i use the bank barns cos they hold more the think i dont like about the distribution barn is its only used when your citizen need it but the more your population increases the more storage you need make sure your putting storage close to your gathers hut and fishing dock i put a storage barn by my trading post espically if my trading post is away from the main town and i try to branch off in different communties and i put in plenty of storage the main thing i found is you cant have too much storage

Originally posted by smithtown1:

i use the bank barns cos they hold more the think i dont like about the distribution barn is its only used when your citizen need it but the more your population increases the more storage you need make sure your putting storage close to your gathers hut and fishing dock i put a storage barn by my trading post espically if my trading post is away from the main town and i try to branch off in different communties and i put in plenty of storage the main thing i found is you cant have too much storage

I'm not having too much of a problem with storage, it's mostly an issue of the AI not using the storage properly. I'll have a barn nearly full, with things like leather and coats in it, but then my dry goods storage just one house over is nearly empty. I just want to find a way to fix issues like that, unless the solution is to just not even give them the option to put the stuff anywhere else.

Generally people will place goods in the closest storage capable of holding their load (though sometimes they seem to wait until their arms are full. So they may pick up herbs and carry them all the way accross town to pick up some leather and then drop both in a barn near where the leather had been). The distribution barn worker is like the opposite of a market vendor. The worker will take goods from this barn and carry them to other storage facilities including the market. I prefer the edibles market combined with specialized storage to try to restrict where things are being stock piled and then I can keep my dry goods near my textile industries, food near food, and materials near my building and smithing industries.
Just don't have only a dist.barn and a market in a small town. I did that once and the barn worker kept overstocking the market, then the market vendor would take the over stock back to the barn in an endless dance. These barns seem to be better when they are farther away from your city center and primary storage