Medium Storage

[YorKarma]

I have been playing Astrometica Prologue for quite a few hours now. I am only able to construct Storage Box and Small Storage. What do I need to do or complete to gain access to Medium Storage? I have the original Building tool. Does that need updated somehow? Thanks in advance.

[KhaosKreations]

You need to find the blueprint for it.

It's floating in the hall next the second (further away) waypoint you get from the console.

[YorKarma]

Found it Thanks

[Miral]

The medium storage seems kinda pointless (other than for the achievement, I guess). You can fit 4 small storages in the same space as 1 medium storage (for 2.2x total storage size), and that's much cheaper to craft too -- the data thingy required by the medium storage is kinda annoying to craft.

[Squintytoast]

once the corridor mining laser was running, i just started making piles on the floor. LOL

[sibrit]

I had hoped that the Medium would offer some advantage over the Small, apart from being floor mounted. The Small gives 25 space for 5 energy, while the Medium gives 45 space for 10 energy. Perhaps in the future we'll find things that won't fit in the small?

[PREdaTOR]

After just over 6 hours in, I think the only real reason to build medium storage is for the achievement (build 10 of them). If they snapped to a crafting machine and auto-fed into it as required now that would make it worth it. That said, in the prologue at least, building anything is trivial. I just built 10 medium storage containers and it took about 3 minutes.

[PhotriusPyrelus]

Originally posted by sibrit:

I had hoped that the Medium would offer some advantage over the Small, apart from being floor mounted. The Small gives 25 space for 5 energy, while the Medium gives 45 space for 10 energy. Perhaps in the future we'll find things that won't fit in the small?

Genuinely baffles me why they would do this. On one hand, you get more stuff in one place with mediums, it's more base-space efficient, perhaps. But there's one big advantage to the small storage: you can see the entire contents from one screen; no need to scroll. It might be worth trading away that convenience if the medium storage gave you more space per power consumption, but it doesn't.

[NNTorro]

I just can't figure out why the storage box needs electricity?)))

[Smartik1]

Originally posted by Miral:

The medium storage seems kinda pointless (other than for the achievement, I guess). You can fit 4 small storages in the same space as 1 medium storage (for 2.2x total storage size), and that's much cheaper to craft too -- the data thingy required by the medium storage is kinda annoying to craft.

I agree. I also don't want storages filling up my room. I use storages in the hallway. However, the storage can't be wall mounted and because hallways are curved, you'd have to put it so far from the wall it looks ugly and blocks your path.

I stuck to small wall mounted storages as they are far more practical.

[Bugnaz]

Originally posted by Smartik1:

I use storages in the hallway. However, the (Medium) storage can't be wall mounted and because hallways are curved, you'd have to put it so far from the wall it looks ugly and blocks your path.

I'm a Hallway Storage person too :-)

I've only played for a few hours today, but I did notice that you can't put Small Storage on the ends of hallways, which meant I couldn't do my usual (Subnautica) storage solution which uses Cross+ Hallways.

Those alcoves are great for lining with storage, and you can stand in the middle and just rotate to each of the three alcoves.

Having just got to Medium storage (and realised its placement restrictions), it can be used at the end of each alcove, with Small storage either side on the walls.

in one Cross Section +
x8 Small storage, x3 Medium storage and x6 Storage box is the best I can do (using the three alcoves).

https://i.postimg.cc/K8Lcx4HD/Astrometica-Storage-Cross.jpg
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