How to Store to Wood, Stone, etc

[0crows]

I have an npc I designated as a lumberjack and despite I have make a chest storage policy to accept wood he keep saying there is no available place to store the wood...I just could not figure how to make him store the wood

[Midnight_Toker247]

When you set a storage policy it goes from grey to blue, blue means it is set to be stored there, grey means it is not. Your people will put said item into any storage set to hold it closest to furthest until the storage fill, once all storage set are filled they will place said item into any other storage closest to furthest. When all storage is filled they will tell you there is no where to store said item. The storage policy tells them where to put things first and foremost it doesn't tell them not to put things in any said storage, when all designated storage is filled it will simply be put in the next closest storage (excluding things like outhouses and defensive structures which unless designated will always be the last place they store things (ie all other storage other than are full)), you can set someone to organizer and they will move items from non designated storage to designated storage.

It sounds like your problem is the chest is full and there is no other (owned) storage space.

[0crows]

well just to be sure I tried setting all the storage can hold wood...chest, shack even the outhouse...the watchtower as well but still they say no place to dump the wood

[0crows]

okay apparently the problem was the gate policy setting. It was set to always closed.
set it to the 3rd option fix it

[Angrysquirrel]

I run into that sometimes, when I forget to unlock the gates after a raider or zombie attack. Setting up a zone help, but it's not a perfect solution since you can't really zoom far out to cover a lot of allowed ground. A better solution would be to restrict looting of buildings to only those you specifically authorize. If I don't set up zones my guys will just wander off, remembering there is an ear of corn at a building I passed half way across the map. Then they get killed by a zombie or a raider because they forgot to defend themselves.

[0crows]

The set zone is a nice touch. I was wonder why my npc always go so far away to cut trees when there's a forest just next to my base.