Making Ingot Piles/Log Piles/Tool Racks Voluntary

[Palisight 34]

Some people like the ideas of weight mods. While weight in TFC will probably always be abstracted in "vanilla TFC" the way it is now, some people want carrying capacity in thier games

 

Now if someone were to make a weight and carrying capacity add-on (or compatibility patch with a existing weight mod) (this is something I think will happen some unknown time in the future), they will run into the problem that what makes weight capacity mods playable is the ability to store items in donkey chests/minecart chests/boat chests etc and no mobile transfer option really works for ingots/logs/tools

 

The reasoning for the inability to place these items in chests seems to be "we have made these cool features, so we will make it so players have to use them"

 

The thing is though you have made cool features that most players will use anyway (obviously all players won't use them)

 

They have a purpose even if you can store the items in chests. You can visually distinguish the contents, which you can't do in chests

 

Ingot piles/log piles/tool racks would still be a convienent and visually distinct way of stacking/storing ingots, logs, and tools that I imagine most players would still use rather than search through disorganized chests

 

Ingot piles and log piles also have no material cost, where storing them in chests have a material cost

 

This suggestion would also make donkey chests/minecart chests/boat chests more convienent mobile transfer solutions even for Vanilla TFC players, its just that those solutions would be convienent rather than vital

[Miner239 47]

Wagons? Six physical slots, place stuff there. Lift chests up to one of the slot. Place ingots, logs... stuff. I suppose it's possible?

[dunkleosteus 2,425]

Part of the purpose of not allowing certain items to go into chests is because it makes those items hard to deal with for storage and management. This is intentional.

 

Storing logs in chests goes directly against how we want the game to operate.

 

Ingot piles are just because they're cool, and because ingots are a lot harder to get, it's rare that players will have more than a few blocks worth of piles for each metal type.

[lipki 40]

I love these wood piles and ingots and I like that one is forced to use them.
And I hope it will develop, I think for example, buckets that could be stacked on the floor.

[Codaisthisguy 16]

I think I'm going to go with the OP here and say that the inventory issue should at least be a bit more fleshed out. Personally, I find things like ingots being placed in barrels makes perfect sense, or in minecart chests... especially minecart chests... Logs, not so much, and that's where I'd like to point a finger at my idea from the "barrels are OP." thread about adding a log sling to the game.There's solutions here, people just need to be invested in making them happen.