How to Compress and Pocket a Working Contraption

Scaling Down the Machine

To move a large structure or vehicle into your inventory, you must first compress it through spatial shrinkage. Spatial compression scales structures down step by step across five power-of-two stages until reaching up to one-sixteenth of standard block size.

1. Assemble your machine, vehicle, or Redstone farm as normal using standard blocks and components.

2. Use the Hot Glue Gun to stick contraption parts together securely before applying compression.

3. Position a Static Subspace Compressor at your main base, or carry a Portable Subspace Compressor for adjustments in the field.

4. Alternatively, equip a handheld Compression Cannon to shoot compression beams directly at the target structure to initiate scaling.

5. Continue scaling through the stages until the structure reaches your desired miniature scale, down to one-sixteenth size.

Storing in an Empty Box

Once the structure is shrunken, it can be collected as an inventory item rather than remaining bound to the world terrain.

1. Hold an Empty Box in your main hand and interact with the compressed structure.

2. The shrunken sublevel packs directly into the container, transforming it into a Pocketed Sublevel item.

3. Place the Pocketed Sublevel into your inventory hotbar or storage chests. If you ever need to dismantle the structure entirely for raw resources instead of deploying it, feed the sublevel into a Subspace Recycler to reclaim its materials.