Stacking the storage chests

[ROORnNUGZ]

I was watching a youtube video of someone playing and they had their storage chests stacked on top of each other three high. Anyone know how to do this? Can't seem to get it to work for me.

[TeaTurtle]

Place some dirt blocks down, then place your chests on top of it. Remove the dirt blocks and then you can place more chests underneath the floating chests.

[TelFiRE]

Yeah just place dirt blocks and place the top one first. Then break the dirt block under it, place another chest, break the dirt block under that one, etc.

You can do the same thing to stack foundations. I also used the trick to stack a ton of copper doors to cover up and defend my ceilings and floors, since there is no copper tier structure other than door (no idea why that is, seems like bad design, not that it matters since copper can just be broken in like 2 hits by any sword and so can every other building material)

[ROORnNUGZ]

Ok I'll try that. Thanks!

[SteelFire]

Yeah, this is way more efficient, for raw storage space, than large storage boxes. You can get 90 slots into the same space. Maybe less convenient for one-stop storage, but more convenient for organization.

[ROORnNUGZ]

Just to clarify for anyone else. If you already have a chest on the ground then you can place dirt on top and a chest on top of dirt but when you remove the dirt you cannot place chest in that spot. So you have to start with 2 dirt blocks on ground and work your way down to get 3 stacked on top of each other. Thanks for the above replies for the help

[TelFiRE]

Originally posted by SteelFire:

Yeah, this is way more efficient, for raw storage space, than large storage boxes. You can get 90 slots into the same space. Maybe less convenient for one-stop storage, but more convenient for organization.

Yep, I hate the big boxes. I keep a wall of the small chests for my main storage. I do keep a couple of the big ones around for things I store a lot of, and for a bulk dump when I first get back to base. But for storing more than 1 type of item, they suck. Only 2 lines to view, and you have to scroll through, when there is all that room in the UI they could just show all slots. And they aren't even space efficient.

Originally posted by ROORnNUGZ:

Just to clarify for anyone else. If you already have a chest on the ground then you can place dirt on top and a chest on top of dirt but when you remove the dirt you cannot place chest in that spot. So you have to start with 2 dirt blocks on ground and work your way down to get 3 stacked on top of each other. Thanks for the above replies for the help

Yep, you have to place the top chest first. If you decide you want to go 1 higher you have to demo and start over.