How many storage containers are there in No Man's Sky?

Ten, numbered 0 through 9. Each has twenty slots, so a full set adds two hundred slots to your save. They are unlocked with salvaged data through the build menu's construction research and built individually at your bases.

Do storage containers share inventory between bases?

Yes — this is the system's best feature. Every container with the same number accesses the same inventory, everywhere in the game. Build Container 4 at your farm, Container 4 at your main base, and Container 4 on your freighter: three doors, one storage.

How do I access my storage remotely?

Same-numbered containers let you reach a given inventory from any base that has one built — teleport to whichever base is nearest and use its copy. There is no fully remote access from the field; the teleporter network plus shared numbers is the intended logistics loop.

Where should I put storage containers?

In an enclosed, powered room with a teleporter — the classic storage hub is one prefab or cuboid room stuffed with all ten containers, next to the arrival point. Put it at your main base and copy the numbers you use most to secondary bases.

What is the best way to organize ten containers?

One category per number, enforced with decals or signs: metals, plants and farm output, technology modules, fuel and cells, crafted trade goods, and so on. Because numbers are shared across bases, the system you invent at your first base is the system everywhere — pick categories you will still agree with in a hundred hours.

Do storage containers need power in No Man's Sky?

Storage containers draw base power like other functional parts, so they need to be inside a powered base on the grid — a consideration of placement, not a cost that ever matters. Ten containers are trivial next to a teleporter's draw.

No Man's Sky Storage Containers: How Storage Works and How to Organize It

Somewhere around hour thirty, every No Man’s Sky player hits the same wall: a full inventory, a full ship, and a bank of exosuit upgrades that still is not enough. The answer is not more suit slots — it is the storage system. Ten numbered containers, buildable at every base, sharing inventories across the galaxy. It is one of the game’s quietest quality-of-life systems and one of the easiest to set up badly, because the organization scheme you choose at Container 0 is the one you will live with for the rest of the save.

Last updated: August 22, 2026, current through patch 6.50. For the base those containers live in, start with the base building guide.

The Ten Containers

Storage in No Man’s Sky means Storage Containers 0 through 9, unlocked through construction research (salvaged data) in the build menu — see base parts unlock for the research economy. Each container holds twenty slots, a full set is two hundred, and they are buildable at every base you own plus as freighter rooms on your capital ship.

The part that changes how you play is not the capacity. It is the sharing.

Same Number, Same Inventory

Every container with the same number opens the same inventory, everywhere:

Container 3 at your farm base, Container 3 at your mountain retreat, Container 3’s freighter room — three doors into one box.
Drop loot into any copy from anywhere in the galaxy; pick it up from any other copy later.
Nothing teleports, nothing syncs with a delay — they are simply the same storage, addressed by number.

This turns your teleporter network into a logistics system. The loop every veteran runs: fill up on expedition or farming loot, teleport to the base with the storage hub, dump into the numbered containers, teleport back to the action with a clean inventory. Done.

Building the Storage Hub

The classic implementation, in build order:

One enclosed room — cuboid or prefab — at your main base, next to the teleporter.
All ten containers inside, in numerical order, powered and connected.
Labels. Decals, signs, or the containers’ own numbered decals — anything that says what lives where from the doorway.
A copy of your highest-traffic numbers at secondary bases. If Container 6 is “farm output,” a Container 6 at the farm saves the main-base round trip.

The hub costs an evening. It repays that evening every single play session for the rest of the game.

An Organization Scheme That Survives

The categories that hold up at two hundred hours, one per number:

Container	Category	Why it holds up
0	Metals and ores	The bulk of every mining loop
1	Plants and farm output	Farming runs arrive in floods
2	Activated and exotic metals	Valuable enough to deserve their own number
3	Technology and modules	Upgrade-module shopping ends in stockpiles
4	Fuel — cells, warp materials	Restock runs start here
5	Crafted goods and trade items	The units pipeline
6	Building materials	Ferrite, carbon, chromatic metal — the builder’s pantry
7	Consumables and hazard protection	What you restock before expeditions
8	Sentinels and dissonance loot	The corrupted-planet haul
9	Curiosities and “later”	The honest junk drawer

Tune the categories to your save, but keep the discipline: one number, one meaning, everywhere. The scheme only works because a number is the same box galaxy-wide; a container that means “metals here, modules there” is a trap you set for your future self.

Storage Beyond the Containers

The containers sit inside a wider storage stack worth knowing:

Exosuit — your on-body slots, expandable with drop pod coordinates and upgrades; the thing you are freeing up.
Ship inventory — the biggest early-game overflow, and cargo slots hold more per stack.
Freighter rooms — container rooms aboard the freighter mirror your numbered containers; the freighter becomes the storage hub you bring with you.
Refiners as buffer — not storage, but every veteran has parked a stack in a refiner during a sorting session. (The refining guide covers what refiners are actually for.)

Mistakes to Skip

Unlabeled containers. Ten identical boxes with no signs is a riddle you re-solve every session.
Categories by destination instead of kind. “Stuff for the farm base” decays the moment plans change; “plants” never does.
One mega-mixed container. The junk-drawer instinct is real — contain it in one number (9) rather than spreading it across ten.
Building storage far from the teleporter. Every step between arrival point and container is a step you take thousands of times.
Forgetting the freighter copy. The same-numbered freighter room is the whole system’s mobile half; one freighter room turns your capital ship into the arrival point.

Two hundred slots, one room, one scheme. Set it up this weekend and your inventory stops being a problem for the rest of the game — which leaves more time for the parts of No Man’s Sky that are actually worth playing.