Material Transfer Station
| “ | A space marked for storing refined materials that can be transferred into and out of Facilities. Stockpiles may be public or reserved. | „ |
| — In-game description |
The Material Transfer Station (abbreviated as MTS) is a player-built facility designed to store large quantities of Construction Materials and most Large Items.
Storage
Its stockpile only accepts Large Items and Construction Materials. It can hold 1000 items. The only large items not accepted are Listening Kit, Hydra's Whisper, and Critically Wounded Soldiers. Item types can be mixed in it, unlike in Material Pallets. Its visual model changes depending on how many items are in it.
Crates of Large Items can be directly submitted, transferring their items into the stockpile.
You can check the content of a Transfer Station stockpile by putting your cursor on its icon on the map, but only if it is not reserved by a squad.
Construction
It must be built on Foundations with a Construction Vehicle and costs Construction Materials.
Interactions
- You can access its interface when on foot or in a logistics vehicle by pressing
E. - You can place a Material Pallet on the loading area with a crane to directly transfer items in or out.
- The original builder can instantly demolish it
if it was built less than 28 days ago (materials refunded). - It can be reserved for a Squad
to prevent non-members from modifying it and from retrieving items from the stockpile.
- Reserving it will not allow stockpile contents to be visible from the map (icon are still shown)
- Non-members can still submit items to the stockpile.
- It is immune to Friendly Fire but it can be flagged for "Disruptive Structure Placement"
to remove the immunity (5 "votes" needed). - You can view the Stockpile Actions Log
to check what was added and retrieved from the stockpile. - You can view the Action Logs to check the modifications done to it.
Tips
- The items stored in the Material Transfer Station visually appear on the structure, however the piles are incorporeal, which means you can walk through or park a vehicle on there without causing any issues
Trivia
- When the Material Transfer Station was introduced in 1.50 Inferno, it used the basic facility map icon. This was changed in Update 1.52, when it was given its own map icon.
- Along with the change, the contents of the Material Transfer Station could be seen from the map, as long as the Resource Transfer Station is not squadlocked.
- With the facility changes in Update 1.56, the Material Transfer Station became the only Transfer Station that can be reserved and prevent any players outside of the reserved squad from taking any materials. This change was to prevent certain materials from being locked to the wider faction, which can result in a group hoarding vital raw resources.
Gallery
An empty Material Transfer Station
A Material Transfer Station containing Construction Materials, 75mm shells, and 120mm shells
A mobile Crane deposit a Material Pallet of 120mm shells on the loading area of a Material Transfer Station to transfer its content
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