Trying to limit the inventory of something...

[Shelecktra]

So, I'm using various mods but that shouldnt be an influence on what im trying to do here...

I use the hydro mod (Vis Space Engineering i think it comes up as) and it has various parts to use, one being the Hydrogen and Oxygen Evaporators. This mod turns ice into liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen then you can evaporate it at these machines to fill up your bottles.

But, the problem I have is after ive been ice mining and i dump it all in the base to be processed, if i need to fill my bottles again i usually cant because the inventory of these machines has been filled up, you can move stuff round but it just gets filled up again (I use a serious amount of hydrogen so i cant limit what i mine)

So, with that in mind - Can i somehow limit the inventory capacity so it cant fill up?

I would like to set it to like 95% as that would allow more than enough to put the bottle in there and refill.

[woodsguide]

my work around for this is pretty much have a o2/h2 gen on its own conveyor system and manually move ice to there from my main staorage when i get low... i dont really use a LOT of jetpack fuel...

it works but is rather clunky.. i would like to figure out a better way as well ;o)

[Shelecktra]

Yeah, ive come up with various clunky methods too.

Honestly with all of the materials you could possess in this game (Even without mods) I am surprised there isn't actually a method of doing this already - A slider in the menu or something.

I am hyper-organised with everything else, or i have no wish to limit inventories etc like with mineral processing and manufacturing - Its just this one thing that causes me that little niggle

[Gweem]

I usually put my bottles directly into the inventory of the H2 or O2 Tank. Can you not do this with those mods running?

[Shelecktra]

Originally posted by Kamus:

I usually put my bottles directly into the inventory of the H2 or O2 Tank. Can you not do this with those mods running?

I can, like before they start filling up i can put say 10 bottles in there, but if i take a bottle out it fills up the gap with more liquid hydrogen, so even if i start with 100 bottles i will inevitably end up back where i started.

I only ever carry one bottle, never need anything more really, i have a simple asteroid base at the moment with a pressurized room with seats and the access points for the oxygen and hydrogen evaporators, so generally when i go to recharge my suit i top up the bottles too

[woodsguide]

with your pockets full and the o2 tank full of ice/bottles you have to drop/stow something to swap out to your fresh bottle

..solution is dont carry EVERYTHING, ALL the time ;o)

[Shelecktra]

Originally posted by woods:

with your pockets full and the o2 tank full of ice/bottles you have to drop/stow something to swap out to your fresh bottle

..solution is dont carry EVERYTHING, ALL the time ;o)

Erm... this has nothing to do with this post, did you get confused or something?

[Gweem]

So the liquid h2 actually fills up the tank inventory space. With just gaseous h2 in tanks you can still fit bottles inside as the tank inventory space is actually seperate from its' h2 fill level.

If you're only using one bottle I would do as woods suggested and have a separate h2/o2 gen as a bottle filling station

[Shelecktra]

You know, i havent used tanks in so long i totally forgot you can still add the bottles to them regardless...

That's what mods does for you, makes you forget stuff you should already know!

I guess i will have to hack out the processors and somehow replace them with tanks then.

Still though, would be handy having that slider i mentioned :/

[Gweem]

Isy's inventory manager might actually have a setting that could help. I don't know for sure but take a look through it if you like.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1216126863&searchtext=inventory+manage

[Shelecktra]

Yeah i might as well, thanks!

Wish i could just learn code... bet theres a real easy solution to this xD

Why cant code in games like this just be as simple as 'set cargo capacity to 90%' ??? xD

[Gweem]

Ye it would have been a nice slider bar to have in the control panel

[Spaceman Spiff]

Or you could simply set up a separate O2/H2 generator that's not in the conveyor loop, put in a limited amount of ice (leaving free space for bottles), and use that is your bottle refill station.

[hippybaker]

You can use the "Use Conveyor System" button to stop it from pulling while you fill tanks, then turn it back on after..

Sometimes, it's good to have a whole o2 system isolated from the main production system by a sorter, just to fill bottles and various other life support.

Sometimes, filling tanks will take ALL of your ice, and leave you with no air in a hurry, so now if I'm going to be filling large tanks, I build 2 systems. One for making fuel, and another for life support.

[Shelecktra]

I have no shortage of ice, my asteroid base is setup about 50km away from that ice moon... Europa is it? One next to Mars? In previous games i use it as my refuelling station.

So yeah, its not an issue of waste or limited resources, just having too much i guess.

I'll use the hydro tank setup for now till i look into it further though, but i prefer not to use them because in a sense i shouldnt have to, im having to redesign a whole chunk of my base now to fit them in so they are accessible through the pressurised area of the base. But in all honesty this is more of a quality of life thing than it is an issue, i like to keep bases small. The ships i build are absolute monsters, but they never produce their own resources other than ammunition so i manually refuel them anyway because i dont depend on automation for that (beats getting caught short because you forgot to double check) But obviously when im at my base i want things to be done 5 minutes ago xD