Storage Sorting

[BINGUSBURGER]

Quick question for my fellow pioneers. So, I'm currently making a storage for my main base that I intend to have a container for every semi/fully automatable item and I want it organised. Problem, I don't know how to sort it. Like, should I sort it by item type? (e.g. standard parts, industrial parts, electronics, communications and then into sub-categories like iron, steel, frames, polymers) Do I group them by their use? (e.g. belts/pipes, constructors, refineries, transportation and wiring) Or maybe I sort them by how common they are in building? Tell me what you think, I've got time.

P.s.
I'll also have a storage on the side for consumables and ammo

[Wolfgang]

Here is how I did my storage:
I only store things that are needed in building and crafting certain things that you can not automate. That gave me 34 items (I think). Since I wanted to have it more compact I rounded up to 36 and made thus two rows with 9 storage containers on each side of the row (so 9 | 9 [nothing] 9 | 9). In the row to my right I have all the "often used" items with the most important right at the beginning (Iron plates, reinforced plates etc) so that when I need them I can grab them quicker. The more rarer they are used the further back they are. And stuff that is used but only for certain things that you aren't building all the time or in huge quantities (unless you are doing this on purpose) is in the left row.
I store 2 industrial storage containers per item and each storage container has a sign showing what is in it.
The remaining two slots were previously, before Update 6, filled with black powder which back then I didn't have automated (so more handcrafted because doggo brought sulfur and coal) because I heard of the change for ammo so I waited on that (and I made a separate storage for that since these news came after I made my main storage). Now they are used for Filters and Iodine Filters which are automated.
Of course the whole thing is overflow protected with a sink at the end and to reduce space usage I used programmable splitters (since it is a mixed line coming in and I wanted to build this nice).

Though in the end it comes down to how you want to store it and how you want it to look like. I have more the concept of "aesthetics = functional" so there is pretty much no decoration.

[BINGUSBURGER]

Just realised I forgot industrial parts

[Wolfgang]

Not the best picture for my storage system but the only one I have currently available:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2897795829
It can be seen in the distance on the left side of the screenshot.

[Huren Ogeko]

in prior games I just added a container for each new item as I unlocked it but these days I prefer to organize a different way but it requires you plan out all the possible things you want to store from day 1.
just a rough idea if my first container is concrete..the single most used thing in my game
then I have iron plates, reinforforced plates, steem beam, alclad plates....you probably see the pattern here...its the belt materials
after that I think I have steel pipes, rods, and things like this, followed by wire, caterium wire then I shift into plastic/oil/rubber things including fuel
then above all these I do things like rotors, stators, motors, then maybe the frames (all three of them), then electronic things leading up to super computers.
I am just sort of pulling this out of memory but what I have is roughly something like that.

in order to do this I had to sit down and figure out every single thing I would likely ever store in the entire game and plan things out.....I just made a sign for each item and just posted them on containers and shifted them around until I liked what I saw.


Like everything else in the game there is no wrong way to do it. it just has to work for you and make sense to you and help you find things easier.

[LazerRay]

I just made one container for each item I was storing and placed signs on them with an image of what was stored, for the few multi-item containers or special use ones, I either placed a text sign, used a generic icon, or both (examples tools/supplies got the toolbox icon, berries, nuts, and protein got "Organic Materials", and the container I have hooked to a AWESOME Sink has a recycling icon and text stating what goes in it, all normal storage just has an image of what is in that container).

[Die Hand Gottes]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2950336820

[UnableRogue]

I sorted my storage out by when I unlocked the item in the game.
1st row I have all ore plus crystal and Mycelia.
2nd row is the product that comes from the ore such as ingots and the quartz crystal and concrete.
3rd row is copper, iron and aluminium products including wire...
It's easier if I just show you.

Rows 1 and 2
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2950388400

3 and 4
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2950388485

5 and 6
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2950388573

Row 7
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2950388650

[cswiger]

I'm down with being organized and storing useful items.

But storing ore is too much like storing the lint that comes out of the clothes dryer.
Just because you can keep it around, doesn't mean you should keep it around.

[HumanMirthquake]

Originally posted by cswiger:

I'm down with being organized and storing useful items.

But storing ore is too much like storing the lint that comes out of the clothes dryer.
Just because you can keep it around, doesn't mean you should keep it around.

Not to be that guy, but dryer lint is great kindling for fires. That makes it a fire hazard, of course, but it's still good kindling. :P

[cswiger]

Originally posted by HumanMirthquake:

Not to be that guy, but dryer lint is great kindling for fires. That makes it a fire hazard, of course, but it's still good kindling. :P

No worries-- I used to use drier lint for just purpose, back when I was in the Boy Scouts.

On the one hand, it's true many things have surprising uses. On the other hand, most people aren't lighting fires with flint, steel, and kindling for their Wilderness Survival merit badge on a routine basis.

Nothing bad will happen if you don't keep storages full of ore in Satisfactory. In fact, you are always better off using your inventory to hold more useful items than ore except at the very beginning.

[UnableRogue]

Originally posted by cswiger:

I'm down with being organized and storing useful items.

But storing ore is too much like storing the lint that comes out of the clothes dryer.
Just because you can keep it around, doesn't mean you should keep it around.

I didn't know if later in the game that raw ore might be used in a manufacturing process like sulphur and coal so I decided to include it. I never use them though.