Cargo bay

Cargo bay

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Recipe
10 + 20 + 5 + 20 → 1
Total raw
310 + 400 + 100 + 5 + 60
Map color
Health	1000 1300 1600 1900 2500
Inventory size bonus	20 26 32 38 50
Stack size	10
Rocket capacity	10
Dimensions	4×4
Mining time	1
Prototype type	cargo-bay
Internal name	cargo-bay
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Object description

Space Age expansion exclusive feature.

Cargo bays extend the storage capability and rate of receiving items for a space platform hub or a cargo landing pad. To provide this bonus, cargo bays must be placed either directly adjacent to a part of the hub/landing pad or to another cargo bay that itself is attached to the hub/pad (or to another bay that is attached... etc). The connection does not need to cover all 4 tiles of one side of the bay; it may only cover two tiles horizontally or vertically. There can be any number of bays attached to a hub/pad. The cargo bay snaps to a 2×2 grid, like the landing pad and rails.

Inserters cannot interact with cargo bays at all; they can only interact with the hub/pad. Since cargo bays must also be adjacent to the hub/pad, this creates a tradeoff between the ability to insert or remove items from the storage and the ability to expand that storage.

Cargo bays cannot be mined if the attached hub/pad's is so full that losing the bay's inventory expansion would cause it to be over-full.

Although the inventory size bonus is significantly less useful for a cargo landing pad compared to a similar number of chests, each cargo bay also increases the number of cargo pods that can be received by the cargo landing pad or sent/received by a space platform at the same time. This is important for increasing overall item throughput of bases that rely on frequent orbital transport.

History

• 2.0.14:
  • Changed cargo landing pad mining time to 1.

• 2.0.11:
  • Cargo bays will show a warning icon when they are not connected to a Hub or Landing Pad.

• 2.0.7:
  • Introduced in Space Age expansion.