Pallets. How do you use them

[lokieid]

Pallets!!! They seem really useful but I don't know how they work.

I want my tinker benches to throw their products on a pallet so I can belt or cart them off to different work zones to get used. I can only do that if I manually set their output to the pallet.

That's no good as they have to wander over there. I'd rather them drop it off on a shelf and the logistics wagies can port them over. But once a module is on a shelf they will stay there until there's a demand on a bench in the same room.

How do you get modules from a shelf to a pallet???? The carousel level is making me go crazy

[Pinstar]

On the pallet, reserve spot(s) for your modules set as logistics only. This will cause logistics employees to take modules off of shelves and deposit them onto the pallet.

In a different work zone, setup another pallet with those same modules set as logistics only. Then set up a courier route between the two. Add the module(s) to your courier's route, have them pick up from the pallet where they're being produced and dropped off at the other pallet.

The logistics workers at the 2nd work zone will then take those modules off the pallet and bring them to the shelves of your assembly tables, assuming they're setup to demand those modules.

[lokieid]

Originally posted by Pinstar:

On the pallet, reserve spot(s) for your modules set as logistics only. This will cause logistics employees to take modules off of shelves and deposit them onto the pallet.

In a different work zone, setup another pallet with those same modules set as logistics only. Then set up a courier route between the two. Add the module(s) to your courier's route, have them pick up from the pallet where they're being produced and dropped off at the other pallet.

The logistics workers at the 2nd work zone will then take those modules off the pallet and bring them to the shelves of your assembly tables, assuming they're setup to demand those modules.

That's how it should work only it doesn't. I have spots reserved on a pallet but the logistics guys never ever move them over, there's not even a line in the logistics view pointing to the pallet and the game won't let me manually tell them to move modules from a shelf to a pallet.

[DeeHeack]

I don't know if it's the best solution, but next to the garbage button in the rule of the shelf, you have a button called "declare source". If you activate this, you're telling the logistic guys to actually carry the component to another place, and normally it's the nearest pallet with "only logistics" rule of that component.

And yes, this is really annoying if you want to do "routing" between shelves and not having the logistic guys decide everything.

[SemtexMan47]

Declare it as a source first. If that doesn't work then you need to do some manual logistics tricks. But this simple desk -> shelf -> pallet chain should work just by using that option.

[lokieid]

Originally posted by SemtexMan47:

Declare it as a source first. If that doesn't work then you need to do some manual logistics tricks. But this simple desk -> shelf -> pallet chain should work just by using that option.

I gotcha. I'll fiddle around with it. I have source and sink set correctly but the guys just sit there with full hands if the shelf is full.

It might be I don't have enough logistics guys running around and there's no way to set priorities manually, so they are stuck doing other things.

I see people streaming it on YouTube with the exact setup I want and you described working perfectly so it might just be a shortage of logistics workers.