Archival Storage Unit

Archival Storage Unit

	Size	Health	Power	Research Prerequisites	Resource Cost
	3x3	450HP	0W + 10W per Item	PRF Storage IO II	Qty Name 300 Steel 50 Gold 20 Uranium 100 Plasteel 90 Component Industrial 20 Component Spacer 1 PRF Machine Frame III 1 PRF Electronic Chip II

A matter-energy conversion based storage unit which can hold up to 10k stacks, consuming 10 W of power per stack of items. In the event of a power outage, items already inside will be safe, but the Archival Storage Unit will not be able to store more. Don't break it.

Items stored in this Device are not spawned and therefore won't be automatically accessible by your pawns. Use I/O Ports to interact with it.

Description

The Archival Storage Unit is a High Performance Storage Solution. It Intended Use Case is to store significant amounts of items without the Performance Impact that is usually caused by that.

Getting items In

There are 2 methods to get Items into the Archival Storage Unit

• Pawns hauling the items directly to it
• via I/O Ports using the Input mode

Getting Items Out

There are 3 methods to get Items out of the Archival Storage Unit

• via I/O Ports using the Output mode
• via Pullers
• via the GUI (dropping individual items)

Please note: It is not possible for pawns to directly access the items stored in it. you must use on of the options outlined above.

Other Notes

The Archival Storage Unit has an Integrated Orbital Trade beacon, meaning all items inside can be Traded. Local trades with the items inside are also supported

Current Limitations

It is currently incompatible with the Advanced IO Port. This is also the reason why they can't be liked