Villager Cart Hauling

• []Open a cart or sled and pick a building in the new Assigned to dropdown on its page: a warehouse, or a woodcutter's, stonecutter's or hunter's house.[/]

  []Save the game.[/]

From then on, only that building's workers use the cart:

• []Warehouse: workers take the cart for loose resources at least 20 m from the unloading point and keep filling it while there is room in the cart and in the warehouse. They still follow the warehouse's own tasks, priorities and collection area.[/]

  []Woodcutter, stonecutter, hunter: a worker heading out to work at least 20 m from the house takes the cart along and parks it nearby. Every full backpack goes into the cart instead of being walked home; when the cart is full or the house needs no more, the worker hauls it home and unloads it. A hunter moves the cart when the hunt moves to a new area.[/]

Carts without an assignment are left alone, and trading post carts can't be assigned. Gatherer's houses and mines aren't in the list. You can change or clear an assignment while the cart isn't on a trip.

An assigned cart left unused more than 30 m from its building for an in-game hour is brought back by one of its workers, cargo included.

Installation

Install BepInEx and ASKA Mod Core first (both are listed under Requirements), then install this mod with Vortex, or unpack the archive into the ASKA folder so the files land in BepInEx/plugins/AskaCarts/.

Linux / Steam Deck: add this to ASKA's launch options in Steam (Windows doesn't need it):

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="winhttp=n,b" %command%

Change them in the game: Settings, the Mods tab, then Apply; the tab follows the game's language. They are stored in BepInEx/config/ArcheeNic. AskaMods.ini. You can also edit BepInEx/plugins/AskaCarts/aska_mod.ini, but only while the game is running: with the game closed, the stored value wins.

What it does

cart_collect

0 turns the mod off

cart_harvest

0 turns off carts for woodcutter, stonecutter and hunter houses

cart_collect_max_workers

How many warehouse workers haul at the same time, 1 to 8

cart_collect_min_distance

A cart is used only for resources at least this far from the unloading point, metres

cart_collect_search_radius

How far a worker walks to fetch a free cart, metres

cart_collect_cluster_radius

Work radius around the parked cart before it is moved, metres

cart_return_idle_hours

In-game hours before an abandoned cart is brought back

Good to know

• []Warehouse workers haul only items already lying on the ground; construction deliveries work as before.[/]

  []If a trip is interrupted, the cargo stays in the parked cart and can be taken out by hand. Trips don't resume after loading a save, so empty such a cart before it is used again.[/]

  []Assignments are saved per world in BepInEx/plugins/AskaCarts/aska_cart_assignments/. Copy that folder along with your save when moving a world to another PC.[/]

  []In co-op only the host can assign carts.[/]

  []If the dropdown doesn't show up, the reason is written to BepInEx/plugins/AskaCore/aska_core.log; please attach that file when reporting it.[/]

  AI was used to write the code quickly. I designed the mod, thought through how it should behave and put real care into it, so this is not a mod made by AI alone: the AI was the tool that carried out the work and took the routine off my hands.