Freight link

[Legions]

So, have also finished the first run and now devote myself to the game :D

I am in the process of building a home base and do not really understand the cargo links. Do I really have to build a separate freight link for each ore?
Can't one(!) freightlink request everything from the different planets and then distribute it to storage crates?

Otherwise I like the game very much, the end sequence with the explanation I found' well done

[Torpex]

For the sake of your own sanity, do not try to build complex manufacturing chains. At least until BGS fixes the bugs.

Theoretically, yes, if you direct one outpost production to another via a cargo link and then connect the output to a sorting module and then to storage containers, it should work. And it does, sometimes. And sometimes not.

[Vaemer-Riit]

Each freight link is a two way link to a single other freight link.

Anything fed into the outgoing box will be transfered to the connected freight link's incoming box and vice versa.

If all of your outposts are in system you can just use the basic freight links and they cost nothing. If you are sending stuff out of the system you need the interstellar freight links and they consume He-3 each time they deliver.

As far as I know there is no way to make one freight link connect to multiple freight links.

Originally posted by Torpex:

For the sake of your own sanity, do not try to build complex manufacturing chains. At least until BGS fixes the bugs.

Theoretically, yes, if you direct one outpost production to another via a cargo link and then connect the output to a sorting module and then to storage containers, it should work. And it does, sometimes. And sometimes not.

I haven't tried to make manufacturing chains yet but I do have a central resource mall that I am setting up. Each cargo link sends resources to a central storage base with dedicated cargo storage for each link. This allows me to swing by and grab all the mats I could want to craft with.

So far it's just 4 or 5 resources to make adaptive frames and tau grade rheostats but it's getting there and seems to be bug free at the moment.

So far my chains are all

Extractor - Storage - Freight Link - Storage

[Legions]

Thanks so far :)

[b101uk]

you can do rather complex things, including a hub and spoke method to collect stuff in a single system to a central point in that system, then assuming that central point has hydrogen create a link to another system, else you can use the chain method to a single point.

for the hub and spoke method, your central point needs enough room for X cargo link pads, ware X is the number planets\moons\etc to be served, +1 for any inter-system cargo link if needed.

your spoke outposts then have a single cargo link pad, that just links to one of the pads at your central hub.

the chain method just requires at most 2 cargo link pads at all but one outposts, an inbound and outbound pad, so things like your resource extractors are linked to the outbound container of the outbound cargo pad and NOT the outbound container of the inbound cargo link, you then just create a link between the inbound container of the inbound pad to that of the outbound container of the outbound pad, using the same method you would to link extractor to storage etc.

as the containers on the landing pads can have links made to them just like regular individual containers can have links made between them.

[Legions]

???
My english is not the best but even with DeepL your text makes no sense^^

A simple question:
do i need a link for each ore? everything else i will find out myself

[Vaemer-Riit]

You only need a cargo link for each route.

Multiple materials can flow through each link.

[dustin1280]

Given the game systems, it's impossible to fully automate a fabrication and resource chain in the vanilla game.

But with Vanilla Starfield, the best you can do is something like this, and it takes a TON of work to get going.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1716740/discussions/0/3882722163310035557/

Originally posted by Vaemer-Riit:

You only need a cargo link for each route.

Multiple materials can flow through each link.

The problem with sending multiple materials through each link is you run into the common fast producing resource ultimately choking out all other resources.