Faster vertical building

[Madox]

Have anybody found some faster methods for building vertically? Take ladders for example, when you laydown a plan, what dupes do is they will dig and build one piece and then they are going to do something else. This results in increased travel time because each building task is being assigned to new dupe.

[Ferula]

This is because each section of ladder is considered unreachable until the sections before it are built and allow it to be reached. This should have a minimal impact on gameplay though and barely add anytime to the game. 

[Octyabr]

The fastest method I've found is to build an interrupted ladder (by 1 tile) and dig 1 tile beside it. This way by the time one section is being constructed, the following tile would be already dug, and the next section can be accessed. Don't forget to complete the ladder as duplicants traverse them a lot more quickly. 

[Mijae]

You can make tunnels vertically by just staggered digging and then go back after and build the ladder for long term movement speed.  The dupe can just dig and not wait for supplies. 

Depending on the material your digging through you can also make the ladder out of the local material to deliver faster.  You could also set up a closer storage container and play around with storage options and priorities to have other dupes move the materials closer and keep the builders building.

[tehMugwump]

Also note that a dupe has to 'deliver' ladder ingredients before a dupe (not always the builder) will start building it.  This usually adds a lot of ladder building time.

[ShamPeiN]

use dig/build only and remove from others. they need to eat and poop but mostly delivering makes them run around. only digging/only building may work but they may bug themselves or idle. and yeah accessing it resets order so dig one side. a strong sweeper/deliverer can also be good. builders get their own material, choose something from nearby

[DuraLex]

20 hours ago, ShamPeiN said:

use dig/build only and remove from others. they need to eat and poop but mostly delivering makes them run around. only digging/only building may work but they may bug themselves or idle. and yeah accessing it resets order so dig one side. a strong sweeper/deliverer can also be good. builders get their own material, choose something from nearby

This.

Plus, I use this pattern to climb vertically.

In this way the digging/building team is never idle (if a ladder is being built, there is at least one other job to do. The 2 central ladders are for moving from one side to the other.

This pattern has a downside. The more you climb (the downside won't happen if you are digging down) the more it will take for your Dupes to go get the stuff to build the ladder. This can be prevented by not digging some tiles, like in the next picture.

At every "ladder-floor" the materials you are digging from the upside will fall on the 2 not-digged tile, making it faster for the Dupes to reach them. When you are done building and digging, you can dig the tiles to have all the stuff automatically sent down by gravity.

 

Edit: the not-digged floors in the 2nd pic should extend to all the tiles in the row, not only the internal ones

Edit2: building some outhouses around help Dupes wasting less time