Mortars and shells

[ahowe42]

I want to have two mortars - one on either side of my colony.  However, I can't figure out how to put a storage zone dedicated to shells near each mortar.   If I put identical storage zones near each, my colonists won't evenly distribute the shells as should happen.  Anyway to fix this, so I can use more than one mortar?

[niklas7737]

Since their stack limit is 25, you could simply make two one-tile-zones with the same priority and craft 50 shells. That would cost you 500 steel but it would also ensure you have quite a few shells in reserve.
But a mortar's range covers the entire map so you could also build two in the same place and let them share a stockpile. If you leave a bit of open space between them (preferably nothing flammable, a four-tile-wide concrete path would do the trick) an explosion of one mortar wouldn't be very dangerous to the other one.

[Wex]

You can use shelves.
They assure you 2 spaces for shells and you can leave them outside, without having the shells be damaged by weather.

[Serenity]

A huge reason for using equipment racks (under furniture) is that shells deteriorate in the open. Even if you used zones, you'd need some sort of roof

[ahowe42]

You can use shelves.
They assure you 2 spaces for shells and you can leave them outside, without having the shells be damaged by weather.

That's great, thanks for pointing that out.