Where do I put all my resources?

[Migel]

So clearly this game wants you to hoard tons of resources for outpost building, industrial crafting, supply missions, trading, weapon and suit upgrades, etc, etc.

I'm about 40h into my playthrough and I'm drowning in resources. I have an outpost set up where I have 26 rows of storage crates awkwardly crammed into a module, one for every letter of the alphabet to house the resources that start with that respective letter. Some rows have nothing in them at all, some are stacked three crates high and all at the storage limit.

This storage method is becoming unsustainable at the rate at which resources keep rolling in from spaceship combat and mining. But so far I can't find a better option. The actual storage modules for outposts have ridiculously small weight limits and are probably only for resource yield from set up extractors.

Has anyone come up with a good way of dealing with bulk resources? I'd sell them, but traders in this galaxy seem to live paycheck to paycheck so it'd take months to sell all of it off without a massive loss. Plus, then whenever I want to craft something, It'll require the exact thing I don't have in supply at that moment.

[Nuee]

Resources are annoying as crap. They all need to be linked so that you can use them wherever you find a bench you want to use them with or colony your constructing.

Don't care if it is realistic or not. The transporting stuff is a giant pain in the assets.

[Maligner]

There is an infinite storage in your room at the lodge. It looks like a safe in the wall.

If you have that much stuff and no use for it, it's perfectly fine to stop gathering the things you have an abundance of after you've used all you can for research, building etc. After that, it's also ok to sell off excess. Say you have 200 iron. Use what you can, save about 20-50 and sell the rest. Help yourself by not making it so bad.

[Nuee]

Is that storage in your room linked to the benches in the basement?

[Martin]

I hold my main storage on my ship. My bases are currently for the exploiting of industry :D ie making iron/aluminium things for xp. Haven't done it for ages tho, last 20 levels I got from shooting bad people.

[The Nameless]

You can get a ship with good cargo space. Or get a ship that does other things well, and use the shipbuilder to add more cargo space to it. I got a Stroud-Eklund Warwolf-class ship and put a couple cargo bays in a for-some-reason hollow space in its butt.

[The Nameless]

Originally posted by Nuee:

Resources are annoying as crap. They all need to be linked so that you can use them wherever you find a bench you want to use them with or colony your constructing.

Don't care if it is realistic or not. The transporting stuff is a giant pain in the assets.

Links work like crap. Just put more cargo space on your ship and store what you need in it, then you'll have it at whatever outpost you want to make stuff at.

I love a lot of this game, but the crafting system is crap compared to FO4 or Skyrim. So much is locked behind leveling perks AND research nonsense that it's hard to tell what you even need to get this or that, leaving it feeling obscure and inaccessible. Not Bethesda's finest.

[I Throw Spears.]

Originally posted by Nuee:

Is that storage in your room linked to the benches in the basement?

Nope lol.

[Langkard]

Spend some of your hard-earned credits in the ship builder adding cargo pods to your ship. Even the Frontier. I have 6 cargo pods on my Frontier which can hold almost 2000 total weight in resources.

[soulphreak]

the 75 storage containers have to be a typo, i am still thinking it has to be 750 and it is going to get fixed down the road.

if it's not, whoever came up with the limit has no place designing games, sorry.

if you're on pc and don't mind there is another way:

open the console with ~, click on a container and type setav carryweight #.

i have one of every type of container set to 99999. the ore one is already at 20000, that would be about 270 containers that is just ridiculous.

even if you could build that many you would never find anything in those containers or get a sumnmary how much you have stashed.

[Maligner]

Originally posted by Nuee:

Is that storage in your room linked to the benches in the basement?

No but someone said there's a storage in the basement that is, but I've not tested it.

I know the storage is frustrating, but I'm glad you can't carry unlimited amounts as that's just overboard. Well, you can actually, you just have movement problems. The point is, they have to do something with all the items you can pick up and carry and I think they've done a decent job. I think the QoL things they are saying they will work on will eventually touch this. Until then, people really need to be a little patient and figure out what choices there are (not directed at anyone in particular) and look at it as a hurdle and nothing more. There are definitely perks and powers in the game already that ease the burden over time. Play the game, don't sweat these things, and definitely don't make it worse for yourself by picking up everything and then complaining you don't know what to do with it all! lol (again, not directed at anyone in particular, just a general bit of advice)

[Maligner]

Originally posted by The Nameless:

I love a lot of this game, but the crafting system is crap compared to FO4 or Skyrim. So much is locked behind leveling perks AND research nonsense that it's hard to tell what you even need to get this or that, leaving it feeling obscure and inaccessible. Not Bethesda's finest.

I agree that it's not the best design. I have to wonder how much of the clunkiness is due to research rolling over in NG+.

[UNBREAKABLE]

There are infinite capacity storage containers inside the lab in the lodge. I just dump all my resources in one of those, grab everything when I want to craft (being encumbered doesn't matter since all the work stations are right there), then dump it all back in when I'm done.

I guess you're supposed to drop it all in a settlement which connects, but I really don't want to bother with settlements on my first run.

[Maligner]

Originally posted by UNBREAKABLE:

There are infinite capacity storage containers inside the lab in the lodge. I just dump all my resources in one of those, grab everything when I want to craft (being encumbered doesn't matter since all the work stations are right there), then dump it all back in when I'm done.

Ok, we have a winner. That sounds like the perfect solution. Problem solved. At least as far as crafting goes.

[Kellis]

I'm sure there will be mods (if there aren't already) that will increase your carryweight and/or your ship's cargo capacity. I think I've run across notes that with the console you can bump your carryweight like you could with all the other Bethesda games I recall playing. (Either of these presumably invalidates cheevos, but meh.) Other than those options, a ship with a lot of cargo space really helps, as others have said - either have one ship for cargo and one you switch to for combat, or one for combat that has enough cargo to be useful.

[Ultraviper]

I just ignore them. resources are (mainly) only used for outposts. and outposts are only used for getting resources. Or for playing base decorator which I've never been into. neither resources nor outposts seem to actually have any real part in the gameplay