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Uzu Bash

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produce until take pile full
« on: February 13, 2015, 08:34:29 am »

An option for repeatable orders in a workshop with one or more stockpiles taking from them; pause production when stockpiles taking from the workshop are full. Especially useful for kitchens, so a clutter of meals aren't generated to sit around and rot. It would be useful for any product you have a regular use for, so you could pause production when you have a surplus defined by the stockpile size, and resume when dwarves are using the products again.
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Wooster

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Re: produce until take pile full
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2015, 08:45:46 am »

Be handy if we could do something similar with give piles: produce until give pile empty. Whenever I get a bucket of milk, I want it turning into cheese forthwith!

In the meantime, both of these can be approximated with dfhack-stockflow, but neither works brilliantly as they rely on the manager, which is fairly useless for this sort of thing.

[EDIT: reversed polarity of take/give. Also, I remembered this thread.]
« Last Edit: February 13, 2015, 08:48:11 am by Wooster »
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