Colony Manager allows you to make colonists do the more tedious parts of managing a colony, making sure you're never out of vital resources again*.

Important

Requires a new save game. Adds a worktype, which is stored in the world, which means you need to start a new game after adding/removing this mod.

BETA VERSION This is the first release on A17, and there were a lot of changes. For now, the Production and Import & Export tabs have been disabled. The production tab will likely be permanently removed, and migrated to be it's own mod. Import & Export has been buggy for a while, and needs to be rebuild.

Features

Production Jobs == removed ==

Hunting jobs

Set a target for meat, and never worry about designating hunting manually again!
Set an area to clear of all predators - keep your home area safe!

Forestry jobs

Set a target for wood, and never worry about designating lumber manually again!
Automatically clear wind turbine catchment areas to ensure they're working at maximum efficiency.
Set an area to clear of all vegetation - make sure there's no possible cover or retreat for any hostiles that dare attack you.

Livestock jobs

Set a target for animals (for four separate age/sex combinations), and pawns will auto-butcher and/or tame to manage your herd.
Restrict animals to specific areas (for example to separate male/female animals and prevent breeding).
Auto-butcher, tame and train according to your specifications.

Overview

Clear overview of all jobs
Show stock and designated levels for the last day, month and year
Show pawns capable of a job, and set work status
Prioritize jobs, the manager will handle prioritizing jobs on worktables (however standard priority ordering across worktables still applies).

Import & Export == disabled ==

How does it work?

You can manually set bills in the new Manager tab on the bottom of the screen. Once set, a colonist with the manager skill and worktype enabled will go to a manager station to figure out the best way to hand out jobs to individual workstations Periodically, the manager will check if the assigned bills are still up-to-date, and make changes or delete bills where required. The manager will not touch bills that are set manually, nor will managers create jobs. You're still the overlord. In theory there is no real limit to the number of global bills that can be set.

Notes

Requires a new save. Adds a worktype, which in my tests gave errors on old savegames. Should work perfectly fine with other mods that add bills, assuming they do nothing too fancy/weird. (I've tested with various modpacks - screenshots were taken with the ModVarietyPack.)

Contributors

KapTaiN KaVerN: Minifiable research benches
Moumix3: Research tweaks
duduluu: Chinese translation
Kirill:
MossieuLeBlanc: French translation
Lauri7x3: German translation
Well-sp: Russian translation (update)

Think you found a bug?

Please read this guide before creating a bug report, and then create a bug report here

Older versions

All current and past versions of this mod can be downloaded from GitHub.

License

All original code in this mod is licensed under the MIT license. Do what you want, but give me credit. All original content (e.g. text, imagery, sounds) in this mod is licensed under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 license.

Parts of the code in this mod, and some content may be licensed by their original authors. If this is the case, the original author & license will either be given in the source code, or be in a LICENSE file next to the content. Please do not decompile my mods, but use the original source code available on GitHub, so license information in the source code is preserved.

Version

This is version v0.17.1.10

rcocks / ColonyManager