How do you store everything you find?

[258789553873]

I keep having a problem with not being able to keep all my stuff organized, because there seems to be more stuff than there is room in a chest. For instance, I made a chest for banners, and right now its completely full with banners, and I have a dozen or so more scattered in various other chests. I can't add more chests for more banners without moving stuff around (I have all my chests in a line under the floor of my main house). I also have chests upon chests filled with weapons I've found over the course of my playthrough, and I haven't even beaten the golem right. And right now, my inventory is full of junk because I have no place to put it. I can't even fit all my monster drops in one chest. So right now, I have a bunch of rare monster drops clogging up my inventory. Which was quite annoying just now, when I was making an afk farm for vertebrae and unicorn horns (I coudn't carry everything I needed to build the thing in my inventory at the same time, so I had to go back to base 3 times to build the stupid thing).

How do you keep stuff organized? It appears you need at least 3 or 4 chests for each category to store everything. Right now my inventory is a complete disorganized mess, despite my best efforts, and I don't know what I can do to fix it. And no, I don't keep multiples of the same weapon, unless maybe its an extremely rare drop.

[Star★Dive]

I usually store my stuff in 3:4 rows
xxx-xxx-xxx row 1
xxx-xxx-xxx row 2
xxx-xxx-xxx row 3
xxx-xxx-xxx row 4

X represents 1 treasure chest
- represents a torch or lamp used to keep them seperated between catagories: 3 chests for weapons, 3 chests for materials, 3 chests for tiles, 3 chests for ores etc etc etc.

Suffice to say, I utilize platforms to keep each layer adjacent to the next. i could show you an in-game example if you like.

[258789553873]

I decided to expand my treasure room to be more than one layer. Its taking me a while to move everything around, because my organized chests are all full and the other half aren't sorted at all. I was able to empty them out though, by selling all the items I got from fishing (like anchors, no idea why I kept them all when I don't even use them). I'll be going with a four-row layout like you suggested. It might be a bit much, but it should give me enough room. I think I'll even have enough space to show off my boss trophies in my new treasure room.

From now on, I guess I'll have to plan out my storage this way from the start.

[Saver Sigonith]

Yeah, it's best to plan out how much of what you need to keep. If you want one of every banner, for instance, you'll need 7 chests of just banners. If you want one of every weapon in the game, you'll need 12 chests just of weapons, and my area for building blocks is over 40 chests!

In the end, I'd recommend an area for storage that can easily be expanded if need be. That's the easiest solution.

The other option is to really carefully plan exactly how many chests for what you'll need, but that can be difficult and time consuming.

[258789553873]

Originally posted by Saver Sigonith:

Yeah, it's best to plan out how much of what you need to keep. If you want one of every banner, for instance, you'll need 7 chests of just banners. If you want one of every weapon in the game, you'll need 12 chests just of weapons, and my area for building blocks is over 40 chests!

In the end, I'd recommend an area for storage that can easily be expanded if need be. That's the easiest solution.

The other option is to really carefully plan exactly how many chests for what you'll need, but that can be difficult and time consuming.

Seven chests for banners? I've defeated plantera already and my banners don't even take up two chests! Of course, my dungeon hasn't spawned new enemies for whatever reason, I also have yet to see a pirate invasion, and I've only been in the temple once (I went in there to get traps for afk farms).

[DrMink]

Originally posted by IXBlackWolfXI:

Originally posted by Saver Sigonith:

Yeah, it's best to plan out how much of what you need to keep. If you want one of every banner, for instance, you'll need 7 chests of just banners. If you want one of every weapon in the game, you'll need 12 chests just of weapons, and my area for building blocks is over 40 chests!

In the end, I'd recommend an area for storage that can easily be expanded if need be. That's the easiest solution.

The other option is to really carefully plan exactly how many chests for what you'll need, but that can be difficult and time consuming.

Seven chests for banners? I've defeated plantera already and my banners don't even take up two chests! Of course, my dungeon hasn't spawned new enemies for whatever reason, I also have yet to see a pirate invasion, and I've only been in the temple once (I went in there to get traps for afk farms).

Keep in mind that banners aren't only from monsters. The dungeon, sky chests, temple, hellworld, etc., all have banners, as well as craftable ones as well.

Also, another quick tip, you can use the drawers furniture item (forgot the name of it, sorry) as storage as well. I tend to use those for items I need quick access to, such as most used potions, accessory kits, health pots and such. Of course, the portable piggy bank can work for that just fine. So it's totally up to you. But planning it out, yes, that's kind of important if you're a hoarder.

[shinjay5882]

I just 'Deposit All' into a chest really. I have 500 hours logged and 300 of those hours is probably clicking on chest looking for items i need.

[Why Try?]

Originally posted by shinjay5882:

I just 'Deposit All' into a chest really. I have 500 hours logged and 300 of those hours is probably clicking on chest looking for items i need.

Thats why I like minecraft in a seance, you can make chest sorters for lazy hoarders like myself.

[DrMink]

Originally posted by FallenDarkness309:

Originally posted by shinjay5882:

I just 'Deposit All' into a chest really. I have 500 hours logged and 300 of those hours is probably clicking on chest looking for items i need.

Thats why I like minecraft in a seance, you can make chest sorters for lazy hoarders like myself.

Just put items in chests where you want them. When you open your inventory, there's a "Quick Stack" button near the inventory that stores items to nearby chests. And then just label those chests by changing their name.

[Why Try?]

Originally posted by MrRicecake:

Originally posted by FallenDarkness309:

Thats why I like minecraft in a seance, you can make chest sorters for lazy hoarders like myself.

Just put items in chests where you want them. When you open your inventory, there's a "Quick Stack" button near the inventory that stores items to nearby chests. And then just label those chests by changing their name.

That's exactly what I do.