I have a lot of laborers, about 70 people, and the upper limit of construction workers is also very high (50), but my walls are being built very slowly, there are very few construction workers, and only a few people are building the walls. I want my free laborers to build the walls, it will be fast!
Facing the same issue, system happily idles both construction workers and laborers while there is plenty of wall to build and resources available.
Prioritizing the walls piece by piece solves the issue but is not very efficient.
Version v0.7.5f
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Yeah, walls seem to be the absolute bottom of the prioritization list for workers/builders. The current fix it do your best to select each wall square and manually prioritize it as mentioned above.
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I think what happened here is the devs reduced the priority on walls because their maintenance was taking precedence over other more important buildings. This ended up backfiring for construction work. Still, if laborers are idle and resources are available, then either those resources are already tagged for another job and just waiting on a person to pick them up, or there is an issue with distance to resources. Having distributed storage and wagon workers seems to help a lot with these problems. Your first storage building is a wagon you can only move around, and if it has the materials you need then perhaps moving it closer to the build site will help. I find that it usually does. I lock it down to not take anything but building materials so I can use it for this purpose. Harvesting a lot of wood or stone in one region, go stash it there to fill up. Got a fence to build, move it there to be unloaded.
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