Don't make worker return harvested lumber

[Nordmar]

Hello, i want my workers to havest lumber until the tree is destroyed without them returning to the main hall. I tried using the Gather ability from the wisps but then the ability is bugged and it says "must select a tree".

Any ideas?

 

[Jampion]

You could for example order the worker to attack the tree instead of returning ressources, but that would be pointless, because he would not gather more lumber.
What should happen, if the worker is full with lumber?
Are you supposed to be able to manually return resources earlier?
Could you explain a bit more what you want?

 

[LordDz]

Just replace the "Return Gold and Lumber" from the Town Hall and replace it with a custom ability called "Return Gold"?
That way they don't return the lumber automatically.

 

[Kaijyuu]

(I'm assuming you're wanting lumber gathering closer to what warcraft 2 had)


Not exactly what you asked for, but you could give trees health equal to the number of hits required for full lumber. This will obviously have different effects than what you want if multiple harvesters are chopping the same tree, or the harvester switches trees before getting full lumber.

Another close-but-not-quite idea would be using the human lumber gathering, giving them an absurdly large lumber carrying capacity, and whenever a tree dies with a peasant nearby, one is randomly chosen and ordered to return gathered resources. They'll return variable amounts of lumber but it will look like they return every time they finish chopping a tree.

 

[Maxou]

If you want your workers to collect lumber without coming back to town hall (wisp-ish style), but still damage trees, I suggest you try 'Ahrl (Harvest (Ghouls Lumber))' and increase cast range to 99999.0, perhaps it'll work

 

[BloodSoul]

Is this problem solved? Otherwise:

I probably misunderstood your question, but it seems you want your workers to behave like wisps (no need to go anywhere in order to deliver collected lumber). If that's correct, then just give the "Return Lumber" ability to them.

 

[Nordmar]

Is this problem solved? Otherwise:

I probably misunderstood your question, but it seems you want your workers to behave like wisps (no need to go anywhere in order to deliver collected lumber). If that's correct, then just give the "Return Lumber" ability to them.

thanks for the help, I don't need it anymore though