[1.4.3527 Biotech] Block making job running forever when not set

Started by 99victor, October 25, 2022, 06:50:03 PM

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99victor

The circumstance that caused this issue are as follows...

1. One shelf that only allows stone blocks of granite and marble. This will make 6x 75 shelves available for a total of 450 units of specified stone block storage.
2. A stone cutting table with 2 jobs
    a. Make granite blocks, Do until you have 220
    b. Make marble blocks, Do until you have 220
3. Have no other stockpile available for stone blocks to be stored.

What is happening is that 4 stacks on the shelf have been filled with granite (300 units) and 2 are marble (150 units). Because the stone cutter cannot store the additional marble stone blocks on the shelf on the same stack as the excess granite stone blocks, when the stone cutter finishes making the additional blocks to complete the job, they are dropped on the floor and the cutter still thinks the job isn't fulfilled. The stone cutter then goes to grab another marble chunk to attempt to complete the job, which repeats endlessly until an additional stockpile is created of the 4th shelve is opened up and filled with marble blocks.

I expect the hauler pawns to able to either reorganize the shelf to allow the usage of all available storage space which would compete the jobs on the stone cutter table, or be able to store multiple item on a single shelve.

The added functionality and space of the shelf is great addition to the game. I think a good fix for this, which would also satisfy your OCD players, is to allow us to set storage restriction on each of the 6 shelves of the shelf.