Large Vacuum Rooms, A how-to in 10 easy steps.

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4 hours ago, Craigjw said:

I don't endlessly click each ladder, you are doing it completely wrong, I drag out the rows of ladders, then I drag out a cancel command to clear the columns of non-ladder spaces, then I select the areas for digging.  admittedly, I might miss click a cancel command and have to replace a few ladders, but this is the only single clicking I do.  I tend to use the cursor keys to navigate the drag, as my mouse coordination isn't that straight.

I find that having the ladders set to a higher priority to the digging helps stop dupes getting stranded, however, that isn't always the case, they are stupid and sometimes there is nothing that can be done other than let them drown in their own stupidity.  

Large volumes can be dug out quite efficiently this way without the need for hundreds of clicks.

This took me literally less than a minute to:

That's exactly how I did it...And every time I'd accidentally drag out a 2-wide cancel because of frames or the cursor was on the edge of the next block, I wanted to kick puppies.