How to put tank in floating thing?

[gamingpolly]

So I collected resources as an engineer, wondered why my resource count didn't go up. Someone told me I have to put the tank in the thing where you deposit, how do I do that?

[Micha]

You just have to fly over the big container with your full tanks.

The resources should then start to drain from the tanks and the counter should go up.

[gamingpolly]

No, how do I put the tank in it and then fly away?

Someone told me that's how to use the wireless resource collection as an engineer (or whatever it was maybe researcher)

[astroslug]

You need a decoupler.  Attach the decoupler to your drone, and the resource tank to the decoupler.  Assign a key to decouple.

People also attach other stuff like fuel and energy to this bundle, rather than have to drag that stuff around a planet.

Note: this is only valid if you have wireless resource transfer.