How to Compress and Decompress Stacks Using Shortcuts

Compressing Resources into Storage Blocks

When managing large amounts of mined resources or harvested materials, compacting items into blocks typically requires manually filling crafting slots. Crafting Tweaks streamlines this process with a single keybind.

Using the K Key Shortcut

1. Open your crafting interface with the materials in your inventory or grid.

2. Select or hover over the target materials and press the K key.

3. The mod automatically arranges your items into their matching 2×2 or 3×3 compact block recipes (such as turning ingots into storage blocks).

4. Pressing K on completed storage blocks reverses the action, decompressing blocks directly back into ingots or their base component form.

This shortcut handles both standard 2×2 square recipes and full 3×3 grids, allowing you to bulk-compress your raw materials for compact storage and unpack them later whenever they are needed for crafting.