Stock yards
Somewhere tidy to keep your logs, stone, ore and boards.
Anything you set down goes in a pile, and that does fine for a day's work. Once you've got a place of your own, though, it's nicer to keep things properly. Each of these holds one kind of material, laid out the way you'd keep it: logs on a rack, stone stacked in courses, ore and earth tipped in a bin, and boards or bars flat on bearers. Put a few side by side and you can tell what you've got from across the yard.
They're all in the Build menu under Yard. They can face whichever way you like, which matters for a bin since it's open at the front.
| Bay | Costs | Takes | Holds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Log rack | 6 logs | logs | As many as you like |
| Stone crib | 3 logs | stone, limestone or marble | 64 |
| Bin | 6 logs | coal, iron ore, copper ore, tin ore, galena, gold ore, dirt, clay or sand | 80 |
| Woodpile | 1 log | firewood | 160 |
| Lumber rack | 3 logs | planks, iron bars or iron fittings | 48 |
Filling them#
Tap one and it offers to put in whatever you're carrying that it takes, all in one go. You can also open it and put in or take out as much as you like, the same as a pile.
A bay holds one kind at a time. A bin with coal in it won't take iron ore until it's been emptied, so build one for each thing you keep. Once it's empty it takes anything it's made for.
Unloading a cart is where they really pay off. Pull up in the yard and choose Unload, and everything goes where it belongs: logs onto the rack, coal into the bin that already has coal, stone into the crib with stone, and anything new into an empty bay that takes it. Only what doesn't fit anywhere ends up on a pile.
Every bay has a board on a stake at its front corner with what's in it painted on, like Stone, Coal or Planks, so a look around the yard tells you what you have without opening them all. While a bay is empty its board is blank, and it gets painted again when something new goes in.
Building from them#
Building draws on any bay within 4.5 m of you, the same as it does from piles and carts. A yard close to where you're building saves a lot of walking back and forth.
Who can use them#
A bay is yours wherever you put it. Only you and the people you trust can take from it or put anything in, so it's a lot safer than a pile left out in the open.
Taking one down#
Take one down and you get back what it cost, along with everything that was in it. Whatever you can't carry goes on a pile where it stood.
Line them up along a path with room for a cart in front. That way you can pull up, unload, and carry on without having to turn round.