Medicine Cabinet for Vitamin Chews

[leaderdog]

Please please PLEASE for the love of all things holy introduce a Medicine Cabinet for the vitamin chews that behaves similar to the Massage Table.

The player sets the dupe to eat a chew at whatever percentage they choose to use.  You can even make it so it has to be in the medbay if you want, just something that actually works.

The existing system is so broken and I have to resort to locking the doors to keep the dupes in and it's far to tedious to do and it's extremely frustrating.

I've removed all jobs, removed all priorities for the dupe and made them stand right beside the vitamin chew and they just stand there not bothering with the chew.

To me this is game breaking.

[ImpalerWrG]

This is a good idea to pushing the chews out to the low immunity dupes.  Note that we can currently block certain dupes from taking meds by use of the consumables panel where they meds are listed like any other food item.

But this is a poor means of controlling medicine, food is consumed continuously and has quality levels that need to meet dupe expectations.  Setting food to be allowed or disallowed on the consumables panel is generally a LONG TERM choice.  But medicine should only be consumed when the need arises for brief periods, the format of the consumables panel is contrary to that as we would need to allow and then disallow use for the specific dupe we want medicated, two UI actions that need to be done every single time medicine is used.

[leaderdog]

My issue is it's so bugged that they won't eat the vitamin chews which leads to me having to lock those dupes from going outside or just let them get slimelung and lose man power to medbay.  Locking individuals from each corner of my base is a real tedious task, as well as then allowing them back out when they're at safe levels.  It's just not an enjoyable mechanic.

Sometimes it works if I quit to desktop and then reload the game but not always. And that's no way to have to play or administer the meds.  Thus, a medicine cabinet and the threshold at which I'm willing to dispense the vitamins (Based on how many flowers I've grown and vitamins I  have made up).

I think it's a reasonable and workable solution.  A quick hotfix for it would be awesome, copy paste massage table mechanics.