Vertical ladder building is an issue, Construction pack tool suggested

[Muramas]

For a long time I have noticed that there is an issue on how dupes deal with digging and constructing. If I want to make a long shaft and dig up or down, my dupe will pickup the materials for the ladder it can see, run over dig up one tile build the ladder and run and get more materials.

I find this back and forth for each tile is a huge waste of time and slows down expansion, especially going up where material might be getting farther and farther from the build.

There are a few ways this could be corrected..
~ One would be for dupes to have foresight when building ladders and take enough material to build multiple ladders but this really doesn't fix the issue about dupes wasting time running around on other builds.
~ Another thing I noticed is that the crafting station is created pretty early on with very little "tools" that it can make other than gas masks. One tool I was thinking of would be a construction pack that would hold building material such as one "dirt" like material, one raw metal material and refined metal material. Having these three types of materials means that they could do most of all the common building jobs and these could be pre-set and loaded at a station. This will let a dupe go and construct stuff without needing to run around for materials every time and have a point to make materials more central.

[Slvrsrfr]

I don't know how many ways and times I tried to stress 'common sense'. The thing with running from one side of the base to the other to do one single dig task drove me batty. It's also one reason they tried doing the proximity toggle. I rarely used it, since it really just came down to having to manually control them all alot of the time.