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Chain Tool

The Chain Tool lets you force the duplicants to execute a variety of errands in a strict order.

Supported errands which can be chained up:
• Construct errand
• Deconstruct errand
• Dig errand
• Mop errand
• Empty Pipe errand
• Move To errand

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There are two ways to create chains.

Method 1:
Enable the Auto Chain toggle (it is located next to the Red Alert toggle). Create the errands in the order you want them to be executed. For construct errands, to add them to the same link you should create the errands with one stroke (without releasing the left mouse button). Don't forget to disable the Auto Chain toggle once you are done!



Method 2:
Enable the Chain Tool and drag over the errands that must be executed first. After that, drag over the errands that must be executed second. Do that for all your errands and you are done!



The errands that can be added to a chain are marked with a star (*). The errands that are already in a chain have their corresponding link number displayed (1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.). If the number is 1, then this errand is allowed to be executed by the duplicants. After all errands in the first link are finished, the chain gets shorter and the next link becomes the first one.

There is a "goto" button that takes your camera to where the selected chain link is. This way you could chain up errands that are far away or on different planetoids (Spaced Out! DLC) and easily move between them.

The chains are saved if you save the game, so feel free to make long chains that persist over a few or a dozen of cycles.

The chains are compatible with Blueprints Expanded mod: if you chain up some construct errands and create a blueprint out of them, the loaded blueprint will automatically chain up the placed errands the same way.

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Here are a few examples of what you can do with this mod.

Order to fill the whole room with tiles, layer by layer.



Order to first empty, then deconstruct pipes.



Order to first dig out some area, then deconstruct the ladders that were used as scaffolding.



Order to first clear a room from debris, then seal it off (Note that you should use the "Move To" errand on the debris and not the "Sweep" errand as it is not supported to be chained up. A useful mod for creating many "Move To" errands: Mass Move Tool).

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Once again a big thank you to Peter Han for the PLib.

And to the ONI discord community[discord.gg].

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You can find the source code on my GitHub[github.com].

If you encounter any issues/bugs, please start an issue[github.com] with the error message(if present), the Player.log file and a description of how to reproduce the bug.

If you would like to provide a translation to this mod, feel free to send me the translation .po file via an issue or a pull request (on GitHub).

Do you like my mods and want to thank me? I would not mind if you would buy me a coffee[buymeacoffee.com] ;D