Kvist

Kvist

Build Kvist's Nest and a friendly greydwarf named Kvist moves in. He keeps your base in order: he sorts what you drop in the nest into labelled chests, keeps your smelters, kilns and eitr refineries running, refuels your fires, farms your crops, looks after your animals, crafts, bakes and brews what you order, and fells and replants trees, and mines stone and ore.

Beta. Single-player is well tested; multiplayer is designed for but less tested. Back up your world before trying it on a server.

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Getting started

• Build a workbench, then Kvist's Nest from the hammer menu (Misc): 3 Ancient Seeds.
• Kvist appears beside it. The nest is also a 10×5 chest.
• Hover a chest and press L to give it a label. On a chest that already holds items, the first press labels it after its contents. Shift+L cycles backwards. Unlabelled chests are never touched.
• Hover the nest and press L to switch Kvist's job: Sorting → Smelting → Upkeep → Farming → Animal Husbandry → Custom → Crafting → Forestry → Mining (Shift+L goes back). Press K on the nest to set the priority of each task in that job, or switch tasks off. The K window also sets the nest's range (10 to 100 m, 50 by default) and its Show range button draws it on the ground.
• Look at Kvist to see his job and what he's carrying; press E to pet him, Shift+E to rename him (handy with more than one). Every Kvist also shows on the map, named after his job. The nest shows today's tally, tells you if something is stopping him, and lists anything he couldn't reach today, so you can tidy it up.

Kvist works within 50 m of his nest by default (set each nest's range in the K window). He runs, opens and closes doors on his way (only doors he opened), teleports beside anything he can't walk to (or home, if he gets trapped), and if there's nowhere to land beside it, uses it from where he stands. A cellar down a spiral stair, a hen in a raised cage or a light on a roof all get seen to, and he gets himself out if he falls into water. If he ever gets lost, the K window's Call home button brings him back. He never touches chests a player has open. He is immune to fire and poison.

Jobs

Sorting

Put anything in the nest. Kvist carries up to 10 stacks per trip to a chest with the right label: the one already holding that item, unless another of that label is much nearer.

• Tidy up: loose items lying around within range are picked up and put away (priority 3).
• Re-sort chests: anything in the wrong labelled chest is moved to its own, and part-stacks of the same item are merged (priority 4).
• Auto chests: an empty chest labelled Auto is claimed for the first category that needs a home.
• No chest for something? It waits in the nest, and the nest tells you which label is missing. (Optional: turn on UseAreaFallback to let him use another chest in the same area instead.)
• Not in any category? It stays in the nest, and the nest names it; add it to categories.yaml to give it a chest.

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Smelting

Kvist runs every smelter, blast furnace, charcoal kiln and eitr refinery in range:

• Fuel first (Coal, Sap), then ore, scrap or Soft Tissue, taken from the nest or the matching chests.
• Coal is made on demand: kilns get plain Wood only when a furnace has ore to smelt and no coal is left anywhere. Fine Wood and Core Wood are never burned.
• Coal is fetched a stack at a time and kept in hand while a furnace has work.
• Bars, Eitr and charcoal are picked up and put away. He takes them to their chest once he carries 5.

Upkeep

• Keeps shield generators full of fuel.
• Repairs damaged pieces players built (a hammer's