untold star
These paviours are waiting for work despite having stone in a warehouse nearby and a huge area to take care of.
They then go and collect directly from the crane to the other side of the map (not visible in the picture).
Note that said warehouse is set on Stock Max, as that's the only way we have to bring stone closer by.
If you try the save game, you'll see exactly how I tried to set up the distribution of stone.
Please please please give us those brushes for storage buildings AND production buildings!!! 🙏
stray jacinth
Here is what is happening:
stray jacinth
In the meantime, I would recommend unpausing the Stone Deposit or destroy the Crane and you will be good to go.
untold star
In the meantime, I would recommend unpausing the Stone Deposit or destroy the Cr...
the crane they go to is further away in the map, it's not the one immediately close to it. I couldn't show this in a pic because it's really far away; but please try the save and you'll see where they go: it's on the other side of the map. The circled warehouse should actually work as the main depot for this area/hub, but it doesn't.
I've also tried to have the close-by crane (the one you mean) to work (I wanted paviours to collect only from the nearest crane), but it didn't work - they'd still go further away to pick up stone, while other paviours from further away come to it instead. [I believe the prob is that in any given moment, they check for the biggest amount of stone and go pick it up, doesn't matter where it is?]
So, the only solution was to produce and collect stone further away (hence I paused the near-by crane) and bring the stone closer through another warehouse set on stock max (the one in the pic). This works only if there's an overproduction of stone, because if the nearest warehouse doesn't have enough, they'll still go pick up further away. If you try that quicksave and track stone, you'll see exactly what I mean.
[I also wanted to make a video of it, but it was too big to upload, so I need to edit it or something]
stray jacinth
I tried the save, deleted the crane and the pavior went to the circle warehouse...
The worker looks for the closest depot for stone (with inventory or not). Then, it looks within a range of that depot to find the best quantity to pickup.
untold star
I tried the save, deleted the crane and the pavior went to the circle warehouse....
and do they keep going there? because the moment that warehouse doesn't have enough, then they go all the way to the far away crane
untold star
The worker looks for the closest depot for stone (with inventory or not). Then, ...
and what if you unpause that one instead? you'll see they start mixing up - they won't collect from it unless it's the one with the highest amount at themoment they check