Sorting items in chest?

[Yoh1612]

Is there a button to sort items in chest like in players inventory?

[KatherineOfSky]

Unfortunately, not.

[fractalgem]

No, but there's a couple mods that give you this functionality. I Can't remember which ones, though.

[KayDawg13]

you can build your own sorter. have storage chest getting dumped onto a bus that runs along passive provider chests with sorter inserters picking the items off the belt.
if you watch the YouTube Tactorio AMASS series, Steejo made something like this.

[Yoh1612]

Yes i watch the AMASS series but i want something that sorts items in the chest for example when you have 2 stacks of wood and 5 stacks of copper they are all together side by side in your inventory but when you put them in chest they stay in the place you put them and i want mod or something so that when i put them in chest they will move to by side by side like in player inventory.

[daemonworks]

There's a simple if very imperfect workaround - use a train car as a chest. For some stupid reason, they're the only storage in the game that lets you lock the slots toi particular items.

[Acarin]

Other than the fact that it annoys the hell out of (y)our OCD, why do you need to sort chests?

Depending on what you actually want, I may be able to suggest a mod that will help (although I don't use any sorting mods as I haven't found a need...)

[KatherineOfSky]

Originally posted by Acarin:

Other than the fact that it annoys the hell out of (y)our OCD, why do you need to sort chests?

Depending on what you actually want, I may be able to suggest a mod that will help (although I don't use any sorting mods as I haven't found a need...)

^^, OP, as you play the game more you'll find that you have zero need to sort chests.

In fact, most of the time, your chests will hold one type of item only. For Storage logistics-capable chests, the robots control the inventory, so there is no need for sorting. (They do a rough sorting in any case).

[Old Starchy]

I have a chest that gets items passed from a requester that requests items based on the constant contaminator minus the items in the previously mentioned chest.

I keep having deadlocks where the chest can't get the correct items because the rails, for example will be split into a stack of 90 and a stack of 10, rather than one of 100, which means there's no room for the new items. Even though when it is fully stocked, there should be 3 slots spare. I may end up having to use two chests, which means I'd need to add a bunch more combinators.

[Nellvan]

Picker Extended has that feature, among lots of other things.
Check Options>Mods > Startup / Per Player to see what it can do and set everything as you want. To change anything in "Startup" you need to go into the options from the main menu, not from within a running game.

[Acarin]

You need to reserve the slots in the chest. If you... er... middle-click on a slot (I think), you can specify what goes in that slot. Reserve each space in the chest for your desired product, and you will never have 'overspill' preventing a deadlock like that :-)

[KatherineOfSky]

@Acarin, unless you are using a mod, you can't specify slots in a regular chest: only in loco wagons :-)

[Acarin]

Oh duh! Brainfart there, I had it the other way round in my head. *sigh*. Glad you're on the ball, at least :-D

[dragonsphotoworks]

hmm im late but i tried picker from this post... and it didnt do anything even after setting it in options. Also did nothing to old chests or new ones :-(

[Nailfoot]

Originally posted by dragonsphotoworks:

hmm im late but i tried picker from this post... and it didnt do anything even after setting it in options. Also did nothing to old chests or new ones :-(

Are you sure that mod was updated for 0.15? This is an OLD thread... like, "me" old.

[Nellvan]

It is updated, and should work. Just to be sure, it's "Picker Extended Version" , not just "Picker"
https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Nexela/PickerExtended

If you're not interested in all the other features it adds, even if some of them are pretty neat, there's also this one:
https://mods.factorio.com/mods/theRustyKnife/manual-inventory-sort