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[Shooer]

A fix for now would to allow ques for each individual workstation.

A better way would to allow workstations to be grouped together and ques.  Example would be 3 workstations in group A set to make up to X planks, if no planks need to be made then make those, if enough those make these.  At the same time workstation group B would be set to make bricabrac, them and those.

[LoSboccacc]

even better when you queue up something the dependencies get queued as well if not available at emptiest workstation (see gnomoria for how that works in practice)

[StupidElves]

Or a queue in which you set up that you want only sawmills to make item A, that way everything else doesn't try to make item A and things smooth out a bit faster.

[askovdk]

    I (still) can't play this game, as all textures for some reason are black.
I have asked on the steam forum and the devs are aware of the problem, - but just in case any bay12formite has had and solved the same issue, then I ask:

Has anybody else experienced that the UI was visible, but the 'world' was black in black?
And if so, - did you find a solution?

[Zangi]

Never had that problem, but I've only last took a gander at it a few months ago.

[Wiles]

So this game is coming out of early access on October 26th. Has anyone been playing the more recent builds? If so how is it?

I've been eagerly awaiting this one, but I haven't heard much about it recently.

[Majestic7]

Unfortunately, the new builds have been heavy on micromanagement which has turned me off from the game for now. I hope they will reconsider the design choice.

Basically, a few versions back they introduced "repair trunks". These were basically things you built in different workshops and they were used to maintain production stations like bureaucracy desks and furnaces. This replaced the old system where something broke, you needed components that were used to build it.

This caused much consternation among the population so the system was scrapped. Instead, various workstations now eat resources. For example, bureaucracy desks now eat paper. While in execution this is different from the upkeep trunks, it is similar in thought. In order to have your colony function you need to churn out resources to keep other resources being churned out.

On a general level this would be okay if we could automate production, but right now it means you must constantly micro the supply of certain goods. It as well locks your build order of the colony into a certain line. So that in order to build workshop X you first need workshops Y and Z since they produce the things X eats. I guess that alone would be fine, it is just the micro that gets annoying.

It is a bit like Dwarf Fortress before managers etc and with a huge fort.

[Mech#4]

That sounds like the systems in "The Settlers". Different building chains requiring specific resources. Resources could be stacked up outside the required building so you had a buffer before they ran out/ I think you could use different resources of the same type for buildings (Like, coal mines require bread but you could supply meat) and they'd still work, just more slowly.

I can't remember whether the production chains in The Settlers was 1/1 or not. I think a piece of bread would allow the mine to output a few loads of coal, though wheat to flour might've been 1/1. I'm thinking of "The Settlers IV" here.

[forsaken1111]

On a general level this would be okay if we could automate production, but right now it means you must constantly micro the supply of certain goods. It as well locks your build order of the colony into a certain line. So that in order to build workshop X you first need workshops Y and Z since they produce the things X eats. I guess that alone would be fine, it is just the micro that gets annoying.

Wait are you no longer able to set up a 'standing order'? I remember being able to set it to produce, for example, planks continuously until you had x number. Admittedly I haven't played recently because every time I tried I just got swarmed by bandits and killed, so I lost interest.

[Majestic7]

You can set standing orders, but you need to micro the orders to produce anything else then.

Oh yeah and recruiting soldiers is harder too, plus they use ammunition, same with hunters... So defending yourself requires a supply chain and is hard to do. In addition, only naturalists can hunt and hunting uses ammunition as well.

In general it feels just like... instead of making things deeper, they've decided to make existing things more complicated. It sounds similar but there is a difference. Instead of more options, we are required to jump more loops. I find it frustrating...but I suppose players who enjoy micromanagement like it.

[forsaken1111]

You can set standing orders, but you need to micro the orders to produce anything else then.

Again, I haven't played in a while but when I did you could set orders per workbench so I'd just have one workbench dedicated to making an item if I had a standing order, and another for intermittent items I needed only finite amounts of. Did that change?

Managing supply chains I can do, I do this in DF all the time. It was more the 'whoops bandits showed up on day 2 good luck not dying' that annoyed me. If I have time to actually get production going I'm fine. I probably played an interim build where they were tweaking things.

In fact I think I'll fire it up again and see.

[forsaken1111]

So it's not as bad as all that. Pistols require no ammo at all now, and are the default weapon. Ammo is fairly simple to make honestly. I'm going to restart this game as I did a few stupid things.

Don't anger the fish people early on.

[Darkmere]

Man, I haven't played this since the alpha. I suppose a couple more weeks won't hurt.

[forsaken1111]

So this just happened.

Apparently the whole game is just a hologram!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I already reported it and sent them a save, but amusing nonetheless.

[BigD145]

Well this looks lackluster and people that have put tens of hours in say the same.