How to move coal

[Ghisla]

I've got 900 coal in a resource bin and my huge generator is on empty with no way to fill it. resource bin has no option for transfering coal over to the other little storage the game starts with which is apparently the storage the generator draws from.

lol I have a revolt on my hands that I'm sure is too late to resolve, but this resource bin thing is driving me crazy, it also has all my lumber and iron. Thanks for any advice.

[Averagedog]

Is the building "turned on?"

[The White Raven]

As far as i know, coal just need to be picked up, at the start from the depots scattered on the map and then with thumpers or mines. Once you assign workers to a depot of coal, they bring it to depot. you can also build a collector shelter to expand the picking area or to gather it faster. keep in mind that to use a thumper capacity whole, you need to build 2 collectors close to it. Mines doesn't need to have their coal picked up. And that's all. if you finish your depot space, just buld another one anywhere on the map with a road connection.

[Ghisla]

hmm, I would assume since no npcs interact with it expept to deposit supplies. It's also full of food, lol and my peeps are starving. I'm thinking there must be a way that sets up a transfer, but can't find it. It's not the same supply building that the game spawns with.

[Scharny]

You dont move coal or any resource. Early on you set some people to gather it (the small black lumps laying around the map) you press the resource and assign people to get it. If all of your people are doing other stuff then you have to remove your people from the other thing and then assign them to the right resource.

The earliest coal building you can get is the coal thumper. You assign i think its 10 people to the building and then it creates two piles of coal. You can assign workers to manualy pick up the coal from the piles (slower, 10 workers more expensive) or create two gathering huts (faster, save 10 workers) close to the newly created piles of coal and assign people to them - then they will collect the coal and it will get into your storage automaticaly.

The coal mine, you just assign people to and then you get coal straight to storage.

[Ghisla]

ya this resourse bin is right next to the thumper with the mec mining it, I just can't find a way to use that coal

[Ghisla]

it will no automatically be availabe to the generator or the kitchen

[The White Raven]

are you watching tutorials during your gamplay? they give you a rough idea on what to do. if you have raw food, you need to cook it in the specific bulding and ppl will eat it when they do not work. in this game you don't need to move resources creating routes.

[The White Raven]

Originally posted by Ghisla:

ya this resourse bin is right next to the thumper with the mec mining it, I just can't find a way to use that coal

Click ont coal piles or build collectors close

[Ghisla]

ok, will give it a try. Thanks everyone.

[The White Raven]

let us know

[Ghisla]

hahaha, the ingrates banished me to the frozen wasteland. I do think now I know what the probem was, I only had engineers availabe to work cause expeditions
brought back alot. they don't like to get coal dust on their white lab coats.

[The White Raven]

Originally posted by Ghisla:

hahaha, the ingrates banished me to the frozen wasteland. I do think now I know what the probem was, I only had engineers availabe to work cause expeditions
brought back alot. they don't like to get coal dust on their white lab coats.

this could be the problem indeed. So you have to employ engineers where you can and keep workers for picking jobs. but engineers can work in collectors shelters btw...and maybe also in coal piles, can't remember right now

[Ghisla]

hmm, couldn't get them into the coal piles but, will try the collection sheds next. Am goung to start over - - AGAIN. Hahaha, Do not like to watch ytube and reveiwers clips before a game comes out., like to start as a greenhorn, more fun that way. Ofcourse hours and hours down the road I have been known to watch a few videos, and visit a few wikis lol. I mean patience has a limit right? :)