Why do you even need to create storage if you could just pile it up in an open space?

[Freezpior]

?

[Buddha]

Do you leave all your clothes on the floor?

[Xilo The Odd]

Originally posted by Buddha:

Do you leave all your clothes on the floor?

*looks at floor*

maaaaaaaaaybe.

so to answer the question storages are useful for a few facilities.

imagine going out in your large rover and filling 8 or so soil canisters with its drill, now you can move the medium storage with those canisters to a platform with a centrifuge and an empty medium storage on the other side. it'll auto fill from the canisters, and dump all the materials made to empty storage slots. so i could make 8 organic, have them all go to a single storage.

now i need carbon, i can take that organic filled storage, and move it to the smelter, and it'll pull all that and move it to storages as well as it finishes them. then i take the rack of carbon and add it to me medium generator platform that can store 40 carbon for 1 generator. essentially never running out for a long time.

theres other fun uses for storages but the Xtra large is by far the only real poinltess one. that and maybe large platform C, but i find it handy for my trade station and shredder.

[Bomoo]

Because you're not an animal?

[Pahbi]

The ground works just fine to a point, eventually you have so much stuff that its more efficient to organize using medium storage containers.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1718184718

I organized my materials around the various crafting stations. Helps a ton.

- P

[Freezpior]

Originally posted by Pahbi:

The ground works just fine to a point, eventually you have so much stuff that its more efficient to organize using medium storage containers.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1718184718

I organized my materials around the various crafting stations. Helps a ton.

- P

Wow, what did you use to create this?

[Freezpior]

Originally posted by ℜαʑαɼ:

Originally posted by Pahbi:

The ground works just fine to a point, eventually you have so much stuff that its more efficient to organize using medium storage containers.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1718184718

I organized my materials around the various crafting stations. Helps a ton.

- P

Wow, what did you use to create this?

I mean medium storage then large platform B?

[Pahbi]

Yeah.

- P

[AMadManWithABox]

then im really thinking that they took out the wind storms? the random one that could kill you with a rock to the gut

[Zarinthal]

for now, its just for the vehicles and machines that produce things like extractors etc. if they ever brought weather back, then that would be another reason. Last time I played, I just dug a bunch of holes in a circle around the base blackrock, then used level tool to build the base around that. keeps the resources at hand and organized well enough. if small batteries are still way to common in game start, then thats a good reason to build medium storages, but you will probably find the med stor lying around too.

[AMadManWithABox]

Originally posted by Zarinthal:

for now, its just for the vehicles and machines that produce things like extractors etc. if they ever brought weather back, then that would be another reason. Last time I played, I just dug a bunch of holes in a circle around the base blackrock, then used level tool to build the base around that. keeps the resources at hand and organized well enough. if small batteries are still way to common in game start, then thats a good reason to build medium storages, but you will probably find the med stor lying around too.

oh lord my base is powered by batteries and large wind terbins... i have found at least a dozen of each easy

[Zarinthal]

then maybe making a few medium storages will be useful just for moving those things around if you need. sometimes I do it that way and sometimes i organize the layout for cable swapping rather than storage swapping. either works just as well as long as you arent repurposing small power for vehicles, then you may as well go the med stor method for power management

[MyProfile]

It will all end up on the bottom of a cave if you do that. I was doing that and then it was gone. All gone.

[Zarinthal]

make a basement level under your base, everything that falls through will end up there

[MyProfile]

Originally posted by Zarinthal:

make a basement level under your base, everything that falls through will end up there

So just make a hollow spot for items to fall into?

You still have to move it all back up again though right?

Or next time its headed all the way down.

[Fabiolus]

Would probably lag your game having bunch of material scattered on the ground