How do you sort your shit?

[VideoBoy]

I always end up sorting my items the same way on every SSP world and every server I play...

I start with one double chest to put all my nooby shit in. When it becomes too big, I make 2 more chests and divide my items as "building materials" (anything that can be placed on the ground), "organic items" (anything that is or was at some point alive), and "non-organic items" (everything else). The building materials chest always fills up with cobble so I eventually make a fourth chest for just cobble. After a while I have to divide the building materials further, so I make another chest for all wood-based blocks. When the other two chests start to fill up, I make a food chest to clear out the organic items chest a bit, and a "circuitry" chest to put all RP2, IC2, and BC items in to clear up the non-organics chest.

How do you do it, forum? :)

[Industrial Miner]

Started with an universal inputchest and then used a filter to pump items into a serie of sorting machines. Those sorted items into their respective crystal chest and I used provider pipes for my autocrafting network. Now I only use logistics pipes for sorting, however some normal pipes won't hurt.

[VideoBoy]

Started with an universal inputchest and then used a filter to pump items into a serie of sorting machines. Those sorted items into their respective crystal chest and I used provider pipes for my autocrafting network. Now I only use logistics pipes for sorting, however some normal pipes won't hurt.

Nice. O_O

[RadioHasNoFuture]

i prefer RP2 and sorting machines, they are faster and less laggy. also, when the chest is full they just put all items back to the scourse. (the universal chest)

[quintaar]

I have been busy the other day - I have huge obsidian enforced (i have Mo creatures ogres around) warehouse with about 60 iron chests and diamond pipes behind them - they stacked in 2 rows around the building's base floor - 2 basements contain energy producing level and macerating/furnace level. I can input things from farms, quarries and my universal chest where I dump stuf i dont need in my inventory. Sorting is done by adding one item to diamond pipe (PROCESSED FOOD- chest has all chops steaks chickens in filter etc) If item is newly developed and has not been assigned before - it lands in next unassigned chest until i set filter it and make a sign. There is spare circuit that also sends ores to processing and returns ingots to chests. Junk is passed to collector- and if this is not supported by EE then I use recycler that pass scrap to my energy circuits. Took me about 6h to arrange all pipes (most of time really to collect enough Iron to make so many chests)

[Honeyderp]

I use 4 gold chests, cobble & ores, organic materials, other, and other other. I also have 3 double chests, tools, current project(s) and machines. Quite early in game tho.

[stringburka]

i normally start out similar to the OP - no matter if it's SSP, SMP, vanilla, tekkit, technic, or any other mod. One double chest for everything, then one for cobble/gravel/dirt, then separated into a few different chests including food, tools, organic non-food, non-organic items and so on.

I've actually just built my first ever working sorting machine, with pneumatic tubes. Tried some year back with pipes but didn't like the result, but the tubes are wonderful.

[TobiBlackmore]

I'm not sick far into Tekkit yet, so I sort things myself in wooden chests.

One double chest for ores and ingots and stuff.

One double chest for blocks.

One chest for records next to my jukebox.

One silver chest for more redstone materials, since I'm trying to figure that out a bit.

One double chest for like, everything else...

Though most of my tools are left in the alchemist chest with the talisman or repair.

And I sort of want to use silver for chests, since I got nearly 3 stacks of it anyways, and don't really use it... But I kind of like the setup.

[stringburka]

O, and one thing with tekkit, SILVER CHESTS! Silver chests are simply fantastic. Each costs a total of eight wood, eight copper, four glass and four silver. Now, wood and glass are infinite, easily-accessed resources that don't matter. Silver you find now and then - but it's almost never used so it's really an expendable resource! Thus, copper is the only real investment - and it's still quite common, especially once you get your macerator, 8 copper is nothing.

Each silver chest can contain more than a double wooden chest, and they don't stack so you can keep a bunch tiled up right next to each other for easier sorting.

I love them.

[Stormcloak Rebel]

Usually I start with just one average joe chest (or two) then once I progress I will as quickly as possible make an Alchemical Chest for all my gear. As soon as possible I make a dozen Alc Chests and use pipes to sort them all with one Wooden chest for input. I usually divide into Ore's/Underground Loot, Crystals/Gems/Powders, Redpower & Redstone, EE, Tools, IC2/Buildcraft, 'tother mods, Wood, Natural/Mob Drops, Other. Its probably not the best once you get quite a few items but It's what I've been using recently.

[The_DarthMoogle]

I sort by mods.

And building materials are completely separate from each other.

However, most of my stuff ends up going into other factories to be made into bigger stuff,

or shipped to other players by rail :3

[charcharmunro]

What is this sorting? I just throw everything into an alchemical bag.

[Beer]

I prefer using a series of redpower sorting machines and retrievers. Retrievers do pretty much most of the work for you, so the sorting is less important. But there are times when sorting machines do come in awfully handy.