Storage/Organization

How do you keep everything organize? I built a huge warehouse with a dozen floors but that just gives me a place to put all my crap... keeping track of what's in what box is impossible... sure I put my ores in a chest near the furnace, and my bars in a chest near the metal working/robotics table, my planets and petals and fabrics near the loom and circuits/diodes near the wiring station... but what about all the dirt/cobblestone/panels/platforms/furniture/decorations... etc. etc. etc... it's a nightmare.
Do you sort by biome? Color? Material? How do you rember which boxes contain which items?

 

I throw most of it away. Sand and dirt and odd types of rock get thrown in the trash. I don't bother getting decorative items anymore unless they fit the theme I'm giving my house. If I think I might want a decorative item later, I scan it - then I can make more later, without it taking up space now. I keep vanity clothing, and some of my old armor, and I junk all other obsolete gear - I can always remake that crap if I really need to.

 

I keep everything in my inventory. I live life on the edge.

 

I sort it in several categories. STuff I use to craft, Stuff I use to Explore, Items, Instruments, and the dumping ground for everything else. Each in chest of different kinds

 

I use different chests for different things lol

Like ores and ingots go into tech chests

Vanity Items in a Rainbow chest

Splitting them into categories and chests help a lot

 

Having clearly separate rooms with some identifier in the room is possibly worth the effort.

I haven't started collecting things yet, but I can imagine making a 14-story warehouse with a central staircase. Put everything practical on the level of entry, then divide the other levels up alphabetically, using something like window lattice to put a label in each room. In other words:
___________ C | stairs | D_____________ sky
___________ A | stairs | B_____________ sky
____ground___ | stairs | _____ground____

You can probably knock out the walls and keep extending the rooms as needed, without the structure having to make any realistic sense.

I'm solo so security isn't much an issue for me, but it should be viable for either above- or underground; maybe putting it on a barren planet no one should think to explore if you need to?

 

I try to organize it, especially the ores/bars, but I keep forgetting to leave one of everything when I am crafting/refining, and it always gets screwed up again. It would be nice to have a feature in the game where we can designate a "home" slot in the inventory menu for items or something like that.

Also, it gets really tedious deleting all the crappy items I get from slaughtering villages/dungeons, maybe some kind of filter that allows you to not pick up certain types of items would help. Or just a hotkey to move items to the trash. Kind of sick of the whole drag and drop thing. I'm so in the habit of clearing my inventory I have accidentally deleted probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 1000 gold bars because the refinery window pops up right next to the trash thing.