So... stonecutting... why?

[thefinn]

Why on earth remove the "Do until you have X" option from this table ?

[Kagemusha]

If this is a thing I want to add my voice to "why?".

Do until X for stone cutting was the only way I did stone cutting.
Have not had an opportunity to play Alpha 8 yet but there is no reason for this option to not be present.

[Cimanyd]

There is a reason, and the game explains it when you try, see this thread.

I'm still curious why you'd want to use it instead of "do forever". As I said there: If you have too many, sculpt them, build with them, sell them, whatever. The stone chunks would've taken even more space.

[stefanstr]

It can be easily controlled via a shortened search radius and a stockpile of raw stone nearby. You only haul as much stone to your stockpile as you need processed. Problem solved.

[Col_Jessep]

Problem solved.

True enough. But we have now solved a problem with more micromanagement that we didn't have until now... ;P

[PapaDookie]

I'm still curious why you'd want to use it instead of "do forever". As I said there: If you have too many, sculpt them, build with them, sell them, whatever. The stone chunks would've taken even more space.

well lets just say that your luck has been really bad and you've killed instead of only maiming all the raiders you've seen so you have limited workers.
being that you have limited workers you need them all working at maximum efficiency so you can't afford a dedicated group of haulers so not everything is neatly arranged at the top left for you to what you have at a glance.
you have a project in mind that you need say 400 units of granite bricks for so you set up the table and assign the bill to it. now you need this worker back doing other jobs asap like oh i don't know crafting better weapons to fend of future attacks.

wouldn't it be nice to be able to just ask for those 400 bricks instead of having to come back constantly checking ?

[Drone]

Uh, why don't you just ask for the job to be repeated 20 times instead (roughly 20 blocks per job), rather than asking for the end product to equal 400 units?