Managing Builders?

[Zoffix Znet]

I'm noticing an apparent issue with the choice of which builder gets assigned to a project. I have an almost finished bridge with all the resources already in place. 1 builder is assigned who is on the other end of the freaking map, taking a stroll, even further than the village center. By the time he arrives to the bridge, his stats are negative, so he just immediately leaves, without building anything.

There are 3 building shacks with 9 builders RIGHT next to that bridge (there's food, church, and their serf houses right there). I'm trying to get one of them lazy bums to finish my bridge, so I kept making the assigned builders unemployed, but the game keeps insisting on assigning those far away builders to my bridge.

Is there a way to force a specific builder to work on a specific project? Clicking the name bar doesn't seem to do anything.

EDIT: managed to finish the bridge with one of the faraway builders, but it took frustratingly forever. How to get the closest one assigned?

[resieg]

When the bridge is the only project which is on priority, then builders concentrate on that.

[dperx]

Also, the builders are programmed to go work on the closest available project. However, that doesn't always guarantee they won't walk several hexes to work. It kind of depends on how many parts the project has and whether those parts are available to be worked on (or whether they already have a builder assigned).

If you have several projects going at once, it is entirely possible that the closest available piece could end up being further away simply because the close ones already have builders assigned.

It would be nice if there was a way to limit the range of builders so they wouldn't walk across the map to work. That would necessitate putting builder's shops closer to any project you want to build or risk no builders going to work there.

[Brenner]

I agree that it is frustrating that even with builder huts closer to the construction site, the game often uses builders from a shack a large distance away. It gets worse the larger the village gets even with me placing additional builder huts. I also place additional warehouses to fill with building supplies so that they have a closer location for resources. Even when I have maybe one or two projects being built, it often take a lot longer than it did earlier in the game because the game is making poor decisions on who to assign to what.

[vjraymon]

Did you try to remove and rebuild the builder's workshop near the site under construction ?