How to Build Vertical Silos, Horizontal Fluid Tanks, and Fast Item Lines

Standard storage layouts do not always fit the shape of your factory floor. You can reorganize your item and fluid logistics using reoriented storage vessels and upgraded chutes.

Setting Up Vertical Vaults and Horizontal Vessels

Depending on whether your build has more floor space or ceiling height, you can swap the orientation of your bulk storage:

1. Vertical Item Vaults: Instead of laying item vaults flat on the ground, stack vertical item vaults upward to create tall item silos with a narrow footprint.

2. Horizontal Fluid Vessels: Instead of building tall fluid towers, place horizontal fluid vessels side-by-side to store liquids along low ceilings or under floors.

3. Use your installed recipe viewer mod to check the exact crafting layouts for these alternate storage blocks, or hold W over them in your inventory to view their Ponder guides.

Moving Stacks with Brass Chutes

When basic chutes become a bottleneck for your vertical item silos, upgrade your drop lines to Brass Chutes.

• Place brass chutes directly beneath or above your storage containers and belts.
• Unlike basic chutes that move items slowly, brass chutes are capable of transferring whole item stacks at once, keeping high-output assembly lines from backing up.