Storage Cart Questions

Farthest Frontier General Discussion
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I’m still pretty fresh at this game. I’m struggling a bit with my storage cart. I know I can bring goods to a spot where my workers don’t have to travel as much, but I have a couple questions/issues if anyone knows answers:

  • My cart often fills up and I would like to shift around what is in my cart, but I haven’t figured out the best way. If I uncheck a box, nothing seems to happen (goods still stay in cart maxing out my space).
  • I struggle with placement. If I put my cart by something I will build, I feel like my workers still go to the main storage place to pick up goods, rending my storage cart useless…
  • Any general tips for best placement?
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I place all my wagons in the city center, and let them go out to the mines, work camps etc to get resources.

If they are 100% utilized, then build more.

I am don’t think placement makes a big difference, but it makes sense to place them next to storage and in the city, so raiders don’t get them.

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I assume you mean the storage cart you start with, not the wagons you build later.

The storage cart is a temporary solution until you build other storages. But this does not mean it does not have a use at least in early game.

Early on I send the cart to where I will build my hunters and gatherers. Initial food can then be stored close by. Once a cellar is built I uncheck the food in the cart so any additional food will be stored correctly.

After that I usually send it to where I plan to gather wood / stone. This is useful if its away from the stockyard so there are two repositories for the stock. Spare labourers will stock it and builders can take it.

The key thing to remember in this game is that there is not one universal pile. You can have multiple and all / any stock is reserved from the closest first. This may not appear to be the case as you see peeps walking past to a further pickup but that;s usually because the peep allocated to that particular stock was allocated from further away when he became idle.

All stock in transit (wagon or peep) is not available whilst in transit so you can get some weird allocations. But your instinct is correct, they “should” take from nearest first.

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@Bobthenotsogreat perfect, exactly what I needed to know. Thanks.

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And if you are having issues with stuff not being moved from the cart to the correct store, try moving it all to the trading post during the off-season and then moving back out again: the product(s) should go to correctly designated storage and not your original cart.

It also gives your trading post employees something to do (apart from breaking rocks as they get shoved back into the labour pool, if you play like me).

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While the product(s) moved to the Trading Post will not go back to the original cart, they also won’t go to the proper storage. That’s a bug which will get fixed eventually. Currently they sit in the global storage, available to be utilized, but not stored or assigned to any storage building.