Moving Hatches early game without traps

[Neotuck]

I like using hatches for coal production early game.  Problem is by the time I have plastic to make the traps I have moved past needing coal for power.  I have studied hatch behavior and found a way to "bait" hatches to the rooms you want by taking advantage of their burrowing instinct.

In the picture below I left a tile of fertilizer in the latrine (first room I built) any hatches loose in my base with no were to go would return here to burrow every morning

Here I found 3 hatches far below my base and wanted to move them to the latrine with the others

So I began building a path...

RELEASE THE HATCHES!!!

They have a far way to go, travel up the tile stairs, and across the base to reach the latrine  

Only half a cycle and it's 2 down and one to go!

Success! now I have 8 hatches in the latrine, No traps used! 

 

[Richetoku]

One thing I do is build a pneumatic door 2 tiles lower at the end of their walking area. They jump down on the tile below the door and get stuck where the door is. I build another door at a lower level I want them to be and destroy the tile under them to gather them on the lower floor. Then set the door to open and they walk out. I used to do it by having them walk down tiles, but the door trick works faster to get them down to lower levels.

[Neotuck]

15 minutes ago, Richetoku said:

One thing I do is build a pneumatic door 2 tiles lower at the end of their walking area. They jump down on the tile below the door and get stuck where the door is. I build another door at a lower level I want them to be and destroy the tile under them to gather them on the lower floor. Then set the door to open and they walk out. I used to do it by having them walk down tiles, but the door trick works faster to get them down to lower levels.

I use sand when dropping hatches to lower levels, they burrow in the sand and then I make sure the path under the sand is clear then break the tile,  The hatch falls with the sand to were I want it

[The Plum Gate]

...looks like an adventure to me.