Stop sending builders half way across the map!!!

[MrFlib]

It is so annoying when you want to build something far away and get into a fight or go to gather resources only to have half your village go to the build site and stop doing what they are meant to so

[tamu1997]

put "far away" buildings into their own outpost. Villagers dont recognize structures not in their same assignment

[johnno23]

Originally posted by tamu1997:

put "far away" buildings into their own outpost. Villagers dont recognize structures not in their same assignment

100% correct...took me a while to realize the issue as well. you need to open the N menu and then select buildings and check where they are assigned. Also ensure the NPC'c are correctly assigned to the relevant outposts or village etc. Also depending on how far you have progressed in game do not build village vaults as that really messes up the NPC's as they then wander all over the dammed map collecting or bringing items to vaults. Village Vaults are terrible and not needed at all.

[mlbolin]

Took me a few days wondering why my villagers are going to the towns... I followed them and they were putting items in the vaults... I was like what in the blue blazes! No we are not storing items in the towns. I do not trust those people.

[Fester Addams]

You can also set priority to a building under construction, if you set it to lowest priority (0 with line through) your followers will ignore it. I have use this sometimes when I have several buildings planned out but I don't want the followers to be working on one of them yet.

This priority is also good for keeping your people not for example smoking or roasting all your mushrooms and so on.

[Brenry]

Remove these faraway structures from the settlement / outpost tab to something different. For example bandits will regularly damage Travel Signs. If all your signs are set to your main outpost ownership builders will attempt to repair them.