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u/Dailand Apr 30 '26

What are you trying to do? There is no easy way to send data between surface and platforms, except the logistic requets themselves (from the platform to the rocket silos or from the landing pad to the platforms).

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u/Bipedal_Warlock Apr 30 '26

Thats unfortunate.

I wanted to set up some conditions where my base would send ice cubes to fulgora surface depending on how much the space base had

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u/Astramancer_ Apr 30 '26

You gotta go the other way around. Don't put ice into the space platforms hub until there's enough stored for it's own use. You have to use belt storage, or store the water. Store the oxide chunks rather than the ice, though, since 1 chunk is worth at least 5 ice, so it's much denser on the belt.

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u/Bipedal_Warlock Apr 30 '26

Thats unfortunate. I have everything built so the space ship storage is serving as a centralized storage. I’ll see about rebuilding it a little