Multiple ships not sharing inventory space

[One Hand Dom]

I installed the game this Christmas and reached a point with two ships. One was going to be small and nimble and the other a inventory hauler. All the online videos make out that if you make the inventory hauler your home ship and dump everything in there, you can still access it from your smaller ship and use it's inventory. What I'm finding is that the latter is partly true. My smaller ship, as the home ship, says it is over its inventory limit and I can access the items but I can't add any additional inventory while the small ship is my home ship. In other words, the two total inventory capacities have not been added together. The small ship thinks its inventory is full, while the hauler still has plenty of space. Do you think this has been patched or is there a sequence to putting inventory into both ships to make this work? It seems like they should either be completely independent of each other or should share a combined space total. This halfway house appears broken.

[wtiger27]

That is normal. Each time you modify or change ships, the cargo in your present ship is transferred to your ship's cargo. Along with anything in your Captain's storage and cases, chests and weapons displayed or decorations.

[RacistRonnie]

They should have this fixed by 2025

[GoldInfinit7]

Well, multiple ships do not share inventory. Starship inventory is only stored on one ship which is the one selected as your Home Ship. You are supposed to use only one Home Ship at a time and inventory is only kept on only one ship at a time. The game does not track ship inventory on multiple ships, it just transfers everything to your new Home Ship when you change it. So, basically, you are playing the game wrong, if you are trying to have multiple ships. Ship inventory is only contained on one ship at a time.

Instead, your strategy is supposed to be having one ship as your ultimate ship.

[Winged Archon]

Originally posted by One Hand Dom:

I installed the game this Christmas and reached a point with two ships. One was going to be small and nimble and the other a inventory hauler. All the online videos make out that if you make the inventory hauler your home ship and dump everything in there, you can still access it from your smaller ship and use it's inventory. What I'm finding is that the latter is partly true. My smaller ship, as the home ship, says it is over its inventory limit and I can access the items but I can't add any additional inventory while the small ship is my home ship. In other words, the two total inventory capacities have not been added together. The small ship thinks its inventory is full, while the hauler still has plenty of space. Do you think this has been patched or is there a sequence to putting inventory into both ships to make this work? It seems like they should either be completely independent of each other or should share a combined space total. This halfway house appears broken.

Multiple ships never did share inventory. If you gleamed this from youtube video then they are simply lying about it.
Whatever the cargohold-size of your home ship is, that is the amount of inventory space that you will be working with.
If you change you ship (either through upgrading or shipbuilder) or swap to a new home ship, than all your present inventory will be transferred to your new cargohold of whatever ship you use from there on out.
It can therefore happen that your inventory-amount will (vastly) overflow the size of your ships cargohold.

[chipartist]

Ships are not meant to be used as storage containers when not being used as home ships. One way to manage large inventory storage when changing ships frequently is to create an outpost and build the storage containers available in outpost building. There is also the Transfer Container which lets you access the outpost's stored inventory from your ship if the output links are set up properly.

[GoldInfinit7]

Also, if you need a place to dump your inventory, try the Storage Container in the basement or the Safe in your room at the Lodge. Both have infinite storage space. The one in the basement is the best as it's by all the modding, crafting, and research stations.

For resources, there is a Take All Resources and a Store All Resources options.

[tkwoods]

Originally posted by GoldInfinit7:

Also, if you need a place to dump your inventory, try the Storage Container in the basement or the Safe in your room at the Lodge. Both have infinite storage space. The one in the basement is the best as it's by all the modding, crafting, and research stations.

For resources, there is a Take All Resources and a Store All Resources options.

This my choice as well. I mainly use the basement since it's right next to the work benches.

There really is not need for a large cargo ship in game IMO. You only need resources to use for other things so why stack them in a cargo hold anyway.

[Winged Archon]

Originally posted by GoldInfinit7:

Also, if you need a place to dump your inventory, try the Storage Container in the basement or the Safe in your room at the Lodge. Both have infinite storage space. The one in the basement is the best as it's by all the modding, crafting, and research stations.

For resources, there is a Take All Resources and a Store All Resources options.

Never made use if that just yet, I don't presume that storage container is recognized when you activate a vendor or research/work station does it?

[GoldInfinit7]

Originally posted by Winged Archon:

Originally posted by GoldInfinit7:

Also, if you need a place to dump your inventory, try the Storage Container in the basement or the Safe in your room at the Lodge. Both have infinite storage space. The one in the basement is the best as it's by all the modding, crafting, and research stations.

For resources, there is a Take All Resources and a Store All Resources options.

Never made use if that just yet, I don't presume that storage container is recognized when you activate a vendor or research/work station does it?

Yeah, what's in those containers don't count as being part of your inventory. What I do is I store weapons and equipment that I want to sell in the cargo of my ship and the stuff I do not want to sell in one of those storage containers.

I use Take All Resources, when I need to craft, mod, or research and put them back into storage (Store All Resources) when done.

[HeyYou]

Originally posted by tkwoods:

Originally posted by GoldInfinit7:

Also, if you need a place to dump your inventory, try the Storage Container in the basement or the Safe in your room at the Lodge. Both have infinite storage space. The one in the basement is the best as it's by all the modding, crafting, and research stations.

For resources, there is a Take All Resources and a Store All Resources options.

This my choice as well. I mainly use the basement since it's right next to the work benches.

There really is not need for a large cargo ship in game IMO. You only need resources to use for other things so why stack them in a cargo hold anyway.

I build a ship with quite a bit of cargo capacity, along with the various workbenches.... that way, if I find a really cool weapon/other equipment somewhere, I can hop on my ship, modify it to suit my tastes, and immediately have it available for use. I don't have to 'go' anywhere to pick up resources/find a workbench, as they are already ON my ship.

[smr1957]

Originally posted by Winged Archon:

Originally posted by GoldInfinit7:

Also, if you need a place to dump your inventory, try the Storage Container in the basement or the Safe in your room at the Lodge. Both have infinite storage space. The one in the basement is the best as it's by all the modding, crafting, and research stations.

For resources, there is a Take All Resources and a Store All Resources options.

Never made use if that just yet, I don't presume that storage container is recognized when you activate a vendor or research/work station does it?

No, it is not.

[Knottypine]

Originally posted by One Hand Dom:

All the online videos make out that if you make the inventory hauler your home ship and dump everything in there, you can still access it from your smaller ship and use it's inventory.

I'm curious which videos lead you to believe that?

[HeyYou]

Originally posted by Knottypine:

Originally posted by One Hand Dom:

All the online videos make out that if you make the inventory hauler your home ship and dump everything in there, you can still access it from your smaller ship and use it's inventory.

I'm curious which videos lead you to believe that?

Indeed. I have never seen anyone imply that.

[One Hand Dom]

Originally posted by HeyYou:

Originally posted by Knottypine:

I'm curious which videos lead you to believe that?

Indeed. I have never seen anyone imply that.

This is one. I could be misinterpreting it. I’d still argue what’s the point of multiple ships if each time you make it your home ship, you get this inventory issue. They’d be more realistic to leave them seperate but you’re only able to access the inventory of your home ship.
https://youtu.be/L1K3CukPW_w?si=7ktSdUeqBLkpUwp9

[Ruin]

Originally posted by One Hand Dom:

Originally posted by HeyYou:

Indeed. I have never seen anyone imply that.

This is one. I could be misinterpreting it. I’d still argue what’s the point of multiple ships if each time you make it your home ship, you get this inventory issue. They’d be more realistic to leave them seperate but you’re only able to access the inventory of your home ship.
https://youtu.be/L1K3CukPW_w?si=7ktSdUeqBLkpUwp9

Then, frankly, your argument is flawed, as this was NEVER how ship inventories worked... Your ship's inventory is transferred when you set a new home ship... Every time you set a new home ship... And in order to pilot a ship, it MUST be your home ship... So you cannot leave your cargo on one ship, and pilot another...

As much as I don't disagree that each ship should have a separate inventory, and there be some mechanic to transfer between them whilst docked/landed somewhere, it's simply not how the game works, and never did work that way...

If you want bulk storage, setup an outpost, and just jump back there when you need to drop off, or pickup some stuff...