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Temporary Assignment

DIRECT ANSWER

Temporary Assignment: current answer

ST-24 improves Temporary Assignment so soldiers return to their previous tasks when temporary work finishes. If that fails, record the preceding job, temporary order and next activity.

Quick facts

  • Returning to the previous task after temporary work is the explicit ST-24 intended behavior.
  • Idle Auto-assignment improves in the same update but is a separate task-selection path.

Practical workflow — editorial guidance

Note the soldier's job before issuing temporary work.

Watch the task finish or be interrupted and record the next selected activity.

Compare the same sequence with automatic task selection disabled or unchanged; vary one setting at a time.

Evidence limits

The official summary does not expose a complete task-priority algorithm or return-to-job timing.

Related systems and next steps

System

Auto-assignment

ST-24 improves Auto-assignment so idle soldiers choose Mining, Logging and Gathering more appropriately. A soldier taking an unexpected job should be checked against available work and temporary orders rather than an assumed hidden priority list.

System

Worker Assignment

Diagnose worker assignment by separating a chosen job, a Temporary Assignment and automatic selection while idle. ST-24 improves the latter two systems; resource delivery is then handled by the logistics chain.

System

Mining

Mining is one of the idle work categories addressed by ST-24 Auto-assignment improvements. If soldiers ignore mining, first check available work and existing orders, then separate extraction from hauling the resulting resource.

System

Logging

Logging is included in ST-24's improved idle-soldier assignment. Distinguish a soldier not choosing logging from wood being produced but not reaching the Wood Processing Plant.

System

Gathering

Colony Gathering benefits from the ST-24 idle-task selection changes. This page concerns colony worker assignment, not the separately managed Star Map gathering intent.

Update

Directive ST-24: State Maintenance

Directive ST-24: State Maintenance was published on 2026-09-24. Special soldiers including IntelliExplorer A20 and Miralisse Novarin no longer randomly receive negative general or combat traits.

Patch history

Source ledger

Last checked 2026-09-26. Official-source verification is not independent live-game testing. Practical workflows are editorial guidance.