Compacted Long Term Storages

Compacted Long Term Mass Storages are essentially tiny 1×1 buildings which can contain 250, 2000 or 10000 of a resource of your choosing.

You can now easily store millions of resource nuggets on your ships without causing much lag at all.

These Compact Storages can be build or demolished at will, storing or reclaiming the resources inside of it.

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Currently supported resources are Sulfur, Iron, Steel, Hyperium, Copper, Coils, Hyper-Coils, Carbon, Tritanium, Tristeel, Uranium, Enriched Uranium, Processors and Diamonds. Each of these resources storages come in 3 separate variants, holding 250, 2000 or 10000 of one of these resources.

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To keep things organized, 3 new tabs will be added in the build menu, containing the 250, 2000 and 10000 Compact Storages respectively.

Also, the differently sized Compact Storages will be colorcoded according to their size and the value of the resources stored in them to make it easier to visually distinguish between them (you can still mouse-over to read the descriptions though and I used visually distinct logos of the same color for blueprint mode).

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With these Compacted Storages, you can store huge amounts of resources (literally millions if you manage to mine that much) without the performance hit you would normally have from having such ridiculous amounts of resources in your game.

Compacted Long Term Storages are not accessible to your crew, meaning you can always keep a pile of a resource from being used up in your factories by accident.

These storages will also store resources that float outside of your ships, insta-collecting resources you just mined or even from your other ships.

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Some examples of what you can use this mod for:

– If you suddenly run out of room, you can instantly create room for hundreds or thousands of resources by building just 1 or a few of these Compact Storages.

– Large ships can have Compact Storages containing 250 sulfur to instantly refresh your sulfur stores for your ammo factories without the need to manually resupply for more sulfur. (remember that the build menu button will be disabled during combat)

– You can store mined resources like iron and copper to speed up mass-mining of large resource rich asteroids or you can demolish iron or copper Compact Storages to keep your factories working during transit or when your fabricating ship is gonna be idle for a while. If the amount of resources outside is large enough, you may be able to store resources mined inside the sundamage zone which would perhaps otherwise be unreachable.

– Also you can store some reserve coils to keep your hypercoil factory from depleting your entire store of standard coils.

This mod is really quite flexible :).

Please keep in mind that the storages you build will also store resources from your own nearby ships, which can make for the fastest way possible to send huge amounts of nuggets from one ship to another by building the resource storages onto the ship you want your nuggets to be, no need for sending your crew carrying it over, with this mod you can basically just teleport it over.

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These Compact Storages are about as durable as armor to significantly reduce these Compact Storages from getting destroyed during combat or by fire (these storages don’t burn btw). I highly recommend not trying to use these storages as armor though as there are better alternatives available for that purpose. Please keep in mind that storing millions of resources (if you manage to even mine this much) on a ship that is about to be destroyed may not be great fun for your fps, so please try to avoid leaving your treasure ships unguarded :P. Use at your own risk 😛

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I’ve been playtesting this mod for about 2 weeks as of writing and thus far without any issues. On top of that, it makes managing resources much easier and much more comfortable (and probably also less laggy) and with this mod moving around and storing a huge amount of resources can now be done without the need to make very fat storage ships.

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Feel free to try out my other mods, which includes several mods that focus on asteroids, including Mineable Megaroids https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2888986724, Mineable Dwarf Planets https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2893554386, Mineable Gigaroids Lite Edition https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2907238729, Mineable Sundiver Megaroids https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2929387435 and Less Dense Asteroids which decreases the density of asteroid fields which, together with my other asteroid mods, actually increase the amount of resources you can mine from asteroids while increasing performance and decreasing pathfinding issues at the same time 🙂

Some of my asteroid mods also have one or more add-ons with which you can better customize your gaming experience (read their respective descriptions as what the add-ons exactly do will differ from add-on to add-on).

Legal stuff: I do not give permission to anyone to reupload or modify my mods without asking for permission from me first.