assigned pots then racks so each botanist has 4 pots 4 drying racks (4 pots then 4 drying racks) they are using all three "fertilizers" coca gives 16 per plant of mid grade. that needs to be dried to heavenly. ill assign a pot then rack, lets see if they have a work list or its hard coded.

what i have noticed is they will load a rack with coca leaves and instead of hitting dry they will walk to a pot and tend it.

all while they are staring at me with their beady little eyes............. :)

i might try without the extra 2 fert. speed grow and the red one it may make things smother when production ramps up. 1 fert is 6 cycles an even number the drying racks can handle.(3 drying racks) using all 3 "ferts" is 5 cycles.(4 drying racks)

[Jimmy Hunter]

Set the destination for the Drying Racks to a Large Shelf. Then have a Handler fill the Cauldron from the shelf. This will prevent backups at your drying rack.

[theaaronone]

I set a single botanist to handle the racks and nothing else, that solved just about everything, even the bottleneck for the most part. At least at that part of my operation.

I've got 3 botanists with 8 pots each, each line of 8 disbursing everything to 3 shelves. 1 handler moving the contents of all 3 shelves to a single shelf, which the extra botanist uses as supplies for 6 assigned racks, which then all disburse to yet another shelf at the front of the WH building where I load everything up into the van and take to the barn for processing;

The barn is where everything is a barely functional disaster that requires more work from me than before I ever tried to automate anything. =/

[vega]

Originally posted by Jimmy Hunter:

Set the destination for the Drying Racks to a Large Shelf. Then have a Handler fill the Cauldron from the shelf. This will prevent backups at your drying rack.

thers a more efficient way i didnt work it out. yet.

[Jimmy Hunter]

Originally posted by vega:

Originally posted by Jimmy Hunter:

Set the destination for the Drying Racks to a Large Shelf. Then have a Handler fill the Cauldron from the shelf. This will prevent backups at your drying rack.

thers a more efficient way i didnt work it out. yet.

This is the most efficient way. The problem you're having is a lack of storage space causing a back up. The solution is to create a step that has more storage space so you do not have a bottleneck slowing production.

There's no need to reinvent the wheel when the simple solution solves the bottleneck.

[Carl folkehus bertus d.16]

Originally posted by Jimmy Hunter:

Originally posted by vega:

thers a more efficient way i didnt work it out. yet.

This is the most efficient way. The problem you're having is a lack of storage space causing a back up. The solution is to create a step that has more storage space so you do not have a bottleneck slowing production.

There's no need to reinvent the wheel when the simple solution solves the bottleneck.

this is the best way to do it but my botanists are just goofing around and just dont want to take buds off specific drying racks.

[criteec]

If you can't select it that is the problem I was having. I found that their pathing seems to include the side of the rack. I cleared all objects from the side of my racks, other than racks themselves as I have them lined up in a row 6 long, and it's been running great. The same was happening with my cauldrons.