Basics of Access to Storage Yards?

[Farlifax]

Hi all, first post...

So I have lots of workyards flashing demanding Pinewood. The storage yards are full of pinewood, over 3000 units at least stored.

So I'm interested in the way each workyard seeks its resources? if the workyard needs a resource do they instantly get the resources they need assigned (so I might have a bug), or do workers regularly go seek the resources (again so maybe they are not seeking and finding).

I read elsewhere that the roads really have no impact, even though I've connected yards together in a nice looking road network just in case...

Stacks of wood, stacks of flashing warnings.....frustrating.

Any advice very gratefullly received.
TJ

[Xibor]

It's automatic. If the resources are available in a storehouse the work yards pick them up. The roads or any connection paths have nothing to do with it.
The distance to the storehouses is always a factor in the timing but there nothing nothing that needs to be done for the work yards to pick up resources. Just make sure you have the resources you think (don't confuse pinewood for hardwood for example, it can be easy to do sometimes). I can't think of anything else.

[Farlifax]

Xibor, thanks! think its cracked - your comment "make sure you have the resources you think" made me go back to basics and really check.

I now totally get that Pinewood planks are not the same as Pinewood. So I had lots of Pinewood but only in PLANK form, whereas the workyards wanted the raw material not the processed version.

I like this subtelty, and thanks very much for the sanity check.

[Dorotheus]

if you look at any buildings details tab you will see entry's for travel time to the nearest storehouse. basically workyards to the SW and NW fastest, SE medium, NE slowest from storehouse.

[Xibor]

Xibor, thanks! think its cracked - your comment "make sure you have the resources you think" made me go back to basics and really check.

I now totally get that Pinewood planks are not the same as Pinewood. So I had lots of Pinewood but only in PLANK form, whereas the workyards wanted the raw material not the processed version.

I like this subtelty, and thanks very much for the sanity check.

Glad you found it. I personally think that "pinewood" should be "pinewood logs" to make it clearer because I was confused on that too at one time - but I'm used to it now. Watch out for hardwood planks vs. exotic wood planks, at a glance they look very much alike and easy to make a bad trade with that (speaking from experience).