Way to stop duplicants from moving items?

[MARTFONGER]

I'm looking for ways to prevent duplicants from carrying items past certain locations. Is there any way known?

[Kingsman]

There's a way to make it so items are only stored in one area through chest filter and you can use locked doors to keep them out of areas if that helps

[GD]

Setup your storage priorities accordingly. Lower it below 5 than they only hole stuff when they have nothing better to do. Also: In the Job Priorities you can lower then Deliver and Storage Category one or two level or even disable it for some of your dups.

And keep in mind, they always try to move items from Lower To Higher Priority Containers if free.

I've done the following:

Storage besides devices which needs stuff regularly (ore for refinery, fertilizer for farms and so on) get level 4 storages. Sometimes I set them above 5, when there is not enough idle-time.

I setup little storage depots around the map for faster building only the 5 most important building materials for me and only 1t to 5t. I set them to Level 3.

Besides them there is a central storage with level 2 and than collecting storages and sweep only storages with level 1.

So they fill up production locations first, than the storage hubs, than the storage center and the surplus/cleanup storages. But all only when they have nothing better to do.

[MARTFONGER]

Is there any event which can occur which causes dup's to drop what they carry?

[ghostrider]

running out of breath, sleeping, maybe manual movement. you can also designate one storage bin for them to deposit into as they walk by, then disable the container once they've stored it

but yeah, there should be a button to drop inventory

[GD]

Give them a "move to" order via button below. They drop what they carry. But it's always manual, there is no automatic way of doing it.

What you can consider is building some Shipping Stuff and they will possible drop it there and don't move the map around (if manual use is allowed on the device).

[MARTFONGER]

Originally posted by GD:

What you can consider is building some Shipping Stuff and they will possible drop it there and don't move the map around (if manual use is allowed on the device).

F***ing... what? What does this say?

[GD]

I meant you can build Conveyors and let them transport solid materials over longer distances. Than your dups don't need to haul everything.

[MARTFONGER]

Originally posted by GD:

I meant you can build Conveyors and let them transport solid materials over longer distances. Than your dups don't need to haul everything.

K. Fortunately the new update includes something about cracking eggs to mark them for cooking, I hope there's more control over what gets used and what doesn't.