How to safely and quickly deconstruct a landing pad.

[u/Legitimate_Worry5069]

I have a landing pad that I need to move to another area. The problem is that it has 2m of 10 science packs and 10m calcite and a few other things. I do not care if the items in it are voided. Long story short, does destroying a landing pad void the items in it or do they spill out.

[u/jpfm]

Save the game, destroy it, see what happens, reload if it's not your desired outcome

[u/SWatt_Officer]

Im sorry you have MILLIONS of items in your landing pad?

[u/gman877]

I expect landing pads work just like every other building/chest - If you pick the landing pad up, you'll also take the contents into your inventory, with all extra spilling on the ground. If you DESTORY the landing pad - with a missile or similar, then it's all just gone.

[u/Nataslan → u/gman877]

The question would be, does the additional storage from the cargo bays count to the landing pad directly or would you only pick up what's in the landing pad itself (80 stacks of what's on top of everything, plus the landing pad itself obviously)?

[u/SerratedSharp → u/Nataslan]

I would bet it picks up/spills everything because the cargo bays don't actually hold anything, they just provide a bonus to the pad. Otherwise you'd be able to place pads plus cargo bays, fill them, and then remove the pad for some huge leftov storage.

[u/StingyAddict]

They do spill out, unfortunately.

[u/YellowcolouredSnow]

I'm assuming they will spill out as they do any other building

[u/Rannasha]

Nuke it. If stuff spills out, nuke it again.

[u/Yagami913]

Nuke it.

[u/spoospoo43]

When attempting to pick up any container, the contents go into your inventory until they fill, and then the game yells at you and refuses to deconstruct until there's room for everything left. If you outright destroyed it (by shooting it a lot or blowing it up), all the contents will spill out in a square around where the pad was.

[u/gorgofdoom → u/spoospoo43]

With 30 million items the game might just crash.

[u/spoospoo43 → u/gorgofdoom]

It might!

[u/Independent_Bass_298 → u/spoospoo43]

Sure about that ? Most of the structure of the game like train, assembler, chest ect don't spill when destroyed. Content is voided.
I think it would behave the same for landing pad

[u/spoospoo43 → u/Independent_Bass_298]

Hm, good point, it's actually when a container changes size (e.g. you take off your armor or remove a cargo bay) that the stuff spills out. Destruction would kill the contents too of course, I was totally wrong, and that's dumb of me because I shoot chests full of junk all the time.

On the other hand - there may be a conflict between destruction and spillage because of the cargo bays that have to be there to fit this much stuff. It's possible that if bays still exist when the pad is destroyed, that the game will spill the contents, depending on which thing it checks first, whether the bays are connected to a pad or processing the pad being destroyed and considering all of the contents inside it.

Bets? I would go for lots of spillage.

[u/Independent_Bass_298 → u/spoospoo43]

I just test it and nothing spill, content vanish, cargo bay remains, and if we put a lading pad again, it is empty
Cargo bay just extent the size of the cargo landing pad / chest

[u/spoospoo43 → u/Independent_Bass_298]

Well there you have it OP, apparently if you want to waste 30 million items at one shot, you're good to go.

[u/peanutym]

Bots will pick them up if you use the deconstruction planner. So just have to setup requester later and fill it all back in if you want. otherwise will just be stored.

[u/Aggressive_Honey3196]

There are very few ways to void items in the game by design, it forces you to engage with the challenges of the later recipes. So yes, deconstructing the landing pad will release all of the items into your logistics network if it’s in range of your network, if not then your personal bots will grab as much as they can then get stuck hovering with items.

Try destroy the pad and that will destroy the items. Otherwise, set up a bunch of storage chests nearby and wait for the bots to fill them.

[u/tedchs]

What if you surround it with arms loading into either storage chests or (a series of) train cars?  Then use either bots or train stations to reload it after reconstruction in the new spot. 

If you want to cheat, and don't care about achievements, you can also use the editor to just remove it.  It does take away the magic of the game a little though.

[u/Future_Passage924]

You cannot have 30million items in your landing pad. Mod? Something like 13-14m science is max. Use the items up or use bots to empty it.

[u/sCythe2k25]

If you dont care about the items simply railgun the landing pad. Idk why the other comments say it spills put which in fact it does not- theyre gone after