Stacking Storage Containers? Storage management rant...

[Str0ngPaprika]

I see player's bases where the storage is stacked. I cannot have them "snap" on top of each other. Is there a trick?

Also, speaking of storage, would it kill them to have the access portal on the first placed storage, regardless of number, than any storage attached directly to the the first one would just look like a blank cube and could be accessed via the single first storage where the slots would just keep expanding like the exosuit? I am having a crap time trying to remember what is in where and keep wasting time by looking into each one. Why do items do not stack if they are already in storage? I keep finding the same items in multiple storage units, when I remote transfer them, the storage does not "remember" that I already have an item stack started and any new transfers just go to a new blank spot and than I have to manually inventory manage each again and re-stack the same items.

[Perfecshawn]

Having the same problem

[Darkspear]

would be nice if you could craft in base from the vaults directly.
would be nice if you could only look up 1 storage device and rest just worked like a "increase inventory" adding to the first window 5-10-15 tiles etc.

But this is No Mans Fun.....

[Ninja™]

For me, stacking worked when standing nearby on the same level looking up. Try pointing at the air above it.

Also, I like to color code my vaults to find specific objects faster.

Regarding the item transfer... maybe try to have each spot filled with at least one item? I'll need to look into that more, but the system definitely stacks items.

[DonJuanDoja]

Darkspear lähetti viestin:

would be nice if you could craft in base from the vaults directly.
would be nice if you could only look up 1 storage device and rest just worked like a "increase inventory" adding to the first window 5-10-15 tiles etc.

But this is No Mans Fun.....

Use save editor and give container 0 48 slots then don’t build the rest anywhere...

[Shaman-Ra]

You can paint a storage box a meaningful color if you want.

[Fictional Hero]

it would be nice if you could put more than 5 items per container.

[Masked]

https://hellogames.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

Go there, and give them feedback. Trust me they listen. I have logged a bunch of bugs, even stuff I have never seen here and they fixed.

They have been good with their weekly patches.

[Str0ngPaprika]

Loreto lähetti viestin:

For me, stacking worked when standing nearby on the same level looking up. Try pointing at the air above it.

Also, I like to color code my vaults to find specific objects faster.

Regarding the item transfer... maybe try to have each spot filled with at least one item? I'll need to look into that more, but the system definitely stacks items.

I think if you do not have blank spots in the lower numbers, as in all spots filled in 0, than 1, than 2, than it would auto stack to already existing items, of course up to max stack. However, I like to either color stack, like greens, or types like gases or precious metals, etc will leave blanks once you empty a slot completely. So let's say I got gases in 9, but I just pulled out all the gold from 0, so if you xfer more O2, which you already have in 9, it would still go to the first lowest blank spot, in this case the empty slot in 0. Thus, you have to circle back and re-stack. HATE THAT.

[Jez Hammond]

I too could once place a container on top of another, but now it doesn't feel possible. And I have connected up some bizzare combos recently! What at first appears not to connect, will do if you approach at precise angle + precise secret mouse location lol.

I think other posts covered the doubling up of non full slots thing. Why on earth the coder doesn't tag items as something that can quickly be searched for in multiple containers, then if doesn't exist create a new one during the transfer, instead?

My only gripe with these really, is pressing X on an empty suit slot brings up two container inventories worth of list. It takes pure logic to maintain the situation under several circumstances. Hardly eligant.

[DonkeyBonner]

Or make the whole thing smaller, this huge box thing have only 5 slots

[Jyin]

You know you don’t have to be at the containers to use them, right?

All you have to have is a single base somewhere with all 10 containers.
After that, you can access the contents of the containers via transfer menus (the last tab) when you are at any of your bases, and on the freighter.

All 10 containers are presented as combined inventory.

I have a base somewhere that has just the BC and 10 containers :)

J

[Jez Hammond]

That's what I thought until all containers were 'greyed' out. Turned out I needed to recreate containers at latest base, but not all bases?

It still comes down to "hm shall I TX to freighter container, or base container, hmmmmmmm".

[Jyin]

The base and freighter containers are the same thing, I don’t even have them built in the freighter.

J

[DonJuanDoja]

Jyin lähetti viestin:

The base and freighter containers are the same thing, I don’t even have them built in the freighter.

J

Not really. If you say had #0-4 on freighter and 5-9 on base. It would keep them separate.

[Jyin]

Yeah, what I meant was ‘Any specific container built anywhere is same’.
Hence my comment about ‘all 10’.

J