#Forbid Items and/or Storages from Villagers

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sterile bane
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Sorry if someone else posted this, I did a search and didn't find anything similar.

Maybe this is already in game and I just haven't figured out how to use it, but it would be useful if we could completely forbid villagers from using some items (more specifically, foods), or, be able to control the storages (including the food cellar) a little more. IE set a storage so that villagers can place items inside, but not remove any items from it. I find it difficult to keep decent food on hand for myself to eat, because the villagers will constantly cook everything they can find, and eat whatever they want -- with no way to prevent unless I place foods in my inventory, or the private stash. It would be useful to have a storage where the villagers can cook food, and place it in there, then not remove. This would allow a separate storage where they placed their own cooked food to eat. Towards end game this may not be as big of a deal, but, it feels like there is never any good food available even when my villagers are set to cook it -- because they eat everything, unless we go out and specifically gather ingredients and cook it ourselves.

quartz girder
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I'd agree with this, I keep having to make stew for the tier 2 research and by the time its made and put away, instantly it gets eaten. I have also smoked a bunch of food for me to eat during fights but meat seems to be instantly eaten!

urban turtle
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I had to watch to make sure that the villagers did not graze the smoked meat to be given to the chief!

winged forum
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Yeah, If I am managing a village and thats the point of the game, I should be able to make rules (or laws) for certain people to follow. I agree that Villagers eating only the best food first is neither immersive, realistic or beneficial for game mechanics.

remote sun
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Not a complete solution, but if you assign a storage to a separate outpost, your NPCs won't access it. So I am able to manually stockpile some food in their for myself.

winged forum
stable scarab
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Haven't tried with food items but with resources if you set an amount they won't take anything else out when it gets to the low number

sterile bane
sterile bane
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From what I can tell, they'll still grab food items even with that set -- at least that is what I'm seeing in tests. I set a minimum and a maximum on mushrooms, and they pulled them below the minimum for I'm not even sure what.

stable scarab
balmy jasper
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Have you guys been using the private storage in your dwelling? In all the hours I've played I haven't seen any villager bother anything that I put inside my chest in my cottage

remote sun