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[jomaxro]

All of those are “normal”, but annoying.

@wog_gie

1. I would make an inventory space and disallow certain things for that space, and hearthlings would come along and put the disallowed things there.

As soon as you placed that stockpile, Hearthlings got tasks to store items. Hearthlings don’t “think” about where they are storing and item once they start. They only think about where it goes again once it is on the ground. To avoid this, you can change your gameplay settings to default to all filters off.

@wog_gie

2. A hearthling would do 90% of the work of digging out an area and then wait for another hearthling to do 5% more, and then both of them would wait for a third hearthling to come and finish for them.

Basically the same as above. Hearthlings get assigned tasks, (like mining), and will complete them unless they can’t. So, those 3 Hearthlings were always assigned to mine sections of the of the area, just not in the most efficient way. To get a better indication that another Hearthling is coming, you can turn on Heartling paths via gameplay settings.

@wog_gie

3. Hearthlings would destroy bad food when I marked it, and then stand on the other rotten food so I couldn’t see to click the rest. It was like they knew what I wanted to click and were barring me from doing it. (Can we please have a bad food category so bad food can be moved somewhere else? Call it Compost or something)

Standing in the wrong spot is just by chance. The pathfinder isn’t intentionally having them stand there. If you are looking for more stockpile filter, check out @Shinsaka’s excellent Better Stockpiles Mod.