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Author Topic: Merge harvesting and hauling the plants to the food stockpile into a single job  (Read 971 times)

TheBeardyMan

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Merge harvesting and hauling the plants to the food stockpile into a single job
« on: October 15, 2012, 02:50:39 am »
The recent hauling improvements have made harvesting worse. Before the improvements it was two trips per plant:

  • Go to farm plot
  • Harvest plant
  • Get plant
  • Go to plant barrel in plant stockpile
  • Put plant in barrel

but after the improvements it's four trips per plant:

  • Go to farm plot
  • Harvest plant
  • Go to plant barrel in plant stockpile
  • Get barrel
  • Go to farm plot
  • Get plant
  • Put plant in barrel
  • Go to plant stockpile
  • Drop barrel

But if the tasks were merged, it could be n + 2 trips for n plants:

  • Go to plant barrel in plant stockpile
  • Get barrel
  • Go to farm plot
  • Harvest plant
  • Get plant
  • Put plant in barrel
  • Repeat steps 3 to 6 n times
  • Go to plant stockpile
  • Drop barrel
« Last Edit: October 15, 2012, 02:53:05 am by TheBeardyMan »
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DG

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Re: Merge harvesting and hauling the plants to the food stockpile into a single job
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2012, 03:04:48 am »
Ah, I disallow barrels in the plant stockpiles taking from my farm plots so I hadn't noticed this.
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GreatWyrmGold

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Re: Merge harvesting and hauling the plants to the food stockpile into a single job
« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2012, 06:25:03 am »
That's more or less how it's supposed to work. I think. The problem is the bug where dwarves grab a container for every hauling job.
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Re: Merge harvesting and hauling the plants to the food stockpile into a single job
« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2012, 06:38:23 am »
More like the bug where dwarves don't wait till multiple plants are present and dwarves grab plants one at a time anyway.
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Re: Merge harvesting and hauling the plants to the food stockpile into a single job
« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2012, 12:17:45 pm »
I'd rather farmers and plant pickers focus on pick and drop, leaving it to someone else to get the food into stockpile by barrel or not. Wasn't that how it worked in 31. if you disabled food hauling on them? My speciality farmers are a bit less productive in 34.09 than I remembered them being in 31.18.
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