How to Connect a Dank to Pipes and Storage Networks

When you return to your base, you do not need to unload your dank by hand. Placing it into a Dock turns your portable backpack into an automated storage block.

Using the Dock Block

1. Place a Dock block down in your base where you want to connect your logistics setup.

2. Put your dank inside the Dock.

3. Attach your automation directly to the Dock block. Once docked, items can be inserted and extracted by vanilla hoppers, item pipes, Simple Storage Network, Refined Storage, and Applied Energistics 2.

Locking Slots for Automated Filtering

If an external pipe or storage network pulls every single item out of a slot, that slot becomes empty and loses its filter memory for future auto-pickup or sorting.

• Before or while managing your dank, lock specific slots inside the dank GUI.
• A locked slot displays a red background.
• Locking ensures that at least one item always stays behind in that slot, preventing pipes, hoppers, or players from extracting the final item.

This lets you safely hook your mining dank up to an unloading system to drain thousands of gathered blocks while keeping one placeholder item in every slot for your next trip.