Work Orders

[Bloodyboo12]

This has probably been asked a million times, but I really dont understand. If I have a work order for fine meals and set it so that if there are less than 100 unrotten prepared meals to make more. But I have 140 and they are still producing more. Last I checked 140 is not less than 100, so I dont get what is going on.

[Fel]

Work orders have a quantity set for them, by default 10.
This means that once the work order is activated (condition reached in this case) the dwarves will do the job that many times before the work order de-activates (and checks the condition again if it's set to repeat or deletes itself if not).

Fine meals use 3 different ingredients and adds up the stack count of each as the stack count for the finished product.
So if your dwarf uses something that has a lot of items in a stack the result will be a lot of meals in one go but it still only counts as being fulfilled once.

It's the same for drinks (with only 1 ingredient).

[Bloodyboo12]

Originally posted by Fel:

Work orders have a quantity set for them, by default 10.
This means that once the work order is activated (condition reached in this case) the dwarves will do the job that many times before the work order de-activates (and checks the condition again if it's set to repeat or deletes itself if not).

Fine meals use 3 different ingredients and adds up the stack count of each as the stack count for the finished product.
So if your dwarf uses something that has a lot of items in a stack the result will be a lot of meals in one go but it still only counts as being fulfilled once.

It's the same for drinks (with only 1 ingredient).

So im not doing anything wrong? I swear they rechecked and started the order again even though it was over 100, but if that sounds right ill just run it.

[Fel]

You get an anouncement when a work order completes all the jobs it was required to do, it's easy to check the work order screen at that time.

The work order screen (not the details of the work order for the conditions) also shows you how many times it was completed and how many are required.

[l Shen l]

I had this same issue. I removed the tag "unrotten" and then the work order behaved as intended. The tag unrotten might be bugged or it defines the item incorrectly.

Edit: The issue was not the unrotten tag but it was a matter of stockpiles. If I had more then 1 food stockpiles and I didn't assign a stockpile that the workshop uses specifically then it would read that 1 stockpile did not have enough of said item and therefore it would keep producing more!