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Posted this in Discussion forum but post got pushed to page 5 or so in four mins so figured I'd come ask people here that might know.

If I want to move my house to a different planet, which includes emptying it out, do I need to remove my resources from my input hopper of my crafting station before I pick the crafting station up into my inventory? If anyone has any experience with this please let me know. Thanks.

great question, i am considering a move soon as well. split a resource or two into quantity one amounts. put it in the hopper, then do a pickup and move to your pa hall or a friends place that can give you admin to drop things. let us know what happens!

im working so i cant test it now, but this would be a great shortcut for moving all the items from an old to a new house! also check your inventory when you pick it up to see if it goes up by 3 or just by one spot. maybe crafting stations with input hoppers can bypass the inventory limit for quick moves house to house.

*crosses fingers*

Ok, dumb question of the day coming up:

I didn't even know that crafting stations have an input hopper... - What does this do? How do you use it, etc etc..

All i ever knew is that i get better results from the private stations in my house than those stupid public stations in town...

Please dont flame me, it's an honest question (i probably dont have to worry about the flames here, i'm just used to hanging out in the discussion board )

Thanks!

I have the same question. I only use a structure crafting station and there is no option to access the hopper. I have heard people talking about this, could someone in the know please clarify?

Well the input hopper on my private food and chem crafting station is accessed by going into my inventory and bringing up the radial menu on my food and chem crafting tool. Just bring up the radial menu and hold your mouse over start crafting and another bubble will pop up for open input hopper. I dont think all stations have input hoppers but am not sure. I think its an optional component added by whomever crafted the station. Basically the input hopper in the crafting station allows you to store all your resources in it so that when you activate your crafting tool and instead of your resources taking up space in your inventory there is a tab in the crafting window for Input Hopper and that is where all your resources are. Basically your stationary crafting station in your house is holding all your resources.

But the stationary one in the house has no option for a hopper. I craft them myself, how do I give it a hopper? I am not so much worried about the small ones you carry around, but rather the big ones in the houses. Thanks.

Cant really help you with how tocraft a crafting station with a functional input hopper as I dont make em I just bought it .

When making the crafting station there are optional components, one being 5 droid storage compartments. That is how you get an input hopper on the crafting station.

But to clarify the crafting tool is what you use to access the Input Hopper on the big stationary crafting station. Not sure if I made that clear.

Now I get it!! LOL I never knew the droid storage compartments were optional How do you know something is optional when crafting? I always fill up all the slots on everything I make.

Back to topic; now that we all know how to use these things, can anyone confirm or deny the ability to load them up (please test with just a couple single quanitity resource stacks), pick them up (count the additional inventory slots taken up), and place them in another structure while retaining the resources?

Don't make me do all this through VNC to my home PC from work

I would test it but some of us are stuck at work as well hence great message board surfing time . Some of us dont get the VNC option at work either hehe.

Dumb question number 2 and 3:

Is there a way to get the resources back out once you put them in? - or do you just have to use them up.

What are the advantages other than not having your inventory cluttered? - Does it improve the results from that station, etc...?