What are the storage rules for crafting and research?

[kris44dad]

For example, is there a place you can store your resources on New Atlantis so that the workshops in the Lodge basement can access them planet-wide? This is a general topic for how to make your resources the most accessible.

One of the things I'm disliking about this game is having resources on my ship that the workbenches on the planet can't use.

[arti_llery]

If you store them on your ship, set up an outpost with a shipbuilding location, then build the crafting stations there. The ship should always be in range for crafting.

Otherwise, just store them in the lodge crate and pull them out for burst crafting.

The outpost works fine depending on if you have been upgrading the storages.

[kris44dad]

OK, so there is no good way without outposting. Got it.

[Langkard]

You ship storage also works at the Lodge.

[DANEDANGER]

Down in the basement right behind the research machine you find a box, it has the same rules aplied as the safe in your lodge room.

The crafting machines are able to take out resources from that box down in the basement

[Ommamar]

Originally posted by DANEDANGER:

Down in the basement right behind the research machine you find a box, it has the same rules aplied as the safe in your lodge room.

The crafting machines are able to take out resources from that box down in the basement

I will have to find this magic box thanks!

[kris44dad]

Originally posted by Langkard:

You ship storage also works at the Lodge.

Really? I thought it hadn't. But, I did find out today that the penthouse taps from the ship.

[Lochar]

I haven't tested that crate at lodge, nut if does work thats nice. Main problem is getting to the lodge since if you carry from ship then overloaded and can't fast travel.

I just made 1 outpost as my crafting hub. I have large containers now and just add them as I fill up on storage. If use large spacepad and transfer container, its not bad to just unload ship to that and have transger container linked to each of your main storages. Solids, Gas, Liquids and Warehouses. It will auto empty and just keep doing it til ship is empty.

It is a pain if want to locate certain resources since in will dump without order, but with cargo links I can just request delivery of something I ran out of.

[PolecatEZ]

If you're going the Lodge route, then being overloaded isn't an issue. The game will dump you directly outside the door to the Lodge from space.

Crafting in the Lodge, the only way I could get it to work was to take everything in my inventory, do my crafting, and then put everything back in the unlimited storage. It's a few extra steps, but "Take all" and then "store all resources" works.

Best setup is to just make a lot of storage at an outpost. Using a crafting machine there, it will pull from all storage containers (the bulk ones, not personal chests), your ship, and your own inventory.

You can make one of those hopper machines (looks like a lift wagon) that lets you move resources from your ship to outpost storage. From there, have a pipeline connecting to the different sub-types of materials. Then you just need to dump everything in that hopper and it all gets sorted and stored for later use.

[ZombieHunter]

Ship modules with crafting stations will pull from personal inventory and the ship inventory. So you can craft in space if you want.

I use my ship to sleep in and pass time for mining outposts on the planet to mine their goodies if I don't want to build a hab on the surface or I don't have the materials to.

[Nuee]

For some reason you can sell ships inventory but it wont link to the lodge. And even if you drag it there, there is no storage in the workshop that links to the benches.

Exceedingly annoying.

[The Minted Lady]

Originally posted by DANEDANGER:

Down in the basement right behind the research machine you find a box, it has the same rules aplied as the safe in your lodge room.

The crafting machines are able to take out resources from that box down in the basement

Which box are you talking about? If it's the one on the table, then that is not true. I tried it today by loading all my resources into it and checking the stations around to see if they'd find the ones I stored. Everything was listed as "0".

Seems like the only thing that responds to certain storage is the outpost. I've been able to use resources as the mining rigs are pulling them out of the ground. Your ship's cargo is also an extension of your pockets when it comes to taking out resources for crafting. The game needs a system similar to Fallout 4's workbench where you could store everything in that one inventory and use it to call up all the crafting materials you needed.