Egg drop-off

[MatthewCline]

There should be a building similar to the critter drop-off, but for eggs.  Its minor purpose would be to have a way to easily place eggs onto the floor in the desired location(s), with the major purpose being to "protect" the eggs under its influence.  When placed in a stable, "keep this many eggs" set to a certain number and eggs types selected, then up to that number of matching eggs in the stable (regardless of if moved to the stable or laid there) will be protected from being cracked, incubated or put into storage; dupes will only touch those eggs if the player marks them for sweeping.  This will let players easily set up ranching where new critters are hatched "naturally" rather than via incubation.

[Yunru]

Nay! There should be a generic item dropper. Eggs can be fed into that to be dropped.

[vovik]

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1 hour ago, Yunru said:

Nay! There should be a generic item dropper. Eggs can be fed into that to be dropped.

 

[Ambaire]

15 hours ago, Yunru said:

Nay! There should be a generic item dropper. Eggs can be fed into that to be dropped.

I assume this item dropper would have a configurable radius in which dupes would not deliver items, right? Otherwise I can envision an endless conga line of dupes picking dropped items up to feed to the dropper.

Or a way to tag dropped items so they won't be hauled to the dropper.

Perhaps the dropper would only accept swept items...

[Yunru]

23 minutes ago, Ambaire said:

I assume this item dropper would have a configurable radius in which dupes would not deliver items, right? Otherwise I can envision an endless conga line of dupes picking dropped items up to feed to the dropper.

Or a way to tag dropped items so they won't be hauled to the dropper.

Perhaps the dropper would only accept swept items...

I imagine it'd be hooked into the transport stuff.

[yoakenashi]

You can build a generic item dropper for eggs or anything else you may desire.

Spoiler

When a duplicant adds enough material (or eggs) to the smart storage the auto-sweeper turns on picks up the material to sweep into the other higher priority storage compactor. Of course as soon as it picks up the material the smart storage signal turns off, the auto-sweeper is disabled and drops the material.

The set up I have allows me to store eggs in an incubation room until they are hatched and can be auto wrangled back to the stable.

If you're curious, the weight plate runs to a mechanized airlock under an egg cracker, so when there are enough eggs in this incubation room the egg cracker will be enabled and crack the extra remaining eggs.