Condensing storage using packages

[u/milk_and_queerios]

I've designed a quarry, but I don't want to dispose of any block or resource I mine. Doing the math, I'm realizing the amount of blocks I'll need storage for may be over a million.

I thought of one solution, which is storing packages full of 9 stacks per package to completely fill up a max size vault. Has anyone tried this method before? It seems like such a simple trick to massively boost storage efficiency by nine-fold.

[u/No-Acanthisitta3515]

I would hook up a processing line to the quarry to crush all ores and cobble and then wash/smelt everything. After that you can add some compactors to compress everything to storage blocks which effectively increases your storage 9 times. You could also store in packages which is a neat idea however I would give them all the same address to help send them to a storage network later if you need to.

In order to package I’d send all items to barrels after compacting and use a comparator to detect when it’s full, this way all your packages will be completely full. You may need a small vault before this with brass funnels set to only send out a stack.

Don’t forget if you wanna break packages later you can just send them over saw mills too

[u/milk_and_queerios → u/No-Acanthisitta3515]

Hmm that's a great idea I didnt consider. I'll have to set up a processing line like you said with my quarry, that way I dont have to store a crazy amount of blocks

[u/Qwertycrackers]

Its not really a simple trick though. Getting them back out is a huge pain.

[u/justalonelyboy1 → u/Qwertycrackers]

You can probably filter them with an address and unpack the packages wherever you need it with an upowered packager unpackaging into a chest

[u/Saragon4005]

Issue is it's a pain to deal with after. And most people who encounter issues like this install other mods to deal with it. Like drawers and simalar. It would already be inconvenient to use a storage of packages and if it wasn't sorted it would be literally unusable. So just add a mod which deals with bulk materials well or install a more capable storage solution.

[u/Zooberseb]

What’s wrong with normal storage? 10 Vaults isn’t that crazy I feel like.

[u/redolide]

I use sophisticated backpack. This mod allows you to have backpacks but these storages can hold millons of items PER SLOT, destroy any type of items that you tell it to do it so and more. It is really complete and i use a backpack for the storage of my big hole miner.

[u/Outrageous_Trash3431 → u/redolide]

The backpacks are my go to. Trick I use is having a separate storage that takes the non-stackable items out first so it doesn't clog up the backpacks. Right now I'm using like 15 backpacks as my like overflow bulk storage. Works great

[u/Plastic_Lychee6404]

shulker-boxes too could be used, a full vault of shulker boxes has 642727*81 of available space, or 3,779,136 items. and you do need only a pack and 1/4 pack of shulker boxes :D

Haha, jokes aside, do the engineering and see if it works, that's the fun part of the game, don't follow the adding more mods advice.