Storage Depot Guide

System: Logistics

Produces: Resource storage

What the Storage Depot Does

Storage is called out by name in official guidance: "always making sure there's storage for your new resources". The game tracks over 55 unique resources that must be researched, harvested, refined, combined and transported — every one of those steps passes through storage capacity somewhere, which makes the depot the quiet bottleneck of the whole economy.

Storage Is a Production Enabler

A full depot does not just waste deliveries — it stalls the chain behind them. Harvesters idle when there is nowhere to put the yield, refineries starve, and the research facility never sees the exotic inputs you landed on this world to collect. The working pattern: expand storage whenever a production upgrade lands, not when the first delivery bounces.

Keep a mental reservation of storage for the one or two exotic resources each world is known for. Imports from the Resonant also need somewhere to land — cargo that cannot unload is capacity you paid for and cannot use.

What We Still Expect to Learn at Launch

Depot capacity, whether storage tiers exist, and cross-outpost transfer rules are unconfirmed. The launch build settles them — this page is on the launch-week backfill list.

Last updated: October 17, 2026