Start with the output
When a production building’s output goods are at capacity, it stops producing and stops using its inputs. An upstream material that is no longer being consumed does not automatically mean the input route is broken.
Inspect the building’s output stock alongside its inputs. Then check whether those output goods have somewhere to be consumed or delivered. If you make room, watch the actual stock and production state afterward instead of assuming that the chain has restarted.
Read these numbers separately
| Reading | What it tells you | What it does not prove |
|---|---|---|
| Maximal production/consumption | Potential production and input demand | Actual current flow |
| Regional Balance | Regional production, consumption and trade balance | Stock in one receiving workshop |
| Stock | Stored goods at the inspected location | That the same amount is stored elsewhere |
| Carrier load/capacity | Goods onboard and the unit’s limit | Completed delivery to the receiver |
Missing-input warnings help distinguish a nominal production rate from a building that can actually operate.
Capacity and balancing
A Small Market card can display Storage +100. This is a building-card storage addition, not a rule that every building has 100 storage or that the addition is divided equally among all goods.
Traders try to balance settlement stocks. That does not mean every settlement must always have identical amounts, nor does a regional surplus guarantee immediate supply to a particular workshop.
A practical check order
- Inspect actual input and output stock on the affected building.
- Check whether the output has reached its limit.
- Check missing-input warnings, building completion and working production.
- Check the receiving demand, route and transport facility if goods need to move elsewhere.
- Let time run and compare the same building’s stock and operating state again.
Exact capacity allocation, expansion distribution and a universal restart procedure are not specified here. Keep observations at the same destination when deciding whether a change helped.
Production shown per month is not a carrier’s delivery interval. Do not convert an old annual trade figure into a current monthly transport limit by relabelling it.