Settlement hud and building materials questions

[Georgeks]

Firstly, what do all those things circled in red mean on the resource panel? I would use the wiki, but there is still no documentation for the resource panel

Secondly, I am trying to solve some problems I am having my settlements. One issue I am having is that my settlement drains some materials (like aluminium, glass, wood, fiver glass and optics) very quickly. I’d imagine this comes under building materials. However, I can’t actually build anything specifically because I have no building materials. Even if I put materials into the work bench, I still can’t. So how do I build more things if my settlement keeps draining them for reasons I don’t understand? Do I have to destroy things to lessen the demand?

bonus help, none of my settlement are seeing new people? How do I fix this?

 

[GladiusVictorius]

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Firstly, what do all those things circled in red mean on the resource panel? I would use the wiki, but there is still no documentation for the resource panel

Secondly, I am trying to solve some problems I am having my settlements. One issue I am having is that my settlement drains some materials (like aluminium, glass, wood, fiver glass and optics) very quickly. I’d imagine this comes under building materials. However, I can’t actually build anything specifically because I have no building materials. Even if I put materials into the work bench, I still can’t. So how do I build more things if my settlement keeps draining them for reasons I don’t understand? Do I have to destroy things to lessen the demand?

bonus help, none of my settlement are seeing new people? How do I fix this?

The - mean you have a Deficit from that type of Material as what you Build use more then you Produce to maintain/operation cost itself.
As you play with Max scrap complexity building is not so easy as you have to find a lot of more scrap and much more specific scrap if one scrap part is missing or not enough you can not Build what you want.
What you can do now is to change in the Holo the Difficult down by changing Complexity to Medium after you will be able to Build or turn off operation and Matenace cost that don't let you Build direct but on longer therms you will be able again as you have more time to recover from the deficit as nothing get drained from your stuff

 

[Georgeks]

The - mean you have a Deficit from that type of Material as what you Build use more then you Produce to maintain/operation cost itself.
As you play with Max scrap complexity building is not so easy as you have to find a lot of more scrap and much more specific scrap if one scrap part is missing or not enough you can not Build what you want.
What you can do now is to change in the Holo the Difficult down by changing Complexity to Medium after you will be able to Build or turn off operation and Matenace cost that don't let you Build direct but on longer therms you will be able again as you have more time to recover from the deficit as nothing get drained from your stuff

I don't play with max scrap complexity, which is why I am confused. I have, multiple times, set it to categorical. Should my resource panel not be expanded in that setting or am I changing the wrong setting. If I understand you, when changing complexity to medium, you mean changing to categorical in the resource setting part, which is how I already have it set.

EDIT: Nevermind, I had it set to complex, not sure how that happened as I set it to sim city building mode many times. Oh well

Thank you for your help

 

[GladiusVictorius]

when you change Settings control always both the Holo Settings and MCM settings as for some reason both are not synchrony many times and have even different options in some part.When you see in the res Tab all that stuff you have always Complex Scrap on as on Medium and Low you are not able to see that Tab with all