little snots hate to mine gold

[Airex01]

I have noticed that as soon as there is literaly any other work for a little snot(even if that is pick up soom mana on the outer edges of your dungeon and slowly carry it back) they will instantly prefer that work to mining gold... srsly most of my midgame is nothing but looking around for snots that are not minging pick em um and throw them to the nearest gold source.

[Thats How We do action in Uganda]

Agree same problem here, there should be some option to set priority for certain tasks.

[CloudSeeker]

Well that is the point. You mine gold from large piles of gold or from infinte sources when you don't have other things to do. That means you shouldn't make it a horrible mess for them to run around in and you shouldn't mine every single part of the dungeon then filling it up at the same time. I think you need to think of how you plan your work activities better.

[qosu]

I try to pick up the stray stuff myself and toss it in the dungeon heart room to keep the snots from doing that stuff too much.

[MarketDF]

If you put a couple snots around a mine, and that room has locked doors closing it off, they'll stay there. Certainly not as good of a solution as setting a priority, but in the meantime it's a good workaround. Just don't forget to unlock a door when Payday comes. ;)

[Jepakazol]

Originally posted by MarketDefiantFew:

If you put a couple snots around a mine, and that room has locked doors closing it off, they'll stay there. Certainly not as good of a solution as setting a priority, but in the meantime it's a good workaround. Just don't forget to unlock a door when Payday comes. ;)

or lock all of your creatures in a small room when Payday comes and brainwash them.

:evil-laugh-here:

And then don't forget to unlock the door so they can go to work, those lazy monsters!

[Ydyp]

The thing is if gold mining would take priority over everything else nothing would get finished as they will not leave the goldveigns. The trick here is to balance the workload and don't queue up to much so they go gold farming in between. Or pick them up and drop them so they focus for about a minute on the gold. The other methods are indeed lock them behind a door inside with only a tresaury and a goldveign.

And I find that the priority is fine, especialy with the picking up a snot hotkey and dropping it on a task to make it prioritize that one.

[Kazzerk]

Originally posted by Worsest Player in DOTA2 History:

Agree same problem here, there should be some option to set priority for certain tasks.

I need this, I have problems with gold when I need to create tools and traps. Everybody is with the boxes and nobody care about mining gold lol!

[watcherzero]

Yes its about managing the work load, they prioritise excavation and room construction so if you queue up massive mining that will get done first. However there is a smart queing system at work they will ensure you dont run out of gold so if your getting low will concentrate on gold mining. The other big piece of advice is have distributed treasure rooms around your dungeon

[Airex01]

All i want is to be able to give 3 or soe snots the command to do nothing but gold mining and the current snot system would be fine for me

[YT GamingTux]

Originally posted by Airex01:

All i want is to be able to give 3 or soe snots the command to do nothing but gold mining and the current snot system would be fine for me

buld a room around a gold or diamond, playce a door and lock it. throuw some snots in the room. ready. infinite gold digging.

[Kazzerk]

Originally posted by YouTube.GTuxTV:

Originally posted by Airex01:

All i want is to be able to give 3 or soe snots the command to do nothing but gold mining and the current snot system would be fine for me

buld a room around a gold or diamond, playce a door and lock it. throuw some snots in the room. ready. infinite gold digging.

If they have the teleport, this work too?

[Ydyp]

Originally posted by (> Kazzerk <):

Originally posted by YouTube.GTuxTV:

buld a room around a gold or diamond, playce a door and lock it. throuw some snots in the room. ready. infinite gold digging.

If they have the teleport, this work too?

They only teleport to locations they can physical walk to, so a locked door will stop them from teleporting. But it also stops other minions from reaching the gold, so you will have to either manually move the gold or unlock the door on paydays.

[qosu]

On payday I tended to pick everyone up and throw them outside for a quick payday

[Ydyp]

Originally posted by qosu:

On payday I tended to pick everyone up and throw them outside for a quick payday

Dropping them and leaving them on a guardroom btw does the same.

[Noble Ten]

I found the campign map where you ahve to sacrifice heros (like 210 of them) they kept dragging hero bodies around and coming back to drag more, instaed of mining gold when I had no gold. It was like an ant line of snots dragging bodies through my dungeon.