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Find the Needle: How Do I Remove Items from the Depot?
Short answer
So to pull things from this machine manually, go to it and click on the item you want, say straw panel, then to the right there is a button to take one or take max if you can carry more. Or there is a button below that "EMPTY OUT" which dumps stored inventory onto the outlet belt Also items like…
What you need to know
The depot stores items that you have produced or collected. You can take items out manually, either one at a time or in bulk, and you can also dump everything onto the outlet belt with a single command. The interface for removing items is accessed by opening the depot itself.
Step by step
- Approach the depot – Walk up to the depot building and click on it to open its UI.
- Select the item you want – In the list of stored goods, click the entry for the specific item (for example, “straw panel”).
- Take a single unit – To the right of the selected item you will see a button labeled “Take One”. Press it to remove a single piece and add it to your inventory.
- Take the maximum you can carry – Next to the “Take One” button there is a “Take Max” option. Clicking this will transfer as many units of the selected item as your inventory can hold.
- Empty the whole depot – Below the item list there is an “EMPTY OUT” button. Activating this dumps the entire stored inventory onto the outlet belt, making it available for downstream machines.
- Confirm the removal – After using any of the above actions, verify that the items have left the depot either by checking your inventory or by looking at the belt where they were deposited.
Tips
- Use “EMPTY OUT” when you need to clear the depot quickly for a new production line.
- If a machine (like a scanner) requires multiple components, the depot will automatically pull the needed items from its storage when you use the “EMPTY OUT” function.
- Keep an eye on the depot’s capacity; once it reaches its limit for a particular item, it will stop passing items through until you free up space.
- When you attach a new fabricator, remember that existing stored ingots will not automatically flow out; you must manually take them or empty the depot.
- Adjust the depot’s limits via upgrades if you find it hoarding too many of one resource, which can block other items from being output.
What players reported
I must be blind... EDIT: something something the game updated with the answer
Accepted answer
So to pull things from this machine manually, go to it and click on the item you want, say straw panel, then to the right there is a button to take one or take max if you can carry more. Or there is a button below that "EMPTY OUT" which dumps stored inventory onto the outlet belt Also items like the scanner that need two straw panels it automatically pulls inventory from its storage to build the…
Other suggestions
This thing is dumb as hell, you cant set up a factory with this thing. and you can't put down a metal detector without one, why would you need it just to feed generators
i agree this is a really bad implementation. I already had ingots stored in it and then i attached a fabricator. The ingots aren't automatically coming out of them I can only set them to pass through. So now these ingots are basically trapped.
From a look at it it hoards everything untill its capacity of that item it reached before it passes things through. there is an upgrade whre you can set limits more suitable for what you want
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