This article will serve me, and the greater community, as a place for bugs, workarounds and QoL wislist regarding outposts, in particular related to building and storage. Crew and carg-link will not be part of this article (too much to be in same place).

The List:


1) storage containers are huge and store - very little

2) storage containers snap from mile away and that's annoying

3) there is no way to sort items automatically or in any smart way

4) containers will snap into huge monster towers, but you need to open each one by one to acces their content instead one having access to whole connected structures

5) contrary to 4), when snapping (from mile away) and then right/left clicking through available snap points, it will rotate through the whole snapped structure.We need exactly opposite, snaps should rotate through just the item being aimed at, and inventory access should be pooling the containers that are "touching" with snaps

6) when rotating through snap points we do NOT want to see illegal placements, if item has 3 snap points, and 2 are "taken" then only offer snaps on one remaining snap. Also if snap is "inside" the object and new object would snap "inside" parent object, skip that snap!!

7) give us hotkey to press to override or toggle snaps on/off, eg container snap from mile away, and you don't want to change that? Fine, let me oress IDK Shift while holding placeholder in "hand" and that disables snapping so I can place it completely manually

8) tell people that resources of destroyed item were returned to ship cargo hold so they don't think it was stolen, it gives message when going to inventory but not if ahipyis close and it's going there

9) allow some more clipping or one object into another

10) being back the "cut" landscaping/bulldoze functionality.

11) when item is built and rock/tree is removed, make sure tree doesn't regrow later eg through 10 meters of landing pad concrete foundation

12) be more forgiving when placing items on ground, collision error messages are annoying

13) make all max-height for automatic stairs and foundations way bigger, 12 is too little, we want 60! Otherwise building some items is impossible on mountains with the nice views

14) fix the darn lights, we have like 8 lights to build, all are ugly industrial looking, and half of them don't even shine light!

15) make more camera and building UI tweaks available through UI settings, eg camera height, angle, rotation speeds, etc

16) similar to snap hotkey toggle/override, add hotkey for rotation speed and mouse movement speed, so our default is relatively fast rotation, but pressing that hotkey while rotating slows down a lot so we can be precise

17) add grid system or rotation "snaps" where rotation would use some predefined angles like 0-45-90. So when manually placing stuff we can more easily place them at eg 90° corners one vs the other

18) allow moving whole snapped group, meaning, if I stack 20 containers and move with E key, then allow me to use again some modifier key like Shift+E where whole tower is selected. This will sometimes happen in error, so we know it's possible, just make it expected and intentional behavior

19) similar for delete, sometimes delete will just delete single item even if you delete from middle of stack, sometimes it will delete everything above it, sometimes it will even delete stuff below if snapped in weird ways. Add modifier keys, allow us to one-click delete everything that is snapped, or with different combo to delete just something from middle of the stack.

20) Build item, snap something to it. Game gives collision error. Move mouse a little or just go Q/T to switch item and return back, and now suddenly there's no error.

21) Try placing item on ground, collision error or something. Switch to another item that doesn't have error (Q/T style again), and back, and now no error and I can place.

22) Then there is situation when item will snap INTO another object, in clear collision, and game allows me to place it.

23) Now combining these together, aim somewhere, snapped item is in collision, then suddenly it says "OK", and you place it with "E" - but it is placed somewhere else (can be 4-5 meters away even) and will often be snapped inside the other object! Moving such object won't work, as even when moved elsewhere it will be "bugged", and whenever you try to add it to existing stack it will misbehave and snap "inside". I need to delete it completely and build a new one.

24) Moving one of the snapped items from the middle of stack (in height) will sometimes prompt rebuilding of foundation of item that was higher up on it, but that foundation can go through the objects existing below instead of stopping there

25) Foundation too high happens often, but in other cases when you build item on item such as mentioned container tower, removing lower objects will extend the foundation even over the limit

26) Removing snapped lower objects will sometimes leave higher placed objects flying in air

27) Objects without 2-click placement for foundation building will almost always complain about either collision or no support even on planet ground, etc.

28) (Wish): I really wish containers would show what they contain from the further distance

29) (Wish): I wish fabricators would show what they are currently making not only in "build-edit" mode but as well in "build-build" and in "normal" mode

30) (Issue): Build an item with lights. Could be a building or a walkway, whatever. Now, move that object using the builder interface. Could be rotate, drag, snap to another object, anything. Or even just delete them. Exit the builder. The lights are now totally detached from the object, often hanging in the sky, pointed the wrong way, etc. Workaround is to revert to previous save or delete the whole outpost. Sometimes they will get deleted on game reload, but not always.