Expand pile

[gregsharp]

I would like to suggest expanding an existing pile. Or else making it possible to combine separate piles.

Suppose you enclose pile A, and start more pile space at location B. There is no way to reorganize seeds in pile B into the sacks in pile A.

[Mike-al]

I would like to suggest expanding an existing pile. Or else making it possible to combine separate piles.

Suppose you enclose pile A, and start more pile space at location B. There is no way to reorganize seeds in pile B into the sacks in pile A.

If you "unenclose" a pile, it should expand as normal, so I'm not sure what you mean by expanding an existing pile. Adjacent piles should maybe automatically merge...

As for reorganizing items from one pile to another, that way lies madness, micromanagement and the old stockpile system. It was dumped for a reason.

In general, I've found no real reason to have more than one pile, unless you want to get clever with your camp architecture.

[qqqsimmons]

cool, i'd never considered just using one pile, letting it grow, dismantling parts as necessary...

it all makes sense now...but what do you do with all your earth? do you just make ramparts whenever you dig or what?

[Mike-al]

but what do you do with all your earth? do you just make ramparts whenever you dig or what?

You use it for ramparts, yes. I suppose it's high time I wrote a front page post on fortifications...

[qqqsimmons]

yeah, i've been trying to decide if walling off camp is worth it.

[gregsharp]

In general, I've found no real reason to have more than one pile, unless you want to get clever with your camp architecture.

Actually, I prefer only a single pile as well, but I would like to be able to expand it (explicitly) by drawing an area. As a new user, I had already built some buildings and walls around the pile, so there was no good adjacent space. So I tried to "expand it" by creating a pile at a different location. I didn't know that the engine would consider them separate.

[qqqsimmons]

All piles as one. That might be nice for GC 0.21.