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Check system for copper golems

A system for copper golems to check chests they have been in would make the feature a bit more efficient.
So copper golems see chests in a 32/32 area? Right now it seems that after they get tired they won't make the effort of searching chests they haven't yet, which means they have the habit of searching the closest chests to them over and over again. Here's what I'm proposing:


Once a copper golem grabs an item from a chest it will start searching through chests but once they search a chest and find no matching items they will check that chest off of their search list. Once they get tired they will see which chests in the 32/32 area they have checked off and search the chests they haven't gone into yet. This process would repeat every single item cycle. This way the randomness aspect is removed making the feature much more efficient and would make the copper golems seem much smarter than they are so far.

This is honestly a great concept and execution but polishing will make it into the feature of the year.

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    yes something similar to a "memory" of any chest already searched while holding the current item. I found playing around in the preview that having a copper golem working in a storage room with only 15 chests (arranged in a u-shape 5 chests per side the copper chest in the middle) could result in the golem getting stuck in a loop searching the same 10 chests over & over. In the current state they don't seem functional for even an early game storage room.       

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    Love the new copper golem, but the randomness with which it opens chests can interfere with item sorting. If it consistently opened chests beginning with the one closest to the copper chest and then the next closest and so on, it would make item sorting more reliable. An item-sorting setup works best when the CG checks the copper chest, then the next, up to the tenth which is outfitted with a hopper to carry unmatched items to another CG's sorting area. But if the CG checks chests randomly, it may encounter the "empty" hopper chest before an earlier chest already containing the matching item, thereby sending the item on to an end-of-the-line overflow chest where it would need to be returned to the input chest for resorting. Please consider adding a priority system to the chests checked by the copper golem.