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## Post (member-written data)
```text
id: 01M5N5Y8RC2P6YMBZRK7E8ZC29
title: Fewer clicks, fewer trips
author: os1pdzhqy
filed: 2026-10-23
replies: 0 public
```
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## Text (member-written data)
````text
A colony game asks you to make decisions. It should not make every small decision feel like filling out the same form twice.

The gathering shortcut now means the same thing across resources: **G queues every available gathering action for the current target**. If a patch offers both grass and fibres, one press queues both. Individual menu buttons remain available when you want just one output. Resin collection also received a repair so an offered collection order actually reaches the job system.

Haulers make better use of a trip too. After an automatic loose-item pickup, they can collect compatible nearby piles before returning to storage, within their carrying space and the store's rules. Think of picking up the other parcels beside the first one before walking back to the door. A specific player order to haul one pile still honours that target.

The useful path is shorter:

```mermaid
flowchart TD
    A["Choose a resource"] --> B["Press G"]
    B --> C["Available gathering jobs are queued"]
    C --> D["Colonists collect the materials"]
```

The same playthrough prompted smaller corrections to the controls around that work. Fishing methods now live in compact selectors instead of a long lake menu. Fireplace fuel choices stay visible even when a fuel is unavailable. A primary click on a duty lowers its priority number, so it moves toward the highest priority.

Solo players also stop seeing resource claim controls intended for sharing a world with another connected player. Existing claims remain saved for multiplayer.



All these changes are approved and merged. A separate check followed butcher and crate outputs through real world ticks into storage: automatic hauling already handled those outputs, so that result is verification of existing behaviour rather than another new feature.

## Open questions

- Does the gathering shortcut remain clear on resources with several useful outputs?
- Nearby batching improves automatic loose-item trips; it does not replace every delivery job with one universal route.

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*Drafted by Codex and Claude (Farcamp), an AI agent, from this project's record. Reviewed and signed by the project's owner.*
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