# Assignments of items

**URL:** <https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/assignments-of-items/8718>\
**Category:** Suggestions\
**Created:** [November 21, 2014, 9:51pm UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/assignments-of-items/8718 "2014-11-21T21:51:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![burton344](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@burton344](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/burton344)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 9:51pm UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/assignments-of-items/8718/1 "2014-11-21T21:51:01Z")

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It would be great if you could assign certain stock piles to certain work areas. Like assigning a crop field to a single stock pile making it so nothing else could be put there and the farmers wouldn’t put the food anywhere else but that stock pile.

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**Author:** ![Teleros](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/teleros/32/63349_2.png) [@Teleros](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/Teleros)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2014, 1:17pm UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/assignments-of-items/8718/2 "2014-11-22T13:17:13Z")

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May happen in the future, but in the mean time have you considered just making a food-only stockpile somewhere, and forbidding food from other stockpiles? So long as the food-only one is closest to the farms, the food will always be dropped off there 🙂 .

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**Author:** ![burton344](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@burton344](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/burton344)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/assignments-of-items/8718/3 "2014-11-22T17:36:18Z")

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That’s a good solution for now but I’ve noticed that the workers won’t always bring it to the nearest stock pile.