[Starfield] Outpost Guide: Simplified Cargo Links Inter System kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bsehiNamr7DMfmg.html

Just made my first outposts today. I usually like to figure stuff out myself, but cargo links really confused me. This answered every single one of my questions. Thank you! Excellent explanation!

FINALLY! Someone who explained EXACTLY what I’ve been trying to do! Also, explained in a way I understood it! Thank you.

I found the point of the outposts are for the mission board at many civilian outposts. You can get contracts to deliver x number of random element. Then you go to the space port and find the cargo link and link your outpost to the town, city so on to do the delivery.

Beth really F'd up with this. Shouldn't be this difficult and sophisticated.

What I recently found out: 1. When you fast travel to your outpost(not ship landing), you land exactly next to the beacon. So relocate your beacon to the point where you want to land like near the airlock or transfer container. 2. Transfer container is more useful for transferring resources from your ship to the storage containers than from containers to ship. Create a link from the transfer container and connect it the storage containers( solid, liquid, gas) and also the warehouse containers. Then you can dump all your resources and crafted items from your ship to the container. They will automatically be transferred to the linked containers.

This saved my outpost life; I got so frustrated and was just doing other quests with a forgotten, circle of life outpost system. I simplified it and it actually works and now I could cry :) MUCH THANKS

I watched your video once and you have answered all my questions, 9 minutes 35 seconds well spent.

The communal settlement resources in FO4 worked perfectly I don't understand why they had to mess with it. As long as they're connected you should have full access to everything, that's the entire point of linking.

I've been watching through your vids on outposts; as logistics, acquisitions & procurements features in games are a big pull for me. You put a lot of time into outpost content, and it will pay off for you. So keep it up. 👍 One thing I wanted to share on this vid: Your storage containers are 75, 250, & 450. What I tend to do is have extraction feed into bulk storage. Then create a bulk repository for incoming mats, on each base (whatever that base is not producing). - So, seperate bulk storage for each extracted material, one bulk stored repository for anything incoming. Now, because the cargo ship is only capable of delivering 300 at a time. If I want to ship 3x mats sent elsewhere; then, what I do is have the last storage box, for each out-going mat, regulated by a small storage container (75) - and the left over in He-3, for example. - and you can further fine tune this idea, by adding, or removing extractors, according to how quickly they produce; where the weight of the mat is a clue. - and you can get it within 3 parts per yield, very easily this way. I actually bagan in Bessel (Ni, Co, Pt & Ne), then went to Sumati (Cu, Pb & Liquers), then discovered Androphon (He-3, Fe & Al), then Guniibuu (W, Ti & literally everything else) and set up multiple outposts on different planets and moons in that system. - and this lock step with lvl20. This also gave me an opportunity to split up basic resources and feed in the ones behind them, which becomes really important when starting to spread out into the lvl35+ systems. - Guniibuu is where I have decided to centralise, and do all the refinering work. - Ready to head out; because there are only a couple of resources that you can get a lot easier going forward. Anyway, keep up the good work. I have a feeling you're going to see a lot more traffic, not too far from now. - and of course, thank you.

Hack for powering intersystem links from one main helium base is you can link a helium extractor to the outgoing and go to the second base and create a link from the incoming to a helium storage then to the power. that way you can build on a planet that doesn't have helium and still power that intersystem link.

This is such a good guide! Short and direct and clear. I am so glad to finally understand how to use those Transfer Stations and also to maybe finally have fewer link bugs… hopefully. Thank you

I have little time to play and I want to enjoy everything the game has to offer. Your spreadsheet solved everything I needed: centralize resources. Thank you very much!

Great job and well explained. Just like many others, I was hoping cargo links would work like supply lines in FO4, maybe someday they will, but for now, this is the gold standard. Thank you for all the hard work!

The flow charts won me over immediately. Thanks for your hard work!

Best guide I've seen. Short and to the point. The charts help a ton to visualize.

Thank you for the incredibly helpful video. Its one thing to "get the concept" and another to see you illustrate it, so thank you for the visualization. I've been trying to start my first mining outpost on Andraphon and have been overwhelmed with the inventory logistics system and have no issue with it after seeing this! looking forward to finally generating a steady stream of crafting materials while I play the game so I don't need to horde raw (farmable) minerals in my inventory and ship cargo.

This was more concise and understanding than any I have seen. Thank you for your hard work.

This is a great guide. I wish Bethesda would simplify these mechanics though. With max skills, you can have 24 outposts. Imagine trying to funnel 23 outposts into your home outpost. You need 23 cargo pads at home! I'm not sure that's possible, so your home planet needs like 3 outposts to hold 21 cargo pads. I would love to see one of their devs stream an outpost building session where they try to accomplish that lol.

one thing you should go over is the method for setting up a secondary link system to keep your "inter-system" cargo platforms constantly fueled with He3. I ended up having a centralized He3 mine, used a regular cargo link to send it to every outpost within the system so that each of their "inter-system" links have a continuous fuel supply. So now all of the outposts have a regular cargo link (no fuel req'd) used for fuel delivery, and a "inter-system" cargo link platform that actually sends my materials to a different system.

OMG! THANK YOU!! I finally got my outpost to work after 2 months of trying. 🙏🥰 I believe you spoke to me on Facebook and sent me the pic, but I still couldn't figure it out. I guess I just needed to see the video to walk me through it.😘🥰

This was the best video by far. Thank you for making this convoluted process clear!

Finely! A clear, well put together tutorial that neatly explains everything I was doing wrong. Slow enough to be clear and fast enough not to be boring. Worth a subscribe. Thanks!

dude, thank you! this was a super simple explanation. the diagrams were very helpful. i was struggling yesterday with cargo links and wasted so much time. i have a much better understanding now and am looking forward to fixing mine tonight

Thanks a lot! I've been building multiple extractors for different ressources today. I'm going to apply your cargo link system that seems simple enough.

Appreciate the video! Last night I spent several hours searching for an outpost planet so I haven't started anything yet. But I'm subscribing for more great logistical designs and tips!

Well done! You just saved many Starfield players outpost experience! Including mine. 👍🏼

Super helpful - just coming up to this point. Your video and instructions are fantastic! Many thanks.

Appreciate all the hard work that went into this -- watched this video and the previous larger one -- liked both videos (and commented) to support this content creator! Thank you @TactiCat !

This is the best, easiest to understand explanation I have found for cargo links. Thank you, subbed.

This is the best explanation for new players that I've found, and I've watched a fair amount of videos. I've wasted more time than I want to admit not understanding what you've shared. Thank you for the well explained, informative video!

This is the most clear of all the videos. Having the graph at 0:54 really sets it up for success, as many YT's just talk while doing and it's hard to follow along. I have found that diagraming out how I want it to work ahead of time has saved me many, many pains. I wasted so much time before, wish I had seen this when I had first started.

Thanks for this helpful guide, TactiCat! I learned a lot from your video, and I appreciate your clear and concise explanations. Keep up the good work!

Just a PSA, I find that with large storage solutions at outposts I get better performance linking all the boxes in parallel rather than series like shown here. Have one box at the end that anything going in links to, then link that box individually to each box in the chain, and link those boxes individually to an outgoing box. That way in storage solutions with 100+ boxes you don’t have 100+ item transactions each time you pick up an item (as they filter through each box), you only have 3.

Thank you!!!! I did some outpost work last night, and this will help refine it.

Been waiting for a concise video like this, so thank you!

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best tutorial on multiple outpost building and the use of cargo links ever !

best video i've found yet to explain this system. thank you so much for this. and also explaining the transfer station

Excellent work! This is very helpful and strategic. Love it.

This video and explanation is extremely clear and concise. Couldn't ask for anything better. Thanks a ton!

Thanks. I would have been totally frustrated trying to set up cargo links without this tutorial. This goes in my Starfield tutorial folder. Subscribed.

Fantastic video. This is the best explanation I've seen yet. It answers several of the problems I've run into. I just sort of jumped in and built a ton of bases and tried everything and wondered why lots of it didn't work right. Thanks for this.

Good video, I got everything on my own except the part about using a transfer station, that's a great idea. Logging in now to change it up, thanks!

You’re doing us all a tremendous service brother thank you

My guy this helped me a ton. I still had to run around for resources, but this saved me unsurmountable amount of pain. Now the problem I am running into is one of my outpost is sending only one material. This Outpost building system is excellent, I hope they improve upon it and fix all the bugs.

Now i understand. Thank you. Great tutorial. Ive liked and subscribed. Looking forward to seeing more. 😊

So glad you verified what I thought at the start with the materials going to a centralised outpost

Concise and with a walkthrough! Subbed and your efforts are very much appreciated!

Very well explained! Thank you very much, I needed to understand this better and you helped alot!

My guy...THANK YOU. I have 4 outposts and thought I had everything down packed, couldn't figure out why my resources were goin all over the place. Didn't realize I had to detach the cargo link from the transfer station. All my transfer stations were just sending whatever wherever they felt like it. 😂

Since Cargo links are based on real time elapsed, sleeping in a bed does nothing. meaning it's much more effective to have a huge storage capacity in general if you are gonna stockpile a massive sum of iron and aluminum to xp farm.

The Circle of Life is kinda still necessary; the reason things get looped is because if a cargo link can't transfer everything out of its incoming resources, it moves them to its outgoing resources. But, as long as you have dedicated input-only or output-only, you'll just end up with one box of 'wasted' material, not a huge deal Feels like that concept should be useful for something, but idk what

Great info Tacticat. That diagram at :44 to 1:30 is a keeper.

This was soooo helpful. Thankyou!

straight to the point! thank you!

Great vid. Nice and concise. Been trying to fix a link for ages and never thought it could have been bugged. Probably wasted a couple of hours on it and was 100% sure I done it correctly.

Thank you for clarifying it a little better because none of the videos made any sense. I figured it out after a little while of messing with the system. But best video on this I've seen.💯❤️‍🔥

I'm only half way through, and already this is the best vid I've seen on understanding this system. Thanks. Subbed.

Awesome video, very well done, Thank You!!! :)

finally a nice outpost cargolink video! thank you.

Thanks! This clarified a lot of questions I had about the whole transfer system.

Well done man, thanks!

Exactly what I needed. Thank you.

Thank you so much for this video!!!

My man this is what i needed ❤

Cargo 🐐, much appreciated!

Thank you for the concise yet complete explanation.

Simple, well done, thank you

Thanks for the the thorough demonstration and discussion of bugs.

THANK YOU! This helped me so much

Well worth the like. Thank you, great video.

This video was really helpful thank you.

Dude this is so easy to follow thank you

Awesome video bud it really helped me. You got my sub.😊

Great explanation. I’m gonna try and fix up my connections. Went a lil crazy with trying to make a system-to-system resource monopoly

Boy I wish I had watched your video 24 hours ago It would have saved me a lot of trouble... Great video by the way thank you

This is exactly what I needed. Thank you!

ty you helped a lot great vid by the way.

Just re done everything and it now works thanks to you 😊 🙏🏼

Simple and straight to the point, thanks! ✌🏻

I’ve spent a ton of time with outposts and the best tip when setting up cargo links is use a spreadsheet and screenshot then paste to paint, label each paint with text of material, location, add arrows of flow to hint at outgoing or incoming. Arh and when setting up cargo links do not link the received cargo until you see a physical cargo ship land and peak at the incoming box. Once you have seen the actual materials only then link the incoming box to a storage/warehouse/gas/liquid. Sometimes you may get attacked so repair spam everything, sleep and check if materials keep coming and if not clear the clogged incoming and outgoing. I once had a whole chain shutdown to a storage box clog after bounty hunters took out extractor’s. Don’t waste time if things break just delete storage or extractor’s and replace them

Thanks for this! bravo!

Great work 👊

this is perfectly laid out and explained.

This is amazing thank you bro gonna have to watch it a few times while I’m building

nice and concise! Many thanks

They really took the fun out of the whole concept of building in this one

Thanks for the guide!

Thanks that was very informative/helpful ✌️

Truth man. I️ didn’t even try bc it was too much for how casually I️ play. Now that I️ have more time this is really helpful

Bro, you gave the best explanation out of EVERYONE I've seen on KZfaq and Reddit! Im doing SOOO much better on my outpost, with WAY LESS frustration. THANK YOU!!!!! @TactiCat

Thank you. Much appreciated.

Very helpful, TY!

Very nice guide 👍

Good video, thanks!

My game has been bugged so bad since linking my outposts this was the best help today to fix everything besides starting a whole new game. Game was glitched and freezing at all times.

11/10 guide. thank you

With Helium, I've found that I can use it to power the local inter-system cargo link, but also send it from the same source as outgoing goods (in addition to other goods), so the receiving link can also use it to power another inter-system outgoing cargo-link. This way, you can daisy-chain across systems, even if Helium is not available at certain locations.

Nice video! Thanks