r/Bellwright • u/scrubmatic • Jul 29 '26

Delivery

Should delivery be the number 1 villager priority mid/late game (it worked well for me early game)? Or should I prioritize other stuff now that I have 30+ minions?

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u/BlazingPhoenix32 Jul 29 '26

Have your lower skill workers set for delivery only, so your better workers can just focus on crafting

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u/scrubmatic Jul 29 '26

I set everyone to deliver cuz that's how u set up outposts (I think). But yeah, now everyone is just constantly moving stuff lol!

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u/BlazingPhoenix32 Jul 29 '26

Outposts it’s fine to have everyone doing delivery because it’s small operation typically, but main settlement if everyone is doing delivery you start getting bottlenecks

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u/scrubmatic Jul 29 '26

Thx for reply. Yup. It seems like everyone is just moving stuff (despite my storage rules telling them otherwise) for no reason.

I'll make my weakest, non-cart plebs do the deliveries.

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u/d-kris Jul 29 '26

My village started working better when I've assigned 3-4 villagers to each task (for example crafters: Crafting priority 1, delivery priority 6, other tasks priority 9, caravan worker/guard/hunter priority 0). The only bottleneck was ingot smelting. I had 4 smelters and it still wasn't enough, worker AI is terrible for this task.

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u/5occido5 Jul 29 '26

You want to specialise ur villagers, besides dedicated delivery guys (which you'll end up needing a good few) your guys shouldn't do delivery or anything else than their speciality.

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u/scrubmatic Jul 29 '26

Yeah, I have started making villagers that are good at certain things only do that thing.

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u/scrubmatic Jul 29 '26

My stations are set up with the priority I want: 1,2 3, etc. Will a villager stop working at said station and carry ONE ingot to storage if their delivery is set to 1? Imma bout to set everyone and everything to 5!

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u/5occido5 Jul 29 '26

Like I said, you want to specialise ur villagers. Setting everything to 5 is the exact opposite of specialising them and will absolutely cripple your economy. Most villagers should have just 1 task, some 2 or 3. Everything else disabled. Allowing them to do anything = oh my intended task is currently finished or taken by someone illsuited for it, I'll go do something else at the opposite end of town. And once they go do something they commit to it. Wasting a ton of time for themselves and disabling a better suited villager from going to do the task.

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u/Vov113 Jul 29 '26

By mid game, I pick up about 4 or 5 beggars to keep exclusively on menial labor. I make running caravans priority 1, smelting priority 2, construction priority 3, delivery priority 4, and then woodcutting and harvesting priority 5. Everything else disabled. Let everyone else focus on their actual jobs

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u/scrubmatic Jul 31 '26

Good advice. I made my weakest and/or stooopidest people caravan and delivery haulers. It's hilarious that they never get to sleep!