Anybody actually have success with Tom's Simple Storage?

[winter olive]

Hi all! I was very excited for Tom's Simple Storage, it seems to have all the features that i've been wanting for my preferred storage method. But upon actually trying to use it, it's buggy, has absolutely no wiki and very minimal instructions, most youtube videos are old and the mod has changed a lot, or they dont go into having an item sorting and storage system which is the main thing I wanted to do with this mod, and above all, is not simple. The biggest issues I've had so far is that the polymorphic item filter doesn't seem to function at all, and the storage terminal is buggy-showing items that aren't in the storage network at all. Anyone have success with this mod? I know that theoretically, you could just pile all your chests next to each other and access everything from the storage terminal, but for one this is a bit too easy for me as I'd like to retain some aspect of a vanilla sorting system. Also if anything went wrong, having thousands of items in random chests would be an absolute nightmare. Plus, a dream storage system is an orgainized one. Hopefully I can get some help here as I've scoured the internet with no luck. Thanks everyone!

[silent abyss]

applied energistics 2 exists

sure you need some energy but it is just better

[merry sierra]

Toms simple storage two doesnt have infinite range like some of the blocks do. Its a lie. Because toms simple storage relies on a block that will "stop working" out of chunk render. There was a way to get it to somewhat work through configs but cross dimension will not work due to minecraft being minecraft

[silent abyss]

thats why you add a chunkloading mod

lol

same goes for all wireless stuff

[winter olive]

i hadnt heard of that mod but i looked it up. It does look cool but would be super out of place in my medieval fantasy world. It also looks pretty complicated, probably way more enjoyable for people who are really into all aspects of the mod and not just trying to sort items like i am. Thanks for the suggestion though!

[silent abyss]

it is not complicated, it makes it look complicated but it genuinely isnt, there is a texturepack to make it look similar to create

https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/texture-packs/create-energistics

would this be better for you ?

[winter olive]

Hmm yes i do assume a chunk loader would make that aspect of the mod work as long as it isn’t bugged as well. I hadn’t even got to the point to try out the wireless connection, i was just starting with trying to sort items and never got it to work

[silent abyss]

would make this look a bit more magic-ish than what it is now, also ae2 has a chunkloading block so you can access your stuff from everywhere, not in the mod itself

you need ae2 wireless terminals for it thats pretty much it

[winter olive]

also you can make a chunkloader without downloading a mod if you don’t want to do it that way. not sure how to do it but plenty of tutorials on it, it uses an ender pearl

[silent abyss]

also, you can see if you can use sophisticated storage, this mod isnt all that safe though as chests arent meant to be that big

[silent abyss]

yes, but toms is super finnicky with what needs to be loaded to work

[winter olive]

damn. see i thought surely this mod with 18 mil downloads actually ya know…works? I got pretty bitter over the whole thing thinking maybe i was doing wrong. But so far i haven’t found anyone who doesn’t have significant issues with it.

[winter olive]

that texture pack is definitely better. All the videos i watched seemed to use create stuff to power it. How would you power it without create? I like create but is isn’t out for fabric 1.21.1

[silent abyss]

dont know if you played prominence but toms simple storage has a history of items going missing, duping or your world getting insanely laggy due to the fact it is just badly made, thus it was removed

[silent abyss]

oh thats not problem, me and a friend are playing a low tech pack aswell and we just use ae2 power

would be great if you added powah but i dont know if thats too intrusive for the pack, as that one is a full on power tech mod and i dont know of any retextures

[winter olive]

Ah gotcha. unfortunately ae2 isn’t out for fabric yet either but i’m sure it will get updated soon. In the meantime i’ll look for something that fits the world vibe a bit better but i don’t have much hope for that

[silent abyss]

oh god yeah i just remembered 1.21 is just

there is a unofficial fabric port for that version for sophisticated storage