# Quality of Life - Bed tweaks (ownership indication / assignment)

**URL:** <https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/quality-of-life-bed-tweaks-ownership-indication-assignment/33491>\
**Category:** Suggestions\
**Created:** [January 27, 2018, 12:42am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/quality-of-life-bed-tweaks-ownership-indication-assignment/33491 "2018-01-27T00:42:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![TheCursedJester](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/thecursedjester/32/50935_2.png) [@TheCursedJester](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/TheCursedJester)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2018, 12:42am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/quality-of-life-bed-tweaks-ownership-indication-assignment/33491/1 "2018-01-27T00:42:00Z")

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Hello,  
Given the new year I wanted to bring attention back to some older quality-of-life suggestions which the game is starting to need in terms of management.

**In short:**

- **1. Either a clearer list, or UI indication, of who owns what bed where.**
- **2. Remove the owner of a bed when it is undeployed.**

While beds are not the most important aspect, now that a Hearthling’s mood depends on getting their own and when towns creep upward to 20 of the buggers its hard to keep track of who is assigned where.

**I can think of two examples of showing ownership which I’d imagine won’t require a tonne of work:**

- **1. Having the name display in the bed’s description.**
- **2. Having an icon hover above all deployed beds when one is selected.**

That, or a list which focuses a camera to where a Heathling’s bed is when their name is clicked / add a bed icon or button to the current Heathling list to perform the same function.

 ![Example_1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/stonehearth/original/3X/0/6/06668fb06d04cd08273584f06371845a54304fdf.jpg)  
 ![Example_2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/stonehearth/original/3X/1/a/1a8790c7fe71744a68c1de8ee76e96c0094b7e29.png)  
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**Examples of previous suggestions based on this:**

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> [@Bed Assignments](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/bed-assignments/24543):
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> Hey, Not sure if this has been suggested before or not (I did a search and didn’t see anything, but maybe I missed it…), but I was wondering, now that we can assign beds, would it be possible to either change the colour of the bed to denote that it belongs to someone, or have it show the owner’s name when you click on the bed? I find that because I have a couple spare beds around, I sometimes accidentally assign a bed to someone, which kicks out the previous owner, who I then have to assign a …

> [@Sort Bed Ownership List](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/sort-bed-ownership-list/23475):
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> @yshan @linda Would it be possible to get the bed ownership list sorted? It would be nice to see the current owner placed on the top of the list, if there is one, at least. If possible it would also be nice to have the list sorted again to have all hearthlings without a bed assigned to appear next on the list and then all of the hearthlings that own a bed? Further more would it also be possible to then sort the owner/nonowner"sublists" again to have hearthlings with the same class grouped tog…

> [@Villager Bed Ownership](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/villager-bed-ownership/28212):
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> Hello, this is my first post and hope it is within reason. I am playing through Alpha 20, and never thought too much about the idea of shared bedding until I saw that it is a negative in villager mood. So here I am, looking at my mean beds, all sectioned off, with their own villager claimant and I say to myself, “What if they had comfy beds instead? Must be a plus.” I grab my carpenter, start undeploying those mean beds and begin the making of comfy beds. This is where my problem begins. W…

> [@Disband bed owner when bed is not deployed](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/disband-bed-owner-when-bed-is-not-deployed/33192):
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> The idea is simple. If i put the bed from a bulding to stock - it loses it’s owner. So that i know that my heartling has nowhere to sleep now.

> [@Undeploying beds = reset ownership](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/undeploying-beds-reset-ownership/27974?source_topic_id=33192):
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> Hi, I had this “problem” while changing all my mean beds to comfy beds. After the first few I had problems knowing if I the hearthling already had a comfy bed or not. This is why I want to suggest that undeploying a bed, just undeploying NOT moving, will clear the ownership. The bed has no owner, and the previous owner has no assigned bed.

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Thanks,

- TCJ

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**Author:** ![MajorFordson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/majorfordson/32/13068_2.png) [@MajorFordson](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/MajorFordson)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2018, 1:01am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/quality-of-life-bed-tweaks-ownership-indication-assignment/33491/2 "2018-01-27T01:01:35Z")

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Also - Can we pleeeease assign “barracks” beds to be used only be troops? As well as beds to be used for healing. Currently I’ve seen Hearthlings plonk down in other peoples beds when they’re injured.

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**Author:** ![anton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@anton](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/anton)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2018, 12:37pm UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/quality-of-life-bed-tweaks-ownership-indication-assignment/33491/3 "2018-01-28T12:37:19Z")

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The owned bed may use a different model. With slipers near it or with a named pillow.

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**Author:** ![TheCursedJester](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/thecursedjester/32/50935_2.png) [@TheCursedJester](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/TheCursedJester)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 10:13pm UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/quality-of-life-bed-tweaks-ownership-indication-assignment/33491/4 "2018-01-31T22:13:45Z")

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This in particular has been bugging me too, now that you bring it up. Dedicated hospital beds which a Hearthling can’t use as a “bed” but rather to heal faster, should be an option to avoid cluttering houses. Right now I just have to put my designated barracks at the front of the town to make them the closest to the action.