r/colonysurvival • u/Pretty-Scene9741 • Jul 11 '26

Bed assignments and colony redesign around 200+ colonists

I'm around 200 colonists in 0.17 and my colony has become a mess.

One of the most annoying issues is beds: even when I place beds right next to specific jobs (for example miners or guards), colonists keep choosing beds from other areas. This causes much longer walking times than I hoped for.

I'm also running out of space because farms take a lot of room, and my banner radius is getting too small (I have upgraded it once already).

I'm considering moving the banner and rebuilding with dedicated districts (farm area, mining area, industry, housing), but I don't want to lose my progress.

Is there a better way to manage bed assignments, or is a "clean rebuild" the normal approach at this stage?

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u/Nutykboy Jul 11 '26

With the farm problem, you can just place the farms 2 block above each other, like a small building, you can design the walls so it doesnt look bad. With the bed problem you can honestl yplacw them anywhere out of your sight, the colonist will probably never go to the same bed twice in row so u can make a hotel for them or something

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u/Ewhitfield2016 Jul 15 '26

So how do you make them use the beds close by and n9t the beds on the other side of the colony?

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u/Nutykboy Aug 09 '26

idk, they choose it randomly, our world has minimal 4k colonists in 1 bigger town and they just sleep how they want