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Author Topic: Forbid/prefer item types for construction  (Read 1398 times)

Khym Chanur

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Forbid/prefer item types for construction
« on: December 22, 2009, 01:29:27 pm »

If I'm constructing something on the surface near my wood stockpile, when choosing a material I'll have to scroll past all the different types of logs.  Plus obsidian and flux will often be before the value-1 stone that I actually want to use.  I could mass forbid obsidian/flux/wood, do my construction, and then unforbid them, but it'd be better if I could simply say "never use these things for construction", or "put non-metal/non-economic stone at the top of the list, even if other things are closer".
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Re: Forbid/prefer item types for construction
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2009, 01:31:17 pm »

Oops, looks like that's Reg41 (Completed).
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Re: Forbid/prefer item types for construction
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2009, 02:19:06 pm »

Oops, looks like that's Reg41 (Completed).

I think Req41 is describing the system we have now, not what you wanted.
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Re: Forbid/prefer item types for construction
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2009, 10:46:36 pm »

The workaround I use is to just make sure what i want to use is the item that's nearest to the site...  Since every block/bar in my fort is in a quantum stockpile near my smelters (I use the melt the stone mod so it's a good place for it) I just set up a stockpile near where I want to build and have it take from that stockpile.
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