Sophisticated Storage guide for All the Mods 10 0.43 to 0.50
Sophisticated Storage guide for All the Mods 10
Last verified for All the Mods 10 v0.50 on Oct 17, 2026 · text last changed Oct 17, 2026
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2 sections are written for this pack; 3 are shared from another pack's guide.
Every recipe and number here was checked against All the Mods 10 0.50's own files.
What is Sophisticated Storage?
Sophisticated Storage is part of this pack at version 0.10.26, shipped as the file sophisticatedstorage-1.21-0.10.26.816.jar. That is the version you get in pack version 0.50.[1]
It is not a recent addition either. The pack's mod list shows it was first included in pack version 0.32 or earlier, so it has been around for a while.[1]
The sources I have for this section only cover the version and when it first appeared, so I am leaving out anything beyond that rather than guessing. The mod's own item and block ids use the sophisticatedstorage namespace, which is handy to know if you go looking for them in recipe viewers or commands.[1]
How do you get started with Sophisticated Storage?
5 parts
Same as in the All the Mods 10 0.64 guide
Sophisticated Storage adds chests, barrels and shulker boxes that you can improve with upgrades. Here is the order I'd go in.[2][3]
Make a chest or barrel
Start with a Chest or a Barrel. The recipes are listed per wood type, for example acacia, bamboo, birch and cherry, so pick whichever wood you have on hand. Here are the acacia versions as examples.[2]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorage:acacia_chest
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorage:acacia_barrel
There are also Limited Barrel 1 to Limited Barrel 4 variants, made per wood type as well. Their tooltip shows a slot count and a stack size multiplier. I'd skip them until you have a reason to want one.[2][3]
Convert your vanilla storage
Next, craft the Basic Tier Upgrade. Its tooltip says it upgrades vanilla inventories to their sophisticated version, so you can use it on storage you already have instead of rebuilding everything.[2][3]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
| Empty slot | Empty slot |
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorage:basic_tier_upgrade
Got a vanilla shulker box? It converts to a Shulker Box with a simple shapeless recipe.[2]
Climb the tier ladder
The tier upgrades go copper, iron, gold, diamond, netherite. You can start at Basic to Copper Tier Upgrade. The iron one can be crafted from the copper one, and the gold, diamond and netherite ones are each crafted from the previous tier's upgrade.[2]
Crafting Shaped
| any copper ingot | any copper ingot | any copper ingot |
| any copper ingot | any copper ingot | |
| any copper ingot | any copper ingot | any copper ingot |
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorage:basic_to_copper_tier_upgrade
Add upgrades
Stack upgrades multiply the number of stacks that can fit in a slot, from 2 for tier 1 up to 32 for tier 5. That makes them a straightforward way to get more space.[3]
Many other upgrades, such as the Compacting Upgrade and Blasting Upgrade, are built from the Upgrade Base. The compacting upgrade compacts items into their compressed variants and only handles 2x2 recipes.[2][3]
Crafting Shaped
| any iron ingot | any iron ingot | |
| any redstone dust | any redstone dust |
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorage:compacting_upgrade
Pipe items in and out
Once you have a storage multiblock, Storage Input lets you pipe items in, Storage Output lets you pipe items out, and Storage I/O does both. The three convert into each other, and the recipes are shown below.[2][3]
How does Sophisticated Storage work?
7 parts
Sophisticated Storage is less about machines and more about what you bolt onto your storage. There's no power system to deal with. Instead you get multiblock networks, pipe-friendly access blocks and a big pile of upgrades that turn a chest into a small automation hub. Here's how it works in this pack.[3]
Storage multiblocks
A Controller lets you deposit items into, and pipe items to and from, a connected multiblock of storages. That means one block can act as the front door for a whole wall of chests and barrels.[3]
If you have a separate cluster somewhere else, a Storage Link connects it to the controller. You link it with the Storage Tool, so keep that tool handy.[3]
Input, Output and I/O blocks
- Storage Input lets you pipe items into the multiblock. It's also optimized for low TPS impact.[3]
- Storage Output lets you pipe items out of the multiblock.[3]
- Storage I/O does both, piping items to and from the multiblock.[3]
You don't need to commit to one. Each of the three can be converted into the next with a single-item crafting recipe, so you can swap a block's role without losing it.[4]
Barrels, chests and capacity
Limited barrels come in four versions, Limited Barrel 1 through Limited Barrel 4. Each one's tooltip shows its slot count and a base stack size multiplier, so check it in-game to compare them. The pack has a recipe per wood type, and here's the acacia one as an example.[3][4]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorage:acacia_limited_barrel_1
Stack upgrades multiply how many stacks fit in a slot. There are six of them: Tier 1 gives x2, Tier 1 Plus x3, Tier 2 x4, Tier 3 x8, Tier 4 x16 and Tier 5 x32.[3]
The Basic Tier Upgrade turns vanilla inventories into their sophisticated versions. Tier upgrades for copper, iron, gold, diamond and netherite also exist, and each has its own recipe in the pack.[3][4]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
| Empty slot | Empty slot |
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorage:basic_tier_upgrade
Crafting Shapeless
Basic to Diamond Tier Upgrade
- any netherite ingot
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorage:basic_to_netherite_tier_upgrade
Shulker boxes get the same treatment. A recipe converts a vanilla shulker box into the Sophisticated Storage version.[4]
Item handling upgrades
Most of the automation lives in upgrades slotted into the storage itself. Many have a basic and an advanced version, and the advanced one mainly adds more filtering options.[3]
- Filter Upgrade filters the items piped in and/or out of the storage.[3]
- Hopper Upgrade pulls items from the block on top and/or pushes them to the block below. The Advanced Hopper Upgrade is faster and adds input/output options.[3]
- Magnet Upgrade pulls items into the storage from a range. The advanced version has a greater range.[3]
- Pickup Upgrade makes the storage pick up items.[3]
- Void Upgrade voids the items you select in its filter.[3]
- Feeding Upgrade feeds you food from the storage's inventory. The advanced version has more options for when the food is fed.[3]
- Compacting Upgrade compresses items into their compressed variants, but only with 2x2 recipes. The advanced version handles both 2x2 and 3x3 recipes and has more filtering. The Compression Upgrade automatically compresses and decompresses items.[3]
Smelting and crafting in an upgrade tab
Some upgrades add a whole workstation as a tab in the storage. Crafting, Stonecutter, Smelting, Smoking and Blasting upgrades work this way, and there are also Chipped upgrades for several Chipped workbenches.[3]
The auto versions are the ones to look at for automation. Auto-smelting Upgrade, Auto-smoking Upgrade and Auto-blasting Upgrade automatically pull and push items. Smelting handles general smelting, smoking is for food, and blasting is for ores and metal stuff.[3]
In this pack the smoking and blasting versions are crafted from the auto-smelting one.[4]
Crafting Shaped
| any iron ingot | any iron ingot | any iron ingot |
| any iron ingot | any iron ingot | |
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorage:auto_blasting_upgrade_from_auto_smelting_upgrade
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | any log | Empty slot |
| any log | any log | |
| Empty slot | any log | Empty slot |
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorage:auto_smoking_upgrade_from_auto_smelting_upgrade
Fluids and experience
The Pump Upgrade moves fluids between a Tank upgrade and adjacent blocks. The advanced version also works with fluid containers in your hand and fluid blocks in the world, and it lets you filter which fluids get pumped. The XP Pump Upgrade moves experience between the Tank upgrade and you.[3]
Storage Tool and settings
The Storage Tool links, locks, and hides counts, tiers and locks on storages. Its tooltip says you switch modes with a keybind.[3]
Each storage has its own settings screen. The settings are inherited from the player, or overridden for that specific storage.[3]
Unverified No Sophisticated Storage config files are available for this pack, so I can't confirm any pack-specific values such as slot counts, upgrade slot limits or whether the packing tape setting is changed. Check the in-game tooltips for exact numbers.
How do you progress through Sophisticated Storage?
4 parts
Same as in the All the Mods 10 0.64 guide
Sophisticated Storage tiers are not gated by quests in this pack. The progression is purely a crafting chain: you place a tier upgrade item onto a chest or barrel you already own to bump it up a level. The in-pack recipes show a clear ladder from basic to copper, iron, gold, diamond and netherite.[2]
Starting at Basic
Your starting point is the Basic Tier Upgrade. It has its own recipe, and it sits at the bottom of the ladder.[2]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
| Empty slot | Empty slot |
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorage:basic_tier_upgrade
Upgrading from Basic
If your storage is still basic, the pack gives you a direct upgrade item for each higher tier. Copper is the cheapest first step with Basic to Copper Tier Upgrade.[2]
Crafting Shaped
| any copper ingot | any copper ingot | any copper ingot |
| any copper ingot | any copper ingot | |
| any copper ingot | any copper ingot | any copper ingot |
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorage:basic_to_copper_tier_upgrade
Iron can be made directly, or you can build it out of the copper upgrade, so nothing is wasted if you already made one.[2]
Crafting Shaped
| any iron ingot | any iron ingot | any iron ingot |
| any iron ingot | any iron ingot | |
| any iron ingot | any iron ingot | any iron ingot |
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorage:basic_to_iron_tier_upgrade
The direct route to iron.
From there the chain stacks. Basic to Gold Tier Upgrade is made from the iron upgrade, and Basic to Diamond Tier Upgrade is made from the gold one.[2]
Crafting Shaped
| any gold ingot | any gold ingot | any gold ingot |
| any gold ingot | any gold ingot | |
| any gold ingot | any gold ingot | any gold ingot |
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorage:basic_to_gold_tier_upgrade
Crafting Shaped
| any diamond gem | any diamond gem | any diamond gem |
| any diamond gem | any diamond gem | |
| any diamond gem | any diamond gem | any diamond gem |
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorage:basic_to_diamond_tier_upgrade
The last step is Basic to Netherite Tier Upgrade. It is a shapeless recipe built on top of the diamond upgrade.[2]
Crafting Shapeless
- any netherite ingot
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorage:basic_to_netherite_tier_upgrade
Upgrading from Copper
If your storage is already copper, you don't have to go back to basic. The pack has a second set of upgrades that start at copper, and they follow the same ladder: Copper to Iron Tier Upgrade, then Copper to Gold Tier Upgrade, then Copper to Diamond Tier Upgrade, then Copper to Netherite Tier Upgrade.[2]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | any iron ingot | Empty slot |
| any iron ingot | any iron ingot | |
| Empty slot | any iron ingot | Empty slot |
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorage:copper_to_iron_tier_upgrade
Crafting Shaped
| any gold ingot | any gold ingot | any gold ingot |
| any gold ingot | any gold ingot | |
| any gold ingot | any gold ingot | any gold ingot |
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorage:copper_to_gold_tier_upgrade
Crafting Shaped
| any diamond gem | any diamond gem | any diamond gem |
| any diamond gem | any diamond gem | |
| any diamond gem | any diamond gem | any diamond gem |
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorage:copper_to_diamond_tier_upgrade
Crafting Shapeless
Copper to Diamond Tier Upgrade
- any netherite ingot
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorage:copper_to_netherite_tier_upgrade
Functional upgrades alongside the tiers
Tiers are only half of the progression. The functional upgrades are separate items made from an Upgrade Base, such as the Crafting Upgrade, Compacting Upgrade and Blasting Upgrade. The blasting and auto-blasting upgrades can also be made from the smelting and auto-smelting versions, and the auto-smoking upgrade can be made from the auto-smelting one.[2]
Unverified The pack's quest book does not appear to cover this mod, so there are no quest steps to follow for it. I also could not confirm the slot counts or stack limits for each tier from the sources I have, so check those in game.
How does Sophisticated Storage work with other mods?
3 parts
Same as in the All the Mods 10 2.25 guide
In this pack, Sophisticated Storage connects to two other mods through its recipes: Sophisticated Backpacks and Chipped. Both links are about upgrades, so what you build for your chests and barrels carries over to your backpack.[5]
Sophisticated Backpacks: swapping upgrades between storage and backpacks
You don't have to build upgrades twice. The pack has conversion recipes that turn a Sophisticated Storage upgrade into its Sophisticated Backpacks twin. For example, the Magnet Upgrade can be converted into the Magnet Upgrade.[5]
Crafting Shaped
| any string | any string | |
| Empty slot | any leather | Empty slot |
| any string | Empty slot | any string |
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorage:backpack_magnet_upgrade_from_storage_magnet_upgrade
Storage Magnet Upgrade into the backpack version.
This works for most of the upgrade lineup: Filter, Advanced Filter, Compacting, Advanced Compacting, Crafting, Feeding, Advanced Feeding, Jukebox, Advanced Jukebox, Magnet, Advanced Magnet, Pickup, Advanced Pickup, Void, Advanced Void, Stonecutter, and the Smelting, Smoking and Blasting upgrades, including their Auto versions.[5]
Stack upgrades convert too, but the tier names are shifted by one. The Stack Upgrade Tier 1 Plus becomes the Stack Upgrade Starter Tier, and Stack Upgrade Tier 2 becomes Stack Upgrade Tier 1. The pattern continues up to Stack Upgrade Tier 5, which becomes Stack Upgrade Tier 4.[5]
Going the other way, from a backpack upgrade to a storage upgrade, also has recipes. Here is the Jukebox Upgrade as an example.[5]
Crafting Shaped
| any plank | any plank | |
| Empty slot | any plank | Empty slot |
| any plank | Empty slot | any plank |
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorage:storage_jukebox_upgrade_from_backpack_jukebox_upgrade
Backpack Jukebox Upgrade back into the storage version.
Chipped: workstation upgrades
Sophisticated Storage adds upgrades that bring Chipped workstations into your storage. Each upgrade is tied to one Chipped block, so you need that workstation to make it.[5]
- Chipped: Alchemy Bench Upgrade, from the Alchemy Bench[5]
- Chipped: Botanist's Workbench Upgrade, from the Botanist Workbench[5]
- Chipped: Carpenters Workbench Upgrade, from the Carpenters Table[5]
- Chipped: Glassblower Upgrade, from the Glassblower[5]
- Chipped: Loom Table Upgrade, from the Loom Table[5]
- Chipped: Mason Table Upgrade, from the Mason Table[5]
- Chipped: Tinkering Table Upgrade, from the Tinkering Table[5]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
| any iron ingot | any iron ingot | |
| Empty slot | any redstone dust | Empty slot |
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorage:chipped/mason_table_upgrade
The Mason Table upgrade as an example. The other six Chipped upgrades follow the same pattern with their own workstation.
Each Chipped storage upgrade also has a recipe that converts it into its Sophisticated Backpacks version, and a recipe that converts it back.[5]
Quests
The storage chapter of the quest book only asks for Sophisticated Storage items: the copper, iron, gold, diamond and netherite chests or barrels, plus the Storage Controller, Upgrade Base, Storage Tool and Storage Link. None of those quests asks for items from another mod, so the connections to other mods come from the recipes above.[6]
Sources
- All the Mods 10 0.50 mod list · pack file
- All the Mods 10 0.64 recipe dump: recipes making Sophisticated Storage items · pack recipe dump
- sophisticatedstorage tooltips and descriptions (English lang file) · official mod data
- All the Mods 10 0.50 recipe dump: recipes making Sophisticated Storage items · pack recipe dump
- All the Mods 10 2.25 recipe dump: recipes connecting Sophisticated Storage with other mods · pack recipe dump
- All the Mods 10 2.25 quests: "storage" · pack file
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 17, 2026.
Guides for other versions: 7.1 to 8.3 · 6.0 to 7.0 · 4.6 to 5.5 · 2.26 to 4.5 · 2.20 to 2.25 · 0.65 to 2.19 · 0.52 to 0.64 · 0.51 · 0.42 · 0.32 to 0.41