insertion machine

[yionguon]

I don't know what it calls in english.
as you know that gray thing only used for one machine.
I wish it make some bonus for working speed wheen it installed next work bench

[Kleine]

The Hopper, you mean?

It probably wouldn't make much sense for most things. Textiles (Such as cloth and leather), wood, stone chunks, steel, and components wouldn't work well in a hopper. At most it might make a bit of sense for breweries, drug labs (When making yayo, flake, and smokeleaf joints), and stoves (When cooking with plants), as they're the only production benches that use a commodity that'll flow through a hopper. But overall, a hopper wouldn't help much if you're doing things by hand.

Side tip: You can place ingredients in a one tile stockpile adjacent to the crafting bench to effectively increase work speed by reducing the time it takes for the colonist to get the ingredients.

[bobucles]

Personally I think it'd be really great if work benches could use hoppers. It's not very different than placing a shelf next to the work bench.

[AileTheAlien]

Hoppers are nearly identical in function to stockpiles, though. They don't keep items from spoiling or anything, so what's the benefit to workbenches? You'd save the half a second, for a pawn to grab items from a mini-stockpile set up right beside the bench?

[Crow_T]

Tip:
a good setup for certain work benches is to have the bench facing north, the pawn works at the south side of it. A preferred 1x1 zone to either side of the pawn with a stool in it for raw materials. Bill set to drop on floor with a 1x1 zone south of the pawn set to low priority for whatever it is you are making. Be amazed as your pawn blasts through raw materials without taking a single step!

[bobucles]

It seems a bit strange that only one orientation works that way and not the others.

[AileTheAlien]

Pawns have a bias to drop items to their south. Doesn't make hoppers any more useful, though.