Same goes for the other buildings.. if I double or triple the number of crafting stations inside a building will I see any benefit over only having one, or having multiple buildings instead? I'm trying to avoid looking into any of the actual code to find my answers because I know I can't control myself to stop reading once I find what I'm looking for.
Yes. Two ovens means you can cook two things at a time, two carpentry workbenches means you can saw two logs at a time, etc.
Yes, multiple people in the workshop's crew can use multiple crafting stations to do jobs faster. However, only one job at a time gets assigned, so if you have an order for 10 cabbages stews and 10 breads, but only 2 cabbages and 8 wheat, the cabbage job can get queued first and extra ovens past 2 don't get used until the next job is active.
I just had the easiest town run I've had by maximizing the number of ovens in a kitchen to the number of people on a work crew. Once they started, I took them off everything but workshop duties, and that's all they've done since. Previously I'd tried having multiple kitchens with one oven each, to try to produce lots of different goods at once, but I would still encounter famine. This time, I just queued 50 of each stew, all of my other commodities and checked back in occasionally. No famine or starvation ever.
I've yet to even see the need for a kitchen (at least in this stage of alpha)? I had two in my first town but have found it just as easy to do nothing but plant cabbage and pumpkins and let them go on a raw vegan diet. This leaves me more people (it seems like it does anyway?) to do things like chop down trees on the other side of the map.
Got my kitchen cooking bread endlessly... so far noone complained... but I expect any day they will ask for croissants and that can end in a bloody revolution
It seems like if you match the number of ovens to the number of workers in the crew that is assigned the kitchen, things get done a lot faster. It took me a couple of games to figure out I could place more than one required object in a building,
