Caravan forming needs reworking.

[malloc]

My workaround was to have the entire colony in the caravan so they all load it, then as soon as it hits the world map, split it and return the majority back to the colony (followed by annoying micro to reassign beds to married couple who forgot who they live with, etc. but at least the Muffalo got loaded in less than a day!)

[Zebukin]

I double this.
Also small suggestion: it will be good to have ability to mark spot, where caravan is forming.

The same with loading droppod. A lot of small items and hauler will go crazy even on drugs.

[Stage]

A solution would be, that colonists and animals that are assigned to a caravan are forced to stay within the home zone.

[Zebukin]

A solution would be, that colonists and animals that are assigned to a caravan are forced to stay within the home zone.

The problem is caravaneers, who don`t try to eat or sleep. Not the zones, that can be made manually and carefully near main stock or even right in the stock to reduce movements.

With hygienic mod, probably, they additionally will shit their pants.

[deslona]

Where the caravan decides to form up is a big factor. But I agree, it is the complete neglect of their other needs. By loading the caravan closer to the stockpiles it will save a lot of unnecessary walking time which is unrealistic. (You don't stop the truck to load your product on the other side of the street if you don't have to.)
The caravan should continue to load up even if one member has a break of some kind. Then move out together once things are resolved.

[Zebukin]

5. No way to cancel/change while it is still preparing to leave.

Also no way to change the content of droppod or even add some.
But for caravan you can change a little manually: cancel, drop something, form caravan with same animals (they already partially packed), add necessary items and go.
Now it is the only way to form big caravan: interrupt and reform again.
Caravans is a great part of the game and big world! Even if you have a lot of silver to call NPC caravans and buy from ships!

No way to look what is inside and what is missed (full list). Only the last missed item will be shown.
No way to say them «f**k this one piece of pemmican, you`ve missed! Someone just ate it and it is not a problem»

No way to drop a part of stack (like on the world map), only all stack.
No way to pick up thing manually, like it made in the Set Camp mod.

[paragonid]

Still utterly broken in released game, rip