STARFIELD - All About Transfer Containers (and Why They Are Useless)
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Hey guys, I'm thoroughly convinced that no amount of tweaking will get the resources to flow into the Transfer Container evenly and, more importantly, _consistently even._ But I could be wrong.
It only costs 152 credits to build a transfer container. You can buy the necessary Tungsten at the Mining League in Neon Core and you can buy the Lubricant at Jemison Mercantile in New Atlantis. And you can get the iron for free from your outpost.
Just saying...
Have at it. 😎
Also before you call me a noob for not thinking of a workaround, skip to 19:10
And thanks for watching!
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So now you have to waste 3 outposts, create 1 for every resource, and land on each planet 4 times. Aside from being a pain, I have never stayed on the ship when I land. It always puts me at the center like you mentioned at the end. Why have an easy transfer if you cannot stay on the ship.
I get the feeling a noob mistake was made with the transfer container, some developer forgot a 0, I think it was meant to be 2000 mass not 200.
If you’re on PC? You can console command the mass limit
@@djbare9 If that is so, they did the same mistake with containers in general. You can only store 200 kg in each container, and that is absurd too, IMO.
@@joemerchanthouse3027 I would love to know how to do that. Maybe I can google it? "How to console demand transfer containers' storage limit in Starfield?" Google usually doesn't handle long sentences well. If you read this, will you tell me how to do that console demand? Thx in advance. :)
One workaround to the limited transfer container capacity is to run a link from your extractor to storage container, ideally several daisy-chained together, with the last one linked to your transfer container. Then once you empty the transfer container, it's almost immediately refilled from the storage containers.
Yes it does but refilling was never the problem. The problem was that if u link more then 1 resource to it odds are that 1 resource will fill up 90% of the storage as he showed which means if u need the other resource its effectivly useless.
Storage limits are a bummer. I wish it was more like Fallout 4, where you can dump everything into the workshop, and it automatically connected. I dislike spending time to manage resources instead of playing the game.
did that dumping in my Boston airport settlement quite a lot as it was my main hub. after a while, the workshop started crashing just because of its content. so personally (and professionally as a programmer), although it requires some attention, limited containers are a good design
@@davidstastny3577 Starfield crashes for me too frequently. I don't benefit from the limitation.
Connect the transfer container to the last solid storage container in the chain from each extractor and you can pull all of the materials THROUGH the transfer container. The issue is that it seems like some resources extract at different rates. However it works fine for me. I take one resource at a time and they continue to extract through the transfer container.
There is one scenario where the transfer container is moderately useful, and that is using it as an input node to all different storage types in your main base. When you arrive there with your ship with all kinds of ressources in the hold, just dump from your cargo hold into the transfer container, and it sorts everything into their respective storage. Of course you still have to deal with the 200 limit, but at least you can offload from the comfort of your ship
Same use here. And I find this very useful actually.
This is how I use the Transfer Container. If I need to grab resources from the outpost I'll grab them from the actual storage containers which I purposefully located near the space port.
The simple thing I do at all my Outposts regardless of how much variation of extraction is going on apart from its Mass Storage is to simply put individual smaller storage units right next to the Ship Landing Pad. An individual storage unit for each resource. You feed it from the bigger storage units and so that if you take anything out it automatically refills. That way you don’t have to run around your base to get the resource from bigger storage units. It’s all right there stacked up in smaller individual container stack at the launch pad. From there I can manually transfer it to ship cargo. Yes, the Transfer Container in its current form is mostly useless, unless you’re just extracting or sending just one resource to it.
i use the transfer container completly the other way around. Not for getting things out but to put resources in. I link the output line from the transfert container to all kind of storage containers. This gives me a single point to dump my inventory into and all I put in gets autosorted into the storage containers.
The only useful way I can use the transfer container for is quickly dumping loot after missions, you can use it to auto sort items into their respective container (gas, solid, liquid, manufactured component).
For it to work you have to create the chain starting from the transfer container to each storage type, this makes sure your loot is being output to storage, not storage (like iron, nickel, etc.) being output to transfer container.
With this setup, put items you want to save for crafting into the transfer container and it will auto sort the items into the proper linked storage, and all of it is accessible for crafting on the outpost. This saves me time from having to manually put items into the right storage. And whenever I want to upgrade weapons, armor, or research, it's all right there.
Used to do this until I realized one huge stack of containers for each type (liquid, gas, solid, manufactured) of resources leaves you with no way to find one specific resources without going to each container and looking manually. Takes way too much time.
good idea in theory/basic use but thats it! when you have 24+ outposts (its fun! 😵💫) pumping into a main base its chaos but with tweaking can be done without that waste of resources transfer joke! 🤪
bugthesda need to put the fo4 industrial stuff in but make it sort everything into where you want it... i know my incoming storage is waaay in need of it! mind u when i do ng+++ i can start from scratch and make an even worse job of it! ah well, as todd once said, "it just works!"
@@Khalifrio What's the alternative?
@@fidissimus5212 If you want to be able to find specific resources your going to need to build a container for each specific item. Meaning a container for iron, another for nickle. Then do the same for each manufactured item, liquid, and gas. Yes that's a lot of containers but there is no other way to sort stuff.
Why not put storage containers next to the landing pad? No need to have them all spaced out like that.
I put a manufacturer outside and linked the finished product to the transfer container
Open console. Select transfer container with mouse. setav carryweight 100000
Close console. Problem solved.
You're solution with the cargo containers being in a central location was the exact same method i was thinking of to get around the problem. I think a good fix to the problem is to have the transfer container have a storage of 200kg for EVERY resource in it. Although i think your way works better.
I use transfer containers to drop off resources when I come back to my base. They are mostly useless for pulling resources because of the reasons you pointed out.
Also, you can build your solid storage containers for all your extractors at a common location so you don't have to run around to get the individual resources you are wanting. I keep four rows of containers near the base of my landing pad so I can run to one spot to pull resources. Alternatively, you can try building up to put your transfer container within reach of the top of your pad and then when you want a specific resource, link from the solid (or other type) of container to the transfer container then break the link when done so you just relink containers when you next need resources.
yea, I only use it to transfer all resources on the ship so they get sorted into proper containers. If they can't do the conduit as Major suggests then a cap upgrade to 1000kg would be welcome.
@KingRat543 I do the same, what is it, 200 at a time. Sux.
You are 100% correct in all assessments, I wholeheartedly agree
You don't need to grab the resources at all in order to craft. Every single storage container in your outpost (not crates, containers) are linked to any workbenches there. Container access is not necessary to the process ... you can just run into your hab and get right to crafting. In your use case, the transfer container is a non-problem because it isn't necessary.
The real problem you're having is the different rates of production of the different extractors. Of course a container will fill up faster with the resources that are produced faster! To even that out, try putting down a couple more aluminum extractors and one or two more for cobalt.
I suspect Bethesda meant transfer containers to be the deposit point for the end of a manufacturing chain; they were figuring folks would let auto-crafting do its thing, and swing by to pick up a load of the output from the transfer container. I do agree they're pretty bad at anticipating all the different ways players will think of to use stuff.
Personally I've just been using the thing as a larger general container, because manufactured components fill up those teeny "warehouses" waaaay too fast.
Do the 4 storage containers need to be right next to the extractors?
Couldn't you put the extractors on the perimeter but then link the extractor to 4 storage containers right next to your landing pad?
Yes, you can do that.
You are exactly right, they should be "pass-through" exactly like the workbenches are.
I only use transfer containers to dump and auto sort the resources from my ship to containers at my bases.
Yeah, that seems to be their best use... Just create an outgoing link from the container to storage bins for solid, liquid, gas, and manufactured goods and mass dump stuff from your ship that you intend to use for building later. Instead of calling them Transfer Containers label them as Offloading Platforms.
Indeed they are ok for that.
I did refer to episode 9 to build my settlement and your instructions were spot on thanks for the help slack, such a good XP and money farm
Also, when you link a bunch of containers of the same type, it should effectively merge those containers into one big storage. I cant tell you how annoying it is to go to the first container in a link of 10, dump resources into it and get the “container is full” that you have to click E to get out of , wait for it to slowly move it or be buggy and not move it for some reason for several minutes, and then open teh container again, dump everything you can in, and then have to E to accept the message that it’s full. Wait a few moments, reopen the container and dump another batch in. Just silly.
Dude, you explained the problem exactly. Showed many different ways and links to try to accomplish it (watch the whole video people). The problem is exactly as you described. It's not a "transfer" container as much as a transfered to "container" with a small capacity. It shouldn't be a container at all but instead a link between your own containers and the ship. That's the whole problem. Your video shows it perfectly.
I now just use them as bulk storage for cooking materials so they can be available at the cooking station.
Inventory management in this game is a nightmare. Whoever thought limiting the storage for crafting mats was a good idea needs to be fired.
8:24 You connected the extractors to the transfer container! The transfer container only has a small storage capacity of course it's not going to fill up any more than that! You're supposed to connect the extractors to the storage THEN connect the storage to to the transfer container like so: extractor > storage > storage > transfer container. You can then loot the transfer container like any other container, which then REFILLS, drawing from the connected storage, which you can then loot again.
This, you can also put your storage bins next to the pad all in one area, save you running all over, set them up in lines separate line for each, but yeah I'm only getting 300 of each resource per transfer
I'll look into it and make a fix (assuming nobody else does) once they release the Creation Kit and source scripts for Starfield. Great investigative work, Slack.
Yeah, I really thought that the whole point of it in the first place was to act like a "window" so that you could see all of the inventory of everything connected to it at once, instead of having to run around to each individual storage to manage them. I've even tried using console commands to bump up the container limit to really high (like 3000), and it still didn't really make it useful. I'm really not sure what they thought the transfer container was going to be used for, and because you can only have 1 per base, it really is limited in use outside of a single resource. I wound up just putting all of the containers in one spot stacked up right next to the landing pad to keep from running all over the place, but it's still not really ideal.
Love how informational your guides are
Great video. The other use for the transfer container would be to pull resources off the ship. I use it in bases where I am setting up storage units for items that I have gathered along my travels and hook up storage containers such as the warehouse to store things I have collected. You can access the ships storage from the container and if you set it up to feed into the storage units you can pull things off the ship and they are auto sorted into the correct containers. Anything that doesn't go in a storage unit is left in the transfer container. Just wanted to make sure you knew that the transfer container can also be used in the opposite direction, something you didn't cover in your video. Thanks and keep making wonderful vids.
you know you can access your ship's cargo holds directly when you're within 250m right?
and its odd that all these channels that tell u where to get 6 resources didnt and havent covered his
Place centralized containers near the ship pad like 10 long 4 high 4 rows, near the extractor put one container and link it to the rows, now all you do is run to the end and loot last in the chain
Can't wait until we get an outpost DLC... there is a lot of untapped potential with this system
Having played Fallout 4 for years, I cannot understand why Bethesda chose to handle resource storage this way. It's really overly complex. I have settled on using transfer contains only for food resources, so that I can craft food items while landed on my ship or a stove at the base. If storage weren't so limited on ships, then your ship could be an effective mobile base. But you either have to max out Payloads or Ship Design or both to get enough storage to practically do so, and then your ship is not good for combat. My base is wholly for storage and crafting, and my ship is for travel and combat. And my character can effectively transfer resources around better than the transfer container. Way too much effort is spent on maintaining resources in this game.
I wound up building one storage container per resource, sorted alphabetically. Only practical use for them.
Yeah, I was pretty disappointed in the transfer container function. The limit of 200 when I have 6000 gold ready to go is complete tedious and I have to click in and out of each menu pressing multiple buttons. It’s easier just to run around and lose the O2. I hope a lot of this stuff Gets fixed
At one point I “only” had 81 containers of semi metal wafers filling up every 24 hours for me to go sell throughout the settled systems. After messing with the transfer container, multiple times multiple ways just like in this video, I decided it was easier and quicker just to stand in front of one vertical row at a time and jump while manually emptying them. This is so much faster and easier than a transfer container lol. Even more so now that I have my long-haul predator ship with 24,000 cargo to actually carry my 6900 Semi metal wafers (150 containers worth).
Just another great idea poorly executed by the Bethesda team.
I linked mine to all different storage types, thus I can dump into it and it sends the right stuff to the right storage....so NOT useless at all.
Ohhhh, so you mean using the Transfer Container as a 'conduit' 😉 exactly what i do, i got 1000's of everything, all filtered through the Transfer container. Trouble is with it is that is one way only, once it's gone through it and gone into storage, you can't see what you've got unless you go to each storage container, that's the bit that is dumb. Bethesda needs to design a computer screen you can build so you can see all your resouces at your base from a single screen 👍
Hey slack! I agree with you on this…. To a point. If you have a lot, say the full 60, of storage some of them are nearly impossible to access. If you put an item, say like a zero wire in the transfer container, it fills instantly when there is room. Granted, you still can not choose which resource, but it makes it a lot quicker to empty all of your boxes . But you are right, should be a conduit to all resources
Dude, If you go to the transfer container and spam the Q key, (or whatever your bindings are to withdraw), you will quickly withdraw all of the minerals on the base into your inventory. Another note: if you use larger storage containers, make sure you link a basic one between your mass storage and the transfer container, the smaller capacity of the basic storage will not overload the storage container and allow you to MASS transfer everything in your base onto your character in seconds. I hope this is clear.
These could be much better. If they just allowed you to specify a percentage for each item and hold more items.
Your idea of a conduit is also good. And that does not add any extra storage capacity. I don't see a downside to the conduit idea.
Half the time you land on an outpost, you get auto booted out of the cockpit and end up beside the beacon. Might as well put one each of your storage containers surrounding the beacon and just link the rest to them. Then at least it is just a matter of taking what you want out of each one. Another big pain is sorting your giant collection of resources of all types into identifiable storage containers. So far I just make a line of storage containers, do not link it to any thing else and dump all my rare and exotics into that, but a time waster for sure.
EDIT: Just got to the end of your video and there you go doing exactly that !
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I just store all resources at the lodge. If I wanna go building something out in the universe I'll grab everything, you can't die from being over encumbered, I was hauling around 300K of weight the other day
Having sorters would fix it.
The "Personal Atmosphere" power will help you with oxygen when you're encumbered.
Helps me keep sprinting after clearing a base etc.
I just wish they had a menu where you can see all your resources and take them out rather than having to go through my Wall of storage containers trying to find what I need
It's funny. Your ship cargo/containers have limited space, right? But, if I simply dump piles of loot on the floor of my ship?? It's fine. It doesn't despawn, it just works.
But it can consolidate. Nothing like the 500 iron becoming 1
I agree 100% that transfer containers should be a conduit. They are pretty much useless for tranfers from outpost to ship. I do use the transfer container to transfer resources from my ship to the outpost storage at my main crafting outpost just so I can dump items for crafting use. Useful when buying bulk resources when selling off frames and magnets at neon. Although why i cant store aid items in a warehouse doesn't make sense to me (or coffee bags, tranquillia bags, and quark degenerative tissue). A storage overhaul is definitely needed.
This! It legit works fairly okay in the opposite direction that it describes. They spent all the outpost stuff on harvesting resources that are cheaply available all over the place. Outside of power leveling, the whole outpost system is fairly redundant and not nearly as engaging as fallout 4 settlements.
@@K2daE84 Agreed. It is a fun system but needs more unique rewards related to crafting (like outpost only generated items).
I only connect 2 extractors to the transfer containers and for the rest of the resources I run around and collect them manually, which is a real pain especially when you’re over encumbered even with the Personal atmosphere. This game has major flaws for sure. I really like the game but the game breaking bugs are making it really hard to enjoy the game. I have the workbench bug too. For me reloading a save or exiting the game the doesn’t work. The only thing works is to delete the workbench and craft it at a different location. There’s no excuse to have this amount of bugs in a game, they should’ve done heavy testing before releasing the bugfield.🙄☹️
Hi I agree the transfer containers are frustrating but still kinda useful. What I do is link containers rather than extractors. If more than one resource is linked then you can spam E until a single resource is left clogging the transfer container. At that point just look away and back as you mash E. I agree it should just be a conduit.
Especially if you just wanted like for example aluminum here... and not filling up ship cargo with the rest xD
I don't understand the storage limits. It's a single player game. What does it matter if they're all unlimited? It's on our PC or console. 🤔
This is the sort of thing where I would think "I must be doing it wrong"... so thank you Slack for doing the legwork to confirm that it's bugged. And it's really too bad, because it's a good concept.
I was having a ton of fun building my outpost network until I realized how much of a pain in the ass it is. Especially dealing with cargo links and the fact that it can only be linked to 1 planet. Imagine if airport runways could only be used to fly to one specific airport. It makes absolutely NO sense lol
Plus the pain that they only transport 1 ressource efficiently 😅😂 it gets wacky with with more than 1 xD
Bethesda has got to revise the whole outpost transfer system. I get limitations but only one transfer stn per outpost? Do they want players to be constantly frustrated and angry? I've spent less time at my outposts lately because they're so annoying 😒
Bottom line is if you can have unlimited storage in various containers within the lodge including your personal room and downstairs then why cant you also have unlimited storage in your outpost where you need it most? It's silly really. With a skill upgrade you can have multiple transfer cargo containers which helps but they are all still limited to 200 each. It's dumb.
Agreed! Absolutely useless, what a let down. Glad you posted this video and hopefully Bethesda can improve on them.
No they don't work as required. Bottom line is exactly what you said: Bethesda changing them into a conduit rather than a container is the way to go 100%
I do use a transfer container but slightly differently. Obviously the below is highly situational and might be of no use to you whatsoever Slack (indeed you might know it already) but it might help someone.
I needed lots of different additional resources to do research, craft weapon and spacesuit mods etc. So at my base I built a bunch of liquid, gas, solid and warehouse containers to store it all in. But running and dropping off each resource that I had picked up from my ships cargo was a pain. But I then set up a transfer container that linked to all those storage containers. That way I could land with my ship full of resources and funnel the cargo direct into the transfer container which then moved it into the relevant container type automatically without me having to plonk it in manually. It isn't ideal because of the stupid 200kg mass limit means it is a stop start process. But the auto sorting of multiple resources into the correct containers saved me a lot of time.
So instead of trying to use them to transfer resources *to* my ship I use them to transfer resources *from* my ship. Just a way to get some unintended use out of the stupid things. Once the newly stored stuff is squared away on base the benches will auto use it - as you already pointed out with the industrial workbench.
Obviously anyone not doing research, crafting mods at their base won't need a reserve of resources. If you do all that kind of researching or crafting stuff on your ship then the ships own cargo hold is doing that job already. But someone storing a lot of different resources for outpost building might find it useful.
Is it just me or does that spacesuit look like the lead smock the dental hygenist wears when she takes your x-rays?
That's pretty good accurate!
In mine I take the last container from each line of containers.
Sleep 2 or 3 hours.
I have to spam the take all button and it will empty all the containers.
I do not go from the extractor.
That works great as long as you want all those extra items and didn’t just want a few of something requiring you to take everything else to get lol
The entire out post system is buggy as hell imo.
I’ve had similar issues with cargo links and interlinks. If it’s more than one resource things go pear shaped.
To make things worse, some times things break for no reason and you have to break all the links and start from scratch which is pretty annoying when you have out posts spanning several systems.
Woohoo. More Starfield. Hope everyone is having a good day. Oh. Also. First. 😎😎
Congrats on first!
Well done, Number One 🙂
I must admit, as much as I've been loving Starfield, I am getting tired of the bugs, glitches and oversights (like this). I know there's a patch in Beta on PC at the moment but it'll be 3-4 weeks before I see it on console and (from what I've seen) it certainly doesn't address issues like Slack is highlighting here. The transfer container is even more useless given that, if you build all of the workbenches at your outpost and your ship is within 250m, you can access any resources in your ship's cargo hold at the workbench and build whatever you like but, you can't use any workbench on your ship to access your outpost resources without a transfer container (and even then, only the stuff that's actually in the transfer) Add to that, Slack's recurrent issue with the workbench being blocked and unaccusable. In my case, I have a steam vent in the middle of one of my habs and no amount of moving, tweaking or deleting and rebuilding makes t go away. In fact, I have something wrong with my habs in nearly all of my outposts. To be fair, Starfield is probably the least buggy BGS game I've played at release and I've been thoroughly enjoying my multiple playthroughs but I'm getting tired of waiting for some patches to fix some of the issues that do exist.
At least Slack hasn't got any bugs in him 😜 Great work as always Major.
Not working for me either. So first I fill up my ship cargo, run around to each storage bin, I fill up my personal inventory. I board ship, get the rest of the resources from ship to me, choose missions, select the one for the scientist at the tree, then I click on The Lodge and it pops me a couple feet from the door.
I came to the exact same conclusion, it should be a conduit as you put it. I tried looking for mods that do that and the only thing I found at this time is a mod that links all outposts and ship crafting stations. This is a bit reminiscent of how fallout 4 settlement links work, but since the cargo links are not designed to work like that, this mod makes things just a bit too convenient if we take in consideration the "official" game mechanics.
Agreed they are broken. I used them the other way round, with links FROM the TC to general containers of different types (solid resources, manufactured, liquids, gases). Then, after a mission, just dump all into the TC and it moves them to the right containers. This mostly works, but some things, e.g. Quark Degenerative Tissues block the TC. Sigh !
I agree with you that the transfer container needs to be reworked. The only way I have found it to be useful is to unload the recourses from your ship and automatically sorting those recourses into storage containers (liquid/solid/gas) and warehouses.
Is that not what it’s supposed to be for?
I've been implementing cargo-links and transfer containers only with the assumption they will get fixed or improved. Bethesda seems to have relied on a few outdated design choices that IMO were bad then and are still bad now (re: inventory UI design, base and ship building design and QA issues). Let's hope they are serious about supporting the modding community and thank the stars they put in the extra time getting rid of bugs because it's buggy enough anyway.
They really miffed the Transfer Container. All they had to do was take the old Fallout 4 workbench and change the graphic and call it Outpost Warehouse Interface or something. Then just limit it to resources and not accept weapons and such. You walk up to the thing and interact with it and it lists everything you have stored on your outpost.
I have tried everything as well. It just sucks trying to find a single item in a huge warehouse setup. I have come to the conclusion you need to build containers for each single resource item so you can find what your looking for by going to the specific container stack for that item. To make this easier I make a stack of the largest containers then place a small container for input and another small container for output. Link the stack so the resources move to the top. Then link the top most container to the small output container on the ground.
Moving the last container was my work around too. Resource management in general needs some attention. As do some known bugs like your ship suddenly being inaccessible or flying away on it's own.
I followed your tutorial and added in some outpost links to bring in some other resources. Right next to my landing pad I have full containers of about 10 things. It's kinda ugly but Lin is the one who lives there.
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The only thing I noticed, when transferring items from the container to the ship, new resources would immediately appear in the transfer container. My guess is, Bethesda didn't expect anyone to use it with more than 1 type of resource. So, as fast as new resources were coming into it as you transferred to the ship, it probably would be ok if you only had 1 type of resource. I also moved all of my solid storage containers over to the launch pad and stacked vertically with the bottom being the last in the chain, so you could just walk up and grab them easily. I also centralized all of my power since I really don't need to know where the extractors are now.
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Like loot spawn in higher locked chests my thought is they leave the transfer container like that just to royally piss us off! Thought Bethesda gave us Dropbox ala F4 but it's Easter for em to do a weah, nah! moment 🤬
Since the tc is so small it makes it pretty much useless. I dont think Bethesda envisioned people trying to make profits from their outposts since you have to jump through so many hoops to make it work from small TCs to vendors not having enough creds to buy all your resources at once. You have to hang out for a few days just to sell all your cargo. I like the game but it definitely needs tweaks in the outpost mechanics of the game.
As an output the TC is absolutly nonesense like its atm. It shouldnt fill up anyway and should just give us a full access to all ressources at the outpost connected to the TC.
I have a outpost to on Bessel III... 4 ressources plus 3 T1 crafted mats its just useless by that 😂
But a similar problem is with cargo links too. If you transport more than 1 ressource its wacky transport or not even transport both/more ress 😂
I personally don't use transfer containers for resources. I use it as a drop off point for all my other stuff I collected, notes, weapons, food, contraband, ect which is connected to the metal storage "chest" that is inside my base and that chest is dasy chained to other metal storage chests. Much more useful, but I agree that it's not the best thought out idea.
i wish they would bring back the settlement system from f4... it was far from perfect, but it was nice to see the settlers and it added a little game with little rewards within the game. the starfield xp farm works fine (but you don't really need it) but otherwise the outposts are mostly useless in the game
I agree it's useless, or at best of limited use. Simple solution - no limit capacity.
Have you tried connecting contains after the transfer container which might make the transfer container have more storage.
About half the time my ship doesn't land on the pad. Many times its not even in range of the transfer point. Even using a 38 meter ship. The ship building pad only works if you walk up on the pad a activate the upgrade ship and exit out to put ship on that pad. If small pads are limited to 40 meter ship there needs to be a large pad you can build that works. Plus I have more outposts than I am allowed to have small pads, so how can that work?
Hopefully modders can "sort" this one out for us. A few Satisfactory like tools would be great! Later.
Im convinced they expected users to only build maxx two resource outposts and that's wy they let you build so many
Thanks for the work.
Keep them honest. This seems like a blaring oversight and should have been caught at onset.
'Useless' vs 'Sucks'... not really any difference. And either way, you are correct.
We can build a freaking landing pad, but we can't be a stupid simple box in which to store sh!t.
My problem is that due to ANOTHER bug, I can't modify my home ship. I can modify other ships just fine, but every attempt to modify my home ship results in the game crashing. So, it's easy enough to make the ship I want to edit 𝘯𝘰𝘵 my home ship and then make changes. But since my ships don't have the same cargo size, it screws up 𝘢𝘭𝘭 my cargo (there's also bug where misc items get duplicated - so annoying). When I build an outpost, I should be able to build a simple fucking container that works just like the ship cargo. It's mind-boggling that we can't do this. Yet, my character can carry 1200 kg. Yes, I know about the unlimited storage in the Lodge, but that's a long walk.
So, I guess Bethesda figures that as we move forward in time, the human race forgets how to efficiently store crap.
I found this out by accident.
Empty your transfer container items then exit it. Go back and empty transfer container again. Repeat this process until nothing is left to collect. This method transfers all your storage containers to the transfer container to the ship without leaving it.
yeah, it also drives me crazy that we can show up with a ship with thousands of storage and you have to pull basically 200 at a time
Probably never considered that people would find places where you can get so many resources at one outpost.
I totally agree with your comments.. maybe they will update this.
The only way it works as designed is to connect (storage, not extractors, full containers fill up the transfer container faster) then use manage mode to connect whatever resource you want to the container, then delete that connection and attach the next resource, not very practical, and as soon as you connect a storage, it will fill the transfer container so unless you need that many, you will have to either drop or somehow get rid of the excess before connecting to the next resource, so no, I don't use it much either for multiple resource bases, and yes, what is needed is a conduit, not a temporary storage.
8:23 to check in inventory: You did not empty the container so it could not refill it. I agree it should like the work bench of showing all the harvest at that outpost. I also wish these links would work, half the time the stuff in one container does not move to the next container in your links, it just sits there.
Probably the easiest thing to do is put one small storage container for each item close to your landing pad. You can get out of the ship and easily grab items. There is now also a universal storage mod that helps tremendously.
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@@MajorSlackAttack If you use mods.. the SKK50 mod called 'SKK Universal Stash'. This creates a Universal Stash in the Lodge Basement and it creates a Production Storage for the outpost that can hold almost unlimited amount of items.
I have a whole set up and you can just dump resources into the transfer container…. You can link it to all of the diff storage on the outpost but it you can’t access what has transferred
So wise Thank You
Transfer containers dont hold anything. The inventory of this game is a disaster.
Thanks for pointing this out, and I agree. Bethesda should patch this to be essentially like a workbench: you can pull any resources into your ship that a workbench could pull.
EDIT: Is it possible to mod the storage limit of the container to unlimited? It may not be the best solution, but if it was the final point for all storage containers, it then could fill up infinitely. It's not just a conduit (which would be the best solution) but I would think that would be the best solution if the storage capacity it editable.
transfer containers are a waste of time. For Besel 3B, just build a 4 seperate large solid storage units - right next to the outpost beacon (where you will spawn) - link each storage stack at your extractors to a unique large storage unit by the outpost beacon. when you land you can collect the materials you need without havng to run around the perimiter. I agree, the transfer containers should just be a conduit
lol just watched the rest of the video, great minds think alike
My suggestion for your storage is to build them next to your landing pad. Stack the containers 2-3 high with a final one on top that'll be the transfer end container and have it popping just above the landing pad so you can loot them all from the edge without having to get off and run around. I tend to 7-9 tier 3 containers at most of my bases. With a couple outpost setups with the containers used as walls around the outpost creating a walled base.
This is exactly what I do. Most of my containers are out near the edges of the outpost, but the last containers in my storage chain are level with the top of my landing pad.
hi slack i kinda think these devs so busy thinking how these systems can be abused , also what about the system containers that transfer to another system are they the same
they get harder to understand say you have a OP transferring copper in if you use up all you have to wait until the next supply ship lands from that OP (maybe I think but not sure)
It's even worse if you're using transfer links to other outposts as some materials never make it and you have to fly to the planet to pick them up yourself
If you managed the flow better ,I had that problem until I used some common sense lmao
Wait I linked my last linked storage box from each minning location then to the transfer container. Then I would withdraw all my mined ore from the transfer container.
Then I have to run this sh!t to my ship by foot encumbered.
I also put a bed right next to the transfer & container & would sleep a few hours after each withdrawal then leaving after i have 35k of ore & take that back to lodge for unlimited storage.
How far away is your ship? If it's close by then you should be able to just drop it straight from your inventory into your cargo hold....
And here it is 5mths after your vid and its STILL not fixed
19:22 yeah thats what i was on aboot at 3:49 jeez and i watched it this far 😅
Wondered what those did, never used them. I use outposts to make stuff to sell and my ship is near enough to just transfer using the menu. I might try and use one of these for immersion.
My space trucker miner…. BJ and the bear in space lol…. Would not stand at a console, clicking multiple buttons to move 45 items at a time…. When he could just go jump in front of all the containers and manually get the items quicker and easier. But I’m sure But just like in real life lol there’s some Starfield characters out there who would prefer to sit at a desk and hit the button instead of doing the manual labor of jumping in front of all the boxes.
It's better to think of them as Offloading Platforms instead of Transfer Containers. If you create outgoing links from the TC to storage bins for all 4 resource types you can quickly dump stuff from your ship into sorted storage bins for later use in building.
I try to use the transfer container for a single resource, but I have only successfully pulled the resources out of the container and into my ship one time over three full playthroughs. usually when I press the button to "take all" or try to take a certain amount, nothing happens. and yes, i'll have way more than enough free cargo space on the ship when trying to do so. I mean, I can manually extract stuff from it, but that defeats the purpose when I can't do it from the ship. Going back to the start of your video, why didn't you just set up all your storage containers in a central location and just have longer output links since that makes no difference? instead of running from area to area lol
It never works if you are just trying to pull only certain materials out, but they do function as a pass through if you want to empty all containers in the outpost. The central containers plan is best if you just want to pull a specific resource.
i've had similar experience with them, your idea of them being a conduit sounds much better. the container connect is glitchy as well and sometimes the chain bugs out; forgot to add, cargo links have a resource prioritization issue as well with multiple resources, it not a even distribution on shipments, worth a look later i suppose