Storage Drawers

Oak, Spruce, Birch, Jungle, Acacia and Dark Oak Storage Drawers

Storage Drawers is a mod that adds its titular item, drawers for storing items and supporting items for upgrading, interacting and modifying drawers. Similar to Bibliocraft and JABBA, Storage Drawers is focused on compact, aesthetic Item Storage. It accomplishes this with the basic drawer block in combination with upgrades for increased capacity and functionality, and the Drawer Controller which allows the player and logistics to interact with an entire array of drawers at once. For those familiar with the mod the most important differences with its implementation in GT:NH are a reduced Controller range/drawer connection capacity, no Compacting Drawers, wood types are Chisel convertible and new size upgrades.

The associated Quest Book tasks are:

• St Better than Barrels, Compact Drawers, Framing Drawers
• S Upgrading Drawers, Your Mom Says to Upgrade Your Drawers, Key to Your Heart
• HV Drawer Controller, Hidden Drawers

Drawers

Action	Result
Right-Click	Adds item in hand to the drawer face being looked at. If the item is an upgrade, it will be applied instead.
Hold Right-Click	Adds all matching items in inventory, up to the drawer's capacity. Can also double-right-click.
Left-Click	Remove one item from a drawer.
Shift-Left-Click	Remove a stack of items from a drawer.
Shift-Right-Click	Access the drawers GUI for upgrades. Must be done with an empty hand.

Unlike standard chests, there are no GUI slots in drawers. Instead, each drawer can hold a singular item much like a JABBA Barrel. When filled the item's icon will be rendered on the face of the drawer. Only items with identical meta/NBT data can be stacked together. Non-stacking items like armor, weapons or bee fames can be stored in drawers but each item will take up a full stack's worth of capacity. Looking at a drawer will provide a Waila tooltip that gives its capacity and current contents. By default Storage Drawer's one item/stack behavior is the inverse of JABBA's. This can be changed in its config, under /your_instance/config/StorageDrawers.cfg/, change B:invertShift=false to true.

Drawers	Depth	Capacity per drawer
1x1	Full	64 stacks
1x1	Half	32 stacks
1x2	Full	32 stacks per drawer
1x2	Half	16 stacks per drawer
2x2	Full	16 stacks per drawer
2x2	Half	8 stacks per drawer

Drawers are available in one, two and four drawer configurations, full block and half-block depth. The number and depth of a drawer affects how many stacks of items it can hold by default. Drawers are available in most wood types including vanilla, Forestry, Thaumcraft, Witchery, Botania, Natura or Biomes o' Plenty and have five upgrade slots regardless of appearance. They can be converted between wood types with a Chisel. The Framed Drawers are the only variety which cannot be chiselled and require the Framing Table to detail. Framed drawers can have up to three separate block textures for their faces, sides and trim.

Framing Table

Framing Table GUI

The Framing Table is a specialized crafting interface with only one purpose - designing custom drawers and trim. Similar to Carpenter's Blocks, Storage Drawers offers a Framed version of every basic drawer which can be customized in the Framing Table with up to three solid blocks for its face, trim and sides to match any aesthetic. Framed blocks are placed in the left-most slot. A custom drawer must have at least one block assigned to the slot with the line that points to the back of the drawer with a disconnected line, which sets its base appearance. A second / third block can be chosen for the optional front face and trim to be a different pattern. Trim blocks can only have one pattern block assigned. Taking a drawer from the right-most output slot consumes one of every block used to make its design. Blocks can be left in the GUI and a three dimensional preview of the drawer will be shown sitting on the Framing Table for examination before committing to a design. Previously textured Framed blocks can be reused but the original blocks used to pattern them will be lost and not returned to the player.

Drawer Controller

Drawer Controller & Drawer Slave

The Drawer Controller is an HV gated add-on block that turns a bank of connected drawers into a single accessible unit for Logistics. Right-click-hold or right-double-click on the Controller's face will auto-deposit all items in the player's inventory which match the contents of any drawer the Controller is connected to and has space available. Empty drawers are never filled from a player's deposits. In GT:NH Drawer Controllers are far more limited in their range and drawer capacity compared to the standard version of Storage Drawers. Only fifty drawer blocks (1x1, 1x2, and 2x2 all count as one each for this purpose) can be accessed, and they must be connected either by orthogonally touching the Controller, or another drawer / trim that touches the Controller, within a radius of four. The Drawer Controller's maximum range is thus a 9x9x9 cube, with itself in the center. These limits are to prevent performance issues on servers when combined with Applied Energistics 2. Single Players and private servers can adjust the limitations in /your_instance/config/StorageDrawers.cfg, under the controller category, I:maxDrawers=50 and I:range=4 if desired.

Drawer Slave

The Drawer Slave is a block that provides more faces for the Drawer Controller, but only with automated logistics. Items can be inserted or removed from a Slave in the same way they can be with a Controller, but Slaves cannot be interacted with directly by the player. Slaves can only belong to one Controller, share its range limitations and should not be placed within reach of multiple Controllers. Slaves are preferable to having multiple Controllers on the same drawer network/cube performance-wise.

Trim

Different trim colours with Chisel.

Trim are blocks which connect drawers but are not themselves storage units. They are used primarily for joining drawers to Controllers, Slaves and other banks of drawers. Trim comes in every basic wood type and custom versions can be created with the Framing Table. Trim does not count against a Controller's block limit.

Keys

Drawer Key, Personal Key, Concealment Key

There are three different keys in Storage Drawers - Personal Key, Concealment Key, and Drawer Key. Right-clicking on a drawer toggles the key's effect on/off for that drawer, or right-clicking on a Controller applies/removes the effect from the whole network/cube. Personal Key locks a drawer to a specific player, preventing others from interacting with it, applying a gold bordered keyhole at the top center. The Concealment Key shows/hides all item renders on drawers. This can be useful when using Storage Drawers in areas the player never accesses directly for increased performance. Drawer Key is the most used of the three, and locks/unlocks a drawer to a specific item. By default if the last item is removed from a drawer it becomes blank, when locked it is always limited to accepting only that specific item. Locked drawers are marked with a black keyhole at the top center.

Packing Tape

Packing Taped drawer

Packing Tape is a LV-gated consumable with nine uses that can seal drawers for transportation. Sealed drawers have a cross shaped overlay of off-white bands over their face and cannot be interacted with. When broken with an axe or other compatible tool they retain their contents. Taped drawers do not stack and will have a "Contents sealed within" yellow tooltip. When placed down the drawer returns to normal and the Packing Tape is lost. This can be used to move a large array of drawers to a new location without dealing with multiple dollies and their debuffs. Packing Tape can be repaired with a Thaumic Restorer.

Drawer Upgrades

Drawer Upgrades add more capacity and functionality to drawers. Every drawer can accept up to five upgrades including multiples. Shift-Right-click on a drawer with an empty hand to access its GUI, or right-click with an upgrade in-hand to apply it. Most upgrades add more capacity to drawers, multiplying their base storage, and all require one or more Upgrade Template crafting components in their recipes. Multiple storage upgrades are additive, not multiplicative with each other. Ruby and Tanzanite (VII and VIII) upgrades are unique to GT:NH and were added with Version 2.5.0.

	Upgrade	Effect
	Upgrade Template	Crafting component, no direct use.
	Storage Upgrade (II)	Iron; x2 multiplier to drawer's base storage value.
	Storage Upgrade (III)	Gold; x4 multiplier to drawer's base storage value
	Storage Upgrade (IV)	Obsidian; x8 multiplier to drawer's base storage value
	Storage Upgrade (V)	Diamond; x16 multiplier to drawer's base storage value
	Storage Upgrade (VI)	Emerald; x32 multiplier to drawer's base storage value
	Storage Upgrade (VII)	Ruby; x64 multiplier to drawer's base storage value
	Storage Upgrade (VIII)	Tanzanite; x128 multiplier to drawer's base storage value
	Status Upgrade (I)	Adds a small bar to each drawer face, which will be red if the drawer is full.
	Status Upgrade (II)	Adds a small bar to each drawer face, which shows a red progress bar based on the total/used capacity.
	Void Upgrade	Trashes any items added to the drawer in excess of its capacity.
	Creative Storage Upgrade	Uncraftable, for Creative Testing. Allows a drawer to accept near infinite amounts of an item.
	Creative Vending Upgrade	Uncraftable, for Creative Testing. Allows a drawer to dispense unlimited amounts of its item(s).
	Redstone Upgrade	Outputs a redstone signal (0-15) proportional to the fullness of the drawer.
	Redstone Max Upgrade	Outputs a redstone signal (0-15) based on the fullest drawer (same as Redstone Upgrade if applied to a 1x1.)
	Redstone Min Upgrade	Outputs a redstone signal (0-15) based on the emptiest drawer (same as Redstone Upgrade if applied to a 1x1.)
	Storage Downgrade	Sets the drawer's base storage capacity to one stack.

Troubleshooting

Problem	Solution
Cannnot interact with drawers	Check that Survival mode is enabled (/gamemode 0). Drawers are disabled in Adventure Mode.
Cannot break drawers	In Creative, drawers can only be broken from their non-front faces as a protection against accidentally destroying their contents and being able to interact with them.
Controller doesn't connect	A Drawer Controller must be directly touching a drawer from any side (not diagonal). Any drawers/trims it connects to further extends its reach. Use Trim to go around corners or gaps. Additionally all drawers must be within a radius of four blocks and the hard limit of fifty blocks total.
Controller doesn't accept items	There must be at least one unlocked or an assigned drawer for the item that is not full to capacity.
Drawer capacity not working	The item limits of the Storage Upgrades are controlled by configs. If these configs are altered, desync between client/server, or are not reset when updating drawers may refuse to accept more items even though they seem to have empty storage capacity.

External Links

• Storage Drawers - CurseForge