Cargo Bay

Cargo Bay
Allows Duplicants to store any Solid resources found during space missions. Stored resources become available to the colony upon the rocket's return.
Duplicants will fill cargo bays with whatever resources they find during their space missions.
Research	Solid Cargo
Dimensions	5×5 tiles
Category	Rocketry
Overheat at	2000 °C
Decor	0
Storage Capacity	1000 kg
Other Properties	Susceptible to flooding
Materials
Steel	1000 kg
Raw Mineral	1000 kg

Cargo Bay is a Rocket module capable of storing Solid resources that are found during space missions.

Usage

Cargo Bays can be used to acquire following common resources:

• Coal, Refined Carbon and Diamond from the Carbon Asteroid.
• Iron, Copper and Obsidian from the Metallic Asteroid.
• Steel, Copper and Glass from the Satellite.
• Copper Ore, Sedimentary Rock and Igneous Rock from the Rocky Asteroid.
• Ice, Solid Carbon Dioxide and Solid Oxygen from the Interstellar Ice.
• Slime and Algae from the Organic Mass.
• Regolith, Mafic Rock and Sedimentary Rock from the Dusty Dwarf.
• Igneous Rock and Abyssalite from the Volcanic Planet.
• Algae and Dirt from the Terrestial Planet.
• Salt and Crushed Rock from the Arid Planet.
• Solid Chlorine and Bleach Stone from the Chlorine Planet.
• Gold and Pyrite from the Gilded Asteroid.
• Tungsten and Wolframite from the Glimmering Planet.
• Aluminum Ore and Solid Oxygen from the Living Planet.
• Solid Methane and Solid Carbon Dioxide from the Oily Asteroid.
• Rust and Solid Carbon Dioxide from the Oxidized Asteroid.
• Aluminum and Fossil from the Red Dwarf.
• Solid Carbon Dioxide from the Salty Dwarf.

A space destination marked with ??? has to be researched by Research Modules in order to discover the Rare Resources (one ??? revealed for every research objective marked with (!!)), before these Rare Resources can be acquired by Cargo Bays. As rocket modules are calculated from top to bottom, revealing rare resources and returning them in a cargo bay can be done in the same launch, as long as the cargo bay is placed below the research modules.

For each space mission, a Cargo Bay will bring back 1000 kg of solid resources, which composition is determined by the destination composition.

A conveyor rail can be connected to them directly to automatically unload stored goods. Alternatively, selecting the cargo bay and clicking the unload button simply dumps the contents on the ground.

Tips

• Care should be taken not to leave valuable materials sitting on the Rocket's launch pad, as the high temperatures can liquefy most metals, causing them to be lost via Space Exposure
• Repeated trips to the same asteroid can easily deplete its resources faster than the rate at which it regenerates. Periodically rotating which asteroids you visit is recommended.

See also

• Liquid Cargo Tank
• Gas Cargo Canister
• Biological Cargo Bay

Visual difference to Spaced Out

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  Base Game Version
  Size: 5x5

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  Spaced Out Version
  Size: 3x3

History

• RU-284571: Introduced.