Preface

I play with one and a half friends and I really hated how I couldn't shoot things from one platform to another within the same orbit—and I really wanted space stations to resupply my overengineered dreadnoughts—so I made a mod for it.

Loosely inspired by urthen's Orbital Transfer - Inter-Platform Logistics.

How it works

The transfer chutes are a new entity that piggy backs off of the vanilla linked chests. The catch being that you can only build them in space and that it automatically links itself to any other chest that is orbiting the same planet. If is not in an orbit—in other words, on a platform in transit—it links to any other chest on that platform.

Manual setting of link ids on chutes are disabled. If your goal is to simply teleport items across large distances, just use vanilla linked chests.

Issues

• I don't play on a PvP server so I didn't program in checks against which force a particular chute belongs to.
• If you store things in a chute while said chute is in transit, you would only be able to access those items while it remains or once it re-enters transit.

Settings

• Cheap mode: Only requires 1 buffer chest per craft.
• No tech requirements: Unlocked from the start.
• Inventory size: Sets the max size of a linked chute.
• Debug: Prints what the mod is doing to chat.

Complementary mods

• Cargo bay inserters by Quezler
• More Barrels by zebez