How does the organize button work in chests?

[joelene1892]

I'm just trying to find a logic to it. . . I googled it and someone has said it sorted by type and then alphabetically, but that isn't true. At least in my game.

For instance, I have a chest that has all minerals. I triple checked, they are all the same type. When I hit the sort button, The first letters turn into S-S-P-O-N-M-L-J-J-G-C-C-T-Q-F-E-E-D-A
That is almost backwards alphabetical, but for some reason each line does it's own thing (the top line is alphabetical, and the bottom line is alphabetical, but they aren't alphabetical together. Q does not come before C. . .)

I'm just wondering for my own organization if anyone knows what the crap is actually going on.

EDIT: it seems to work perfectly fine with my vegetables and forage items. Just not with my minerals.

[The Y'All Of Us]

As far as I can tell, the Organize button sorts items in the inventory its' used on by type- Clicking it more than once will swap the sort around by what would appear to be quality.

I haven't found anywhere that has the full logic of the action mapped out yet, but I'll keep looking around as I'm rather curious myself.

Testing it on a chest that was fully minerals was actually a pretty good control group- good thinking on that. If you poke around in the games data (via the wiki or actually digging into the files) to learn more about the minerals you had in that chest, you could start looking for a recognizable pattern.

[joelene1892]

Originally posted by Charlotte:

As far as I can tell, the Organize button sorts items in the inventory its' used on by type- Clicking it more than once will swap the sort around by what would appear to be quality.

I haven't found anywhere that has the full logic of the action mapped out yet, but I'll keep looking around as I'm rather curious myself.

Testing it on a chest that was fully minerals was actually a pretty good control group- good thinking on that. If you poke around in the games data (via the wiki or actually digging into the files) to learn more about the minerals you had in that chest, you could start looking for a recognizable pattern.

I don't know if I'm confident enough to dig around in the files. What, exactly, do people dig around in? And I'll definitely look into those minerals more. I'm wondering if maybe there are somehow two "types" of minerals that might make them sort the way they did for some reason? Because my other chests that are solely one type sort fine. And minerals do, too, except the fact that they have two alphabetically sorted sections instead of one. I'm going to check that out more when I'm done this day.