Can not place medium container

[mrvilla]

For some reason I can not place a medium container. It seems to be 100% free regarding pacement and will not align to the other structures. I have placed an windmill, refinery and other blocks but this medium container is just floating. ANy ideas? Pressing "B" does not help

[TheVipersFang]

The medium cargo container is classified as small grid, so it only works on a small grid and not a large grid.

[Rox]

Medium container is a small block only variant, so will not bond to your large block base.

[mrvilla]

Ok. What do you use for sttorage then? The large one was really big so was hoping for something smaller

[PinchMedal5365]

there some cargo container mods you can use

[Mojo]

Originally posted by mrvilla:

Ok. What do you use for sttorage then? The large one was really big so was hoping for something smaller

If you do not use mods you would use 3 or 4 small containers stacked together. If the Large container is too large for your area.
I do agree if we had a Medium size for large grid it would be nice.

[Spaceman Spiff]

I still want a large-grid two-block antenna like the small-grid version, but I digress.

[jafiwam]

Your choices of container on large grid structures are the Large, large grid, and the Small, large grid.

Small grid ship/rover can use a small, medium, and large container.

The good news is the small large grid container holds more than the medium small grid you are trying to place.

[Mojo]

Originally posted by Spaceman Spiff:

I still want a large-grid two-block antenna like the small-grid version, but I digress.

I agree for looks it can be off-putting. But if you need room, unless it has been patched out, cause I haven't tried in ages, the beacon block used to also function as an antenna. :)

[Spaceman Spiff]

It seems like I tried to use the beacon block as an antenna (for my ore detector) awhile back and it didn't work.

[Other]

If you want to use a small-grid block on a large-grid ship or base, you can always use the various cross-size tricks (both the hinge and the rotor/advanced rotor can mount a small-grid head on a large-grid base, using a button in the control panel). The antenna is a common small-grid block to be used this way, due to the size of the large-grid version, and early on in a run, I find it is useful for storage as well, since all the large-grid storage blocks take metal grids, while none of the small-grid blocks do. Timers and some uses of programmable blocks are also common.

[Ronin Planetary Industries]

Originally posted by mrvilla:

Ok. What do you use for sttorage then? The large one was really big so was hoping for something smaller

If you place an advanced rotor on your large grid (assuming you've plumbed it up with your conveyor system), you can grind off the advanced rotor head and in the menu, replace is with a small 3x3 rotor head. Weld the rotor head up and you can place a small grid medium cargo container on that way.

[Rox]

Originally posted by Ronin Planetary Industries (RPI):

... grind off the advanced rotor head ...

It doesn't need to be the advanced rotor, the regular cheaper rotor is fine unless you want to connect something with conveyor access.

[Slye_Fox]

I use this: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=924113345
Adds a large grid 3x3x1 & small grid 3x3x1 & 5x5x1.

[CynicDragon]

Two tips, a medium container is small gird, also make sure your hands or body isn't too close to the block/container while placing it

[lotherius]

I know it's part of the "basic game design" but this whole large / small grid divide in this game, being nearly completely undocumented in the UI, seems to me to be one of the stupidest barriers to understanding how this game works they could have come up with. It basically makes things needlessly difficult.