Organizing storage

[adiyaman]

Hi, either I misunderstood the list in the storage, or there is a bug. if I switch let's say food rations from blue to red. What is that mean? I thought it means don't store these items here.
but I see those items still being stored. Or deliveries messing these limitations.
Or is that means, they can store anything but villagers can use the blue items, and can't use the items that are red.

Thanks.

[BadassRockett]

Typically it means they cannot be stored there and if some of those items are in the storage already they will be moved out over time if there is space somewhere else they are allowed to go.

Deliveries and trades with villages do seem to ignore the rules and dump them in a storage, not sure how it decides which, last one built, closest to source... Anyway they get dumped regardless of rules and then your villagers have to move things if there is space avaliable

Also if someone is already on route to deliver to a storage before you disable it then they'll still use the storage to do that drop off

Plus I think you can get some quirky bugs

[riten]

Deliveries are mess so its possible that delivery or ai store forbidden items, but then they should relocate them in while.

[c-*****]

If you build the storage during the day, villagers/AI will decide to start moving things into it before you've set the preferences. They do NOT check again when they arrive and deliver, so you see lots of stuff you disallowed. Since they could be walking from across the village - or map - at the time, you can find stuff you disallowed many game-hours later.

But there is more bugginess to it than that, because yeah, later on they can decide to still move more things into disallowed storage. That I haven't figure out yet :(

Best advice seems to be to allow only a couple types of items in each kind of storage - except that it also seems like villagers are willing to drop of tools, especially, wherever they go to get their next task item. So: anywhere. At least... once there are many options for storage..?