Dupes ignoring priorities

[Mr. Night]

So my dupes are starving. I have the cook set to do only cooking and he just stands idle when the microbe musher has water and dirt and mush bars set to continuous. the other dupes are starving but hes standing idle. how do i get him to do his job?

[Project Danny]

same for me on a lot of jobs.... they stand there idle while the toilet needs cleaning... so they then piss themself like little babies and then get soggy feet then complain about it get 100% sanity and then end up puking everywhere and wont even clean it up....

this game is a mess atm...

[ghostrider]

make the building a higher priority?

[ghostrider]

yeah, was talking outhouses. putting them on p9 ensures they get cleaned more regularly. fwiw i use 4 of them until i can put in plumbing

[Athor]

sub/dup-priorities?

[Mr. Night]

well the cooking stuff is priority 9 since I been struggling to keep everyone fed. his cooking priority is the wrench and everything else except supply is disabled. the station has water and dirt but he won't make mush bars. it's got power (battery right beside it is charged and hooked up) he was cooking fine until he got food poisoning (I'm having a issue with germs atm) and got sick. then when he got better he refuses to cook.

[ghostrider]

make sure you have a sink in the kitchen so he washes his hands before he handles food. make sure your dupes wash their hands after they use the outhouse too

[Wischmob von Eimer]

this has nothing to do with his problem of priorities ...

[Athor]

Distance/access issue? dupes will generaly first who what is closest to them.
check navigation on the dup's menu to see if he can acess the area

[AquaX]

Remember to restrict what the dupes can do from the priority list. If you need a cook to just cook fast, lock out all other jobs he/she can do.

[Mr. Night]

he can navigate there, and yes he is locked out from everything unrelated to cooking. but he will stand idle. the microbe musher has resources and is ready to use but he will stand idle. then if i enable something else like build he will run off to do that but wont cook. he was cooking perfectly fine before he got sick. (and ya i will put a sink in there once the treatment facility for my water is working which is what im working on atm but dupes are ready to starve to death so thats more pressing)

[AquaX]

Did you max out the priority for cook and 9 the musher? Also did you have your food set to infinite or just by 1 each. Note if you set different food for infinite, the machine doesnt automatically switch to the next 1. You have to remove the now invalid order in the musher to the newer 1.

[custume]

ok here is some info ...

Before the priority stuff/jobs update dups check the building priority and act on it, now is not the same.

Now with the priority tab and the job tab we can get situations where the dup stay there waiting for something.

Is simple ... for the cook , the microbe musher needs stuff but if the chef is only set to cook them he will wait for supplies, he will not get any.

If you have all dups set (in the priority tab) set specific stuff they will do that before anything else, for example you can set the chef to cook very high and farm high then set the microbe musher to 1 and the farm plot to 9 the dup will go 1º to the microbe musher.

The priority number on the building only matters if the "job" is the same on diferent buildings.

Another example... I set the miner to clean up to and set the clean up to high priority but he is still a miner, so he will dig and forget about cleaning because in the priority that the job is high, no matter how high is the building number.

Another one, the builder will idle whaiting for stuff to build because he on the priority tab is set to no deliver stuff or is set to low and the dup will stay there waiting ( for ever if you dont have any dup on deliver)

I hope this explain, and sorry about the typos (I dont have the text correction on)

Regards

[Mr. Night]

@ aqua yes its set to 9 as is the grill next to it (with grilled mush set to continuous) and the musher is set to continually make the mush bars at 9 priority. the machine contents show enough supplies to make at least one.

@ custume i have cooking set to the wrench for him (higher then the 2 arrows) and supply is turned off since otherwise he decides to supply other stuff rather then the cooking equipment. how can i have him only supply the kitchen? i have another dupe set to supply stuff and the musher has enough to make at least 1 bar. i didnt know alot of how the priorities for jobs and the task priority worked like that but thank you. didnt help the issue BUT it did teach me something so thank you. :)

[Athor]

Set everything else to 5,6 except the grill&microbemusher?

[Mr. Night]

i guess but i still want the other dupes to adhear to those priorities
ill try it though