On-caravan ownership

[Injured Muffalo]

I saw a year old post about double beds, but the forum wanted a new topic, so here's a shiny new one.

Owned items (all I know of are beds and projects like a shirt or a sculpture) become disowned while the owner is away from the colony. So anyone can take the bed, and the projects get moved into a stockpile. That's really annoying, because then some other guy will take the bill and duplicate it.

Your original crafter or artist comes back and there's a big useless lump in the stockroom which, if you are micromanaging, you can clean up.

I see zero advantages to this behavior.

[Ser Kitteh]

Unfinished crafting stuff is fine IMO. They'll just do it when they get back home. But beds being unowned is really annoying, hope this gets fixed in release.

[OFWG]

This happens to graves as well.

[Injured Muffalo]

Unfinished crafting stuff is fine IMO. They'll just do it when they get back home.

Not if the bill is complete. Plus you have to manually make them do it or the same thing could happen again.

[sick puppy]

Unfinished crafting stuff is fine IMO. They'll just do it when they get back home. But beds being unowned is really annoying, hope this gets fixed in release.

in most cases changing double bed names is annoying, but i often have many caravans going all at the same time while i lack beds/rooms/resources for new sleeping possibilities, so i am quite glad that the ai automates bed distribution for me.
maybe have a simple switch between keeping beds and freeing them up? or have it be smart by always keeping them, but as soon as a pawn needs a bed it will change an existing bed of a pawn that isnt around. while doing that, the algorithm would prioritize single beds of course.