Storage & Logistics

Storage in Nytheria has three layers that work together: containers that grow in place, a network that joins ordinary chests into one searchable list, and blocks that move items for you. This page is the hub for the topic. It explains the layers, lists the mods, covers Sophisticated Storage and item movement in detail, and links the two pages that go deeper on the storage network and backpacks.

Overview#

The three layers do not get in each other's way:

1. Containers that grow in place. Sophisticated Storage chests, barrels and shulker boxes take tier upgrades and upgrade slots. Sophisticated Backpacks do the same on your back.
2. A network with a search bar. Obscura's Simple Storage (the pack author's fork of Tom's Simple Storage) joins existing chests, barrels and other mods' inventories into one list. It needs no power and no channels, and it has no autocrafting.
3. Item movement. Omni Hopper, Hopper Gadgetry, Kibe conveyors and the Vacuum Hopper, and Mob Grindworks for mob farms.

You can start small. Craft an Obscura Inventory Connector (planks, comparator, 2 chests, a diamond and an ender pearl), put chests next to it and place a Storage Terminal. Upgrade chests with Sophisticated tier upgrades. Carry a backpack for the road.

The mods behind it#

Sophisticated Storage#

Sophisticated Storage chests, barrels and shulker boxes share one tier table. The same tiers apply to all three.

Crafting and tier upgrades#

A chest is 8 planks and a redstone torch, or a vanilla chest and a redstone torch (shapeless). A Basic Tier Upgrade (sticks and a redstone torch) turns a vanilla inventory into a Sophisticated one. Tier upgrades then work in place and keep the contents:

Limited barrels#

Limited barrels (I to IV) trade slots for larger stacks. The config sets this base stack-size multiplier per material:

Stack upgrades and caps#

Stack upgrades multiply how many items fit in a slot: Tier 1 x2, Tier 1+ x3, Tier 2 x4, Tier 3 x8, Tier 4 x16, Tier 5 x32. The Omega stack upgrade raises the limit to 2,147,483,647. Shulker boxes and bundles are never stacked further. The pack allows at most 2 stack upgrades in a chest, barrel or shulker box, and 1 jukebox upgrade and 1 furnace-type upgrade each.

Linking and moving#

A Storage Controller links all storages that touch it. Storage Links connect storages that are further away. Storage Input, Output and I/O blocks connect pipes and hoppers. A Storage Tool locks, hides and links, and the Paintbrush and Decoration Table change the look.

Carry On cannot pick up sophisticatedstorage:* blocks. Use Packing Tape instead (slime ball and paper, with limited uses) to move a filled chest or barrel. Breaking a full container does not pack it for you. If it would drop more than 200 item entities, breaking is cancelled unless you sneak, with a message about the tape.

Shared upgrades#

Storage and backpacks share most upgrades. The Magnet pulls items from 3 blocks away (Advanced Magnet: 5). Other shared upgrades are Pickup, Filter, Feeding, Compacting, Void, Smelting, Smoking, Blasting, Crafting, Stonecutter and Jukebox. Storage also gets Hopper and Compression upgrades, and the Chipped workbench upgrades. The backpack-only upgrades are described on Backpacks & Portable Storage.

Moving items#

Omni Hopper#

Obscura's Omni Hopper pulls from any one face and pushes to any other face, which gives 30 input and output combinations. It has 5 slots like a vanilla hopper, but its transfer cooldown is 5 ticks against 8 for the vanilla hopper, so it is 1.6 times faster. Redstone switches it off. The recipe is 3 iron ingots, 2 diamonds and a chest.

Hopper Gadgetry#

Hopper Gadgetry adds three blocks and two minecart items:

• Grated Hopper: only collects items set in its filter slots.
• Chute: drops items straight down into the container below.
• Duct: moves items into connected containers in any direction and can be chained.
• Grated Hopper Minecart and Chute Minecart: the same ideas on rails.

Kibe#

Kibe Utilities is a toolbox. For storage it adds the Entangled Chest, Entangled Bag and Entangled Tank (linked by a colour code), the Trash Can, the Pocket Trash Can, the Pocket Crafting Table, the Magnet (pulls dropped items within 8 blocks while active) and three conveyor belts (Regular, Fast, Express). The Vacuum Hopper (4 obsidian, 2 iron bars, a chest, an ender eye and a bucket) pulls nearby dropped items and XP orbs into its inventory.

The pack removes the Kibe Chunk Loader and the Clutter Coin Pouch through Item Obliterator. Use claims instead of chunk loaders (see Claims & Parties). Only one Kibe ring can be active at a time. The pack also changes the recipe for the Kibe Angel Ring, which is covered on Exploration & Travel.

Mob Grindworks#

Mob Grindworks is the author's port of the core of Mob Grinding Utils for mob farms. It has 9 blocks and 10 upgrades. The Mob Masher is redstone-powered and kills with a fake player, so drops, XP and Looting count as player kills; each upgrade slot takes up to 10 of the same upgrade. The Mob Fan pushes mobs; its upgrades add Distance (max 10), Width (max 3) and Height (max 3). The Absorption Hopper vacuums items and XP orbs in a 7x7x7 area, up to 19x19x19 with 6 Radius Upgrades, and pushes them into adjacent inventories, including an Obscura Inventory Interface.

Fluid XP flows through pipes. A glass bottle on a tank with at least 200 mB of Fluid XP gives a Bottle o' Enchanting, and an XP Tap turns Fluid XP back into orbs.

Inventory comfort and clean-up#

On the player side, Client Sort adds Sort, Stack-fill, Match-transfer and Transfer buttons to inventories. Inventory Essentials handles bulk transfer, bulk drop, shift-drag and refilling. Mouse Tweaks adds drag and wheel moving. Shulker Box Tooltip [Fabric/Forge/NeoForge] shows shulker contents in the tooltip, and Get It Together, Drops! merges nearby dropped items within 3.5 blocks. Pick Up Notifier logs picked-up items on screen and Item Highlighter [Fabric] highlights new items in the inventory.

On the network side, Obscura's Tidy button and Frame Labels sort the chests for you (see Storage Networks).

The /trashcan command from FTB Essentials (Forge & Fabric) is also a sidebar button. /crafting, /anvil, /smithing and /stonecutter are switched on, and /enderchest is switched off.

From first chest to late game#

• Early: wooden Sophisticated chests and barrels, a first backpack (strings, leather, wooden chest) and Packing Tape.
• Middle: an Obscura Inventory Connector and Storage Terminal in your base, copper, iron and gold tier upgrades, a Basic Inventory Hopper or Exporter for automation, and the Kibe Magnet and Trash Can for clean-up.
• Late: diamond and netherite tiers, stack upgrades, the Advanced Wireless Terminal with a beacon next to its terminal for dimension-wide range, the Everlasting backpack upgrade and Mob Grindworks farms that feed a network.

The Obscura network accepts Sophisticated Storage blocks as ordinary inventories, so they show up in terminals. The Absorption Hopper, Omni Hopper and Hopper Gadgetry blocks can feed any inventory.

In the quest book#

Storage tasks appear in Part 2, Hearth and Home. The chapter Shelves and Signposts asks for a Sophisticated Storage barrel, an iron chest with an upgrade, and an iron backpack. A first Sophisticated Backpack is also a task in The Marked Road (Part 1). See Part 2: Hearth and Home.

Pages in this topic#

• Storage Networks (Obscura's Simple Storage) - connectors, terminals, cables, filters, wireless range and Tidy
• Backpacks & Portable Storage - backpack tiers, upgrades, mob backpacks and other portable containers

See also#

• Building & Decoration - Building Upgrades and furniture storage
• Mining & Everyday Tools - Carry On and other everyday tools
• Exploration & Travel - the Kibe Angel Ring
• Multiplayer - per-player Lootr chests
• Controls - the shared B key for terminal and backpack