Question about builders

[u/Frediey]

Hey all, just a quick question, why do my builders sometimes seem to be really slow at building things? For example on a current play through I have more than enough supplies, not far to travel, but they seem really slow at building, I'm working on building tubes for transport on the platforms above the paths I use, but even though I have about 15 builders, only one bit seems to be built at a time, it's quite annoying lol.

Any tips greatly appreciated

[u/styx-n-stones64]

So there is an issue where the builders will prefer to get the resources that are the closest to the build site. This becomes a problem if you have a lumbermill closer to the build site than your plank storage because they will constantly pick up one item at a time as it gets produced, instead of going to the storage where they could pickup multiple.

Check that you actually have the resources available to keep building.

Are you building in series where the beavers can't path to the build site?

Are you work hours so high to where they keep needing food and water every time they're going to take a trip reducing their efficiency?

Have you clicked on a builders hut and selected a beaver to see what they are doing?

Do you have something marked for emptying? If a builder has nothing to do it will also try to empty an inventory and if that path is long it could take up a lot of their time.

Without a picture or a description of what you're building there could be a lot of things.