Suggestion: Use Cargo Bay w/ inserters

[Kryo]

Hey hi hello

Would it be possible to let Cargo Bays act as other storage/factory items? I can't seem to pull items out of or store items into them. Feels very inconsistent with the rest of the game and makes space stations horribly awkward to use :(

[Zhardoz]

indeed it is a bit dumb

[Quillithe]

It'd kinda break the game if you could pull from cargo bays and I'm sure they noticed in testing.

I think you can load into them just fine though

[Halko]

Yup the main reason to not be able to interact with them is that you could just make a giant cargo box as a ship with a thin line around the outside with things pulling stuff into and out of it. It would trivialize the puzzle of designing ships. Why go through the hassle of making a design with belts and thought when you can just put everything in the giant box?

[edit] One thing i do wish you could do was move the main storage building of the ship without dismantling the whole thing. As it stands the only way to adjust the location is to make a blueprint of the whole thing and toggle off the main part then paste it back over everything after it all gets deleted. Super tedious.

[Zaroff]

is there a mod to allow this to work?

[Biometrix]

OP, no, since you would have infinite teleportation of all items. Your main bus lines would literally be cargo bays.

[Zaroff]

Originally posted by Biometrix:

OP, no, since you would have infinite teleportation of all items. Your main bus lines would literally be cargo bays.

LOL never even thought of that... Very well I will make it work :)

[Trubbles]

This is definitely a game design choice and makes you have to choose what you're going to use the hub for on every ship design and what you will buffer in belts etc.

[Zaroff]

I understand, I just need to think outside the box with ship design

[Schnorf]

Originally posted by Zaroff:

is there a mod to allow this to work?

This one just dropped with the 2.0.38 experimental release:
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/cargo-bay-inserters