Cargo Bay

The Cargo Bay is a building used during space missions to hold resources collected by Duplicants. During expeditions away from the colony, Duplicants automatically place any resources they find into the Cargo Bay; the building functions as the repository for all materials gathered while on those missions.

The behavior is consistent across locales: Duplicants will fill Cargo Bays with any resources encountered during space missions. This includes any item class that a Duplicant can pick up on a mission; those items are deposited into the Cargo Bay rather than being left on the mission site or carried back to the main base inventory by other means. The Cargo Bay therefore serves as the in-mission storage endpoint for recovered materials.

Practical notes and interactions:

• The Cargo Bay receives all types of resources that Duplicants find during space missions. Duplicants do not selectively filter based on resource type when depositing into the Cargo Bay; they deposit any collectible resource they encounter.
• The Cargo Bay is specifically associated with space mission activity. Resources collected outside of a mission are not involved in this behavior.
• Managing Cargo Bays is essential for consolidating materials recovered from missions; the building centralizes mission loot so it can be retrieved or processed by the colony after the mission concludes.
• Because Duplicants deposit mission-found resources directly into the Cargo Bay, placing or upgrading Cargo Bays affects how mission returns are organized and accessed.

The Cargo Bay’s role is limited to being the destination for materials found during space missions. It does not change the types of resources Duplicants can pick up on missions, and Duplicants will continue to deposit all found resources into the Cargo Bay throughout the mission.