What do you guys use as your overflow materials storage solution of choice? (Early stages of game)
Goldengoose7
California USA Join Date: 2018-04-26 Member: 240346Members
California USA Join Date: 2018-04-26 Member: 240346Members
Right now I have a bunch of the floating waterproof storage boxes circling my LifePod. I had assumed something larger and more permanent would make itself known by now, but so far I have yet to find anything larger that I can actually place under my Pod or even on a nearby island.
I have the ability to build a bunch of various structures including the item called "Locker - Large, freestanding storage" but when I attempt to place it down on either the seafloor or on dry land, the thing is always RED and won't appear. I have the Quartz and Titanium x2 on hand, so not sure what is up with that. (playing the latest Beta/experimental version of the game)
Obviously, what I am really after is a large storage solution I can place on the seafloor directly under my Pod so I can get rid of all these Floating WaterProof boxes. They are handy and cool, but I need way too many to contain all the junk I have collected so far. Plus there is no easy way to label them so I know what is inside without actually opening each one up one by one.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
I have the ability to build a bunch of various structures including the item called "Locker - Large, freestanding storage" but when I attempt to place it down on either the seafloor or on dry land, the thing is always RED and won't appear. I have the Quartz and Titanium x2 on hand, so not sure what is up with that. (playing the latest Beta/experimental version of the game)
Obviously, what I am really after is a large storage solution I can place on the seafloor directly under my Pod so I can get rid of all these Floating WaterProof boxes. They are handy and cool, but I need way too many to contain all the junk I have collected so far. Plus there is no easy way to label them so I know what is inside without actually opening each one up one by one.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
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Finding the materials to get your habitat builder can be a bit challenging in the early game, but it's definitely rewarding when you can build your first base.
I finally broke down and watched some YouTub videos on how all this works. I was trying to figure it out without any aids, but the building process is definitely unique and not obvious until you see how its done.
I am used to No Man's Sky base building and was missing the second part of the process where you have to make the placed module APPEAR/FORM by using the building tool.
Finally crafted my first module and was able to fit it with three of those large storage lockers. Stashed all my stuff in those and then cleaned up the area by removing all the floating storage boxes.
Question... Can you BREAK DOWN items back into their constituent parts? I can't figure out how to get rid of stuff I don't need anymore, like all these waterproof storage boxes.
Do you just take it out somewhere a distance away from your HQ an dump it all? That is what I did for the time being, but would love to know how to DELETE stuff out of your inventory and have it permanently gone. Being able to get back the raw materials would be even better.
Thanks in advance.
P.S. I just aquired the SeaMoth submarine! This thing ROCKS! Finally a vehicle I can really get into using.
Heh, I also came over from No Man's Sky and found the transition a little jarring at first.
You CANNOT break down items back into their parts again (except for buildings.) So you're stuck with the waterproof storage boxes. You can build a trash can and put stuff in there, which removes them from the game. That's the way to delete things you don't want chewing up space in your storage.
I have a relatively small base but it's filled with many, many lockers. That's how I keep things organized. I have four lockers for Titanium, and then one each for most of the other elements. I'm almost near the end of the game, so I have a huge cache of materials now, so much so that I had to stop mining for diamonds LOL. But in the beginning you start making lockers and as you fill them up, grab more scrap metal and make more titanium, to make more lockers.
The floating lockers are good when you set up a temporary base or remote base. I set up a tiny base on one of the islands. As I was building it, I used a floating locker on the shore to store the materials. They are also useful to place around the map with critical items (food, medicine, water) in case you get in trouble far from home. Just put a beacon nearby so you can find them.
YES! I got the blueprint to that special trash can and made one. It works great for getting rid of stuff you don't need or want anymore.
I dropped about 10 of those floating lockers in there and kept 8 for future use.
I've built a pretty cool base at my LifePod site because I liked the location. Built the MoonPool for my SeaMoth and added that modification terminal so I could paint it yellow and rename it.
My next goal is to build a Cyclops.
I really miss not being able to rotate base objects before placing them like you can in NMS's base building process. Unless I am missing something?
I believe while you can see the hologram, use the mouse wheel to rotate the object.
Use the mouse wheel to rotate before you place!
Everything you gather becomes a permanent item to use, unless you dispose of it in the Garbage Can.
So anything you set on the seafloor will still be there when you go back for it at a later time.
I use this trick a lot while gathering stuff in the deeper parts of the game.
Just pick a spot, place a Buoy Marker and dump your excess there as a free-form larder.
Just make sure you aren't placing the stuff on any kind of slant, cause the 'rounder' stuff will tend to roll away.
Is there a "Controller" equivelant to that action? I am playing the game with my XB1 Elite Controller on my PC, and while I do use a wireless "Mini-Keyboard" for navigating around Windows etc. I just have a trackpad on this keyboard and not an actual mouse.
This machine is exclusively a gaming PC. I don't do any actual work on it. Not even email or web browsing 99% of the time.
That's a really clever idea! I had considered doing something along those lines, but I wasn't sure if items dropped on the seabed were indeed permanently maintained in that exact spot.
Thanks for that helpful bit of info!
Since I started this thread I have progressed quite a bit from where I was then, and have built a medium size base on a natural outcrop about 50 meters over from where my original Pod is located. I didn't set out to make a base here, but after playing around with learning the ins and outs of base building in the game, I created something I really like. So... I am currently using this as my base of operations.
I'm even powering it with a Nuclear Reactor so that I have constant power to everything even in the middle of the night.
I'm still confused as to why your can't use those power transmitters to relay power to other structures that are not physically connected to the main base that includes the reactor building.
Any idea why the developers have divided the power sources into two camps like that? It doesn't make much sense from a practical/scientific perspective.
Thinking outside the box, good show sir!