QoL - Drying Rack

[TTime]

It would be nice if there was a better storage or unloading/loading option for the drying rack. At the moment I find it very clumsy, you can only put things on the drying rack that are in the inventory. It would be nice if the drying rack could also access the shared storage function of the chests. So you could go to your drying racks and just hang up the stored berries that your buddy has farmed.

My idea would be to make it so that only items that are in the radius of the base can be selected and dried.

[Raven Scar]

i understand what your saying but that's kinda more effort than ease, imagine you have 10 storage chests, each one full of perfectly sorted resources, you would have a very difficult time looking through them just to put 3 items on the rack, or even if you could sort by chest, saya drop down menu, still difficult, most people don't name chests.  its actually easier to have the items in your inventory and add them

[Alynxkia]

The drying rack could be set up to work more like the spinning wheel, grinder or the cookery. All of those items are able to pull from nearby chests without it being a big deal.

[TTime]

@Raven Scar I understand your point, perhaps I didn't describe it clearly enough.  There is a kind of pre-filtered selection of items that can only be dried. That way, only those items appear in the drying rack UI. I mean, something like that already exists in the game. If I have berries, or rather items in my inventory that can potentially be dried, only those can be selected, and all the others are grayed out.  So I assume that a filter by item ID or something similar is already in place.

One idea could be to integrate a kind of box / storage box behavior into the drying rack itself, where you can see all the items that can be dried. You could then scroll through them and the number of slots of the box would automatically expand according to the number of available items, which would be a extra treatment for the storage box implementation.

On the other hand, you could perhaps make only the items in the drying rack selectable if there are any in your base, without showing the total number or all stacks. You would have, for example, three fields in the UI, one for blueberries, one for cranberries, and one for food (yes, there are different types), and to prevent the UI from exploding when there are too many items, you could perhaps only display (one) item as long as there are some in your base.

The workbench or the spinning wheel functions similarly, all resources in a radius can be used / selected from the crates, which would also be useful for the drying rack. Perhaps the most sensible approach would be to use icons (if in storage). However, representing food durability could be a problem, because of the single stacks, but that could be solved by always selecting the item that expires first.

While writing this, I read the new comment from @Alynxkia, which sums up a possible idea for displaying the items.