Sophisticated Storage In Motion guide for All the Mods 10 2.26 to 4.5
Sophisticated Storage In Motion guide for All the Mods 10
Last verified for All the Mods 10 v4.5 on Oct 15, 2026 · text last changed Oct 15, 2026
A newer release (8.3) is out Guide for the current version
Also applies to:FTB Evolution 2 1.0.2 to 1.4.0FTB Skies 2: Aero 1.0.3 to 1.10.0
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Every recipe and number here was checked against All the Mods 10 4.5's own files.
What is Sophisticated Storage In Motion?
Sophisticated Storage In Motion is part of the pack. This pack ships version 0.10.18, built for Minecraft 1.21.1. It has been in the pack since version 2.16 or earlier, so it's a long-standing part of the modpack and not a recent addition.[1]
Unverified I don't have a source describing what Sophisticated Storage In Motion adds, who it's best suited for, or how its features behave in this pack, so I'm not guessing. The pack's recipes, config options and any changes to the mod's defaults aren't covered here either.
Unverified I found no source that places this mod on the ATM Star path or ties it to any quest in this pack, so I can't say where it fits in the progression. Check in-game before assuming it's gated by a quest.
How do you get started with Sophisticated Storage In Motion?
3 parts
This mod puts Sophisticated Storage containers on the move. In this pack it adds two items: the Storage Boat and the Storage Minecart. Everything below comes from the pack's recipes, so you can follow it in order.[2]
First: make a storage boat
The base recipe combines a vanilla boat with a Sophisticated Storage container, and the result is a boat carrying that container. There is one recipe per wood type, and bamboo uses a raft. Here is the oak version:[2]
Moving Storage From Storage (sophisticatedstorageinmotion)
Oak Boat
- any all storage
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorageinmotion:oak_storage_boat
Every other wood type has its own matching recipe in the pack.
If you already have a vanilla chest boat, you can convert it instead. The result is a boat carrying a Sophisticated Storage chest, and again there is one recipe per wood type.[2]
Crafting Shapeless
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorageinmotion:oak_storage_boat_from_vanilla
The conversion route for an oak chest boat.
Next: make a storage minecart
For rails, the pack has a recipe that turns a vanilla chest minecart into a storage minecart carrying a Sophisticated Storage chest.[2]
Crafting Shapeless
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorageinmotion:chest_minecart_to_storage_minecart
The chest minecart conversion recipe.
Then: upgrade the container tier
You don't need to rebuild a boat to get a better container. The pack has tier-upgrade recipes that turn a storage boat into one carrying the next tier of container. The chain runs copper, iron, gold, diamond, then netherite, and each step uses the next material up. Chests, barrels and shulker boxes all have these recipes, and so do the limited barrels.[2]
Moving Storage Tier Upgrade Shaped Recipe (sophisticatedstorageinmotion)
8 × any iron ingot
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorageinmotion:storage_boat_with_chest_to_iron_chest
A boat with a plain chest can go straight to an iron chest.
Moving Storage Tier Upgrade Shaped Recipe (sophisticatedstorageinmotion)
8 × any diamond gem
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorageinmotion:storage_boat_with_gold_chest_to_diamond_chest
Further up the chain, a gold chest becomes a diamond chest.
How does Sophisticated Storage In Motion work?
2 parts
This mod is about taking Sophisticated Storage on the move. The recipes the pack shows for it produce a Storage Boat and a Storage Minecart. Everything below comes from the pack's recipe list, so it covers how you get and upgrade these vehicles, not how they behave once placed.[2]
Getting a storage vehicle
You can convert a vanilla chest vehicle. The pack has conversion recipes for the vanilla chest boat in each wood type, including the bamboo chest raft, and for the vanilla chest minecart. Each one gives you a Sophisticated Storage chest-type vehicle. Here are the oak boat version and the minecart version:[2]
Crafting Shapeless
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorageinmotion:oak_storage_boat_from_vanilla
Crafting Shapeless
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorageinmotion:chest_minecart_to_storage_minecart
You can also build a boat from a plain boat and a storage block. These recipes use a mod-specific recipe type, moving_storage_from_storage, and accept anything in the Sophisticated Storage all-storage tag, so your boat isn't limited to chests. The barrel-based boats in the upgrade recipes below show that barrels work too. The wood types listed are acacia, bamboo (a raft), birch, cherry, dark oak, jungle, mangrove, oak and spruce.[2]
Moving Storage From Storage (sophisticatedstorageinmotion)
- any all storage
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorageinmotion:oak_storage_boat
The item name is a template that gets filled in with the boat's wood type and the storage it carries, so each boat is named after what you built it from.[2]
Upgrading a storage boat's tier
You can upgrade the storage on a boat by crafting, using a dedicated recipe type called moving_storage_tier_upgrade_shaped_recipe. In the recipes shown, a boat carrying a barrel can be upgraded to an iron barrel or a copper barrel, and a boat carrying a chest can be upgraded to a copper chest. The metal comes from any ingot in the matching common tag, so it isn't limited to one mod's ingot.[2]
Moving Storage Tier Upgrade Shaped Recipe (sophisticatedstorageinmotion)
8 × any iron ingot
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorageinmotion:storage_boat_with_barrel_to_iron_barrel
Moving Storage Tier Upgrade Shaped Recipe (sophisticatedstorageinmotion)
8 × any copper ingot
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorageinmotion:storage_boat_with_chest_to_copper_chest
How do you progress through Sophisticated Storage In Motion?
3 parts
Progression with this mod is all about recipes, and the path is simple: get a storage vehicle, then climb the container tiers on it, from copper up to netherite.[2]
Step 1: Get a storage vehicle
The easiest way in is to convert a vanilla vehicle. A vanilla chest boat of any wood type (including the bamboo chest raft) plus a redstone torch becomes a Storage Boat carrying a Sophisticated Storage chest. A vanilla chest minecart plus a redstone torch becomes a Storage Minecart the same way. Both are shapeless crafts.[2]
Crafting Shapeless
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorageinmotion:oak_storage_boat_from_vanilla
Oak is the example here. Every other wood type has its own matching recipe.
Crafting Shapeless
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorageinmotion:chest_minecart_to_storage_minecart
If you already have Sophisticated Storage containers, you can go the other way. Combine a plain boat of any wood type with any block from the mod's all-storage tag, and you get a storage boat carrying that container. This works for the bamboo raft too.[2]
Moving Storage From Storage (sophisticatedstorageinmotion)
- any all storage
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorageinmotion:oak_storage_boat
Again, each wood type has its own version of this recipe.
Step 2: Climb the tiers
The mod adds upgrade recipes that turn a storage boat carrying one tier of container into a storage boat carrying the next. The tiers in these recipes run: basic, copper, iron, gold, diamond, netherite.[2]
- Basic to copper: a shaped recipe that uses a copper ingot, giving you a Copper Chest or Copper Barrel on the boat.[2]
- Basic to iron, or copper to iron: both are shaped recipes that use an iron ingot.[2]
- Iron to gold: a shaped recipe that uses a gold ingot.[2]
- Gold to diamond: a shaped recipe that uses a diamond.[2]
- Diamond to netherite: a shapeless recipe that uses a netherite ingot, unlike the shaped recipes at the lower tiers.[2]
Moving Storage Tier Upgrade Shaped Recipe (sophisticatedstorageinmotion)
8 × any copper ingot
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorageinmotion:storage_boat_with_chest_to_copper_chest
The first step up: a storage boat with a chest becomes one with a copper chest.
Moving Storage Tier Upgrade Shaped Recipe (sophisticatedstorageinmotion)
8 × any diamond gem
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorageinmotion:storage_boat_with_gold_chest_to_diamond_chest
Gold chest to diamond chest, still a shaped recipe.
Moving Storage Tier Upgrade Shapeless Recipe (sophisticatedstorageinmotion)
- any netherite ingot
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorageinmotion:storage_boat_with_diamond_chest_to_netherite_chest
The final chest step is shapeless.
Barrels, limited barrels and shulker boxes
Barrels follow the same ladder as chests: basic to copper or iron, copper to iron, then gold, diamond and netherite, each with its own recipe and the same ingredient type per step.[2]
Limited barrels (I to IV) have their own upgrade recipes. For all four sizes, a basic limited barrel can go to copper or to iron, a copper one to iron, and a diamond one to netherite. The gold to diamond step is confirmed for the limited barrel I.[2]
Shulker boxes on storage boats can be upgraded too. The recipes confirmed here cover copper to iron, iron to gold, gold to diamond, and diamond to netherite.[2]
Moving Storage Tier Upgrade Shaped Recipe (sophisticatedstorageinmotion)
8 × any iron ingot
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorageinmotion:storage_boat_with_limited_barrel_1_to_limited_iron_barrel_1
One of the limited barrel upgrade recipes, shown as an example.
Unverified The sources here do not show any quest chapter that covers this mod, so where it falls in the pack's quest book is unverified. Check the quest book in game if you want to see whether it is mentioned.
How does Sophisticated Storage In Motion work with other mods?
2 parts
In this pack, the recipes that connect Sophisticated Storage In Motion with other content link it to vanilla Minecraft and to the base Sophisticated Storage items. They fall into two groups: turning vanilla chest vehicles into storage vehicles, and upgrading the storage tier of a vehicle you already have.[2]
Converting vanilla chest vehicles
You don't have to start from scratch. Each vanilla chest boat has its own conversion recipe: acacia, birch, cherry, dark oak, jungle, mangrove, oak and spruce, plus the bamboo chest raft. The Chest Minecart has one too. The result is a Storage Boat or a Storage Minecart, and each of these recipes also lists a Chest as an output. All of them are shapeless recipes.[2]
Crafting Shapeless
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorageinmotion:oak_storage_boat_from_vanilla
The oak version. The other wood types have their own recipes of the same kind.
Crafting Shapeless
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorageinmotion:chest_minecart_to_storage_minecart
The vanilla chest minecart converts the same way.
Upgrading storage tiers on a vehicle
Storage boats and storage minecarts can be upgraded to a higher tier of Sophisticated Storage block without being rebuilt. The pack uses a dedicated tier-upgrade recipe type for this, and it moves a vehicle up through copper, iron, gold, diamond and netherite.[2]
The upgrade materials are shared tags rather than one specific item, so any matching item from another mod counts. The tags are copper ingots, iron ingots, gold ingots, diamonds and netherite ingots. The steps up to diamond are shaped recipes, and the step to netherite is shapeless.[2]
- Chests on boats: Chest to Copper Chest or Iron Chest, copper to iron, then Gold Chest, Diamond Chest and Netherite Chest.[2]
- Barrels on boats: the same chain, ending at Netherite Barrel and passing through Copper Barrel, Iron Barrel, Gold Barrel and Diamond Barrel.[2]
- Shulker boxes on boats: Copper Shulker Box and Iron Shulker Box, then Gold Shulker Box, Diamond Shulker Box and Netherite Shulker Box.[2]
- Limited barrels I to IV on boats: each size has upgrade recipes from copper and iron up through gold, diamond and netherite, for example Limited Copper Barrel 1 and Limited Netherite Barrel 4.[2]
- Minecarts: the recipes include chest and barrel upgrades to copper and iron, copper to iron, and diamond to netherite, plus shulker box upgrades from copper to iron and from diamond to netherite.[2]
Moving Storage Tier Upgrade Shaped Recipe (sophisticatedstorageinmotion)
8 × any diamond gem
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorageinmotion:storage_boat_with_gold_chest_to_diamond_chest
A shaped upgrade step on a boat, using the diamond tag.
Moving Storage Tier Upgrade Shapeless Recipe (sophisticatedstorageinmotion)
- any netherite ingot
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorageinmotion:storage_minecart_with_diamond_chest_to_netherite_chest
The step up to netherite is shapeless and uses the netherite ingot tag.
What changed in Sophisticated Storage In Motion between versions?
1 part
All the Mods 10 4.5 ships Sophisticated Storage In Motion 0.10.18. It has been in the pack since All the Mods 10 2.16 or earlier, and since then the pack has bumped it several times.[1]
Version bumps in the pack changelogs
- All the Mods 10 2.26 jumped from 0.7.4 to 0.10.0, the biggest version gap in the list.[3]
- All the Mods 10 2.28 moved from 0.10.0 to 0.10.1.[4]
- All the Mods 10 2.29 moved from 0.10.1 to 0.10.4.[5]
- All the Mods 10 2.37 moved from 0.10.4 to 0.10.5.[6]
- All the Mods 10 2.42 moved from 0.10.5 to 0.10.6.[7]
- All the Mods 10 2.43 moved from 0.10.6 to 0.10.8.[8]
- All the Mods 10 2.47 moved from 0.10.8 to 0.10.13.[9]
- All the Mods 10 3.0 moved from 0.10.13 to 0.10.16.[10]
- All the Mods 10 3.2 moved from 0.10.16 to 0.10.18, the version still used in 4.5.[1][11]
Unverified The pack changelogs only record version numbers, and no changelogs for the shipped jars are stored. What each update added, fixed or changed in the mod is unverified, so check the mod's own release notes before assuming a feature came or went in a given version.
Sources
- All the Mods 10 4.5 mod list · pack file
- All the Mods 10 4.5 recipe dump: recipes making Sophisticated Storage In Motion items · pack recipe dump
- All the Mods 10 changelog (All the Mods 10 2.26) · changelog
- All the Mods 10 changelog (All the Mods 10 2.28) · changelog
- All the Mods 10 changelog (All the Mods 10 2.29) · changelog
- All the Mods 10 changelog (All the Mods 10 2.37) · changelog
- All the Mods 10 changelog (All the Mods 10 2.42) · changelog
- All the Mods 10 changelog (All the Mods 10 2.43) · changelog
- All the Mods 10 changelog (All the Mods 10 2.47) · changelog
- All the Mods 10 changelog (All the Mods 10 3.0) · changelog
- All the Mods 10 changelog (All the Mods 10 3.2) · changelog
Where this guide comes from
Written from what All the Mods 10 itself ships: its files and recipes, the in-game guidebooks and the mods' own pages. Every statement links to the source it came from, and the numbers are checked against the pack before publishing.
Guide last verified Oct 15, 2026.
Guides for other versions: 4.6 to 8.3 · 2.20 to 2.25 · 2.16 to 2.19