granulating manufacturing

[dakenho]

Manufacturing menus really need an upgrade
first of is the fact that really only one thing can be produced at a time with out moving things up and down in the menu, what if you want to make two different items and only have one person who can craft stuff? you have to go through the menu and alternate,    a check box to allow players to build even amounts of items so that my colonists can have both pants and hats would be nice.
secondly manufacturing really needs to be separated
brewing, cooking, and butchering should really be separated, often times i hunt in large spurts and want everything butchered first and its annoying that your cook is spending all his time making beer and you run out of food, a simple solution would be to allow production priority much in the way you can set job priority.

[mcduff]

Granulating Manufacturing is the name of my Decemberists covers band.

[Renham]

I think the adition to priorize a work station in relation to the colonists, would make much better solution, for instance I have a work station with the order to produce ammo for the cannons... if you have way too many things arround to do, making your colonist do this will take sometime... so, if we add the priority option and set it to critical, a colonist will go there and will start working if he matches the settings of the work requiered. so instead of giving priorities to anything else, the colonist fit for the job will go there if the work station is empty.


the same for the others, butchering, cooking, brewing and smithing.

[LCCX]

If you want to have everything butchered immediately, then suspend the cooking and brewing bills.

If you want multiple jobs completed by one crafter/cook/etc., then you can tell them to make 5x of each or to keep producing until you have like 10x of each in storage. Yes, they'll make all of one before making any of the other, but you do get both.

Still, some way of prioritizing bills between tables would be nice.