Refining Sweep/Mop

[Izzy248]

When you select the option to sweep, and/or mop a resource list pops up with your available list of resources. Your dupes will go around the base and pick up those specific resources laying around the ground and put them in their appropriate containers.

This would help with sometimes you are just looking to find and put away a certain item and instead of collecting on the items sitting in that same spot you would just grab the necessary ones.

Example: I have quite a bit of minerals laying around in my Power Room. My Power Room contains my generators, batteries, and a couple of Hatches. I keep the resources laying there so that the Hatches will eat them freely and provide me with quick access to Coal to keep sustaining my Coal Generator. However I would prefer to just keep the Dirt in the room on the floor. However, it is kind of hard to select JUST the Copper Ore and other minerals on the ground that occupy the same space as the Dirt. If I could isolate my options so that my dupes would only pick up the Copper Ore, and other minerals and put them in their containers so that I can leave the Dirt lingering in the room for the Hatches to eat that would be awesome.

 

[vovik]

Or alternatively add "Sweep here" option to compactor that automagically filters out minerals that compactor can hold and mark them for sweep.

[blash365]

As far as i understand this is already in place.

1. Build a storage compactor
2. Select Coal/Copper (not sweep only)
3. (assign sufficient priority to storage compactor)
4. That's it

What should happen is that your dupes start picking coal and copper up everywhere and store it as long as you have sufficient storage space available.

 

Admittedly you can not restrict the area of the "sweep" with this method.

[Izzy248]

1 hour ago, blash365 said:

As far as i understand this is already in place.

1. Build a storage compactor
2. Select Coal/Copper (not sweep only)
3. (assign sufficient priority to storage compactor)
4. That's it

What should happen is that your dupes start picking coal and copper up everywhere and store it as long as you have sufficient storage space available.

 

Admittedly you can not restrict the area of the "sweep" with this method.

Yeah I get that but sometimes I want my dupes to JUST pick up the certain stuff. Like if I finish mining out a whole area and lets say I was mining downwards for whatever reason, maybe for a ladder, maybe to create a water tank. There are about 8 different resources in that same single spot with their own varying amounts of kg, and since the dupes cant take it all, they will take handfuls and place them in their respective containers. This process can prove tedious if I only want them to pick up certain resources among that pile and put them in their respective container rather than the AI sort through which ones it decides to pick up and not.

While that method can help sometimes, if you are at a point in the game where you have lots of containers with different priorities you will have to readjust those priorities so that the one you are trying to fit comes out on top and readjust them back.