A little help with storage..

[Tanyon]

Quick question..

So I limited my inventory to 500 wheat.. but my farmer seems to always have some on him when I talk to him. Should I care about that? I always take it off and throw it away.. not sure if it affects their overall inventory or not or if they eventually throw it away/destroy it themselves.

EDIT: OK now 2 of my villagers have full inventory. My wood cutter and my farmer.

So I have my farming chest set with top offs for wood at 1000, blueberries at 200 and wheat at 500 and wheat seeds at 50... yet my farmer keeps going and harvesting even though we don't need it. Which then fills up his inventory and then they stop working.

I must be missing some kind of mechanic here or something. How do i remedy this situation.

Thank you,

[Nox667]

Settlers will collect and harvest mats whenever they can, even if no storage for it is available unfortunately. Thats what the incinerator is for: it serves as an overflow catch storage that destroys whatever is put inside (if fueled with wood that is, setlers will automatically provide that fuel while its set to be accessible by them).
Setting it up as last priority and accepting only things you expect to get an overflow of is a save way to dispose of any excess and prevent settlers from ending up with full personal inventories which would stop them from doing work.

You could also always set up extra storage chests on lower priority than normal to just fill up with any excess so you can manually sell it for coin every now and then, or set up composters to convert excess compostables into fertilizer, but sadly composters work like crafting stations rather than inventories which makes using em as a overflow catch a bit of a hassle.

[GameAddict]

It is good to have one intentionally empty box (or more) that is accessible by all settlers, can hold any item, and is set to the lowest priority. Full settlers always have a place to offload items instead of being full and getting stalled. Also, whenever you find an item in that box, you know that item does not have a home or your settings are screwed up.

If you do not have a Pawnbroker yet, you soon will. He will buy anything. You can stockpile unwanted items until he agrees to join your settlement and then you can sell it to him for extra coins to buy enchants, travel scrolls, weapons, outfits .... a lot of helpful stuff.

[ElDudorino]

Yes to the pawnbroker but also I think the farmer buys wheat? At a better price than the pawnbroker pays.

[GameAddict]

Right, ElDudorino. Farmer pays 8 coins for wheat and Pawnbroker only pays 2 coins. Also, you can get a Farmer sooner than a Pawnbroker. It's good to know what the different settlers will buy and what they will pay. Most settlers and the travelling merchant will buy very few items, whereas the Pawnbroker will buy anything but might pay less per item, :)

[Sly-Scale]

Like GameAddict said, it's good to have a warehouse where your villagers can dump excess material. That way, they can keep on producing things for you to refine or sell.

My warehouse layout is usually 50 or so chests, each one assigned to different categories for easier collection/stacking. As each chest fills up, I assign more chests to keep up with the growing stockpile of resources. Then every so often I'll 'flush' the excess resources for a hefty payday, and spend that gold for the things I need more of.

[Tanyon]

OK so it looks like I just grossly underestimated the number of chests I need.. I have 3 for food goods and 8 for everything else.. and they are all always full haha. I did get the automation down but I just need much more chests for the stuff. There are 3 of us playing so lots of loot.

[GameAddict]

Tanyon - You could try a centrally located storage with however many storage boxes you want. You might not need one entire box for Beef (for example), so you could make a Meat box or even a Raw Food box. Those primary boxes should be top priority and your crafting stations should be nearby. Then make a low priority dump box that can hold every type of item. You and your buddies will dump all your loot into the dump box and a settler will sort it into the right boxes in your central storage. Let a settler sort your loot while you go on more adventures! :)

P.S. I have about 90 top priority boxes in my central storage with only 1 lowest priority dump box that my settlers keep cleaned out. As a side benefit of a dump box, if my settlers don't know what to do with an item, they will put it in the dump box and then I know I need to make a permanent home for that item.

[ElDudorino]

With 20 villagers I can get away with 1 chest for produce, 1 chest for seeds, and 1 for cooked foods, as long as I clear out the produce and seeds ones periodically by selling the excess. Plus I have my personal chests for unrelated stuff: ores/bars, drops/essences, tablets, alchemy stuff, and assorted doodads like trinkets to combine and so forth.

[roy2x]

A tip to keep your food box sorted would be to set up automatic fertilizer production. I have ingredients box capped to 1 stack of each item. Have the excess then sent to a box that is lower priority. This excess box is then set as the only box a designated composter is allowed to use. So I have box for ingredients, a box for cooked food and the excess box which is where my composter takes anything from. If the excess box is filling up fast then just add more compost bins.

[Casual Amateur]

Hmm..... I would have sell most of those seed/food(almost spoil)/cook food to my pawnbroker for quick money. Usually my farm is really huge anyway and always have seed bound to fill up my chest any way. Annoying part is trying to get pawnbroker to live in my base.

Pawnbroker really picky about how many people live in it. Only way I got that working is to have a lot settler live in my base already. Usually I like have one of each type at less. Few more guard then normal.