Build / Supply from designated supply sources.

[The Plum Gate]

Single biggest problem I have is the odd scalding or cryogenic nugget of building material throwing a kink in my thermal planning when building or supply materials.

Managing the temperaturs of 1000T of casually mined minerals requires an absurd number of compactors.

We have a sweep only option. Can we also get prefered supply source in tandem with sweep only.

Build with, or supply from, mark as supply source with some proximity awareness, room awareness, or other tricks to keep the duplicant at the depths from bringing up a red hot igneous delivery into my sleet wheet farm to build a celing.

This is also particularly bad with fresh ceramic, refined metal, etc.

This whole thing could be done with game mechanics that favor the sweep only style in a designated supply source ( checkbox ) and by proximity or confined to a room for scale.

[yoakenashi]

Another solution would be to simply identify the storage destinations when using the sweep command.

Select sweep, select area to sweep, select area/destinations to sweep to.

This would also alleviate the issue of duplicants moving materials across the base as they sweep to the compactor nearest to them rather than the nearest to the object being swept.

And for players that don’t want to use this option, simply add a button that a appears when selecting destination compactors that simply says “Any” and it will behave as it currently does.

[Sasza22]

I think we could use some dupe traffic control. Sometimes we don`t want them to do tasks in a certain area. If we had a building that would say "no tasks beyond this point" it would still allow travel through that area but not sweeping debris we don`t want swept.

[The Plum Gate]

Yes, sort of like a no-sweep area, or, having a disable building active on the compactors?

Will they pick up from disabled compactors? Or is that the actual key to this problem that I'm overlooking?