Storage Practices
Storage Practices is a guide to keeping items in Soulrend without running out of room or losing them. The pack has five storage mods; their items and tiers are listed on Storage Items, and Tom's Storage Network explains how to tie them together.
Before you start#
- A few stacks of wood and iron are enough for the first upgrades; gold, diamond and netherite come later.
- A water bucket, for waterlogging chests.
Upgrade in place#
Never empty a chest to replace it with a bigger one. Both chest mods upgrade a placed chest with its contents inside:
- Sophisticated Storage: use a tier upgrade (Basic to Copper, Copper to Iron, and so on) on the placed chest, barrel or shulker box. A Basic Tier Upgrade turns a vanilla chest or barrel into its Sophisticated version first. Each tier adds slots and upgrade slots, up to 132 slots at Netherite.
- Iron Chests: use a chest upgrade on the placed chest to move it to the next tier.
Pick the right container#
| Storing | Use | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Many different items | Sophisticated chests and barrels | Most slots per block, plus upgrade slots for magnets, filters, compacting and void upgrades. |
| Huge amounts of a few items (ores, stone, drops) | Storage Drawers or Sophisticated Limited Barrels | One item type per slot in very large stacks; drawer storage upgrades multiply that up to ×2,048. |
| Bulk materials next to Create machines | Create Item Vaults | Vaults merge into one large inventory. |
| Everything, searchable | Any of the above behind a Tom's Storage terminal | One screen to search and craft from. |
Compacting saves the most room: a Sophisticated Compacting Upgrade or a Compacting Drawer stores nuggets, ingots and blocks as their compressed form.
Keep it safe#
Waterlog your chests#
A chest with water in its block space is waterlogged. The game uses the stronger of the block’s and the water’s blast resistance, and water’s is 100, so a waterlogged chest survives TNT, Ghast fireballs, End Crystals, bed explosions and the Wither. Its items stay dry and usable.
To waterlog a chest, use a water bucket on it, or place it in water. This works for:
- vanilla Chests and Trapped Chests;
- Sophisticated Storage chests;
- Iron Chests’ chests.
Barrels (vanilla or Sophisticated) and Storage Drawers can’t be waterlogged.
Note
Creepers are disabled in Soulrend (You Shall Not Spawn blocks them), so most explosions near a base come from Ghasts, TNT, End Crystals, beds or respawn anchors used in the wrong dimension, and the Wither. Waterlogging also guards against those, and against explosions set off by other players.
Claim your base on a server#
On a multiplayer server, claim the chunks around your storage with Open Parties and Claims. By default, claimed chunks can’t be changed by other players, and explosions and fire spread don’t affect them. See Teams & Claims.
Lock what matters#
- Storage Drawers’ Personal Key keeps other players out of a drawer.
- Iron Chests’ Lock and Key lock a chest to its key.
Tips#
- Keep valuables in a Traveler's Backpack rather than loose in the inventory: when you die, the backpack is placed as a block where you fell and can’t be destroyed.
- Read Corpses before a risky trip: your other items wait in your corpse.