Sotrage/Sorting

[Loxinnightwalker]

I have been playing with a lot of mods, and started thinking about sorting and storage. For a long time I would just use AE for storage, but after a while I was like what is the point in keeping like everything you have in like three blocks? I really like building big sorting systems and things like that. So what builds do you do without AE for storage and sorting all of your stuff?

 

[Strikingwolf]

Railcraft rail networks and Logistics Pipes...gets fun real fast

 

[Padfoote]

Railcraft rail networks and Logistics Pipes...gets fun real fast

You've been talking to @SatanicSanta I take it.

 

[Loxinnightwalker]

Railcraft rail networks and Logistics Pipes...gets fun real fast

That sounds cool, and if you wanted to do something really big with it you could make a sorting roller coaster and also use it to get around you base.

 

[Strikingwolf]

You've been talking to @SatanicSanta I take it.

he is on the Phoenixcraft team

 

[Padfoote]

he is on the Phoenixcraft team

That would explain it.

 

[SatanicSanta]

You've been talking to @SatanicSanta I take it.

pffft I don't use no logipipes. It's all about full-on-rail systems.

 

[Succubism]

If you want a fuckton of chests/barrels, Extra Utility pipes are awesooooome.

 

[Not_Steve]

If you want a fuckton of chests/barrels, Extra Utility pipes are awesooooome.

This. So this. 9 to 15 times this. XU pipes are sooooo underrated.

That said my favorite transport system is Steve's factory manager. My favorite item storage is iron chests. Low tech but whatever.

 

[namiasdf]

AE is the quickest way, and most convenient to make your entire inventory accessible from any point, including other dimensions.

The MAC and other autocrafting antics are also conveniently included. It is also fast/reliably/highly customizable.

I do understand where you're coming from, but the point of modded minecraft is to not have to deal with organizing all your shit. In vanilla, that could take 30-40% of your time, whereas now it might be 5-10%. That extra 20-30% time you spent on building bigger/better projects.

Similar to how technology allows people to begin advancing science/engineering/academics in Universities, instead of growing food to feed themselves. They can go to the grocery store and purchase food, produced on a field which has been massively made more efficient to produce food, in a food/area ratio.

 

[Narc]

I do understand where you're coming from, but the point of modded minecraft is to not have to deal with organizing all your shit. In vanilla, that could take 30-40% of your time, whereas now it might be 5-10%. That extra 20-30% time you spent on building bigger/better projects.

This may just be my own personal history, but I strongly encourage everyone to try all the lesser sorting systems *once*. I started with vanilla minecraft and the warehouse of chests with signs, moved up to various semi-automatic systems, got my mind blown by Logistics Pipes when they came on the scene, and finally have settled on AE purely for its simplicity.

Point being that I've done the other methods and they all have their fun parts -- at least the first couple of times. AE doesn't have a fun part as much as it just gets out of the way and lets you get on with things, but if it's all you ever do, you're missing out on a bunch of interesting puzzles to solve.

 

[namiasdf]

This may just be my own personal history, but I strongly encourage everyone to try all the lesser sorting systems *once*.

Yep. Though, jumping straight into AE is ill-advised because it is energy and resource intensive to maintain/upgrade anyways. It's not like a noobie can just AE right off the bat. Even getting to the point where you can AE means you'd have at least suffered 5-10 mining trips and organizing the 100x more items you have.

Though, now that we have itemducts and barrels, things aren't like in the days of BC pipes. Either use routers or a large network of diamond pipes. Those were the days.

 

[Narc]

Though, now that we have itemducts and barrels, things aren't like in the days of BC pipes. Either use routers or a large network of diamond pipes. Those were the days.

Yup. Nothing beats the first time you set up a quarry outputting to a series of diamond pipes routing stuff into double chests.

 

[eliandarkbrood]

As for me, i like to see barrels full of crap... i use ae, storing in barrels, max at 64 stacks of each item, and extras being scrapped for whatever i feel like doing to it. Still remember doing it with bc pipes into chests... sooo much fun... (strange thing is i am sarcastic and serious at the same time with that.)

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[Loxinnightwalker]

AE is the quickest way, and most convenient to make your entire inventory accessible from any point, including other dimensions.

The MAC and other autocrafting antics are also conveniently included. It is also fast/reliably/highly customizable.

I do understand where you're coming from, but the point of modded minecraft is to not have to deal with organizing all your shit. In vanilla, that could take 30-40% of your time, whereas now it might be 5-10%. That extra 20-30% time you spent on building bigger/better projects.

Similar to how technology allows people to begin advancing science/engineering/academics in Universities, instead of growing food to feed themselves. They can go to the grocery store and purchase food, produced on a field which has been massively made more efficient to produce food, in a food/area ratio.

If you ask me logipipes is better for accessing your items from any point, and AE is a cool mod, but one thing that I really always found cool about minecraft was being able to have massive rooms of things to sort things into chests/barrels and things for storage, and I just don't see much fun in having it in like three blocks, and things like that since AE lets you do that.

 

[steve g]

remember, you can mix LP and AE =) just had a fun time playing with a crazy tc factory build and let me tell you...that gets crazy complicated, really fast. and you get to see stuff fly around your head

 

[Succubism]

Logistics Pipes are for nerds \o\

 

[Loxinnightwalker]

Logistics Pipes are for nerds \o\

Then I guess I'm a Nerd.

 

[Succubism]

Then I guess I'm a Nerd.

 

[Xheotris]

I've recently been trying a low-tech pack where I sort items based on production location. I set up a dedicated factory using rail-transport, factorization crafting, and hopper-ducts where necessary, set it up with a built-in shutoff when full, and let it be. It's hugely impractical, but it really encourages me to think outside the box. And, since each factory has to be its own building with its own storage, I find myself building more, and more creatively.

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