Smart storage with high and low threshold

[Krumbotor]

Hi everyone,

when you progress in your colony, you try to automate as many things as possible. Automating material delivery to water sieves, deodorizers, refineries etc. to cut down on workload and travel time for your duplicants is especially important.

Storage bins will generate an errand if they are less full than their set capacity. That means, when your filtration medium storage for your autosweeper fed water sieve has 980 of 1000 sand, a duplicant will come and deliver 20 kg of sand which is just as inefficient as if they were delivering to the building directly and I find that really frustrating.

I suggest enhancing the "smart" storage bin to enable efficient automation of storing/supplying errands: The addition of a high and a low threshold, just as with the liquid and gas reservoir. It will also need an additional automation input (just has an output currently) to enable/disable delivery. This way you can make sure duplicants only will start storing materials, when the smart storage bin is sufficiently empty, by inverting the output signal and feeding it into the input. Of course this will come at the cost of powering it all the time.

Anyone else thinks this needs to be in the game? It would be awesome if you could consider this feature!

Best Regards,

Krumbotor