Truck agrate loading/unloading

[El Presidente]

I built one attached to my coal processing plant. It only gets coal ore. How do I get just coal not the unprocessed stuff?

[Silent_Shadow]

There is a building that processes coal ore into coal. You can find it in the same menu you selected the coal mine in, just to the right of it.

[El Presidente]

Yes I already built it. The loading station is connected to it but it just transfers the coal ore and not the coal.

[El Presidente]

Is this another bug in the campaign?

[Silent_Shadow]

Originally posted by El Presidente:

Yes I already built it. The loading station is connected to it but it just transfers the coal ore and not the coal.

My bad. I didn't read it closely enough.

Originally posted by El Presidente:

Is this another bug in the campaign?

I don't think so. Vehicles can pull goods from buildings one connection away, so your truck is probably pulling coal ore from the conveyor engine or mine, if not the processing plant itself.

I'm pretty sure that if you specify coal (not coal ore) to be loaded in the truck's menu, they will only load coal.

[B4RR3TTS M1GHTY V01C3]

You should always specify the load and unload good type, to ensure that the logistics are working correctly.

[RyanFireball]

You should have attached an Aggregate Storage to the Coal Processing Plant, and then you should have attached the truck aggregate loading to the storage. You will have to specify that the storage store coal. Problem solved and the storage also serve as a buffer, and the workers do not sit idle while waiting for the truck to come back.
R/Tom

[El Presidente]

Originally posted by B4RR3TTS M1GHTY V01C3:

You should always specify the load and unload good type, to ensure that the logistics are working correctly.

I always do this.

[El Presidente]

Originally posted by RyanFireball:

You should have attached an Aggregate Storage to the Coal Processing Plant, and then you should have attached the truck aggregate loading to the storage. You will have to specify that the storage store coal. Problem solved and the storage also serve as a buffer, and the workers do not sit idle while waiting for the truck to come back.
R/Tom

I marked it in the storage but after several minutes still no change.

[Sirius Czech]

Show a screen of your setup, this doesn´t seem right and should not happend at all

[El Presidente]

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198061982426/screenshot/2380783739900385357/
The storage for the coal is in the town. The truck brings t from the loading station. A train sell the coal or will when this gets solved. I have a similar setup for an iron mine. That isn't working at the moment due to no workers.

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

Storages would help greatly here, both between the mine and the processing plant and between the plant and the loading station.
As it currently stands no workers have processed the coal ore into coal so the only valid resources for the loading station is the ore. You don't have any aggregate storages in that setup so there will be very little coal available to be picked up even when it is working.

[RyanFireball]

You need a separate storage after the Coal Processor. As long as you have no workers in the processing plant, all it has in its storage is Coal Ore as you can see from your picture. And the Truck loader can only get Coal Ore.
From the picture it seems to be room for an aggregate storage between the Coal Prosessor and the Loader and if you remove the connection and put new connectors to the new Aggregate storage you should be good to go.
R/Tom

[Sirius Czech]

Originally posted by El Presidente:

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198061982426/screenshot/2380783739900385357/
The storage for the coal is in the town. The truck brings t from the loading station. A train sell the coal or will when this gets solved. I have a similar setup for an iron mine. That isn't working at the moment due to no workers.

That is some really basic setup you got there. It is clear you have never seen production values of those buildings - a single bus of workers results in massive overflows that have nowhere to go and therefore stopped productions. Place intermediate storages and connect the loading station to such storage - that will immediately solve your problem.

If you want an inspiration, this is an episode I designed a coal setup for my region
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR7sQpBWpEs&ab_channel=comrade-Sirius

At start of this one it is seen up and running (with further plans down the belt for coal power plant and heat plant for the city to come later)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBPkHJ3XQbw&ab_channel=comrade-Sirius

[El Presidente]

As I said I have storage for the coal in town which is connected to a train station to deliver the coal to the custom house at the Soviet boarder. One problem seems to be that workers stopped coming to the mine via the bus route. The same worker problem with my iron mine.

[Egodeus]

Yes, and as said, the fact that the storage is in town, and not connected directly to the coal processing via conveyor engines is the problem. Even two workers in the coal processing plant are able to fill any truck on the loading stand and the internal storage in short order, after which the production will stop as the vehicles need to exit and new ones enter, supposing you have an entire line of dumper trucks waiting to load coal at the loading station.

It would be better to have an intermediate storage right after the processing plant that can temporarily store the coal produced, and then have the loading station connected there, so that when ever a dumper is coming there is enough coal to load it without having to wait for the processing plant to process it, and so that a worker in the processing plant can work continuously into the intermediate storage without having to wait for dumpers to arrive to load the coal.

Even better would be to move the coal via train or conveyor engine to where ever it is used or exported. I only use trucks to supply small heating plants somewhere in the outback of my republic where I don't yet have a train line going, since transferring coal via trucks is really slow and inefficient, considering the value and amounts needed. Only heating plants that are basically inert half of the year can be reliably supplied by one or two dumper trucks, since they have time to fill up the intermediate storage I have right before the heating plant during the summer, so it doesn't run out during the coldest days of winter. And even there I'm using intermediate storages to ensure the heating plant has enough fuel for itself all the time.

Most things in the game have abysmal storages in themselves, so get used to building supplementary storage space right next to any plant. There are exceptions of course, the oil power plant has quite a lot of internal storage for oil, and the fabric factory has enough space for storing chemicals as long as you provide an external storage for crops and give that space over for chemicals as well.