Struggling with my Hearthlings for a few days has given me the idea of a task queue system. Basically, if you have several things going on at the same time, such as mining, building, etc, you can open up an individual Hearthling’s queue and prioritize certain things, and they will move onto the next…

Cough [image] Task Priority -- An important mechanic ignored by many DF-like games Suggestions If I understand the current gameplay implementation correctly, the AI is task based. The player assigns tasks, the AI director keeps a queue of them and selects units capable/co…

Ah. I didn’t see that in my search. Thank you. xD

The problem is how the game is currently designed. Basically, when you want to do something (mine X, harvest Y, place Z), the game tells the manager (town service) to do that. The town itself will create a task (~an AI action) and throw it into one of the task schedulers. As far as I’ve seen, schedu…

I understand completely. It’s just frustrating to see Hearthlings abandon their tasks over and over again. One of my first actions in this new game was to build a shared sleeping quarters. I have the required materials, but I guess the Hearthlings thought the building would look nicer without a fron…

Don’t forget harvesting! :smile:

i am in a similar situation: i have 10 hearthlings (enough to get things done you would think) but when i say… want to mine… then my Workers will mine obviously… then i try to build a ladder to help the miners get out… note i say Try what happens is… the farmers farm… the harvesters harvest… the …

I’m in the exact same boat right now. I just dug a pit and two workers are trapped down there. Nobody’s building them the ladder I requested. They’re content to just… gather resources and put them in the stockpile.

The only way I’ve found around having to wait for someone else to build a ladder is to designate a small stockpile where you plan to dig. They’ll bring the log to the stockpile and then you can remove the stockpile so you can designate the digging area and the log will be useable for building a ladd…

[Suggestion] A queue task system for each individual Hearthling?

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thorbjorn42gbf March 30, 2015, 6:49pm 2

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[Suggestion] A queue task system for each individual Hearthling?

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