Sophisticated Storage guide for All the Mods 10 0.51
Sophisticated Storage guide for All the Mods 10
Last verified for All the Mods 10 v0.51 on Oct 17, 2026 · text last changed Oct 17, 2026
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3 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 0.51's own files.
What is Sophisticated Storage?
This pack includes Sophisticated Storage at version 0.10.26 (file sophisticatedstorage-1.21-0.10.26.816.jar). It has been part of the pack since All the Mods 10 0.32 or earlier, so it is not a recent addition.[1]
Unverified The sources here do not show a quest book chapter, group or position for Sophisticated Storage, and they do not show it as part of the ATM Star path. Check the pack's quest book in game for any placement.
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?
6 parts
Sophisticated Storage is more than chests and barrels. Its machinery is a set of multiblock parts for piping, plus a big family of upgrades that give a storage block jobs like smelting, filtering or pumping. Here is how it all works, as far as the pack's files explain it.[3]
Storage multiblocks and piping
The Controller is the heart of a storage multiblock. It lets you deposit items into, and pipe items to and from, a connected multiblock of storages. You don't need a separate pipe setup for every chest.[3]
- Storage Input: placed in a storage multiblock, it lets you pipe items into it. It is described as optimized for low TPS impact.[3]
- Storage Output: placed in a storage multiblock, it lets you pipe items out of it.[3]
- Storage I/O: placed in a storage multiblock, it lets you pipe items both to and from it.[3]
- Storage Link: connects a separate multiblock of storages to a controller. You use the Storage Tool to link it to the controller.[3]
You don't need to craft all three piping blocks from scratch. In this pack you can convert them into each other with shapeless recipes, one block at a time, cycling around Input, I/O and Output.[4]
I/O to Input
Output to I/O
Input to Output
The Storage Tool does several jobs. It links storages, locks them, and hides counts, tiers or locks. You press the control shown in its tooltip to change mode.[3]
Tiers, stack upgrades and limited barrels
The Basic Tier Upgrade turns vanilla inventories into their sophisticated versions. After that you move up through the tier upgrades: Basic to Copper Tier Upgrade, Basic to Iron Tier Upgrade, Basic to Gold Tier Upgrade, Basic to Diamond Tier Upgrade and Basic to Netherite Tier Upgrade.[3][4]
In this pack the gold, diamond and Netherite upgrades are crafted by building on the previous tier's upgrade. Here are the recipes.[4]
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
Crafting Shapeless
Basic to Diamond Tier Upgrade
- any netherite ingot
Recipe id: sophisticatedstorage:basic_to_netherite_tier_upgrade
Stack upgrades multiply the number of stacks that fit in a slot. The tooltips give these multipliers by tier:[3]
Limited barrels come in four versions, Limited Barrel 1 through Limited Barrel 4. Each has a set number of slots and a base stack size multiplier shown in its tooltip. The sources I have don't give the actual values per version, so check the tooltips in game.[3][4]
Breaking storages and keeping the contents
This pack sets common.dropPacked to false. That option controls whether chests and barrels always drop packed with their contents when broken, without needing packing tape. Packing tape's tooltip says it is disabled when the config drops all storages as packed. Since that option is off here, the tape isn't disabled.[3][5]
Item automation upgrades
Upgrades slot into a storage and handle item movement. These are the main ones:[3]
- Hopper Upgrade: pulls items from the block on top and/or pushes them to the block below. The Advanced version is faster and has input and output options.[3]
- Filter Upgrade: filters items piped in and/or out of the storage. The Advanced version has more filtering options.[3]
- Pickup and Magnet Upgrades: the Pickup Upgrade makes the storage pick up items. The Magnet Upgrade pulls items in from range, and the Advanced version has a greater range.[3]
- Void Upgrade: voids the items selected in its filter.[3]
- Feeding Upgrade: feeds you food from the storage's inventory. The Advanced version has more options for when food is fed.[3]
- Compacting Upgrade: compacts items into their compressed variants, but only 2x2 recipes. The Advanced version handles both 2x2 and 3x3 recipes.[3]
Here are the pack's server config values for the advanced upgrades. The Advanced Hopper Upgrade waits server.advancedHopperUpgrade.transferSpeedTicks = 2 ticks between transfers and moves up to server.advancedHopperUpgrade.maxTransferStackSize = 4 as its maximum stack size per transfer. It has 4 input filter slots and 4 output filter slots. The Advanced Magnet Upgrade picks up items within server.advancedMagnetUpgrade.magnetRange = 5 blocks of the storage.[6]
The Advanced Compacting, Feeding, Filter, Magnet, Pickup and Void Upgrades each have 16 filter slots, shown 4 to a row. The basic Compacting Upgrade has 9 filter slots, shown 3 to a row. Each of those slot counts can be set between 1 and 20 in the config. server.advancedVoidUpgrade.voidAnythingEnabled is true, so the Advanced Void Upgrade can void anything instead of only having the overflow option.[6]
Smelting upgrades
The Smelting, Blasting and Smoking Upgrades run a furnace-style process inside an upgrade tab. The auto versions, Auto-smelting Upgrade, Auto-blasting Upgrade and Auto-smoking Upgrade, also automatically pull and push items. Blasting is for ores and metal stuff, and smoking is for food.[3]
In this pack the smelting speed multiplier and fuel efficiency multiplier are both 1 for the auto smelting, auto blasting and auto smoking upgrades, and for the plain Blasting Upgrade. The config says 1.0 equals vanilla furnace speed and fuel use. You can set either between 0.25 and 4.0. For example, see server.autoSmeltingUpgrade.smeltingSpeedMultiplier. Each auto upgrade has 8 input filter slots and 4 fuel filter slots.[6]
The auto-blasting and auto-smoking upgrades are crafted from the auto-smelting upgrade in this pack:[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, experience and crafting tabs
Fluids work through a Tank upgrade. The Pump Upgrade pumps fluids between the Tank upgrade and adjacent blocks. The Advanced Pump Upgrade works with fluid containers in your hand and fluid blocks in the world, and lets you filter which fluids are pumped. The XP Pump Upgrade moves experience between the Tank upgrade and the player.[3]
Some upgrades just add a workstation to a tab: crafting table, stonecutter, and several Chipped workbenches (Alchemy Bench, Botanist's Workbench, Carpenters Workbench, Glassblower, Loom Table, Mason Table and Tinkering Table).[3]
Unverified Tank upgrade capacity, pump speeds, the Compression Upgrade's exact behavior, and any energy or power use are not covered by the sources available for this pack, so they are unverified here.
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.[7]
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.[7]
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.[7]
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.[7]
Going the other way, from a backpack upgrade to a storage upgrade, also has recipes. Here is the Jukebox Upgrade as an example.[7]
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.[7]
- Chipped: Alchemy Bench Upgrade, from the Alchemy Bench[7]
- Chipped: Botanist's Workbench Upgrade, from the Botanist Workbench[7]
- Chipped: Carpenters Workbench Upgrade, from the Carpenters Table[7]
- Chipped: Glassblower Upgrade, from the Glassblower[7]
- Chipped: Loom Table Upgrade, from the Loom Table[7]
- Chipped: Mason Table Upgrade, from the Mason Table[7]
- Chipped: Tinkering Table Upgrade, from the Tinkering Table[7]
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.[7]
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.[8]
Which Sophisticated Storage config options matter?
5 parts
Sophisticated Storage has a client, a common and a server config file, and the values below are exactly what this pack sets. The sources show only the pack's values, not the mod's defaults, so I can't tell you which of these the pack changed.[5][6][9]
Storage size and upgrade slots
Each tier's inventory size and upgrade slot count is set per storage type in the server config. Chests, barrels and shulker boxes use the same numbers for the same tier. Slot counts can go from 1 to 180, and upgrade slots from 0 to 10.[6]
- Wood chest and barrel: 27 slots and 1 upgrade slot (server.WoodChest.inventorySlotCount, server.WoodBarrel.upgradeSlotCount). The plain shulker box matches at 27 and 1 (server.ShulkerBox.inventorySlotCount).[6]
- Copper: 45 slots and 1 upgrade slot (server.CopperChest.inventorySlotCount).[6]
- Iron: 54 slots and 2 upgrade slots (server.IronChest.inventorySlotCount).[6]
- Gold: 81 slots and 3 upgrade slots (server.GoldChest.inventorySlotCount).[6]
- Diamond: 108 slots and 4 upgrade slots (server.DiamondChest.inventorySlotCount).[6]
- Netherite: 132 slots and 5 upgrade slots (server.NetheriteChest.inventorySlotCount).[6]
Limited barrels have a slot limit multiplier per level instead of an inventory size. Plain Limited Barrel I to IV use 32, 16, 10 and 8 (server.LimitedBarrelI.baseSlotLimitMultiplier), and each has 1 upgrade slot. The copper, iron, gold, diamond and netherite limited barrels have their own multipliers and upgrade slot counts.[6]
Upgrade limits
server.maxUpgradesPerStorage caps how many upgrades of one type a storage can hold. Chests, shulker boxes and barrels allow 2 stack upgrades, 1 jukebox upgrade and 1 furnace upgrade. Limited barrels list only 1 jukebox upgrade and 1 furnace upgrade.[6]
Stack upgrades won't stack bundles or shulker boxes of any colour, because they're on the server.stackUpgrade.nonStackableItems list.[6]
Breaking and packing
common.dropPacked is false in this pack. Chests and barrels don't always drop packed with their contents when broken, so you'll want packing tape for that.[5]
Upgrade tuning
- Smelting, blasting and smoking upgrades, including the auto versions, all use speed and fuel efficiency multipliers of 1, which matches a vanilla furnace (server.smeltingUpgrade.smeltingSpeedMultiplier).[6]
- The magnet upgrade picks up items within 3 blocks (server.magnetUpgrade.magnetRange). The advanced magnet reaches 5 blocks.[6]
- The hopper upgrade transfers 1 item per transfer every 8 ticks (server.hopperUpgrade.transferSpeedTicks). The advanced hopper moves up to 4 every 2 ticks.[6]
- The void upgrade and advanced void upgrade both allow voiding anything, not just overflow (server.voidUpgrade.voidAnythingEnabled).[6]
- The XP pump can mend items with Mending (server.xpPumpUpgrade.mendingOn), using at most 5 experience points per operation.[6]
Client and JEI display
client.showHigherTierTintedVariants is true, so JEI and the creative tab show tinted storage items for iron and higher tiers. client.showSingleWoodVariantOnly is false, so you see every wood variant rather than a single one per tier.[9]
Sources
- All the Mods 10 0.51 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 0.51 recipe dump: recipes making Sophisticated Storage items · pack recipe dump
- All the Mods 10 0.51 config: config/sophisticatedstorage-common.toml · pack file
- All the Mods 10 0.51 config: config/sophisticatedstorage-server.toml · pack file
- 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
- All the Mods 10 0.51 config: config/sophisticatedstorage-client.toml · 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.
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