Storage Tank

Building

Storage Tank
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 liquid or gas commodity until full.
Structural Requirements
Arena	No
Auditorium	No
Battery	No
Commodity Storage	1m³ Space Required
Field Area	No
Generator	Ok
Guard Post	No
Home, Large	No
Home, Medium	No
Home, Small	No
Livestock	No
Lounge Space	No
Office Space	No
Parking, Ground Vehicles	No
Parking, Space Vehicles	No
Parking, Water Vehicles	No
Parking, Spacecraft	No
Radar	No
Shield Generator	No
Shop Space	No
Space Vehicle Launchers	No
Space Vehicle Recovery Systems	No
Store Space	No
Surgery Units	No
Transporters	No
Turrets	No
Weapon Bays	No

Storage tanks store commodities for later use. They can be configured to fetch a single commodity type from all connected buildings. Storage tanks store commodities that would typically exist in liquid or gas state.

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

A storage tank cannot be set to fetch solid and dry commodities, those are only handled by warehouses.

Storage tanks can also act as a service station for ground vehicles such as SUVs.

Potential issues

Storage tanks 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 buildings. 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.