automatic milking/shearing at closest workshop (WIP)

[chdoc]

This is a draft for a tool that will queue milking/shearing orders at the closest farmer's workshop on the same z-level. In order for the tool to shear/milk an animal, there must be a farmer's workshop on the same z-level as the animal. Only the workshop closest to the animal will be used.

Currently, I run this with repeat --time 1500 --command [ husbandry ], but I plan to make it use the enable infrastructure with proper callbacks.

Part of the logic is copied from workorder, so I guess some refactoring may be required.

[myk002]

It's fine to work the logic out here, but I think this should eventually be moved into workorder and the choice of general workorder vs. at closest shop should be controllable with a commandline option. We can add both versions to gui/control-panel so players have a choice.

[myk002]

and if there is no workshop on the animal's level?

[chdoc]

Then no milking job gets queued, because farmer's workshops that are not next to a pasture are probably intended for other things (processing plants or spinning thread).

[chdoc]

It's fine to work the logic out here, but I think this should eventually be moved into workorder and the choice of general workorder vs. at closest shop should be controllable with a commandline option. We can add both versions to gui/control-panel so players have a choice.

I'm not so sure about this. The workorder tool is primarily about "Creat[ing] manager workorders". Is just happens to have some convenience functionality for dealing with milking/shearing. Besides using the same predicates for checking whether an animal can be milked/sheared -- something that arguably should be moved to a library -- I don't think there's any overlap between the tools.

Now that milking and shearing is working like I would like it to, the next step for me would be to automate cheese making, because, once again, there is no way to reasonably do this using manager work orders.