Here's an idea for an interdimensional chest you can access from multiple locations.
You'd craft it using eight blocks of obsidian like so:
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It would create a glossy black chest. When placed the chest would operate just like a normal chest, but with one crucial difference: All Portal Chests share a single storage space.
That means you can put an object in one portal chest, and retrieve it at a different portal chest. Even a portal chest in a different dimension.
Two portal chests could be placed together to increase its capacity from 27 to 54 slots, just like regular chests. However you would only be able to access the 27 slots on the right from other double portal chests. Single portal chests could only place and retrieve items in the left 27 slots.
The major weakness of portal chests, and the reason why they would not make regular chests obsolete, is that no matter how many you build they would only have a combined storage space of 54 slots. Unless you only have 54 items or stacks of items you want to keep, you're going to need regular chests too. Portal chests would mostly be used for valuable extremely limited items you'd want to be able to access in multiple places but not necessarily carry everywhere, like your diamond tools or your stacks of minecart rails.
If Notch wanted to make portal chests harder to obtain, the above recipe could also be swapped out for one where the 4 corner blocks are instead made of glowstone blocks.
this has been suggested. I'll see if I can google search to find it, but no guarantees.
EDIT: Found it! You're looking for Telechests
In fact your take on the idea is exactly the same as what my take for the idea was, and now that you've reminded me about it, I think I'm going to add that to the New Nether thread.
Here's what my take on the suggestion was:
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I have another idea: just build the whole thing out of obsidian: []
Then in order to make a connection between two obsidian chests, you need to set them on fire before placing an item inside. Once you place an item inside, any future obsidian chests will form separate connections, and if you place an item inside BEFORE setting them on fire, they wont make any connections and will only function as normal chests.
Obsidian chests would only be able to be picked up using a diamond axe or pickaxe. Doing so would break their connection, and if they were the last chest in a group, it would also spill their contents. Once picked up, an obsidian chest can be set back down again to make new connections.
Forming a successful connection will cause the fire on top of the chest to burn purple.
Once the chests you want in the network are on fire, you just open one of the chests in that network and place an item. Once the item is placed, that network can't have any more chests added to it. Trying to do so will just create a new network that is separate from the initial network created.
this has been suggested. I'll see if I can google search to find it, but no guarantees.
EDIT: Found it! You're looking for Telechests
In fact your take on the idea is exactly the same as what my take for the idea was, and now that you've reminded me about it, I think I'm going to add that to the New Nether thread.
Ah, great minds think alike. The only difference (besides some of your crafting recipes) seems to be that you suggest having different networks of telechests. I prefer limiting people to a single extradimensional storage space to make things simpler, and to prevent the chests from being too powerful and making normal chests purposeless.
You'd craft it using eight blocks of obsidian like so:
It would create a glossy black chest. When placed the chest would operate just like a normal chest, but with one crucial difference: All Portal Chests share a single storage space.
That means you can put an object in one portal chest, and retrieve it at a different portal chest. Even a portal chest in a different dimension.
Two portal chests could be placed together to increase its capacity from 27 to 54 slots, just like regular chests. However you would only be able to access the 27 slots on the right from other double portal chests. Single portal chests could only place and retrieve items in the left 27 slots.
The major weakness of portal chests, and the reason why they would not make regular chests obsolete, is that no matter how many you build they would only have a combined storage space of 54 slots. Unless you only have 54 items or stacks of items you want to keep, you're going to need regular chests too. Portal chests would mostly be used for valuable extremely limited items you'd want to be able to access in multiple places but not necessarily carry everywhere, like your diamond tools or your stacks of minecart rails.
If Notch wanted to make portal chests harder to obtain, the above recipe could also be swapped out for one where the 4 corner blocks are instead made of glowstone blocks.
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EDIT: Found it! You're looking for Telechests
In fact your take on the idea is exactly the same as what my take for the idea was, and now that you've reminded me about it, I think I'm going to add that to the New Nether thread.
Here's what my take on the suggestion was:
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Ah, great minds think alike. The only difference (besides some of your crafting recipes) seems to be that you suggest having different networks of telechests. I prefer limiting people to a single extradimensional storage space to make things simpler, and to prevent the chests from being too powerful and making normal chests purposeless.