Warehouse

Building

Warehouse
Type	Building
Description	Stores Products for Bulk Trade
Placement Requirement	Can't build on aliens' claims. Can't build in aliens' jurisdiction.
Note	Imports a specific dry commodity until full.
Structural Requirements
Arena	Ok
Auditorium	Ok
Battery	Ok
Commodity Storage	1m³ Space Required
Field Area	Ok
Generator	No
Guard Post	No
Home, Large	Ok
Home, Medium	Ok
Home, Small	Ok
Livestock	Ok
Lounge Space	Ok
Office Space	1 Office Required
Parking, Ground Vehicles	Ok
Parking, Space Vehicles	Ok
Parking, Water Vehicles	Ok
Parking, Spacecraft	No
Radar	No
Shield Generator	No
Shop Space	Ok
Space Vehicle Launchers	No
Space Vehicle Recovery Systems	No
Store Space	No
Surgery Units	No
Transporters	No
Turrets	No
Weapon Bays	No

Warehouses store commodities for later use. They can be configured to fetch a single commodity type from all connected buildings. Warehouses store commodities that would typically exist in a solid dry state.

Commodities stored in warehouses are made available to all other connected buildings that need them. For example factory buildings will fetch commodities from a warehouse to run their manufacturing lines, and brokers will sell wares and fill shipments with commodities stored in warehouses.

A warehouse cannot be set to fetch liquid and gas commodities, those are only handled by storage tanks.

Potential issues

Warehouses are fairly contentious in their functionality due to their slow commodity import rate. This can usually be seen as up to 1000 units every 6 minutes, which is vastly lower than the output of most dedicated manufacturing hubs. As a result, their best use case is currently for receiving broker shipments. Using building blueprints with larger storage for the manufacturing buildings is usually a better strategy.