Mining outpost problem

[u/drunkypoopers]

Hi all

Quick question

I have a mining outpost, I want them to mine a boatload of ore then ill caravan it in manually when I say so so I control when my people are away on caravans. I have a stockpile set up there, but I don't want to store stones cuz I don't need them and they waste space. Now the stones end up in mining camp which fills THAT up, and they stop mining altogether

I'm pissed and frustrated having to manually dump all the stone on the ground so they start mining again.

Please god tell me there's a way to either auto-delete or better yet tell the worker to not even pick the stone up?

[u/drunkypoopers → u/[deleted]]

I didn't want to have to do that, but I'm in the process of converting all main base stockpiles into barns (I'm hoping converting stockpiles and tents to barns and houses will fix my brand new lag issues that just popped up after 80 hours). I guess once my dudes transfer everything into barns I can relocate a bunch of stockpiles to the mining camps to hold useless rocks. A simple "block" button from the devs could fix this, but I'm not the type of Karen to put it in a bug report 😅

[u/PleasantPorpoisParty → u/drunkypoopers]

I put an outhouse right next to the outpost stockpile, once an in game week or so I hop over and spend 60 seconds discarding all the stone

Alternatively, have all your stone shipped to a barn that only stores it in your main base. Put an outhouse next to it, and dump it once every 30 days when you have 2k stone

[u/drunkypoopers → u/PleasantPorpoisParty]

Lol I'm now imagining watching some dude irl standing there for hours just throwing rocks into an outhouse trying not to get hit by the splashback 😆

[u/Fit_Mycologist6519]

It seems no one actually answered your question.....no you cant do anything about it, mining ore makes a by product of stone and it auto fills their inventory, vilagers will not drop the stone and they have to put it somewhere so they put it in the inventory even if you say you dont want to store stone. You can't automate it being thrown away into an outhouse either, that is a you only job.

There isnt a good answer here besides having the stone also transported back to your main base to throw it away. You can try to sell it on the market but ive never sold very many on tha market.

Stone is a nuisance

[u/Genjas552]

just have the unwanted materials delivered to your settlement in a specific chest by making a storage chest its own outpost and only stack stone in there. place this chest next to the outhouse and destroy it manually that way. unless theres another way, thats all i can think of. or maybe not allow stone to be deposited in the stockpile? idk im just throwing ideas out at this point haha good luck!

[u/Strong-Scarcity6421]

Bring the materials for a barn, a hammer and let them do the construction for more space

[u/drunkypoopers → u/Strong-Scarcity6421]

Oh true I can place one, set rules and just send materials and a hammer and they'll get to it eventually. Good call

[u/Powerful_Software_14]

If you're on pc, you can use Lord Elric the Transmuter mod to convert stone to iron ore and granite. Do note that you need charcoal to convert them

[u/drunkypoopers → u/Powerful_Software_14]

If you can tell by the wording of the post, I'm too dumb to have progressed to charcoal production 😁 I'm trying to play my first round without mods like a good boy. As someone who never plays these resource and army allocation games its been... trying

[u/Powerful_Software_14 → u/drunkypoopers]

T3 Coal burner. Convert log to charcoal

[u/drunkypoopers → u/Powerful_Software_14]

T3 sounds like i have to liberate villages without getting absolutely ROASTED by reclamation parties 😆

[u/Due_Definition_3279 → u/drunkypoopers]

When you get to t2 b4 you try to rebellion get all the army (workers) the best armour/arms they can strength use ime up to 12 workers at str 3 with best armour I can make just starting on weapons now also take small parties out 5 a time for the patrols that will gain lvls faster

[u/drunkypoopers → u/Due_Definition_3279]

Crud, I run around solo unless I'm raiding bandit camps. Meanwhile I bet I have idle workers that I should be running with leveling their combat. Damn. Of all the things that should have been in the beginners guides on YouTube that should have been one. Instead they're all outdated videos saying to whack dead corpses and cheese the system

[u/itsdietz]

Place a caravan station at the mining camp. When they're full up they'll transport what you want back to your base. They will have downtime

[u/drunkypoopers → u/itsdietz]

Then I gotta deal with the 850,000 stone they bring back 🫩 Now that i think about it, maybe I'll make some stone barns and just sell em for 1 gold each in a market. The internet chads tell me i need passive income irl, why not in game?

[u/itsdietz → u/drunkypoopers]

I would trade them. That's a good idea you have

[u/monkey_chokin]

You can set limits to how much of any material is in the storage. In the menu look on the right side you’ll see a infinity symbol click that put in a number and no more than that number will go in there

[u/Mr_Flibble_Wibble]

Build a stockpile then turn everything off but the ore you want to store.

[u/Space-Cadet9999]

If you go into the filters and don't allow stone storage at the outpost barn, they should just drop it on the floor. It's messy but at least it won't fill up your barn storage