Sophisticated Storage

Getting started

A Chest is eight planks around a lever, and a Barrel swaps two of the planks for wooden slabs. Any wood works and the block keeps its wood's look. A vanilla chest or barrel crafted with a lever also becomes the Sophisticated one, and a Basic Tier Upgrade (four sticks around a lever) right-clicked on a vanilla chest or barrel already placed converts it where it stands.

Open one and the column on its left holds upgrades. A wooden chest has one upgrade slot and 27 slots, like a vanilla chest. Every tier adds slots and, from iron up, upgrade slots. You can also right-click a placed storage with an upgrade in hand to put it in.

• Craft a Chest or Barrel from planks and a lever.
• Craft an Upgrade Base: five planks and four iron ingots. Almost every upgrade starts from it.
• Make a Pickup Upgrade or a Hopper Upgrade for your first automatic chest.
• Add a Stack Upgrade Tier 1 (eight logs around a base) to double what each slot holds.
• Craft a Backpack from four leather, four string and a chest, and open it with B.

Chest, barrel and shulker box tiers, and upgrading in place

Chests, barrels and shulker boxes share the same six tiers. On our server each tier holds this many slots and upgrades:

Wood (Chest, Barrel, Shulker Box)

27 slots, 1 upgrade slot.

Copper

45 slots, 1 upgrade slot. Eight copper ingots around the wooden one.

Iron

54 slots, 2 upgrade slots. Eight iron ingots around the wooden one, or four around the copper one.

Gold

81 slots, 3 upgrade slots. Eight gold ingots around the iron one.

Diamond

108 slots, 4 upgrade slots. Eight diamonds around the gold one.

Netherite

132 slots, 5 upgrade slots. The diamond one and a netherite ingot, shapeless.

Those crafting recipes keep everything inside, so you can pick a full chest up and craft it into the next tier. To skip the trip, use a tier upgrade item: right-click the placed chest, barrel or shulker box with it and it changes tier where it stands, contents and upgrades included. A double chest needs two of the item in your hand.

Basic to Copper

Eight copper ingots around a lever.

Basic to Iron

Eight iron ingots around a lever.

Copper to Iron

Four iron ingots around a lever.

Iron to Gold

Eight gold ingots around a lever.

Gold to Diamond

Eight diamonds around a lever.

Diamond to Netherite

A lever and a netherite ingot.

Basic to Netherite

Skips every tier. Built up from Basic to Iron: eight gold around it for Basic to Gold, eight diamonds around that for Basic to Diamond, then a netherite ingot.

A Shulker Box is two shulker shells with a Sophisticated chest between them, or two shells, a lever and any chest. It keeps its contents when broken, like a vanilla one. A chest or barrel spills them, and on our server breaking one that would drop more than 200 item stacks is refused unless you sneak. To move a full one, right-click it with Packing Tape (a slimeball and paper) first: it then drops as one item with everything inside. Four tapes make Super Packing Tape.

The Decoration Table paints any of them in two colours, and gives barrels the look of other blocks. Set a Paintbrush in the table to apply the same look in the world; used on a controller it paints every connected storage.

Limited barrels

A Limited Barrel has one to four slots that each hold many stacks of one item, like a storage drawer. Right-click the item on its front to put in, left-click to take one, and sneak for a full stack. Its tiers raise how much each slot holds and never add slots. The multiplier is in stacks: 32 on a wooden Limited Barrel I means 2,048 cobblestone in its one slot.

Limited Barrel I

1 slot. Stacks per slot: wood 32, copper 53, iron 64, gold 96, diamond 128, netherite 160.

Limited Barrel II

2 slots. Wood 16, copper 27, iron 32, gold 48, diamond 64, netherite 80.

Limited Barrel III

3 slots. Wood 10, copper 17, iron 20, gold 30, diamond 40, netherite 50.

Limited Barrel IV

4 slots. Wood 8, copper 13, iron 16, gold 24, diamond 32, netherite 40.

All four are planks, slabs and a lever in different shapes, and they climb tiers like a chest, with the same tier upgrades. Upgrade slots go 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 from wood to netherite. A Stack Upgrade multiplies on top of the barrel's own figure.

Stack upgrades: how much a slot holds

A stack upgrade multiplies how many stacks fit in every slot, and two of them multiply each other: two Tier 2 upgrades make 16 times. On our server a chest, barrel or shulker box takes at most two stack upgrades and a backpack three. The Omega Tier is switched off in ATM10.

Tier 1

2 times. Eight logs around an Upgrade Base.

Tier 1 Plus

3 times. Tier 1 with six copper ingots and two copper blocks.

Tier 2

4 times. Tier 1 with six iron ingots and two iron blocks, or Tier 1 Plus with three iron ingots and an iron block.

Tier 3

8 times. Tier 2 with six gold ingots and two gold blocks.

Tier 4

16 times. Tier 3 with six diamonds and two diamond blocks.

Tier 5

32 times. Tier 4 with six netherite ingots and two netherite blocks. Two of them make 1,024 times.

Backpacks have their own line, made of storage blocks: the Starter Tier is eight copper blocks around a backpack Upgrade Base (1.5 times), then eight iron, gold, diamond and netherite blocks around the tier before give Tier 1 2 times, Tier 2 4, Tier 3 8 and Tier 4 16. Three Tier 4 make 4,096 times.

A full storage may refuse to give up its stack upgrade, because the items would no longer fit. A conversion item such as Tier 1 to Tier 2 is right-clicked on the installed upgrade and raises it in place. The Stack Downgrades do the opposite, dividing by 8, 16 or 32, for automation that needs a small limit.

Shift-click takes only one normal stack out of a big slot. Ctrl and shift with a click moves as much as fits.

Upgrades for chests and barrels

Every upgrade has a basic and an advanced version. The advanced one has 16 filter slots instead of 9 and can match by mod, tag, data and damage as well as by item. Most advanced upgrades are the basic one with a diamond, two gold ingots and three redstone.

Pickup Upgrade

Items that touch the storage go in, by filter. A sticky piston, two planks, an Upgrade Base and three redstone.

Magnet Upgrade

Pulls dropped items from 3 blocks around the storage, 5 with the Advanced Magnet Upgrade. A Pickup Upgrade with two ender pearls, three iron, a redstone and a lapis.

Filter Upgrade

Decides what pipes and hoppers may put in or take out. Four redstone and four string around a base.

Void Upgrade

Destroys the items in its filter as they arrive, or only when their slot is full. An ender pearl, three obsidian and two redstone.

Compacting Upgrade

Crafts items into their block form with 2x2 recipes. The advanced one also does 3x3, and our server allows one per storage.

Compression Upgrade

Takes up to 5 slots and shows one item at each level, such as nuggets, ingots and blocks, converting as you take from any of them.

Hopper Upgrade

Pulls from above and pushes below, one item every 8 ticks. The advanced one works on any side, up to 4 items every 2 ticks.

Feeding Upgrade

Feeds you from the storage when you are hungry. A golden carrot, a golden apple, a glistering melon and an ender pearl.

Smelting Upgrade

A furnace in a tab. The Auto-Smelting Upgrade takes fuel and ore from the storage and puts the results back. Smoking and blasting versions run twice as fast.

Crafting Upgrade

A crafting grid in a tab. A crafting table, two iron and a chest.

Stonecutter Upgrade

A stonecutter in a tab that remembers the last recipe.

Jukebox Upgrade

Plays a disc. The advanced one holds 12, with shuffle and repeat.

On our server a storage takes one furnace-type upgrade (smelting, smoking, blasting or an auto one), one jukebox and one Advanced Compacting Upgrade at a time. Storage and backpack upgrades are different items, but each converts into the other: a storage upgrade with leather and string becomes the backpack one, and a backpack upgrade with planks becomes the storage one.

The controller: many chests as one

The Storage Controller joins every Sophisticated storage touching it, and every storage touching those, into one inventory, up to 15 blocks from the controller on our server. Pipes on the controller reach all of them. Right-click it with a stack to put the stack where the same item already is, and double right-click to put away everything in your inventory that is already stored.

• Controller: four stone, two comparators, two planks and a wooden Sophisticated chest or barrel in the middle.
• Storage Link: put it on a storage that is not touching the network, then link it with the Storage Tool. It brings in that storage and everything touching it. Three come from a controller and an ender pearl.
• Storage Tool: sneak and scroll to change mode. It links storages and links to a controller, locks a storage to the items already in it, and hides counts, tiers and upgrades.
• Storage Input, Storage Output and Storage I/O: blocks for pipes that only insert, only extract, or both. The Input has a single slot and is the lightest on the server.
• Storage Connectors, four from sticks and planks, fill gaps between storages so they still count as touching.

Input and output blocks do not join a storage that touches only them. That makes a drop-off chest: put a chest with a Hopper Upgrade next to a Storage Input, set the hopper to push into it, and anything thrown in the chest goes to the network.

Backpacks and their tiers

A Backpack is four leather, four string and a wooden chest. Open it with B, or right-click with it in hand, or hover it in your inventory and press B. Wear it in the chest slot or the Curios back slot. Sneak and right-click a block to place it, and sneak and right-click it with an empty hand to pick it up again; placed, pipes and hoppers can use it.

Leather

27 slots, 1 upgrade slot.

Copper

45 slots, 1 upgrade slot. Eight copper ingots around a leather backpack.

Iron

54 slots, 2 upgrade slots. Eight iron around a leather one, or four around a copper one.

Gold

81 slots, 3 upgrade slots. Eight gold ingots around an iron one.

Diamond

108 slots, 5 upgrade slots. Eight diamonds around a gold one.

Netherite

120 slots, 7 upgrade slots. A diamond one, a netherite ingot and a Netherite Upgrade template in a smithing table.

Every step keeps the contents and upgrades. Backpacks also turn up in dungeon, mineshaft, desert temple, Nether fortress, bastion, shipwreck, mansion and End city chests, and on our server about one in a hundred of some mobs spawn wearing one, which drops half the time. Dye a backpack in a crafting grid, or wash the colour off in a water cauldron.

On our server a backpack's upgrades work from anywhere in your inventory, worn or not. Other players can also right-click the backpack on your back to open it, unless you switch that off in the backpack's settings.

Backpack upgrades

Backpack upgrades start from their own Upgrade Base: four string, four iron and a leather. Pickup, magnet, filter, void, compacting, feeding, the furnaces, crafting, stonecutter, jukebox and alchemy work as on a chest, on what you pick up and carry. The magnet reaches 3 blocks around you, 5 when advanced, and also fills a Tank Upgrade with experience. These are the backpack's own:

Deposit Upgrade

Sneak and right-click a chest with the backpack in hand to empty the filtered items into it. The advanced one can send only what the chest already holds.

Restock Upgrade

The reverse: sneak and right-click a chest to fill the backpack with the filtered items from it.

Refill Upgrade

Keeps up to 6 chosen items topped up in your inventory, 12 when advanced, and the advanced one can aim at a hotbar slot or your offhand.

Tool Swapper Upgrade

Swaps the right tool or weapon into your hand when you hit a block or mob with the wrong one.

Inception Upgrade

Lets the backpack hold backpacks, one level deep, and their upgrades keep working.

Everlasting Upgrade

The backpack can no longer be destroyed: no explosions, lava, fire, cactus or despawning, and in the void it floats at the bottom of the world.

Tank Upgrade

Turns part of the inventory into fluid storage, 4,000 mB per row of slots on our server.

Battery Upgrade

The same for energy, 10,000 FE per row of slots, and charges items in its tab.

Pump Upgrade

Moves fluid between the tank and blocks next to a placed backpack. The advanced one also works on buckets in hand and fluids in the world.

Experience Pump Upgrade

Stores your experience in the tank, keeps you at a level you set, and repairs Mending gear.

Anvil Upgrade and Smithing Upgrade

An anvil and a smithing table in a tab.

Mob Catcher Upgrade

Sneak and right-click a passive mob to store it in the backpack. The advanced one catches hostile mobs too.

Which backpack upgrades to make first

A suggestion for a new ATM10 world, ordered by cost. It assumes a backpack with few upgrade slots, so each one has to earn its place.

• Magnet Upgrade: collects drops from 3 blocks around you while you mine or fight. Upgrade it to the advanced one for 5 blocks and tag filters.
• Stack Upgrade Starter Tier, then higher tiers: a backpack takes three, and they multiply each other.
• Feeding Upgrade: eats from the bag when you get hungry.
• Advanced Void Upgrade set to cobblestone, dirt and the like, so mining does not fill the bag.
• Tool Swapper Upgrade: picks the pickaxe, axe or shovel for the block you hit.
• Everlasting Upgrade once you have two nether stars and four end crystals, so a death in lava does not lose it.

What ATM10 changes

• Stack upgrades are capped: two per chest, barrel or shulker box, three per backpack. The Omega Tier has no recipe.
• One Advanced Compacting Upgrade per storage or backpack, and compacting uses only full 2x2 and 3x3 recipes.
• Upgrades work in any backpack you carry, and other players may open the one you wear unless you turn it off.
• Modular Machinery Reborn's input and output buses are made with Sophisticated copper, iron, gold, diamond and netherite chests.

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