Sophisticated Storage FAQ

Craft a basic Chest or Barrel first, then place it and right-click to open it. From there, craft the tier upgrade items to move your storage up through Copper, Iron, Gold, Diamond, and Netherite. Upgrade modules like Filter, Compacting, and Smelting slot into the upgrade panel inside the storage GUI.

Open the chest or barrel, place the matching tier upgrade item (like Basic to Copper Tier Upgrade) into the upgrade slot, and it converts in place while keeping its contents. You can also use the Storage Tool to upgrade blocks directly.

Place a Storage Controller and connect nearby Sophisticated Storage blocks to it using Storage Connectors. The controller then exposes every linked inventory as one combined interface, so you can pull from or push to the whole network at once.

Storage I/O acts as an input/output endpoint for your Storage Controller network, letting hoppers, pipes, or other automation insert and extract items from the whole connected storage. Point your automation at the I/O block instead of individual chests.

Install a Magnet Upgrade in a storage block to pull nearby dropped items into it, and a Pickup Upgrade to collect items as you walk over them. Higher-tier versions of these upgrades increase the effective range and pickup behavior.

The Storage Tool lets you pick up, rotate, and reconfigure Sophisticated Storage blocks without breaking them, preserving their contents and upgrades. Right-click to pick up and place, and use it to apply tier upgrades on the fly.

Limited Barrels are variants that only accept a restricted set of items, useful for sorting systems, farms, or shops where you want a barrel to hold exactly one resource. They come in numbered tiers (Limited Barrel 1 through 4) matching each material tier.

Slot these modules into a storage block's upgrade panel: Filter restricts what the block accepts, Compacting merges items into their block forms, Smelting (and Blasting/Smoking) cooks items on insert, and Void deletes overflow. Advanced versions of each module handle more slots or more complex rules.

Make sure each chest or barrel is linked with a Storage Connector and that the controller is within range of the connected blocks. Also check that the block isn't a Limited Barrel variant that's rejecting the connection, and that no upgrade is blocking the slot the controller needs.

Individual storage blocks are lightweight, but large controller networks with many connected inventories and heavy automation can add tick cost. Keep networks reasonably sized, avoid stacking many hoppers into one I/O, and use Filter upgrades to reduce unnecessary item movement.