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title: 'Interdimensional Rift'
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# Interdimensional Rift

![Interdimensional Rift](images/interdimensional-rift.png)

Long ago [the Great Race](/wiki/the-great-race/) learned how to master the subspace. They used it
for travel and communication, but also for more mundane purposes, like storage. If you are lucky
enough to uncover one of [the Great Race](/wiki/the-great-race/)'s storage rifts, many of your
storage needs will be covered.

The Interdimensional Rift (or IDR) provides storage for all 4 basic [resources](/wiki/resources/)
and for [waste](/wiki/waste/). While the base storage amount is the same for all 5
[resources](/wiki/resources/), the exact amount of each resource stored does vary based on
affinities. The chart below will give you a basic idea of its capacity. Like most other things in
The Lacuna, the stroage capacity increases by 1.55 per level.

Unlike the Ore Storage or Food Storage [buildings](/wiki/buildings/) do, Interdimensional Rift does
not show the exact [resources](/wiki/resources/) stored. Neither does it allow you to dump
[resources](/wiki/resources/). Also it cannot reserve a specific resource from use like the
[Distribution Center](/wiki/distribution-center/) does.

**Storage Amounts by level:**

****(Numbers rounded off a little, figures shown are without boosts. E**xact amounts depend on your
affinities)**

<table frame="border" rules="all"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Level</strong></td><td><strong>Storage For Each Resource</strong></td></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>50,000</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>77,500</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>120,000</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>186,000</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>289,000</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>447,000</td></tr><tr><td>7</td><td>693,000</td></tr><tr><td>8</td><td>1,300,000</td></tr><tr><td>9</td><td>1,700,000</td></tr><tr><td>10</td><td>3,000,000</td></tr><tr><td>11</td><td>4,800,000</td></tr><tr><td>12</td><td>7,400,000</td></tr><tr><td>13</td><td>11,500,000</td></tr><tr><td>14</td><td>17,800,000</td></tr><tr><td>15</td><td>27,600,000</td></tr><tr><td>16</td><td>42,800,100</td></tr><tr><td>17</td><td>66,200,100</td></tr><tr><td>18</td><td>102,600,600</td></tr><tr><td>19</td><td>159,000,300</td></tr><tr><td>20</td><td>246,500,500</td></tr><tr><td>21</td><td>382,000,800</td></tr><tr><td>22</td><td>592,200,400</td></tr><tr><td>23</td><td>917,900,000</td></tr><tr><td>24</td><td>1,400,800,400</td></tr><tr><td>25</td><td>2,200,300,800</td></tr><tr><td>26</td><td>3,400,300,800</td></tr><tr><td>27</td><td>5,300,300,400</td></tr><tr><td>28</td><td>8,200,400,500</td></tr><tr><td>29</td><td>12,700,300,000</td></tr><tr><td>30</td><td>19,700,300,900</td></tr></tbody></table>

**Playing Tip:** The Interdimensional Rift is the ultimate in high capacity storage and is highly
favored for this by top players. Sometimes is it used to replace all other storage on a planet. If
the Interdimensional Rift is of a high level it can make recovery from a heavy [Snark](/wiki/snark/)
assault very easy since it costs nothing to repair and provides very high amounts of storage. When
combined with other high level resource producing [buildings](/wiki/buildings/) in can be used to
make a colony nearly impervious to assault by [ships](/wiki/ships/) because all
[glyph](/wiki/glyph/) [buildings](/wiki/buildings/) are free to repair and produce large amounts of
[resources](/wiki/resources/). This building would provide all the storage needed to repair the
standard [buildings](/wiki/buildings/). It is due to this very reason that the [Saben](/wiki/saben/)
are such a difficult AI to take down. \*The [Saben](/wiki/saben/) have been shrunk down into a pea
in recent months. So, they are no longer a threat, even with [glyph](/wiki/glyph/)
[buildings](/wiki/buildings/).

You can construct an Interdimensional Rift at the
[Archaeology Ministry](/wiki/archaeology-ministry/) by combining methane, zircon, and fluorite
[glyph](/wiki/glyph/)s.

**Categories:** [Great Race Ruins](/wiki/#great-race-ruins)

## Community notes

> **icydee:** and a level 30 rift will store 16.5 billion of each resource. :)

> **Blacksilver:** And a level 30 rift can be built for ONLY 1,859 glyphs! :)

> **Tralala French:** Base storage is 50000 + 4% per related affinity point; it doesn't let you dump
> stuff or look at specific ores so a distribution center with it is nice. A rift is equivalent to
> all 5 regular storage buildings 11 level higher approx.

> **dastardly1:** I accidentally deleted this comment: "Samuelxcs: "At level 1, an interdimensional
> rift can be upgraded to level 30 for 300 Essentia, if you get the Halls for 10 Essentia each."
> what I had meant to do was respond to it saying, to the best of my limited understanding, you
> would need to start with a level 29 interdimensional rift to upgrade it to level 30 for 300
> Essentia (assuming the same price of 10 Essentia per Hall"

> **ore swappers:** Base storage is 50000 + 4% per related affinity point; it doesn't let you dump
> stuff or look at specific ores so a distribution center with it is nice. A rift is equivalent to
> all 5 regular storage buildings 11 level higher approx. IF the * 1.55 per level rule is correct.
> However the table shows differences with every other storage math in the game, could an
> experienced player please verify?