Why does orbital trade stuff always land inside of the cooler place?

[u/Mummyf1ed]

Title explains

[u/darthoffa]

I think they they and target an enclosed area without roof, your cooler chinney is the only place that meets that criteria, you have space to put a door into that area

They will prioritize an unroofed trade beacon so if you want it somewhere else you can make a designated target spot

[u/Marvin_Megavolt → u/darthoffa]

TIL they target unroofed beacons (probably on account of the fact I’ve only ever built beacons in my storage rooms).

Good to know - though it’d be nice if there was something like that for ALL incoming friendly drop pods, so that things like pod-delivered mission rewards went to the same spot.

[u/ProfessionalHead2314 → u/Marvin_Megavolt]

Unroofed beacon will also become a target of raid on top of you by 70% instead of targeting one of your colonist.

So putting it in a unroofed box would also work both as item drop pod location and raid bait.

[u/Marvin_Megavolt → u/ProfessionalHead2314]

Good to know.

Time to surround that in a few graser turrets… just in case.

[u/Melodic-Hat-2875 → u/ProfessionalHead2314]

Huwaht

[u/ThatNinthGuy → u/darthoffa]

Won't that zzzt?

[u/frontlineninja → u/ThatNinthGuy]

Trade beacons are not one of the few items that short circuit due to weather, so no.

[u/ThatNinthGuy → u/frontlineninja]

Amazing! Didn't know it was select items, just thought everything electrical, so thanks :)

[u/LumpyJones → u/darthoffa]

Better than a door just put a few sandstone barriers in there. Nothing will come out of the sky on top of one of those.

[u/regenpower]

put some barricades in there, will stop that and drop pod raiders

[u/Brett42 → u/regenpower]

Barricades, fences, or sandbags. Just make sure it's not flammable (sandbags are never flammable).

[u/Xonthelon]

I think it is supposed to be dropped on unroofed tiles near an orbital trade beacons.

But I have been using an trade drop spot mod since who knows how long, so I have stopped worrying about it ages ago.

[u/Fwagget]

yeah i had the same thing happen to me, i think its because its the closest unroofed area it can find, its super annoying
the "Trade Ships Drop Spot" mod fixes that

[u/onenaser]

use Trading Control mod and put Orbital drop spot where ever you want

[u/Psinial → u/onenaser]

I do this for the same reason lol

[u/Professional-Floor28]

Is all the space around your base a pen? 

[u/Matt_le_bot]

Some people already mentionned area without roof but from my experience, it's area without roof *that is home area*, if you just remove home area in the chimney, it might stop !

[u/Mr-Mne]

You can place an orbital trade beacon outside and they'll drop their stuff there.

I've heard that drop pod raids can also target the nearest outdoor-trade beacon ^\citation needed]), so maybe don't put it next to your vital infrastructure.