Container permissions

[Delarosa Raksha]

What does the survivor selection do in storage boxes ?
And how do i prevent npc's to take wood out of my boxes ?

the npc keeps on burning the good stuff and not the basic wood

[Naka the Neko]

If you activate the survivors option, you allow the npc to manage the items inside. Not only can they leave the items they are carrying in the chest, but they can use the materials for construction or maintaining the fire. If you don't want them to burn rare and valuable woods, move them to a container where npc's don't have access.

[stretch]

If you dismiss a companion in your house you can leave them as a servant. They will take fuel from those chests and keep your fires full of fuel.
Then you can recruit another one as your companion.
While this is OK it has flaws.
Firstly if you have one wandering your base and you dismiss the second it might vanish. Mine did. Only tried this once so I do not know if it was a bug or intended. I do not remember if it left a crate of what it was carrying but I think it did.
Then if you have a chest marked for survivors your companion will fill it with anything it carries so your servant can then chuck it in a fire and they have a bit of a thing for filling fires with the longest burning fuels.

I suggest you load up a companion with lots (and I mean LOTS) of whatever wood you wish to stick in your fires and dismiss them in your base. Don't have a chest marked survivor access at all.
Usually the servant will keep your fires full of fuel so when you come home with your actual companion there is no room in them for your companion to fill up with the good stuff. It can still happen if your timing is really bad though.
If your servant runs out of fuel and you dismiss your actual companion to refill it's fuel then be aware one of them might just vanish which is why I recommend you REALLY fill them up first. Just so you don't have to go to the bother of trying to swap them around later when it runs out of fuel. Going out and rounding up a new companion each time gets old fast but isn't the end of the world.

Good luck.

[Delarosa Raksha]

thx

[Martin]

I have a companion chest called fuel and enabled and she keeps everything stocked up. If you equip her with repair hammer she repairs everything as well.

[ÑåπçΦ§í§]

I tried dismissing my survivor 1 time . All they did was walk out onto my roof and vanish leaving behind a chest with all items. Chest had some decent matts after i broke it. To keep your mats safe as i ran into this as well. place 2 chests and have only those 2 unlocked for survivor. put your junk wood in those for fires

[Foxglovez]

One thing to note, higher level fires will take more wood, quite a lot more wood. I never have wood to spare as am still building. It's a nightmare. I wish we had at least a couple commands, the first of which would be "Only put carried items in allowed chest at abeyance realm". Just that one thing would fix most my issues with them. Or, "Do not deposit items". I don't know how that would be enabled but as it is now they are a flippin menace half the time.

[faerywing]

I think I found a bug—I didn’t play for a couple of weeks, was busy. Not one of my containers has survivor permission enabled. When I logged back in, that horrible assistant I had dismissed had gone in my container with wood, & had thrown all my swamp wood in the fires! I have no idea how she got it, since she doesn’t have container permission. How do I get her permanently off my property? She is more hindrance than help.