I've got a thread going for a change to inventory space that does mention this, but now I figure it ought to have its own thread. All the more because, after reviewing the mod build I'm working on, it seems that MrCrayfish's Furniture Mod is redundant (for everything I wanted out of it: tables, chairs, etc.), with the exception of smaller storage options. I'd go with Jammy's, but it's out of date and anyway it was always a bit too modern for my tastes (like parts of CFM, too): I prefer the feel of Medieval Fantasy.
Overview
Every storage mod I've run across seems to have one thing in mind: BiggerIs Better.
I'm quite the opposite; I prefer nice, neat, discrete little storage options. Back when I played World of Warcraft, it was awesome to be able to divide things up into five bags, each one doing its own job, and sometimes I'd avoid bigger bags because the little bags just felt better to me.
So I'd like to have a little collection of cupboards and nightstands and such as I create a custom map for my niece and nephews. Bibliocraft does some of this, but doesn't quite hit at everything I'd like to see, especially in the range of small containers that don't display their contents and aren't item-specific like potion shelves or bookshelves. I'm also going to use this opportunity to ask for a couple of my ideas from the Visual Variety thread.
Anyway, I hope there might be someone interested in making this mod for me. Even if you can't make all these blocks, if you could just make a few of the blocks then I'd be thrilled.
Specs
Should maintain the simplistic Minecraft style, by and large, and be wood (ideally Birch, ideally based on texture pack if possible) unless otherwise specified. Animation is unnecessary, though if you feel like adapting the lid-opening animation a bit, there's a couple it would probably look good on. All the GUIs should be centered horizontally, and have their contents spaced out to make it look like discrete shelves, drawers, etc., as described below.
I try to stick to full Minecraft block dimensions and very square styles. However, Bibliocraft's style and some actual vanilla blocks (such as the Cauldron) have loosened me up a bit. Therefore, a few blocks are not full blocks.
I. Hanging Wall Cabinet
A 1x1 block but only half a block thick/deep. Hangs on the wall, obviously. Opens forward (if any animation at all).
Holds three shelves with 2 items each.
II. Nightstand
A 1x1x1 block with two drawers in front. No animation needed (unless you want to try for opening drawers). I assume the GUI deals with both drawers at once, rather than dealing with each part separately.
Holds two drawers with 4 items each.
III. Cupboard
A 1x1x1 block with a door that opens forward (again, if any animation at all; I'm gonna quit listing this caveat now).
Holds two shelves, where each shelf has two rows of 4 items (so 16 items total, divided into two sets of 8). And if there's any way to restrict stack size to only 4 per slot, that'd be great.
IV. Hope Chest
Looks like this. Has legs like a Cauldron. It fits in a 1x2x1 space (like a large chest), but I'd like a little more visual distinction from a regular chest... either less wide (1 1/2 wide, or 1 3/4 wide, but either way centered on the two blocks) or a bit shorter (3/4 or 7/8 height). Opens up, where you see two shallow drawers on top (there's a bit cavity under the drawers, but you wouldn't see this on the block itself).
Holds two drawers with 2 items each up top, and under that two rows of 4 items each. Make sure the areas are visually and spatially distinct from each other.
V. Dresser
A 2 high by 1 wide block, and I'm torn whether to have it be 1 thick or 3/4 thick. Has four tiers of drawers, with the top drawer split in two.
Holds five drawers; the bottom three hold 4 items each and the top two hold 2 items each, for 16 items total.
Bonus points if you can make it connect to a neighboring dresser to form a closet with doors that open (or look like they would open) forwards. Although the GUI would just be like a dresser with double-wide shelves, because I can't think of a way to make hanging clothes work in a Minecraft inventory GUI.
VI. Ice Box
While not quite as old as the Middle Ages, it's still from the age before electricity went mainstream. It's also not what I thought it looked like. Here's one design, or scroll down here for a similar one. Here's the inside. Note that it's wood on the outside and metal on the inside, with shelves. Also, the shelves should be empty if we have an opening animation.
The Icebox, then, is 2 high by 1 wide and 1 thick, and the GUI isn't symmetrical like the rest. On the upper left side is a spot where you stick frozen stuff (block of ice or snow), while the shelves to the side and the little storage space underneath let you store items you want to keep cold. I used to have plans to have it use up ice like a furnace does coal, but that's just a hassle; I just want to be able to store things. You don't even have to restrict which types of items going in which areas.
There should be four shelves down the side and one shelf under the frozen area, with each shelf holding 2 items (so 10 items total), plus the frozen area. At first I was going to have the frozen area be just one spot, but now I think it'll be 6 slots (three rows of 2 each) with normal chest spacing between them, whereas the shelves have more space between them, so that should leave an extra-thick space between the frozen area and the shelf below it. So the full space is 16 slots, but the GUI should be obvious about frozen area vs. shelving.
VII. Hanging Peg
I know what it is, but I really don't know what to call it. This is a real wish-list item, but if you could make a thing that lets you hang items (food, cooking utensils, etc.) off it, it'd be great. Like a peg that attaches to the wall or ceiling, and you right-click with an item to hang it there. If you wanted to get fancy, it could hold up to four distinct items. Not stacks, just single items.
What I'm after is something like this, or this, or this, only it needs to be versatile enough to do meats, veggies, and cookware. So I could decorate the ceiling or walls of a home with hanging food, hang pots and pans out of the way, and actually have a smoke house for once that didn't consist of putting furnaces up on the walls.
Bonus points if the Hanging Peg has a slow-cooking meter, and will cook items if it's placed close to (within a four-block radius of?) a source of heat or smoke (fires, torches, lit furnaces). Unlike a furnace, it shouldn't need to happen all at the same time, but if you cook it a little here and a little there it would eventually get done. Should be a slow process.
Recipes
Now, the recipes need to not overlap Bibliocraft's various items, so I hope I don't miss that part when thinking these through. But what I want to do is get rid of the easy 27-item chest and make the smaller units much easier to craft. And try to do that using existing Minecraft items. If you can think of any more logical recipes for these, please mention them, because I'm not thrilled with what I've been able to come up with.
The normal chest recipe has to change to something more difficult. First, it shouldn't be made of plank blocks, and second, it should have a tech requirement. So make it out of half slabs, and have the top center be an iron ingot to make the lock and/or iron reinforcement for the chest. Doesn't have to change the looks any, just make a nigh-instant chest a thing of the past.
Hanging Wall Cabinet
Five slabs, covering every spot except the corners.
Nightstand
A chest shape out of eight half slabs, with one paper in the center (to line the drawers).
Cupboard
Nine half slabs. Unless you can think of a better recipe.
Hope Chest
Six half slabs across the top two rows, with sticks in the bottom two corners (legs).
Dresser
Combine two nightstands.
Ice Box
Combine two cupboards.
Hanging Peg
If the visual is just a peg, then... does there exist a recipe for just a stick? Don't think I've seen one. So one stick makes 4 Hanging Pegs. If, however, you prefer a string route, then try a stick and a string.
Summary
So that's my request for some neat storage options that hold fewer items than a chest does normally. Here's hoping!
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I like most of these, however the storage space are way too small and would create a discrepancy between your storage items, which all contain only a few items per block, and the storage space of a small chest, which contains a whopping 27 items.
Instead, try to provide TWO set of values:
- As a vanilla addition (numbers for storage spaces provide should seem to go along with vanilla chests).
- As part of a mod (use your numbers, but also the mod should specify the storage for NORMAL chests so that they match along the smaller "more realistic" storage capacities).
For example, a two drawer night table inside a 1x1x1 spacxe (not a full block, a bit lower than a chest, even) basically could contain, in vanilla, about half to two thirds the space of a normal 1x1x1 chest so that their strage spaces feel "in line with" each other. Each drawer could have a 3x3 slots per drawer.
I'd make a few additions or changes, too. Nightstand tables should come both in "big" version (1x1x21 blocks) but also in "bedside table" versions (slabs thick, 1 drawer only).
Hanging peg could just as well be 1 stick = 1 peg to keep things simpler: Minecraft usually has a "items are costlier in materials than they appear" kind of silent rule. Like how you need *4* obsidian to make an enchahting table, 7 cobble for a furnace, 8 planks for a chest, etc For planks it could be argued that they are not "really" full blocks because 1 log can make 4 planks, but visually it is clear that "conservation of matter" is not part of Minecaraft's world physics at all lol.
Most of these blocks could come in 1x1x1 form first and foremost, and combine into "2-connected" forms if you use two blocks, much like players are already used to with chests.
Do all kinds of stacks go into these item slots ?
Like, I can "put" a stack of cobblestone on a hanging peg ?
Which of these would "show" their content, kinda like Bibliocraft shelves ?
Personally my preferred storage would simply be slabs that you can put stuff on. Would make for great "bedside" tables with flower pots on them lol !
Try to provide TWO set of values:
- As a vanilla addition (numbers for storage spaces provide should seem to go along with vanilla chests).
- As part of a mod (use your numbers, but also the mod should specify the storage for NORMAL chests so that they match along the smaller "more realistic" storage capacities).
I am not sure what you mean here. I never intended for this to be a suggestion for vanilla, and if the "vanilla" suggestion there is anything close to "Well, normal chests store 27 items so your chests should at least store half that shouldn't they?" then you don't seem to understand the intent behind my request.
I don't know if I mentioned this (I skimmed my post but didn't spot it) but I'd also kind of like an option to disable the normal chest recipe, or in some fashion make it costlier to build (even just adding a metal hinge would put it at a decent tier). And please do look at my Visual Variety thread for an idea of what I'd like to see for chest alternatives just visually.
Hanging peg could just as well be 1 stick = 1 peg to keep things simpler
Eh, possible enough. I don't mind either way.
"items are costlier in materials than they appear"
Yeah, I've noticed that. I dunno how much I agree with it... I generally try to make a pattern feel right, but that's really subjective. I just know when a recipe feels wrong, or too complex or silly.
visually it is clear that "conservation of matter" is not part of Minecaraft's world physics at all lol.
You should try Terrafirma Craft for a bit. Being able to stick entire forests into a small stack of logs was incredibly amusing. If TFC didn't have such trouble playing nicely with my other mods, I'd be enjoying its benefits a lot longer than I did.
Most of these blocks could come in 1x1x1 form first and foremost, and combine into "2-connected" forms if you use two blocks, much like players are already used to with chests.
You checked out my Visual Variety suggestion yet? I want to see alternative chest designs that can combine in different directions to create different items. But yeah, having things combine for larger sections would be appealing.
Do all kinds of stacks go into these item slots ?
Like, I can "put" a stack of cobblestone on a hanging peg ?
I think it would be far more annoying to try to figure out what sort of things went in which slots than to just let the player role-play that aspect. In particular, I'm dealing with a lot of modded items, so at most I could see setting hanging pegs to "food, ingredients, or tools/cooking ware" but even that seems destined to run up against mods that aren't set up right or categories I didn't anticipate.
Which of these would "show" their content, kinda like Bibliocraft shelves ?
I think the hanging peg is the only thing that's open -- the rest are enclosed boxes. I wouldn't mind seeing the dresser showcase what's in it, and I'd be open to interpretations of the rest that involve showing their contents in some form, but it's not at all necessary to the idea.
I should note that this mod must play nicely with BiblioCraft, because I do use it too.
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Yeah I thought it was for vanilla, because I think I initially found these interesting topics in the suggestion forum, which is for things specifically for vanilla. If it is only for a mod, there is another forum for mods. It was so long ago maybe io just mixed things up.
Yeah I thought it was for vanilla, because I think I initially found these interesting topics in the suggestion forum, which is for things specifically for vanilla. If it is only for a mod, there is another forum for mods. It was so long ago maybe io just mixed things up.
I definitely meant it for mod, not vanilla, and I thought I had put it in the right forum, but maybe you got linked from a different topic or something.
I would love to see the Visual Variety suggestion incorporated into vanilla, because a couple new visuals for storage would be a huge improvement over the current "giant room full of identical boxes" -- and signs you have to read are no substitute, see anything by Donald Norman on the principles of design for usability -- but I can't see a bunch of specialty box types being incorporated into vanilla unless there's a big furniture update someday. And that seems unlikely, and if it happened it'd probably cause more than a little friction in the ranks, so....
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So I'm working over my latest mod build, going further with it than I generally have (man, is this a lot of information to sort through), and debating whether I want to make a public mod pack for the first time. I figured it's time to hunt back over my old mod requests, see which ones would benefit my pack that aren't covered by mods I've already found, and find out if maybe there's someone around willing to give 'em a try now that it's halfway through 2015.
Storage option requests include this one, and Village Chests spawning in more locations (randomly) than just the Blacksmith, and the idea of Visual Variety where chests look different based on placement (closets and cupboards -- I suggested that for vanilla, but as it's unlikely to make it to the actual game, I guess it's a mod request too now). Oh, and the possibility of earning inventory space as you level up (starting from a much smaller inventory than vanilla gives you).
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Already got a lot of smaller storage options and would be interested in working with you to add some more from this list! Some of the ides you have are really interesting and would fit well into my mod
Gave it a quick skim, don't have time to do more right now (though I hope I'll remember to check back and give you a more thorough review).
I'm always glad to see more storage mods around
Yours looks a little complex for my tastes -- I don't think I would use a mod with that much in it. However, several of the chests interest me:
Tinier chests, obviously. I happen to adore tiny objects IRL but I'm of mixed feelings about your smaller-than-a-regular-block setup there. I'd prefer something like MrCrayfish's furniture pieces, where the chest is understood to be a small portion of the whole. Though I suppose I could get used to the size if I put your chests on top of something else.
Dyeable chests -- I prefer the clay ones to the wool ones, as it makes more sense in my head. (Have you ever tried TerraFirmaCraft? They have some neat-looking clay containers. Though in general I prefer to stick fairly closely to the vanilla block structure and only deviate from it a little bit (mostly because deviation causes lag, and lots of deviation causes noticeable lag, as Vechs proved by making a giant room full of fences).)
Trash bin. What I would want is to ensure that I don't delete the wrong things, so maybe an inventory and once you've added items you can hit a button to look at just the trash inventory -- not your own inventory at all -- and if you want to get rid of 100% of what you've got there, you hit another button to destroy it. That way you never screw up and think you're deleting the wrong section.
Vacuum and/or Quarry chests. It's neat that they're able to collect items, but I question the power of a chest that can collect large sections of blocks... kinda weird, too.
If you had a mod that added small chests, dyeable chests, and a trash bin, I'd probably go for that alone and be fairly happy with it. But I can see how a lot of other people would enjoy the wider variety.
I am never stingy with my ideas. Take everything you want from my suggestion threads and see what you can make with it. Don't forget to check out my Visual Variety for Chests thread -- I think your mod would work well with a taller option (like a fridge or a closet or dresser) and some options that could hang under other blocks (cupboard blocks would be pretty good choices for smaller inventories, too).
Good luck!
ETA: Biggest problem I had with MrCrayfish is that the amount of resources needed to make his furniture was far more than was needed to make basic chests. In some cases you had to combine one or two chests with other materials to get a storage unit that was smaller than even a single chest! It felt weird and out of step with the rest of the world.
Now, I've figured on changing the regular chest recipe to require some metal nuggets or something (hinges, maybe) so as to make that big storage item a much later slot in the tech tree. But that's probably not going to appeal to many people. So just make sure that whatever you do with your mod, you take care to balance the amount of materials used to make any given item, compared to the utility. I'm after neat chests as memory aids but it makes no sense to use more materials (in survival) to make them when I could just be making a bunch of chests and giving them labels or something.
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Five Years Later: Anybody up for coding this for me? Ideally in 1.7.10, but I would also be pleased with a more recent version (I realize that many coders don't care to go back to significantly earlier versions of Minecraft).
My ideas about how these storage solutions work might be different from when I originally posted this, but the general idea is there, and I'd have to think about how it all could work. But let me know if you'd be interested in giving it a try.
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Five Years Later: Anybody up for coding this for me? Ideally in 1.7.10, but I would also be pleased with a more recent version (I realize that many coders don't care to go back to significantly earlier versions of Minecraft).
My ideas about how these storage solutions work might be different from when I originally posted this, but the general idea is there, and I'd have to think about how it all could work. But let me know if you'd be interested in giving it a try.
Welp.. dude. Ok. Let's get started.
A. Use a little blocks mod (that allows for smaller chests)
B. and use Iron Chests with it (so you will have small big chests).
C. Add a recipe for the little version using minetweaker or something.
D. Profit!
OR
A. Make a custom chest texture with small blocks (some mod adding mini blocks) in-game or with some editor outside of game.
B. Make it an item.
C. Using Thaumic Infusion mod, infuse the little block ("sculpture") with the storage aspect, can't remember what it is exactly.
D. Add a recipe for it using MineTweaker or something
E. Profit!
Alright hope I helped.
Alright I'm also pretty sure you can add custom small storage blocks using this
I appreciate the attempt, but any of the mods with "Thaumic" in them make me run the other way. I recall them being way too complex for my interests, and I have no interest in adding weird complicated magic to the game.
Use a little blocks mod (that allows for smaller chests)
and use Iron Chests with it (so you will have small big chests)
I am having trouble parsing this part enough to figure out if you understand my base request or not. Mostly because there are two separate uses of the size terms here, so it's confusing.
I looked up Iron Chests (which I vaguely recalled): It's a way to make chests hold more items. That's the opposite of what I want.
You know how, in TFC, you make ceramic containers that can hold four items, and that's it? How it's kinda a big deal when you finally make a full-fledged chest? That's sorta what I want. That, and being able to tell, at a glance, what I (probably) put in a given container, instead of having to wrack my brain to recall how I'd organized my storage the last time I was on the game. The whole thing about storing everything in same-looking chests -- or, at best, chests of different colors -- drives me up a wall, and I want to have a few different types that look different.
So like: Here's my kitchen, and I store the fruit in the fridge/icebox, the veggies in the pantry and the spices and staple items and baking tools up in the cupboard. Here's my bedroom, where I store cloth goods and everything related to cloth in the dresser/closet. Here's my bathroom, where I store potions in the little container on the wall. It might take four cupboards to hold what two chests could hold, but it's easier to see where things are and to go right to what I want to find when I want to find it.
I looked into Little Tiles, and... wow, that is a lot of functionality. It's more complicated than my preference, but, since I don't yet have access to my preference, and since Little Tiles actually covers some of the TFC functionality I wanted (albeit in a weirder and more complicated/versatile way)... I might actually add it. Thanks for pointing me at it! Being able to make functional chairs that look exactly how I want is actually pretty cool, and allows me to avoid adding the more modern effects of MrCrayfish's Furniture Mod, which is an improvement over what I had been planning. It looks like Little Tiles allows for storage options, which is basically what I'm after; guess I'll have to experiment to see if I can make small (like 2x2) storage instead of full (9x3) storage.
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I appreciate the attempt, but any of the mods with "Thaumic" in them make me run the other way. I recall them being way too complex for my interests, and I have no interest in adding weird complicated magic to the game.
Use a little blocks mod (that allows for smaller chests)
and use Iron Chests with it (so you will have small big chests)
I am having trouble parsing this part enough to figure out if you understand my base request or not. Mostly because there are two separate uses of the size terms here, so it's confusing.
I looked up Iron Chests (which I vaguely recalled): It's a way to make chests hold more items. That's the opposite of what I want.
You know how, in TFC, you make ceramic containers that can hold four items, and that's it? How it's kinda a big deal when you finally make a full-fledged chest? That's sorta what I want. That, and being able to tell, at a glance, what I (probably) put in a given container, instead of having to wrack my brain to recall how I'd organized my storage the last time I was on the game. The whole thing about storing everything in same-looking chests -- or, at best, chests of different colors -- drives me up a wall, and I want to have a few different types that look different.
So like: Here's my kitchen, and I store the fruit in the fridge/icebox, the veggies in the pantry and the spices and staple items and baking tools up in the cupboard. Here's my bedroom, where I store cloth goods and everything related to cloth in the dresser/closet. Here's my bathroom, where I store potions in the little container on the wall. It might take four cupboards to hold what two chests could hold, but it's easier to see where things are and to go right to what I want to find when I want to find it.
I looked into Little Tiles, and... wow, that is a lot of functionality. It's more complicated than my preference, but, since I don't yet have access to my preference, and since Little Tiles actually covers some of the TFC functionality I wanted (albeit in a weirder and more complicated/versatile way)... I might actually add it. Thanks for pointing me at it! Being able to make functional chairs that look exactly how I want is actually pretty cool, and allows me to avoid adding the more modern effects of MrCrayfish's Furniture Mod, which is an improvement over what I had been planning. It looks like Little Tiles allows for storage options, which is basically what I'm after; guess I'll have to experiment to see if I can make small (like 2x2) storage instead of full (9x3) storage.
Oh, if you need smaller options, just look up a mod that adds a small storage option and use a little blocks mod to make THAT block smaller.
Sorry for misunderstanding.
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# Team 1.7.10
Do not ask me to switch to newer versions. I will not. Many mods did not update and never plan to, and newer versions just lost the charm.
The following mods have never got to 1.12/1.15:
- Witchery
- Mariculture
- Flaxbeard's Steam Power
- Cogs of the machine
- Cave Control
- Many Many more I can't play without, those are just off the top of my head
The following mods have been completely ruined in new versions:
Oh, if you need smaller options, just look up a mod that adds a small storage option and use a little blocks mod to make THAT block smaller.
Well, that used up a good hour of my morning XD
Your comment sent me to look up if something already exists, and I found Tiny Storage, which is... almost what I'm after. But it's got about twice as many types as I need, and it's all based on the basic Chest shape, just a bit smaller (would really like more visual variety). Still, I went over the options in a massive comment... and then it flagged that as spam, so I'm back here with that same comment (and annoyed that it won't let me edit or delete the comment that is now emblazoned with "SPAM" and has been turned a bright coral color).
Anyway! Feedback on that option: It's for 1.7.10, yay! It was last updated in 2015... and the latest comment is about a crash error in 2017 (yeeee... that makes me nervous when I'm trying to build a public mod pack).
Given my general focus (fairly simple, low-level tech that allows for medieval-level or pioneer-level homesteading -- pre-industrial, pre-modern, uncomplicated), the sheer variety is putting me off a bit. Still, about half of the chest types sound actually pretty good.
I'd prefer powers of 2 (this thing stores two items, that one stores four, this stores eight, that stores 16 -- maybe there's a 12 or 24 in there), but this thing is built on powers of 3, which isn't too bad. There's apparently a Drawer (it says "Draw") that has three sets of 3, which I like and is close to my idea for cupboards or shelves or dressers, which'd be more like this (all in one GUI):
OOO_OOO
OOO_OOO
Tiny Chests and Micro Chests sound pretty decent; in fact, put those together and it's probably all I really need (although "chest that stores one item" is actually a bit smaller than I want -- four item stacks sounds like a decent minimum).
It talks about the possibility of Bookshelves for books, Potion Racks for potions. Now we're talking! Add in something like an Icebox for food and we're basically where I want to be. Then Storage Bags, which appear to be portable storage options, and that could replace my Backpacks mod quite handily and with less complicated mechanics. Here's my preferred "bag" recipe, using Leather (O), String (x), and a space in the middle:
OOx
O_O
OOO
Filter Chests: I don't see much need for these in general, but if they were portable and attracted like items, they could be significantly useful. I recall World of Warcraft having a mechanic like that: Here's an Herb Bag and an Ore Bag, so when you pick herbs they go directly to the Herb Bag (until it's full, then they fill your inventory) and when you're mining ores then the Ore Bag gets filled up. I could see bags for food; seeds and saplings; wood and wooden items; stone and bricks; dirt and podzol; ores; gems; etc.
Wool Chests and Clay Chests: Well, getting colored chests is nice, and having tiny chests in different colors is useful. Wool is a bit of an odd choice -- not terrible, but in a pared-down version I'd only have the clay.
Lockable Chests: Honestly, since I play solo mostly, and the rest of the time with nephews, this doesn't impact me. Though I could see the benefit in a public mod pack, so I guess I would include it for my current project. Personal Safe: Similar.
Though... wait.
Okay, I'm imagining a Safe being the only storage option that is player-specific -- no lockable chests -- and I'm considering the issues if another player breaks it. Because it has to be breakable, right? Or else it becomes dangerous to let troll players have access to it. But... consider a Ghost Safe, maybe that requires a Ghast Tear to make, and for the player who placed it it's a solid block, but other players experience it as a translucent block that they can't stand on or interact with. (Okay, this is now making me think of some other issues that could cause, as this essentially makes areas that one player can affect that others can't affect. But it might still be useful. Hmm. Maybe an Option as to the behavior of the Ghost Safe? Unbreakable block, breakable but stays as a dropped item until the owner retrieves it (along with the contents), breakable (maybe twice as difficult to break as Obsidian) and despawns and drops the items, breakable and despawns along with all the items it was carrying...?)
Anyway.
Trash Chests: Okay, come to think of it, not a terrible idea, though I'd kinda more prefer a trash can where you right-click to deposit an item to be destroyed (and, yes, it'd keep the last item placed there, or maybe the previous four stacks, like a recycling bin where you can rescue things if you clicked it accidentally).
Quarry Chests and Vacuum Chests: Definitely not my style. Peaceful Chests: Nah, I've got that functionality covered. Piggy Banks: If piggy banks were the only weird piece in this mod, I'd be fine with them; they're actually pretty cute, and in keeping with Minecraft mythos/style.
So, on balance, actually pretty useful. Now it's just that crash error that's making me wonder: Did the author figure out what caused it or is there not enough info there to diagnose and solve the problem? I don't think I'd risk putting it in a public mod pack.
But, as far as suiting my particular needs: It's difficult to find the functionality I'm after without having a giant, complicated mod built up around it. What I'm hoping to find is a mod with a half-dozen simple smaller storage options, ideally ones that differ in shape/look instead of merely color/texture, and that shifts the vanilla Chest recipe to a slightly more complicated one (involving an iron ingot) and allows the simple wooden chest recipe to make the lowest-level container with the smallest inventory. So you start out getting wood and making tiny chests or shelves or the like, and eventually tech up a bit to get to the full-fledged Minecraft chest and whichever other storage mods I include (I'm thinking of using Storage Drawers, but it uses complicated recipes and much larger storage, so I need something at the smaller/simpler end to balance).
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Immersive Craft is very close to what I want, and has cupboards, and offers better storage options in general. It's slightly more complicated visually than I appreciate, but well within tolerances.
...and it's for 1.8.9+
I cry
(That aside, this mod build is progressing pretty well. I'm getting a feel for what I want and what I need, and which parts need to change, and it's all shaping up into modules that I think will work well together. And I'm running across a few random mods that improve the general experience and actually have a 1.7.10 option, which is nice (I can't get the Kiwi, sadly, since it's much more recent... it was cute and fit perfectly into the vanilla aesthetic, too).)
(Also Little Tiles turns out to be no good. Unless I'm misunderstanding it, it appears to be Creative Mode Only, so so much for that idea. I'm still glad to know about it! Might help with some custom maps later on, if I ever have time to work on them.)
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Overview
Every storage mod I've run across seems to have one thing in mind: Bigger Is Better.
I'm quite the opposite; I prefer nice, neat, discrete little storage options. Back when I played World of Warcraft, it was awesome to be able to divide things up into five bags, each one doing its own job, and sometimes I'd avoid bigger bags because the little bags just felt better to me.
So I'd like to have a little collection of cupboards and nightstands and such as I create a custom map for my niece and nephews. Bibliocraft does some of this, but doesn't quite hit at everything I'd like to see, especially in the range of small containers that don't display their contents and aren't item-specific like potion shelves or bookshelves. I'm also going to use this opportunity to ask for a couple of my ideas from the Visual Variety thread.
Anyway, I hope there might be someone interested in making this mod for me. Even if you can't make all these blocks, if you could just make a few of the blocks then I'd be thrilled.
Specs
Should maintain the simplistic Minecraft style, by and large, and be wood (ideally Birch, ideally based on texture pack if possible) unless otherwise specified. Animation is unnecessary, though if you feel like adapting the lid-opening animation a bit, there's a couple it would probably look good on. All the GUIs should be centered horizontally, and have their contents spaced out to make it look like discrete shelves, drawers, etc., as described below.
I try to stick to full Minecraft block dimensions and very square styles. However, Bibliocraft's style and some actual vanilla blocks (such as the Cauldron) have loosened me up a bit. Therefore, a few blocks are not full blocks.
I. Hanging Wall Cabinet
A 1x1 block but only half a block thick/deep. Hangs on the wall, obviously. Opens forward (if any animation at all).
Holds three shelves with 2 items each.
II. Nightstand
A 1x1x1 block with two drawers in front. No animation needed (unless you want to try for opening drawers). I assume the GUI deals with both drawers at once, rather than dealing with each part separately.
Holds two drawers with 4 items each.
III. Cupboard
A 1x1x1 block with a door that opens forward (again, if any animation at all; I'm gonna quit listing this caveat now).
Holds two shelves, where each shelf has two rows of 4 items (so 16 items total, divided into two sets of 8). And if there's any way to restrict stack size to only 4 per slot, that'd be great.
IV. Hope Chest
Looks like this. Has legs like a Cauldron. It fits in a 1x2x1 space (like a large chest), but I'd like a little more visual distinction from a regular chest... either less wide (1 1/2 wide, or 1 3/4 wide, but either way centered on the two blocks) or a bit shorter (3/4 or 7/8 height). Opens up, where you see two shallow drawers on top (there's a bit cavity under the drawers, but you wouldn't see this on the block itself).
Holds two drawers with 2 items each up top, and under that two rows of 4 items each. Make sure the areas are visually and spatially distinct from each other.
V. Dresser
A 2 high by 1 wide block, and I'm torn whether to have it be 1 thick or 3/4 thick. Has four tiers of drawers, with the top drawer split in two.
Holds five drawers; the bottom three hold 4 items each and the top two hold 2 items each, for 16 items total.
Bonus points if you can make it connect to a neighboring dresser to form a closet with doors that open (or look like they would open) forwards. Although the GUI would just be like a dresser with double-wide shelves, because I can't think of a way to make hanging clothes work in a Minecraft inventory GUI.
VI. Ice Box
While not quite as old as the Middle Ages, it's still from the age before electricity went mainstream. It's also not what I thought it looked like. Here's one design, or scroll down here for a similar one. Here's the inside. Note that it's wood on the outside and metal on the inside, with shelves. Also, the shelves should be empty if we have an opening animation.
The Icebox, then, is 2 high by 1 wide and 1 thick, and the GUI isn't symmetrical like the rest. On the upper left side is a spot where you stick frozen stuff (block of ice or snow), while the shelves to the side and the little storage space underneath let you store items you want to keep cold. I used to have plans to have it use up ice like a furnace does coal, but that's just a hassle; I just want to be able to store things. You don't even have to restrict which types of items going in which areas.
There should be four shelves down the side and one shelf under the frozen area, with each shelf holding 2 items (so 10 items total), plus the frozen area. At first I was going to have the frozen area be just one spot, but now I think it'll be 6 slots (three rows of 2 each) with normal chest spacing between them, whereas the shelves have more space between them, so that should leave an extra-thick space between the frozen area and the shelf below it. So the full space is 16 slots, but the GUI should be obvious about frozen area vs. shelving.
VII. Hanging Peg
I know what it is, but I really don't know what to call it. This is a real wish-list item, but if you could make a thing that lets you hang items (food, cooking utensils, etc.) off it, it'd be great. Like a peg that attaches to the wall or ceiling, and you right-click with an item to hang it there. If you wanted to get fancy, it could hold up to four distinct items. Not stacks, just single items.
What I'm after is something like this, or this, or this, only it needs to be versatile enough to do meats, veggies, and cookware. So I could decorate the ceiling or walls of a home with hanging food, hang pots and pans out of the way, and actually have a smoke house for once that didn't consist of putting furnaces up on the walls.
Bonus points if the Hanging Peg has a slow-cooking meter, and will cook items if it's placed close to (within a four-block radius of?) a source of heat or smoke (fires, torches, lit furnaces). Unlike a furnace, it shouldn't need to happen all at the same time, but if you cook it a little here and a little there it would eventually get done. Should be a slow process.
Recipes
Now, the recipes need to not overlap Bibliocraft's various items, so I hope I don't miss that part when thinking these through. But what I want to do is get rid of the easy 27-item chest and make the smaller units much easier to craft. And try to do that using existing Minecraft items. If you can think of any more logical recipes for these, please mention them, because I'm not thrilled with what I've been able to come up with.
The normal chest recipe has to change to something more difficult. First, it shouldn't be made of plank blocks, and second, it should have a tech requirement. So make it out of half slabs, and have the top center be an iron ingot to make the lock and/or iron reinforcement for the chest. Doesn't have to change the looks any, just make a nigh-instant chest a thing of the past.
Hanging Wall Cabinet
Five slabs, covering every spot except the corners.
Nightstand
A chest shape out of eight half slabs, with one paper in the center (to line the drawers).
Cupboard
Nine half slabs. Unless you can think of a better recipe.
Hope Chest
Six half slabs across the top two rows, with sticks in the bottom two corners (legs).
Dresser
Combine two nightstands.
Ice Box
Combine two cupboards.
Hanging Peg
If the visual is just a peg, then... does there exist a recipe for just a stick? Don't think I've seen one. So one stick makes 4 Hanging Pegs. If, however, you prefer a string route, then try a stick and a string.
Summary
So that's my request for some neat storage options that hold fewer items than a chest does normally. Here's hoping!
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Instead, try to provide TWO set of values:
- As a vanilla addition (numbers for storage spaces provide should seem to go along with vanilla chests).
- As part of a mod (use your numbers, but also the mod should specify the storage for NORMAL chests so that they match along the smaller "more realistic" storage capacities).
For example, a two drawer night table inside a 1x1x1 spacxe (not a full block, a bit lower than a chest, even) basically could contain, in vanilla, about half to two thirds the space of a normal 1x1x1 chest so that their strage spaces feel "in line with" each other. Each drawer could have a 3x3 slots per drawer.
I'd make a few additions or changes, too. Nightstand tables should come both in "big" version (1x1x21 blocks) but also in "bedside table" versions (slabs thick, 1 drawer only).
Hanging peg could just as well be 1 stick = 1 peg to keep things simpler: Minecraft usually has a "items are costlier in materials than they appear" kind of silent rule. Like how you need *4* obsidian to make an enchahting table, 7 cobble for a furnace, 8 planks for a chest, etc For planks it could be argued that they are not "really" full blocks because 1 log can make 4 planks, but visually it is clear that "conservation of matter" is not part of Minecaraft's world physics at all lol.
Most of these blocks could come in 1x1x1 form first and foremost, and combine into "2-connected" forms if you use two blocks, much like players are already used to with chests.
Do all kinds of stacks go into these item slots ?
Like, I can "put" a stack of cobblestone on a hanging peg ?
Which of these would "show" their content, kinda like Bibliocraft shelves ?
Personally my preferred storage would simply be slabs that you can put stuff on. Would make for great "bedside" tables with flower pots on them lol !
I am not sure what you mean here. I never intended for this to be a suggestion for vanilla, and if the "vanilla" suggestion there is anything close to "Well, normal chests store 27 items so your chests should at least store half that shouldn't they?" then you don't seem to understand the intent behind my request.
I don't know if I mentioned this (I skimmed my post but didn't spot it) but I'd also kind of like an option to disable the normal chest recipe, or in some fashion make it costlier to build (even just adding a metal hinge would put it at a decent tier). And please do look at my Visual Variety thread for an idea of what I'd like to see for chest alternatives just visually.
Eh, possible enough. I don't mind either way.
Yeah, I've noticed that. I dunno how much I agree with it... I generally try to make a pattern feel right, but that's really subjective. I just know when a recipe feels wrong, or too complex or silly.
You should try Terrafirma Craft for a bit. Being able to stick entire forests into a small stack of logs was incredibly amusing. If TFC didn't have such trouble playing nicely with my other mods, I'd be enjoying its benefits a lot longer than I did.
You checked out my Visual Variety suggestion yet? I want to see alternative chest designs that can combine in different directions to create different items. But yeah, having things combine for larger sections would be appealing.
I think it would be far more annoying to try to figure out what sort of things went in which slots than to just let the player role-play that aspect. In particular, I'm dealing with a lot of modded items, so at most I could see setting hanging pegs to "food, ingredients, or tools/cooking ware" but even that seems destined to run up against mods that aren't set up right or categories I didn't anticipate.
I think the hanging peg is the only thing that's open -- the rest are enclosed boxes. I wouldn't mind seeing the dresser showcase what's in it, and I'd be open to interpretations of the rest that involve showing their contents in some form, but it's not at all necessary to the idea.
I should note that this mod must play nicely with BiblioCraft, because I do use it too.
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Good luck with your mod !
I definitely meant it for mod, not vanilla, and I thought I had put it in the right forum, but maybe you got linked from a different topic or something.
I would love to see the Visual Variety suggestion incorporated into vanilla, because a couple new visuals for storage would be a huge improvement over the current "giant room full of identical boxes" -- and signs you have to read are no substitute, see anything by Donald Norman on the principles of design for usability -- but I can't see a bunch of specialty box types being incorporated into vanilla unless there's a big furniture update someday. And that seems unlikely, and if it happened it'd probably cause more than a little friction in the ranks, so....
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So I'm working over my latest mod build, going further with it than I generally have (man, is this a lot of information to sort through), and debating whether I want to make a public mod pack for the first time. I figured it's time to hunt back over my old mod requests, see which ones would benefit my pack that aren't covered by mods I've already found, and find out if maybe there's someone around willing to give 'em a try now that it's halfway through 2015.
Storage option requests include this one, and Village Chests spawning in more locations (randomly) than just the Blacksmith, and the idea of Visual Variety where chests look different based on placement (closets and cupboards -- I suggested that for vanilla, but as it's unlikely to make it to the actual game, I guess it's a mod request too now). Oh, and the possibility of earning inventory space as you level up (starting from a much smaller inventory than vanilla gives you).
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Dude, try looking at my mod over here: http://minecraft.curseforge.com/mc-mods/227712-tiny-storage
Already got a lot of smaller storage options and would be interested in working with you to add some more from this list! Some of the ides you have are really interesting and would fit well into my mod
Let me know!
Gave it a quick skim, don't have time to do more right now (though I hope I'll remember to check back and give you a more thorough review).
I'm always glad to see more storage mods around
Yours looks a little complex for my tastes -- I don't think I would use a mod with that much in it. However, several of the chests interest me:
If you had a mod that added small chests, dyeable chests, and a trash bin, I'd probably go for that alone and be fairly happy with it. But I can see how a lot of other people would enjoy the wider variety.
I am never stingy with my ideas. Take everything you want from my suggestion threads and see what you can make with it. Don't forget to check out my Visual Variety for Chests thread -- I think your mod would work well with a taller option (like a fridge or a closet or dresser) and some options that could hang under other blocks (cupboard blocks would be pretty good choices for smaller inventories, too).
Good luck!
ETA: Biggest problem I had with MrCrayfish is that the amount of resources needed to make his furniture was far more than was needed to make basic chests. In some cases you had to combine one or two chests with other materials to get a storage unit that was smaller than even a single chest! It felt weird and out of step with the rest of the world.
Now, I've figured on changing the regular chest recipe to require some metal nuggets or something (hinges, maybe) so as to make that big storage item a much later slot in the tech tree. But that's probably not going to appeal to many people. So just make sure that whatever you do with your mod, you take care to balance the amount of materials used to make any given item, compared to the utility. I'm after neat chests as memory aids but it makes no sense to use more materials (in survival) to make them when I could just be making a bunch of chests and giving them labels or something.
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Five Years Later: Anybody up for coding this for me? Ideally in 1.7.10, but I would also be pleased with a more recent version (I realize that many coders don't care to go back to significantly earlier versions of Minecraft).
My ideas about how these storage solutions work might be different from when I originally posted this, but the general idea is there, and I'd have to think about how it all could work. But let me know if you'd be interested in giving it a try.
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Welp.. dude. Ok. Let's get started.
A. Use a little blocks mod (that allows for smaller chests)
B. and use Iron Chests with it (so you will have small big chests).
C. Add a recipe for the little version using minetweaker or something.
D. Profit!
OR
A. Make a custom chest texture with small blocks (some mod adding mini blocks) in-game or with some editor outside of game.
B. Make it an item.
C. Using Thaumic Infusion mod, infuse the little block ("sculpture") with the storage aspect, can't remember what it is exactly.
D. Add a recipe for it using MineTweaker or something
E. Profit!
Alright hope I helped.
Alright I'm also pretty sure you can add custom small storage blocks using this
https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/littletiles
add recipes with minetweaker/customNpcs/anything that can do it again.
# Team 1.7.10
Do not ask me to switch to newer versions. I will not. Many mods did not update and never plan to, and newer versions just lost the charm.
The following mods have never got to 1.12/1.15:
- Many Many more I can't play without, those are just off the top of my head
The following mods have been completely ruined in new versions:
I appreciate the attempt, but any of the mods with "Thaumic" in them make me run the other way. I recall them being way too complex for my interests, and I have no interest in adding weird complicated magic to the game.
Use a little blocks mod (that allows for smaller chests)
and use Iron Chests with it (so you will have small big chests)
I am having trouble parsing this part enough to figure out if you understand my base request or not. Mostly because there are two separate uses of the size terms here, so it's confusing.
I looked up Iron Chests (which I vaguely recalled): It's a way to make chests hold more items. That's the opposite of what I want.
You know how, in TFC, you make ceramic containers that can hold four items, and that's it? How it's kinda a big deal when you finally make a full-fledged chest? That's sorta what I want. That, and being able to tell, at a glance, what I (probably) put in a given container, instead of having to wrack my brain to recall how I'd organized my storage the last time I was on the game. The whole thing about storing everything in same-looking chests -- or, at best, chests of different colors -- drives me up a wall, and I want to have a few different types that look different.
So like: Here's my kitchen, and I store the fruit in the fridge/icebox, the veggies in the pantry and the spices and staple items and baking tools up in the cupboard. Here's my bedroom, where I store cloth goods and everything related to cloth in the dresser/closet. Here's my bathroom, where I store potions in the little container on the wall. It might take four cupboards to hold what two chests could hold, but it's easier to see where things are and to go right to what I want to find when I want to find it.
I looked into Little Tiles, and... wow, that is a lot of functionality. It's more complicated than my preference, but, since I don't yet have access to my preference, and since Little Tiles actually covers some of the TFC functionality I wanted (albeit in a weirder and more complicated/versatile way)... I might actually add it. Thanks for pointing me at it! Being able to make functional chairs that look exactly how I want is actually pretty cool, and allows me to avoid adding the more modern effects of MrCrayfish's Furniture Mod, which is an improvement over what I had been planning. It looks like Little Tiles allows for storage options, which is basically what I'm after; guess I'll have to experiment to see if I can make small (like 2x2) storage instead of full (9x3) storage.
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Oh, if you need smaller options, just look up a mod that adds a small storage option and use a little blocks mod to make THAT block smaller.
Sorry for misunderstanding.
# Team 1.7.10
Do not ask me to switch to newer versions. I will not. Many mods did not update and never plan to, and newer versions just lost the charm.
The following mods have never got to 1.12/1.15:
- Many Many more I can't play without, those are just off the top of my head
The following mods have been completely ruined in new versions:
Well, that used up a good hour of my morning XD
Your comment sent me to look up if something already exists, and I found Tiny Storage, which is... almost what I'm after. But it's got about twice as many types as I need, and it's all based on the basic Chest shape, just a bit smaller (would really like more visual variety). Still, I went over the options in a massive comment... and then it flagged that as spam, so I'm back here with that same comment (and annoyed that it won't let me edit or delete the comment that is now emblazoned with "SPAM" and has been turned a bright coral color).
Anyway! Feedback on that option: It's for 1.7.10, yay! It was last updated in 2015... and the latest comment is about a crash error in 2017 (yeeee... that makes me nervous when I'm trying to build a public mod pack).
Given my general focus (fairly simple, low-level tech that allows for medieval-level or pioneer-level homesteading -- pre-industrial, pre-modern, uncomplicated), the sheer variety is putting me off a bit. Still, about half of the chest types sound actually pretty good.
I'd prefer powers of 2 (this thing stores two items, that one stores four, this stores eight, that stores 16 -- maybe there's a 12 or 24 in there), but this thing is built on powers of 3, which isn't too bad. There's apparently a Drawer (it says "Draw") that has three sets of 3, which I like and is close to my idea for cupboards or shelves or dressers, which'd be more like this (all in one GUI):
OOO_OOO
OOO_OOO
Tiny Chests and Micro Chests sound pretty decent; in fact, put those together and it's probably all I really need (although "chest that stores one item" is actually a bit smaller than I want -- four item stacks sounds like a decent minimum).
It talks about the possibility of Bookshelves for books, Potion Racks for potions. Now we're talking! Add in something like an Icebox for food and we're basically where I want to be. Then Storage Bags, which appear to be portable storage options, and that could replace my Backpacks mod quite handily and with less complicated mechanics. Here's my preferred "bag" recipe, using Leather (O), String (x), and a space in the middle:
OOx
O_O
OOO
Filter Chests: I don't see much need for these in general, but if they were portable and attracted like items, they could be significantly useful. I recall World of Warcraft having a mechanic like that: Here's an Herb Bag and an Ore Bag, so when you pick herbs they go directly to the Herb Bag (until it's full, then they fill your inventory) and when you're mining ores then the Ore Bag gets filled up. I could see bags for food; seeds and saplings; wood and wooden items; stone and bricks; dirt and podzol; ores; gems; etc.
Wool Chests and Clay Chests: Well, getting colored chests is nice, and having tiny chests in different colors is useful. Wool is a bit of an odd choice -- not terrible, but in a pared-down version I'd only have the clay.
Lockable Chests: Honestly, since I play solo mostly, and the rest of the time with nephews, this doesn't impact me. Though I could see the benefit in a public mod pack, so I guess I would include it for my current project. Personal Safe: Similar.
Though... wait.
Okay, I'm imagining a Safe being the only storage option that is player-specific -- no lockable chests -- and I'm considering the issues if another player breaks it. Because it has to be breakable, right? Or else it becomes dangerous to let troll players have access to it. But... consider a Ghost Safe, maybe that requires a Ghast Tear to make, and for the player who placed it it's a solid block, but other players experience it as a translucent block that they can't stand on or interact with. (Okay, this is now making me think of some other issues that could cause, as this essentially makes areas that one player can affect that others can't affect. But it might still be useful. Hmm. Maybe an Option as to the behavior of the Ghost Safe? Unbreakable block, breakable but stays as a dropped item until the owner retrieves it (along with the contents), breakable (maybe twice as difficult to break as Obsidian) and despawns and drops the items, breakable and despawns along with all the items it was carrying...?)
Anyway.
Trash Chests: Okay, come to think of it, not a terrible idea, though I'd kinda more prefer a trash can where you right-click to deposit an item to be destroyed (and, yes, it'd keep the last item placed there, or maybe the previous four stacks, like a recycling bin where you can rescue things if you clicked it accidentally).
Quarry Chests and Vacuum Chests: Definitely not my style. Peaceful Chests: Nah, I've got that functionality covered. Piggy Banks: If piggy banks were the only weird piece in this mod, I'd be fine with them; they're actually pretty cute, and in keeping with Minecraft mythos/style.
So, on balance, actually pretty useful. Now it's just that crash error that's making me wonder: Did the author figure out what caused it or is there not enough info there to diagnose and solve the problem? I don't think I'd risk putting it in a public mod pack.
But, as far as suiting my particular needs: It's difficult to find the functionality I'm after without having a giant, complicated mod built up around it. What I'm hoping to find is a mod with a half-dozen simple smaller storage options, ideally ones that differ in shape/look instead of merely color/texture, and that shifts the vanilla Chest recipe to a slightly more complicated one (involving an iron ingot) and allows the simple wooden chest recipe to make the lowest-level container with the smallest inventory. So you start out getting wood and making tiny chests or shelves or the like, and eventually tech up a bit to get to the full-fledged Minecraft chest and whichever other storage mods I include (I'm thinking of using Storage Drawers, but it uses complicated recipes and much larger storage, so I need something at the smaller/simpler end to balance).
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Ahh, I cry
Immersive Craft is very close to what I want, and has cupboards, and offers better storage options in general. It's slightly more complicated visually than I appreciate, but well within tolerances.
...and it's for 1.8.9+
I cry
(That aside, this mod build is progressing pretty well. I'm getting a feel for what I want and what I need, and which parts need to change, and it's all shaping up into modules that I think will work well together. And I'm running across a few random mods that improve the general experience and actually have a 1.7.10 option, which is nice (I can't get the Kiwi, sadly, since it's much more recent... it was cute and fit perfectly into the vanilla aesthetic, too).)
(Also Little Tiles turns out to be no good. Unless I'm misunderstanding it, it appears to be Creative Mode Only, so so much for that idea. I'm still glad to know about it! Might help with some custom maps later on, if I ever have time to work on them.)
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