Drop-ship question

[jmarc0121]

Can you load up your drop-ship with benches, walls... and then travel to the new place you want to build something and just use a recall beacon to get your ship., full of goodies. That is the question: can you do that or will the cargo vanish? The wiki says it won't, but I woulks like to be sure,

[Tanyon]

Nope.. you can not put anything into your drop shop that did not come from the workshop.. it will all just be destroyed/vanish.

[TheHellKat]

Originally posted by DarthTanyon:

Nope.. you can not put anything into your drop shop that did not come from the workshop.. it will all just be destroyed/vanish.

This is incorrect.

When using the drop ship beacon you are not returning to the station so items are not destroyed.

You can use the beacons to move items safely.

[Tanyon]

WOW really? That is the dumbest thing ever so I can move an entire base just using beacons... damn maybe I am gonna side with the folks that say this game is getting soft.

[КрендельФигов]

1) In Openworld you can use your dropship as a 'truck', driving it from place to place using the Composite Dropship Recall Beacon
https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Composite_Dropship_Recall_Beacon
While you do not personally ascend into orbit on the dropship, the contents of the dropship are preserved while flying around Openworld. This is how the ‘unrefined’ red exotic is carried around Prometheus.
I personally on Olympus have already transported between my M4 ‘metallurgical plant’ and the F3 base probably as much as will fit into the train: including heavy machines, stacks of stone walls, foundations; stacks of Concrete Mix; stacks of Steel Bloom etc

The game doesn't get 'softer' because Composite Dropship Recall Beacon isn't cheap.

2) If you doubt the safety of such actions, you can always make a full save of all your Icarus progress, so that in case of adverse consequences you can always do a ‘full rollback’.
Save your Icarus to a separate folder on another partition of the drive (or flash drive). (disable Steam clouds, otherwise, when you manually return your saves, there is a chance that Steam cloud will return the original saves.)
-------->! You need to save the entire directory c:\Users\”name your windows account”\AppData\Local\Icarus\Saved

[jmarc0121]

Thank you guys so much. That saves me a try beacon, and there are really quite expensive.

[GrizzlyBer]

It works perfectly, you can do the transportation with your spaceship without risk.

[william_es]

Originally posted by DarthTanyon:

WOW really? That is the dumbest thing ever so I can move an entire base just using beacons... damn maybe I am gonna side with the folks that say this game is getting soft.

yep, you can use recall beacons to turn the droppod into a moving truck. Best invention ever.
Makes mining red exotics on prometheus not a horror show. The amount of stuff you'd need to carry is insane. Power sources, red exotics miner, organic redidue cleaner, water pump, power and water tools. It nuts.

Red exotics only stack to 20 and weigh a ton too. So either I bring the gear there or use the drop ship to haul the raw red exotics somewhere else. Saves me the trouble of waddling back across the lava biome overloaded with gear (extremely hard to replace gear).