[Starfield] Outpost Guide 4.0: How To Connect and Organize Perfect Outposts

Starfield Outposts can be chaotic, but they don't have to be. Watch this video to learn a myriad of gaming tricks to elevate your Starfield Outpost experience. I've left no stone unturned in my quest to provide you with the most comprehensive and innovative strategies out there. Step by Step Guide on the full Starfield Outpost design. Get ready for an epic journey through the Starfield universe as we share tips, tricks, and strategies for dominating the game. Whether you're a seasoned player or just starting out, our guide covers everything you need to know about Starfield Outpost.
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00:00 Introduction
00:29 Tips and Tricks
01:55 Finding The Perfect Base Location
04:12 Placing Extractors
06:07 Robots
07:05 Storage and Connectors
12:14 Cargo Links - Linking Outposts
17:22 Trouble Shooting Connecter Issues
22:48 Conclusion

[@sleepydee1745]

tip for when you’re searching for two biomes on a planet. when you land before you exit the ship or pilot seat and you’re at the “exit, take off, leave seat” screen go into photo mode and you’ll be able to look around the area with the higher camera view and find the different biome if you’re close, if not then take off and land somewhere else and look around.

[@robertoblarasin1846]

Great tip! Thanks

[@matthewfraser3826]

When you choose a landing spot I’m pretty sure it tells you what the biome is.

[@sleepydee1745]

@@matthewfraser3826 if you’re only trying to build in one biome that works too. But i like having an outposts in the middle divider for two different biomes allowing for more resources to be mined

[@frontstreetdon6398]

@@sleepydee1745 gonna try this right now man thanks for the info ! Been getting the hang of mining and connecting outposts after 100hrs of messing around lol.

[@BrentLeVasseur]

Also pro-tip: If you are mining on a planet where you get raided by animals or bounty hunters/pirates, you can build an impenetrable wall around your base using raised storage containers, which have no limit. When you build up a stack and delete the ones below the top box, it fills in with cement foundation which becomes your wall.

[@dumbgames4933]

Fantastic tip, thanks!

[@wakko18]

Sounds like titans wall 😂

[@SARDOG]

DUUUUUUUUUDE!!!! TY

[@Dmart42]

Fkkk I love you bros no homo thanks for the tip I will build the very walls of Isengard lol

[@BrentLeVasseur]

@@Dmart42 Ha! You made me laugh, cheers!

[@TacticatGaming]

This world is full of differences, opinions and challenges. Please ignore the negativity other KZbinrs are directing at me. We’re here to have fun. We’re here to play Starfield. I’m going to continue to be kind, thoughtful, and energetic about life no matter what negativity is baselessly directed at me. At the end of the day, we’re all just a bunch of dudes having a good time.

[@eddiebuster-od8zd]

aggreed

[@shock729]

People mad on the internet is wild to me sometimes. But what said is the most genuine thing iv heard today and you're real for that keep ur head up big man

[@mrdowning89]

You could cure cancer and people would still complain that your putting doctors out of a job… Haters gunna hate. Stay positive bro! 👍

[@adpace]

Thank you for making a guide like this. I'm so tired of every guide being the basics for beginners. One suggestion...rather than wire the stacks of boxes together, take the one that you feed from the extractors, place it 30 feet behind the stack of boxes, then wire it to each individual box. This makes it so much easier to see which boxes are wired and which aren't. It also allows you connect/disconnect individual boxes easily.

[@steveminla]

I just noticed not to long ago that the "linked" storage containers that are connected together have no color shade. And the storage containers that are not connected have a blue color to them (to identify they aren't linked and that you can link to those).

[@rycarr]

If you're crafting in an outpost it automatically can pull from all storage chests at that outpost. No need to manually grab materials unless you're gearing up for massive crafting sessions that need more than all your storage can hold at once.

[@kittenmasaki]

This is the best reason to have a home base outpost. If you skip cargo links and other stuff, at least having a place you can build containers and store it all is great. Let's you reduce the mass on your ship

[@thrawn82]

I know it pulls from storage buildings, but i think it doesn't pull from the boxes and chests for crafting.

[@JesusKreist]

@@thrawn82 Correct. Weapons/packs/spacesuits you have in those chests/display cases are not available for modifying in the crafting bench either. If you have those in your ships inventory they are. Meaning those are 100% separated from the "shared inventory" outpost building and crafting use.

[@jimbeaux89]

Dude this is incredibly helpful! I have about 80 hours into starfield, but haven’t messed with outposts much because of how intimidating it is. Thanks a ton man, I can truly tell that you put incredible effort and incredible amount of time into this guide. This is my first video of yours, but you’ve got yourself a sub in me. Love from Ohio!

[@TacticatGaming]

Appreciate it and glad this helped!

[@zach240]

Simple start. Beacon, extractors, solar panels, storage containers, transfer container, landing pad. Connect the extractor to the storage then to the transfer container.

[@jimbeaux89]

@@zach240 I will do just that. Thanks man Sweet name btw. Especially since it’s Zach with an H

[@mattreed9513]

Another tip: if you are going to take resources from transfer stations, you can do it from your ship’s cargo hold. You just have exit and enter it’s menu to refresh its inventory. In case anyone is too lazy to exit their ship like me

[@falcore4782]

What I would love to see is an additional console that you can build at your outpost that not only shows a galactic view of shipping lanes but allows modifications without having to travel.

[@jaywall4591]

Cargo links are not based on UT, they are based on in-game time. You're best off setting it all up and going off to quest for half an hour to an hour. This will ensure your operation is well underway.

[@BREAKocean]

What's UT mean

[@jaywall4591]

@BREAKocean Universal Time. Time elapses differently across each system, dependent upon the planetary body's relative position to it's Sun, etc. The game converts this back. It's like time zones in space. Resting for an hour on Venus is like resting 243 Earth hours (the game does it at a 1:100 basis though but that's still muchos mineralos)

[@timfederwitz]

Was going to suggest this myself. I sure wish cargo links also followed the UT guidelines. Frustrating that it doesn't. However, as @TactiCat mentions, you can fast travel to an outpost for quicker retrieval. In that way, you can create much larger storage at those outposts to accumulate via UT, so when you go there, you can grab a massive quantity quickly.

[@119Agent]

I have noticed that just because all the desired resources show up in your scanner for a particular outpost spot doesn't necessarily mean those will all be available in that outpost's circular area. It is not uncommon for sections of an outpost to be "prohibited" for some reason.

[@Weeohhweeohh]

I found a nice trick to have my containers spaced out. Build a 2x2. Place a 1x1 at the bottom left. Place a 1x2 to the left, and it will be off set by a 1x1 square. Place another 1x1 at the bottom left and then another 1x2 on the bottom left. It's offset by another 1x1 unit. Now all your rows are lined up perfectly. Thanks for the 60 limit conection tip!

[@randytesla7596]

Took a screenshot because I can't picture this in my mind so I will read this again when I play the game. Lol

[@Weeohhweeohh]

@randytesla7596 ya, you are basically using the 1x1 and 1x2s to do the parallel offset. The 1x1s are the only unit that can start it because the other two start snapping like they are supposed to. I don't think you can make them right next to each other, but a 1x1 gap works perfectly.

[@davidm6027]

Thank you very much for this guide. It has made this confusing issue make a lot more sense and it has been very helpful in recognizing some of the mistakes I made. I really appreciate you explaining everything as well as your suggestions.

[@phpjeff]

Thanks for all your info. I think that two things are the main issue. One is the separation of time with production and the cargo ships. This causes massive build ups of resources waiting to get shipped. Then, with the inter system links, ships will pick up 500 cargo and only be able to drop off 300 (probably the source of the bug) the extra 200 cargo seems to get stuck in the ship, meaning that it will no longer release that 200. Something then happens each subsequent shipment where it seems to pick up the resources but will no longer drop of the resource types that are stuck in the ship. This causes the scenario where you have multiple resource types but only one is getting dropped off. I say that because I noticed that when you break the link between stations and quickly exit the menu, you see that all the stuck resource types get sent to your inventory and the ship's storage goes back to 0/500. I think the best and most optimal setup is what you show here. Link resources to your transfer station and run the resources manually between planets and then go to your main base and craft for the mad xp boost. It sucks that the cargo links don't work and hopefully will be fixed soon, but until they run on the game time and not real time, they will never be as productive.

[@seanunderscorepry]

Thanks so much for putting in the hard work to cover this subject ! I hope the algorithm rewards you!

[@TacticatGaming]

Unfortunately I took so long with this the topic has been covered by others. I haven’t watched any of the other videos but I don’t think they go into the details I do and provide working solutions for bugs.

[@Maraxik]

I subbed for Zorak the posterchild of a bad bug lol

[@Silveredy]

dammittttttttt... yes! I deleted all outposts, recreated all links, and even doing the specific storage for outgoing or ingoing yes everything goes in circle around my outposts. well thats actually fine, sometimes i need some materials here and there, so make my life easy. thanks for the very well organized explanation. thanks keep up the good work

[@TacticatGaming]

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[@warren1301]

A few Building tips if interested; The only limit for space is really where you want your initial extractors, so place all those first and build right up to, and around them later. You can then fill up the base over the resources without affecting extraction! Room for cool and useful stuff like a decked out hab/watchtower/work stations/turrets etc! Build it up slowly best jump in test and plan certain placement as; 1. Storage linked stacks are the hardest to move. 2. transfer/ship platforms require the most space and should be as close together as possible for easy getting around. But it’s all easy to move! (Except large storage stacks) You can always shuffle around later to better setups, that’s what I did. I Love 💕 my highly productive beautiful main outpost now! Ty @Tacticat!

[@kaynakdonmez1288]

you need a distribution base, where resources from other outposts come in, and they all go to 1 cargo link, linking everything directly to main base.. and in fact you need multiple distribution bases that collect from many extractor outposts.. and the main base only has connections to these distribution bases. Other wise you'd need multiple main bases because there aren't enough cargo links allowed in 1 base for all the resources. So Extractor->Distibution->Main base

[@TRG29338]

Good idea.

[@bigrigtalkgaming]

I believe your problem is your trying to use your transfer station for incoming I believe it is ment to be used for you to transfer your product directly to your ship (out going ie: automated manufacturing) without you leaving your ship. just run a link to a set of cargo boxes directly from the cargo link incoming. Do not use the transfer station that way the incoming ship will continue to fill the boxes until they are full.

[@rorrimcigam]

Yeah, when you sleep, it plays catchup with deliveries after you wake. So, you if you sleep and then just wait a moment, you'll see the containers fill pretty quickly. I actually stack the containers high at my depot base for this reason. I can just look out of the cockpit and see the green bar is full/load the ship/fabricate/sell.

[@JVMMauro]

Good job dude. The diagram and the spreadsheet were very good. Very intuitive. Maybe with some mods that have arrived in Creation Make the outposts more rewarding for the effort put in. Like the Starsurvival mod and its addons and makes the Starfield galaxy more realistic. Thus making the construction of warehouses more pleasurable.

[@Slacker28]

This is all amazing, still need a way to transfer multiple resources through a cargo link without one resource overcrowding the storage and preventing other resources from coming in.

[@Sockchucker]

I have a lot of outpost work to do this weekend. Thanks man

[@TacticatGaming]

Np!

[@unknownel6174]

I had no idea about the command console on the cargo link. That’s the one nugget I needed!

[@bahamutstear1369]

The infinite storage chest in the basement respawns if you leave it for a period of time not sure how long I would put anything in there safe in bedroom is SAFER

[@johnathanmanuel780]

I dont even have that storage chest in the basemeant

[@bahamutstear1369]

@@johnathanmanuel780 there should be about 6 or seven chests in the basement and also the mannequin 3 for ammo by the weapons work bench one in the bedroom down there another on the left as you head to the manikin and that one right behind the research work station plus two weapons racks on the wall

[@johnathanmanuel780]

@@bahamutstear1369 no theres a large storage chest in that basemeant under the weapon racks by the benches on the back wall, as you come down the stairs, ive seen it in a video once and cannot figure out how they got it there. But i just use the nova galatic captains qaurters for a bed and large storage chest, stroud eklund workshop for benches and research station and nova control centre for chest and crew and called it a day until i ng+ a few times

[@bahamutstear1369]

@@johnathanmanuel780 it might be a mod cause I don’t have it on Xbox

[@gidds617]

Thank you!

[@alexmccamy6808]

The small stacks of storage was game changing. I’d been building huge walls of storage and spent hours troubleshooting crappy links. Getting the four main resources from one outpost was great. I tried initially but gave up and had 3 outposts with some overlap. The crater/mountain thing let me consolidate it all to one outpost.

[@TacticatGaming]

That was my main take away, small stacks are easier to problem solve bugs

[@somewonderfulguy]

For sake of ease of linking containers in isometric view I put every container in single row not putting containers on each other. Then I link from left to right or vise versa. And after connection made I move containers to stack them in columns. So you get zig zag linking without doing zig zag manually. That's faster for me.

[@tmpardi77]

Wish i found your channel days ago before i went through all this bugged cargo link stuff. I must have spent 10 hours just messing with cargo links trying to figure out what i was doing wrong.

[@TacticatGaming]

Yeah its' huge pain isn't it

[@myfrozenhead]

By creating a flow diagram really explains a lot with less words. Been thinking the same how to create clean designs. Subbed.

[@TacticatGaming]

Awesome, thank you!

[@kwongwahwong6289]

I remember seeing another youtuber saying that the cargo links ONLY work in real time, and they will not work whilst you are waiting or sleeping. When you wait or sleep, the cargo link system pauses, until you start "playing" again. I've not used the cargo link system myself, so I can't comment on it myself, but it was something I did see another youtube guide mention

[@TacticatGaming]

100% that’s what my testing concluded. I went out and did mission for 2 hours came back to like 3k iron finally

[@kittenmasaki]

The links don't transfer but the extractions do happen. So if you have containers at the mining source they will be completely full. Once the cargo links start they will be bringing in huge hauls.

[@garnth6594]

Something I haven't seen mentioned in these base building videos: According to an in-game popup, bases receive increased production rates if you FULLY survey the planet they are on. Don't neglect your scanning

[@Spukz23]

WOW! Thanks for that info mate, legit didn't know.

[@JesusKreist]

@@Spukz23 That is because it is a ~0.5 second popup the moment you plop down the outpost itself shown in the top right. Faster than you can fully read even if you pay attention to that corner it is gone again.

[@garnth6594]

@@JesusKreist Haha, true. Todd seems to expect all us space explorers to be accomplished speed readers/

[@garnth6594]

For those trying to see it, pay attention to the popups in the top right when you place a base on a fully surveyed planet. Don't blink cause it's super quick.

[@Apotheosis_Jim]

I like your focus on "gaming the system." Most videos seem limited to very basic guides. I'm glad it's there for other people, but I don't really need basic UI functionality and game mechanics explained to me. What I hadn't grokked, though, was how to turn those basic skills toward making a profit or in the case of your farming legendary items, getting the best gear. Keep it up!

[@warren1301]

I would also always place the large round ship landing platform straight away. If later you have a ship too big it will not land at the outpost, it will land at “the original landing site” much further away. The large platform is also great for ship building and modifying so win win. NOTE: you can switch current active ship to the original starting frontier or a small ship you own at the platform to not have to run back to that big ship you landed on but this can also bug out and require a save and reload. To avoid I recommend just setup the bigger ship platform on initial build. 👌👍

[@brandoncomeault6465]

quick tip press right click for both starting and and selecting the links

[@lunarcontact]

Thanks for link graph at 8:55!

[@justinsgarage1125]

20:10 I was having the same exact issue. I had my last storage box linked to the outgoing of the cargo link but it would not pull from the last storage container in the chain. I just had the idea to try the second to last link of the cargo box chain and it suddenly worked. I just re-did the links to everything and it works fine now.

[@MichaelBeck324]

ok so one cargo link transfers 300 materials to it's destination every 4 game minutes. unless they fixed it in the .36 update sleeping doesn't affect that. it just means that the link that is exporting is actually filling up before transfer, which is not the same thing as the actual transfer of the good.they also take a minute to load and a minute to offload with a 2 minute flight time.also i only ever use the transfer station for final product parts from fabricators since that is where your money is really coming from. also using power switches helps with power issues and upgrading to larger storage as you research and skill up. it's a fun process and i actually love it. i just wish that the links were based on UT and not real time.

[@Blusher101]

2 things. 1. do not put anything into storage from personal inventory could cause problems. 2. every system receiving/shipping MUST have HE3 connect to the back part. make it separate HE3 even if it comes threw different planet.(ive done it and it works. make sure to use enough of it) you need 5 HE3 for each one. do not use HE3 from your main storage that you are shipping to feed it.

[@kylep8183]

I didn’t know about the storage bug but it makes sense, I have been having issues getting more resources from my other outposts. Kind of been putting my outpost building to the side as I work on getting more levels.

[@TacticatGaming]

Yeah I might need to make a video on having storage for each extractor and then running it into the transfer station

[@TacticatGaming]

If you have 6 storage per extractor and then run it into transfer that’s only 8 connectors and a total per extractor. And 30 storage collectively for 5 extractors. Mitigates the bugs and allows bulk

[@muldersxfiles]

I have found that creating links between points of shipment tend to get bugged when you make connections while an outpost is in the process of manufacturing. The way to avoid this is before making the connection to transport out allow your storage to just completely fill up everywhere in the outpost and can speed this process up by waiting. Once all of your outpost containers are full then create the outgoing link. I also try not to interfere with production. So I place a main kill switch between power and my manufacturing because most of the time unless your are frequently pulling your inventory then your storage will fill up and only be relieved from a transport. That way I can shut down manufacturing at the outpost, pull all of the inventory to my ship and then turn it all back on at once allowing each piece of machinery to fire up at the same time. You will even notice at that point all of your extractors are operating 100% tangent with each other meaning you see them go up and back down synchronized. This allows each machine to be producing the same amount and sending it to their respective storage with better efficiency. This is another layer of work because you are wiring each machine up rather than the passive power but this method also allows complete control of operation and is more efficient. I like to wire each of my power sources together in a daisy chain, then the last to the switch. Then from the switch to each of the extractors separately. So you shut that switch off and everything shuts down. In my experience this can prevent a lot of the bugs. I mean they included power switches for a reason. And rather tear everything down you can just reboot it

[@adiabeticjedi3278]

Oh so @15:30 you are basically just installing a "middle Man" for our cargo links.

[@ThatMoralGuy]

You also get a room in the lodge that has no cap on weight in a locker

[@KIKI55cro]

Place the workstation next to ship platform in main base. Also create a lot of buffer storage in main base (30x conteiners) and in farm bases when usin cargo links. I personally avoid transfer station.

[@djbenjiblue7788]

Just a caution, but be careful when placing the robots. There's a bug that causes the game to freeze when you place them near an object. If they disappear next time you visit a base and you activate the scanner, the game will freeze/crash and render that base unusable. It's possible that even by leaving and attempting to go back that the fast travel point for it may disappear.

[@Naomitage]

another tip for linking storage faster, rightclick links them too. So you just look at the starting container and then find your rythm for rightclick start link, rightclick place link

[@dumbgames4933]

Appreciate the vid, the positivity, and the diagram!

[@EquestrianAltercationsLLC]

Another trick for outpost item placement; if you cant get the rotation right you can scroll to the next item and back and it will alight it perpendicular with your character. IE you can position yourself instead of the item to get a clean angle.

[@TacticatGaming]

Niceeee

[@mammoth505]

I love some of these suggestions. You have put some significant effort into gathering these ideas. Thank you, bruh.

[@samhain183]

Thanks man, this was really helpful in troubleshooting my cargo links.

[@TacticatGaming]

Glad it helped

[@SuperWabo]

The ship builder has a "flight check list" that gives you hints if something breaks. The intersystem cargo links has nothing like that and it constantly breaks. Spending time trying to understand why your network of intersystem cargo stopped working is frustrating. You can try different things: Save and reload. Restart the game. Tear down and rebuild. It seems completely random when it works or not. Even when you get things working they may break again even if you leave your "working" setup unmodified. My advise: Ignore this part of the game unless you enjoy traveling back and forth and trying random things. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Good luck everyone - Enjoy your adventures :)

[@mobi1etone]

Yepp, i had a perfectly working set-up, mining, transporting, fabricating. Do a few missions and come back to stuff in the incoming box that shouldn't be there, harvesters not working, cargo transport ships missing, one fabricator not running, stash boxes refusing to load up etc etc. It's a f-ing mess.

[@user-mf6gl8zl1i]

I fixed my cycling of resources by untracking all of the resources so that my cargo ship would dump all of it to my main base. I also build storage next to the incoming container and put output link from incoming container to the storage then output link from storage to outgoing container from my outgoing cargo inter link so it would recycle if ever my main base is full

[@kevinvodek]

Excellent video! I wish I watched this before making a total hash of my first 6 outposts. Got so many red laser links it’s like a scene from a movie where the burglar is trying to steal the jewels and having to get through the laser security system lol honestly a criss cross of red lasers. I didn’t know about the daisy chain tidy way you do it. Also my cobalt and nickel outposts are on a harsh planet with loads of restricted areas. Did that twice on the same planet 🙈 Got 2 of my 8 left so will make those 2 fails only nickel and find mainly cobalt. Then one more for tungsten and hopefully lead. Thanks for showing me the way 🚀

[@TacticatGaming]

God speed. That’s sounds like a fun setup.

[@Babyboomer_59]

Nice video I took away a few things from it, My thoughts is that if this is first resource gathering outpost then by all means place down your storage containers, that's a given, but... if this is just a distribution outpost then I would suggest forgoing the storage containers all together and link your extractors straight to the outgoing of the cargo links along with the helium needed for the intersystem cargo links. Due to storage limitations I would also suggest creating two outpost with 3 - 4 cargo links "distribution" having all of your other outpost going to the distribution and then two cargo links at the home base and have the two distribution linked outpost aimed at the home distribution that way it would help relieve the bottle necking and hold up along with the noise.

[@adamantiumreaver4283]

From what I noticed, when a cargo ship lands, it makes all the storage boxes flow when connected to cargo links. 11:58

[@Blindbygreen91]

Nice appreciate the tips time to fix my cargo links…I follow your other video and didn’t realize that cargo links had outgoing and out coming boxes

[@TacticatGaming]

Yeah once you understand that it’s very clean process - though cargo links still kinda suck

[@gamemasteraj05]

Thank you I was wondering why I was producing a lot of copper and iron

[@anthonybaleur9296]

IN the menu (tab) you can go to your inventory, and directly swap to cargo ship and then you can swap to the " inventory outpost " , you don't even need to leave the ship

[@ScalerWave]

Nice work, very well done. Really liked the diagrams

[@codydallas1355]

Dude you’re an outpost genius 😂

[@danielbuckley7686]

The man's a genius

[@Isaaccallowayexperience]

Learned a lot

[@newbslayercm9416]

I have to constantly remind myself that this is a bethesda game and not factorio or satisfactory. The lack of efficiency is killing me and no sorting makes my brain melt. There is so much missing in the outpost system but I enjoyed your guide! Thanks!

[@TacticatGaming]

Yeah I hate the system which I think is missed in my guides. Lmao. 100% agree

[@shaqueal9535]

To not have to worry about deleting the entire structure you have to remove the link from both locations not the entire cargo

[@Namenlos555]

The main question is still: Why would you even build outposts? I made my first character focuses around outpost/the science skill tree and I regretted it: Don't get me wrong, I would enjoy to build up a logistic network, which automatically produces all the components needed to build an advanced nulcear plant, but this is extremely tedious on so many levels. I would still like to go through all of that, if there is at least a real benefit in doing so, but it seems, that there are only two main benefits from outpost: - You can cheese yourself massive amounts of xp with crafting (but this doesn't require a big network of outposts and ruins the fun (i didn't do that)) - you can build "better" outposts (and even here is the question: what is "better"? They may be able to produce stuff faster, but it is already producing stuff so fast, that you don't need it (except for the xp-cheese, but you could just wait longer for htis one) On the other hand, the list of things you can't do, is rather long: - You can't craft ammo - You can't build a ship with ressources (only with money) - You can't automatically sell stuff from the outposts - you may be able to gather the ressources needed for weapon mods, but honestly, it is not worth spending real life days on the system for that, since you can just buy the ressources needed in minutes Am I missing something here? I have to say I am disappointed with the system and started a new char, I might come back to the system, if there is some use to it

[@Danny53_]

This was exactly my experience when playing the game. I tried to get into outposting numerous times but it never felt worth it. Credits are so plentiful through missions that I realized I could just buy the resources I needed with significantly less hassle than creating/managing an outpost took.

[@TRG29338]

You seem to be right. I haven't started building yet but I've watched a bunch of guides and my question of 'why bother' has not been answered yet. I think I'm just going to make one big rp main base that just produces one valuable thing in order to sell directly for what I need. It's easy enough to buy everything in this game without a buggy spiderweb of connections with many hidden points of failure. This guide especially I think saved me a ton of time just because I realized it's a mistake to get stuck in on such a needlessly obtuse system. And anyway I've already invested in commerce, research, and advanced projects so I only need a few cheap resources to make literally anything. I just need to find a cool planet now. My one export will be whatever is the highest value thing that planet can produce.

[@Namenlos555]

@@TRG29338 Regarding home base: I agree, that a home base and a place to dump stuff is nice. Regarding highest value resource: I don't even know, whether the "highest value" ressource is worth it. If you look at the table of basic resources; values and weight, you will find out: you are going to be over-encumbered (e.g. 10k credits of Aldumite is heavier than 200). Being over-encumbered means: it doesn't matter how much you are over-encumbered - so might as well fill the inventory with iron as well. (you can just ignore the lack of oxygen, you will loose a bit of health from it, but you won't die from it). So it would better be a resource, which can be mined the fastest (= which has the biggest area on the spot)

[@TRG29338]

@@Namenlos555 Instead of just going raw I'm gonna look at the manufactured items from the industry work bench and see if I can find a planet that has everything to make one of the higher value ones and see if I can put a fabricator to pump out those to sell. Or do it myself at a bench if not. Just 1 tho. Might as well refine so I have a 2 step process rather than just 1. That's enough complexity for me when it comes to this. Even if it's not that profitable I'll just do it as a mostly passive cred supplement. The trick will be finding the right spot so I only have 1 base.

[@schauseil187]

The vendor only have 5-12k credits. So it doesn't matter how many expensive items you can build. you can't sell them anyway. In my opinion, building it only makes sense if you want to buy massive amounts of ammunition from it. Otherwise the whole system is completely unnecessary.

[@zogthehog]

See I never made rhe mistake of routing anything through the Transfer station, and in your main base I'm not even sure why you would link your storage as outgoing into it? I only have the transfer station as output to all my storage blocks ro unload the ship. This is a great guide though! I guess a lot of my cargo links must be bugged, but im too lazy to reset all dozen or more that I have 😂 but once i get around to NG+ Im gonna try and build something less cluttered maybe

[@wyattthealchemist]

Build the perfect outpost and then do it 10 more times. One for each NG+ cycle.

[@mgaming0515]

Cargo links only transfer from storage during play time so for example if u skip time and have lots of resource u will have to wait in game time for the items to transfer

[@dkell1597]

You can also toss all your mats on the floor of your ship and it keeps them there.

[@kerndgaming7398]

I didnt get how that Helium buisiness works - can you explain that in more detail please?

[@TacticatGaming]

Some advanced buildings run on h3 so production matters there basically

[@mariospillane8705]

Thank you 😮

[@TacticatGaming]

Thank you for watching!

[@jamesb2678]

These videos are great bur just a note my cargo links bugged on my main base so i deleted all of them and remade them all they worked for 1 sleep cycle and then budded again so be aware they bug a lot I just decided to go outpost to outpost

[@TacticatGaming]

100% . I use the same method. I don’t rely on cargo links fully, They are useful but overall not very efficient.

[@LeifPalmin]

Thank you for your work. Subed!

[@mauricebre]

i wonder if it is also possible to make one super hub locationwhere u send all the resources to so like 1 system hub conecting 6 outposts that then sends its resources to ainter system hub where they get stored in an even buigger storage yard and transfered to a supra system hub where u actualy place the manufacturing macines? i am already trying to do that but so far my system hubs get swamped by mats so fast that i dont know if all the garthered mats actualy reach the 2nd hub !

[@JumunjiJOJO]

Great job, sir!

[@TacticatGaming]

Thank you !

[@DrakosKai]

if you have a manufacturer connected to storage, it will make resources flow fast too

[@cyriphipps]

The cargo systems in this game should only be pemanantly linked if supplying he3 or set materials for machine crafting, best way is to build helium plant that provides to other systems, then as far as general materials have out going of each ore allu iron copper etc, each outpost i build has a cargo system that is not sending or recieving then once you need the resource you simply choose the resource from your list of outgoings a minuite later the materials land then disconnect from terminal leaving the connection able to be used again elsewhere when needed, this also allows you to connect to settlement links e.g akila at rear of landing pad next to the pad you land on when visiting to complete bounty board delivery missions, to summarize my bessel III sends copper iron allu and cobalt on seperate pads then has a pad to recieve he3 and an unused pad for any material i want shipped in at the time and disconnected once i have what i need, hope this makes sense

[@michaelmerrell8540]

Even local links between containers are incredibly fragile and unreliable, at least when dealing with large quantities. When reorganizing, I've dumped big amounts into containers, just for them to sit there instead of draining into downstream linked containers. Delete links and/or containers, relink, and it drains...well, at least until it runs into another bad link before the bottom of the link chain. It's a frustrating mess.

[@TacticatGaming]

Interesting i'll have to try that

[@schauseil187]

in my opinion this game lacks a ressourcefilter-module.

[@michaelbranin4253]

I just wanted to say that your thumbnail is the reason I clicked on this video.

[@blive4k732]

I've never seen a KZbinr cite his sources so well lol😂

[@hardsoule642]

dont know if anyone else mentioned this but there are actually 4 infinite storages in the lodge two more in the basement if you go thru the door by the mission terminal there is one on a table then another one in the room to the left and then the safe in your room

[@Pcspyder]

14:47 Linkage map

[@3DLife11]

Yes thanks you!!!!!!!

[@nr7608]

@tacticat My biggest issue is that all the inter-system cargo links run out of H3. I have it setup so my home base accepts all incoming resources. The problem is that only one of the other outposts has h3, so that H3 never gets to the other outpost (they are both linked to the home outpost, but not to each other). Even if I change it so I have h3 outgoing from my main receiving base from a dedicated storage unit that only has H3 inside , it ends up sending whatever other gases my base has in stock. And eventually the storage in the remote facility fills up with things other than H3 and the ships stop coming.

[@TacticatGaming]

Yeah it’s a mess - the easiest way is to have H3 at the source unfortunately

[@user-mf6gl8zl1i]

You can accept incoming resources from your main base even if you dont have h3 in your base. Mine works like that and only need h3 to my outgoing base

[@jonrambodude]

I learned and laughed nice vid

[@TacticatGaming]

That’s all I can ask for ! Thank you for watching

[@nuclearknight8543]

This is harder than algebra. I think I’m not even gonna bother building an outpost.

[@TacticatGaming]

Honestly my best guide is my plutonium guide if you just want lots of money and 1 simple outpost.

[@tlightning8383]

Okay but for those of us on console, what is the trick for sliding down 50,000 all the way down to 5,000 when you sell at a vendor?

[@TacticatGaming]

I unfortunately don’t know

[@tlightning8383]

@@TacticatGaming I guess the only answer is: patience

[@TacticatGaming]

i think for x-box players they might want high value objects to make it easier - like making giant drills@@tlightning8383

[@PlutoniumOD]

there is more than 1 infinity box in the workshop

[@luke928]

Thank you for this. Can you make a video explaining power generators. I can't seem to make these work efficiently at all despite having 6 extractors all going to helium production. It seems the generators take every bit of the helium despite having solar arrays also running the helium extractors. It has been an absolute headache trying to figure out the issue. Or is it that helium power generators need a buff in an update? It almost makes no sense to even have them. I have 0 helium production because the generators consume everything. It should not be this hard to figure out

[@TacticatGaming]

Honestly helium is useful for starsystem cargo links but as a power source seems silly. I just spam solar personally as I can make unlimited amounts

[@brianwaterman8185]

So I have a dumb question, sorry if you covered it but I didn't catch it. What happens when you delete an item in an protest? Are the resources put back into storage? Do you even get the resources back? What happens to items in storage containers when you delete? Do they go into your inventory? I want to wipe a base but don't want to lose all resources it took to build. Is this possible?

[@TacticatGaming]

I tested it and got a full refund on my storage and solar array deleting them each manually

[@brianwaterman8185]

@@TacticatGaming thank you!

[@Leysol]

I'm cheking for a good spot for a main base in the System (LINNEAUS) between Alpha Centauris and Olympus, Moon (LINNEAUS IV-B) and find a good spot with 6 Minerals, Iron, Aluminum, Beryllium, Ytterbium, Alkanes and Water if someone its interested, the planet have Helium-3 too but i still looking for spot with He-3 and 3 minerals, plus the 1H (7 UTH).

[@TacticatGaming]

Linnaeus is a good one

[@TacticatGaming]

I’ve been planet hunting for a bit but the narion system has my beloved plutonium and it’s just nice having everything in one area

[@alangunningham5667]

nice video, fairly clear and way better than I started out with, should help loads ... my question if you have had this problem .... how to sort multiple item types ie iron and copper on one system interlink ... I can get the items to the new interlink but sorting them ??? it goes into one storage and you are unable to separate the incoming types ie I have 6 items incoming from 1 outpost but I can only sort them into solid/gas/liquid not say iron and copper in the solid

[@TacticatGaming]

This is the problem with cargo links. They really suck. Unfortunately the best method is going outpost to outpost

[@BebRav3InGam3]

Hey, is there any chance you can make a video that shows the best locations for outposts to gather all resources to the main base?

[@TacticatGaming]

There are a few videos on KZbin that show better base locations. I’m tempted to make a new video but worried about the backlash for replicating the content

[@drunkrtard]

We need to know how containers of all sorts handle splits and merges. FIFO, etc.? One of each? Something else?

[@Joseph-rj2co]

That's what I was here for but I don't think there is such a thing. Would've been nice.

[@TacticatGaming]

I know for a fact it's potato.

[@drakkhisskaeren7593]

I would think that putting 2 transfer stations on each outpost having 1 in and 1 out you could chain them all and have many more outposts and everything goes to your main outposts at the end of the chain.

[@TacticatGaming]

Limit of 1 transfer station

[@Bodehi_The_Archivist]

Dude. If you think that 5 hour production is good then you need to go to Bessel III-b in the Bessel system. 65 hour production rate. Sleep one hour and you have infinite Iron, Nickel, Colbalt, and Aluminum.

[@TacticatGaming]

That’s a good setup

[@schauseil187]

time doesn't pass any faster. The planets have different rotation times. An hour on Venus is not as long as an hour on Earth. depends on how big a planet is and how fast it rotates.

[@slipshankd1307]

great video

[@dnord76]

Nice work

[@TacticatGaming]

Thank you!

[@piccard455]

Dude, can you do a video on where to fsrm plants for like solvent, lubricant, and fiber? Sorry to ask, but you seem to be ahead of the process here, and i am struggling with those materials, and i hear you can use the plant life to create these materials. I just can't figure how that works

[@TacticatGaming]

I have a guide on how to use botany and greenhouses to make amp - same principle - just scan plants - this video will show you the basics - kzbin.info/www/bejne/l33aaHylp62nhpI

[@piccard455]

@@TacticatGaming thx man!

[@Antoon55]

The transfer container is useless imo because of the small capacity. It's redisculous, they should make it infinite.