gui/quantum¶
This tool provides a visual, interactive interface for creating quantum stockpiles.
Quantum stockpiles simplify fort management by allowing a small stockpile to contain a large number of items. This reduces the complexity of your storage design, lets your dwarves be more efficient, and increases FPS.
Quantum stockpiles work by linking a “feeder” stockpile to a one-tile minecart hauling route. As soon as an item from the feeder stockpile is placed in the minecart, the minecart is tipped and all items land on an adjacent tile. The single-tile stockpile in that adjacent tile holds all the items and is your quantum stockpile. You can also choose to not have a receiving stockpile and instead have the minecart dump into a pit (perhaps a pit filled with magma).
Before you run this tool, create and configure your “feeder” stockpile. The size of the stockpile determines how many dwarves can be tasked with bringing items to this quantum stockpile. Somewhere between 1x3 and 5x5 is usually a good size. Make sure to assign an appropriate number of wheelbarrows to feeder stockpiles that will contain heavy items like corpses, furniture, or boulders.
The UI will walk you through the steps:
Select the feeder stockpile by clicking on it.
Set configuration with the onscreen options.
Click on the map to build the quantum stockpile there.
If there are any minecarts available, one will be automatically assigned to the
hauling route. If you don’t have a free minecart, gui/quantum will enqueue a
manager order to make a wooden one for you. Once it is built, you’ll have to run
assign-minecarts all to assign it to the route or open
the (H)auling menu and assign it manually. The quantum stockpile will not
function until the minecart is in place.
See the wiki for more information on quantum stockpiles.
Usage¶
gui/quantum
Tips¶
Loading items into minecarts is a low priority task. If you find that your feeder stockpiles are filling up because your dwarves aren’t loading the items into the minecarts, there are a few things you could change to get things moving along:
Make your dwarves less busy overall by reducing the number of other jobs they have to do
Assign a few dwarves the Hauling work detail and specialize them so they focus on those tasks. Note that there is no specific labor for loading items into vehicles, it’s just “hauling” in general.
Run
prioritize -a StoreItemInVehicle, which causes the game to prioritize the minecart loading tasks. Note that this can pull artisans away from their workshops to go load minecarts. You can protect against this by specializing your artisans who are assigned to workshops.