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[TheBeardyMan]

It would be useful if a container could be assigned to a circuit of an even number of stockpiles, with the activity for the container at each stockpile being filling or emptying. If the activity at one stockpile is emptying, the activity at the next must be filling. This would improve efficiency by make longer hauls carry containers full of items, and shorter hauls carry individual items.

A cloth industry example:

   Loom output cloth stockpile: fill bin with undyed cloth, and when it's full, haul it to ...
   Dyer's input cloth stockpile: take undyed cloth from bin to dyer's workshop to dye it, and when bin is empty haul it to ...
   Dyer's output cloth stockpile: fill bin with dyed cloth, and when it's full, haul it to ...
   Clothier's input cloth stockpile: take dyed cloth from bin to clothier's workshop to make finished goods, and when bin is empty haul it to ...

and repeat.

[sweitx]

So effectively a bin at workshop?
Sounds interesting, hauler only grab those when either...
1. It is full.
2. Someone else need something from it.

Interesting ideas.

[NRN_R_Sumo1]

Would certainly be a very useful upgrade I say.

Myself though I don't use bins much because the differance it makes to my fortresses is fairly minimal.. but with This sort of system it would become a very important part quickly.