Possibility to sweep just one kind of material

[ONIfreak]

Hello again,

So usually you have two ways to sweep materials. Either use sweep tool (right bottom corner) either select material and click on sweep on it itself.

However i sometimes find hard to clear just slime, or just bleach stone (i have to literally go tile by tile, select wanted material and click on sweep).

The mechanic is already in place - when you select some material from right top corners of the screen it will highlight all materials of the same kind.

Maybe is it possible to add filter to sweeper tool so it would be possible to sweep just one material from certain area?

[Yannick Vachon]

An easier way is to build a storage with only Slime for example and put an high priority. People will go around to pick every bit of it there, without asking you to select each piece to make it work.

Your idea is good but what I tell you here is a workaround for now.

[ONIfreak]

On 12/21/2018 at 3:33 PM, Yannick Vachon said:

An easier way is to build a storage with only Slime for example and put an high priority. People will go around to pick every bit of it there, without asking you to select each piece to make it work.

Your idea is good but what I tell you here is a workaround for now.

Good idea.

I try not to use higher priority then 8 and not many high priority buildings/machines as dupes get confused, or maybe i have too few dupes.

When i get to some biome main things to pickup are bleach stone and slime - slime to get cleaned and bleach stone not to make chlorine (bleach is actually most important to me as it is quite tedious to get rid of unwanted chlorine).

i can manage so far but it would be handy especially because mechanism is already in place (there is not really new invention that has to be built from scratch - just trim some already in place options like sweeping and separating materials)

[Yannick Vachon]

If you have not a lot of duplicant,. another option but one that require some work is to use an auto sweeper. After all, you can also define on the loader near it what you want to be picked. And with a higher priority and no manual usage, it would not break your base I guess while still picking up the stuff you need to be picked.

[ONIfreak]

27 minutes ago, Yannick Vachon said:

If you have not a lot of duplicant,. another option but one that require some work is to use an auto sweeper. After all, you can also define on the loader near it what you want to be picked. And with a higher priority and no manual usage, it would not break your base I guess while still picking up the stuff you need to be picked.

Another very good idea. 

I was thinking more about early stages of the game when autosweeper is not available yet. It is just and idea for tweaking interface - i found some ways to get around it, just thought that it might be beneficial for game play. 

Autosweepers are awesone - also problem persist until you first pick up some mat. 

Thx for an idea to define on sweeper what to pick up 

[yoakenashi]

A third idea is to set your “all items, sweep only” storage compactors to a low capacity (so they will not be added to). Then set the “specific item, sweep only” storage compactors to the item of your choice and sweep an area. The specific items will be swept into the available “specific item” storage compactors and the other items will lay since the other bins are full.

This keeps the material in in the existing compactors and maintains the material selections as well. Once you are done sweeping, just cancel the remaining sweep orders and increase the “all items” storage compactors back to max.