Storage bs

[seeyountee]

Good afternoon everyone.
I'm looking for a mod that can fix the stockpile/storage issues that are currently present.
I notice that when two pawns are hauling something they can't both put in the same stack.

[RawCode]

to keep system sane and simple, pawns "claim" objects that will be used by them, if one pawn claimed object, other pawns will not get any jobs related to it, in other case, everyone will swarm around single object picking it from each other.

handling corner cases is complicated task, especially when mods come in play.

[seeyountee]

Someone harvest some corn and then two pawns go and collect and put it next to each other  so there are multiple stacks. This is either intentionally bad game design, like seriously bad game design or a bug that needs to be rectified.

Going back to the aoe days you could simply drag your villagers and have them collect gold/wood etc and they would stockpile it no problem. that game came out almost 20 years ago.
Even something like prison arc which is pretty close to this doesn't suffer near the same problem.

[skullywag]

I kind of agree here, but imagine this scenario, pawn A and pawn B both pick up corn, they both find the cell that has 20 corn on it, they both proceed to take the corn to that cell, pawn A arrives first and drops his corn filling the cell, Pawn B arrive sees the cell is full and drops it next to it. Thats how it would work in my head, now, what if there are no free cells next to it, the pawn should find another cell and drop it there, no cells free that are configured to handle corn, drop on closest open cell. This however would have to be seperated from the current system of reservation as it wouldnt work for all types of work, some work types NEED reservation to work, this complicates the AI and for what youve gained would all that work REALLY be worth it...I dont think so, i dont think Tynan thinks so, hence its not been done. I could be wrong but thats how i see it.

[RawCode]

you compare final version of game to early alpha, are you mad bro?

[Instructor]

Make an idle hauler go around the small stacks and piles them to a full size stack.

[RemingtonRyder]

Stack defragging is a nice idea, but in practise it's better to just wait for the stockpile to be added to by a routine hauling job - when the stockpile gets nearly full this results in most stacks being filled.

[minakurafto]

most item cant be used by pawn at the same time, but drugs can be used by a lots of pawn at a same time, so there is a precedent ,right?

[TehArgz]

I have started micro-managing all my storage.  It's an ocd endeavor in excess, but I'm tired of having 12x12 warehouses full of random tiny stacks of everything.  That means I have to set-up a storage spot for every individual type of thing I have.  I also use a mod (I think it is stackxxl) to increase the size of stacks, although I do reduce that stack size from the mod default.

It would be great if there was a job or maybe a mod that could make a pawn consolidate stacks.  Barring that, I will continue to be trapped in my ocd nightmare.