[Alternative Titles: Crate, no Barrel, The Crate Beyond, the Cratest Show on Earth, or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Crates, included for your amusement –ed.]
Hello all, Tom is away this week (he’s off in a van somewhere, solving mysteries), so it falls to I, Chris, token Canadian and lover-of-polygons, to deliver this week’s Desktop Tuesday. I’ve spent the last few days working on a new feature for Alpha 11 that we’ve seen requested a lot, so it gives me great pleasure to introduce to you: the humble-yet-versatile Crate!
As you can see, crates hold items, much like stockpiles do, with two very important differences: they are a small fixed-size, and they can be moved around. This means you can store tonnes [he really IS Canadian! –ed.] of things without all that Stockpile Sprawl our parents warned us about, and you can move them near to where they are needed. For example, you can load a crate up with wood, and then move it right next to a construction, instead of having your workers trudge back and forth from a far-away stockpile. Or, put a food crate in your dining hall!
Just like stockpiles, they can also have filters applied to them, so that you can decide what can and cannot be stored in a crate. Crates will come in a few different sizes, and will be craftable (with the bigger ones requiring higher crafting levels.)
Crates CANNOT contain crates. Don’t even think about it, for that way lies madness.
Also, a word on this week’s Twitch streams!
Hey everyone, Stephanie here. As Chris mentioned above, Tom is out this week but we will continue to stream as normal on Tuesday and Wednesday (6:00pm PST Tuesday and 8:30am PST Wednesday). On Thursday, Albert has courageously offered to talk a bit about performance, memory usage, and other technical monsters he’s been wrangling recently. To better fit his schedule, that stream will be moved early by 2 hours, to 4:00pm PST, Thursday, 6/18.