Do you sort by minerals and smelted bars in one chest and vegetables picked in another and wood and stone in another? I ALWAYS START GOOD. Then all of a sudden I have fish with hops and bat wings with foods and gifts to people mixed with precious stones and cake and 😂. I just want to be organized and find what I need when I need it. 😅
by Makieveli1
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I typically have 5 large chests plus 4 others for season specific things:
– Forage
– Mining
– Combat/Monster loot
– Fishing
– Farming
There are some types of items that can vary within these as I see fit (e.g.: warp totems in Mining or Combat)
I get it! I always arrange 5 chests I have listed around a workbench for easy crafting. The other 4 can be somewhere else, like a shed
This is a great question and I struggle with it too. It’s sort of a paradox since the more chests you make the more work it is to stop at each one and stack. I’m interested to hear peoples strategies. I have a gem one, monster loot one, and a crafting materials one. Then in my keg shed I have a chest of fermentables and in my barn I have a chest of milk for the cheese machines and in my coop is a chest of eggs. Then I have one more “project” chest out by the shipping bin which I use to store things for quests I am actively working on. Everything else goes in some general chests I keep in the house I rarely visit, or I sell it to keep clutter down.
Chests:
Vegetables.
Fruits.
Ocean.
Forage.
Resources.
Minerals.
Monsters.
Chests:
Mines: Bombs, ammo, totem, tent, food, drink etc.
Ocean: Bait, bobbers, bait maker.
Farming: Totems (Mountain, farm, desert, etc) tools, tickets, tents, universal gifts.
When starting out, one chest for going into the mines, one for crafting materials, one for gems and metals, one for foraged items, one for crops, seeds and gardening supplies, one for artifacts and extra farm equipment, one for fish, one for fishing supplies, one to dump everything into if I need to clear out my inventory, and chests around the valley as needed.
The chests are color coded: metals are white, materials are brown, fishing supplies are light teal, fish are dark blue, farming is green, foraging is light green, monster stuff is red.
I sort by season or craft and hobby. So fish go in fish box. Spring goes in spring box. Mining box is in the caves initially. Along with gems/geodes. I do have a “dump box” by the bed, cave, next to the sewer (dump box for forage or collected stuff from town/forest/beach while mid-day). Sort the “dump” box on a regular basis.
Chests by fishing spots or places I store “excess inventory” before descending into the mines, skull cavern and
I like storage.
Organize? Nah, I just throw it all there. I’ll regret my decision later, but refuse to change.
Organization is the best! TBF it’s definitely asked all the time in this sub but I always love seeing everyones answers. If you search “Chest Organization” you’ll find lots of posts on it too 😊
I always have at least 2 sets of chests. One set of quick access chests right outside the farmhouse door for day to day stuff (see [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/FarmsofStardewValley/comments/1ev2shl/my_quick_access_chests_from_left_to_right/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)). Then all of my collection chests in the workshop (see [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewHomeDesign/comments/1f29rln/workshop_and_storage_shed_16_decor_and_items/)). I like to collect at least 2 of every item. also keep 2 chests right next to the workbench with the resources so I can easily craft in the workshop.
i have one for basic crafting materials (wood, stone, ores, smelted bars, etc.), one for seeds and fertilizer, and one for items from the mines (bat wings, slime, void essence, etc) all around a crafting table, then inside my house i have my gem chest and my random clothes. they are all filling up quick though 😅 and then i have chests near my machines so i can save time (cheese by barrels waiting to age, wine by kegs, etc.) it’s not perfect but it works!
Tools + Quest Items, Materials. I don’t really need more
Crafting
Mining
Fishing
Spring Farming and Foraging
Summer Farming and Foraging
Fall Farming and Foraging
Winter Foraging (is also a bit of an overflow since it doesn’t have a lot)
Cooked Food- eventually ends up in the fridge inside
Dresser- clothing
I get the big chest recipe soonish so I can keep the number of chests manageable.
Everyone’s giving great advice. For what it’s worth, here is how I have mine organized right now with a somewhat arbitrary color coding system:
Purple = forage stuff: (mushrooms, seasonal forage, wild seeds, sap / oak resin / maple syrup / pine tar, algae, moss, etc
Light green = seeds / saplings
Dark green = harvested, unprocessed fruits and vegetables or other plant products
Normal chest = unprocessed animal products
Orange = processed products (cheese, wine, jam, etc)
Red = combat related items: rings, monster loot
Black = processed and unprocessed ores and minerals and gems
Yellow = food that I want for myself for buffs or healing
Blue = fish and lures and bait
It’s not a stupid question. It’s interesting to see how others do it.
I typically start with 6 chests. 2 on the right side of the house’s porch, 4 on the left side.
In the chests on the right I have materials like wood, stone, ores, ingots, battery packs, tree products etc, and in the other spare tools etc.
The four chests on the left are my seasonal chests. One for spring, summer, fall and winter/fish. In my summer chest I also keep coconuts and cactus fruit from the desert. In my fall chest I also keep mushrooms from my mushroom cave. Winter and fish go in the same chest, I typically only keep fish that are part of a cooking recipe, the rest will be sold.
I also keep a chest in my coop and barn, for eggs and milk, milk pail, shears and spare hay.
I have 2 chests in my house. One is for spare furniture that I don’t want to use, but also don’t want to lose. And my ‘gold chest’, which is basically my chest for grange display winning items (fuck you Pierre), and some other valuables, like trinkets and legendary fish (until I get a fish tank for them). I keep food and some cooking ingredients in the fridges.
And then one stone chest in front of grandpa’s shrine, with some bone fragments and my (golden) scythe.
Shed with colour coded chests arranged by area/grid location.
Example: series of columns per season for crops (vege, fruit, forage, flowers, seeds) creating aisles (first each column is fruit, 2nd vege, etc), a blue area for fish arranged alphabetically by range, and so forth.
The further my progression, the bigger an area i need
I have a setup that is useful (to me lol)
In front of my house I have 2 chests between them is the work bench. One of those chests is full of materials from the caves cooper iron coal gem stones etc. the other chest has fiber wood stone. Just about anything I use for crafting goes into those chests.
Next to the mail box I have a chest for mailbox items that come in. If I don’t use them they get sold in the bin later on.
Next to that bin I have a chest for seeds and growing items.
I have a chest for fruits and vegetables that can be jarred or turned to wine. That either goes into a shed with appropriate needed items or a room in the house.
Same concept for eggs milk wool and truffles. In another shed or room in house.
The refrigerator has limited space so I have a chest next to the fridge for cooking items.
Next to the bed is my gear chest. But I limit it to just main gear.
In main room I have a chest for geodes mystery boxes bombs and fishing items.
In the wine cellar I have chest for fruit or cheese for aging. I have another chest down there to put aged product in that I save the Fall Festival.
My wife & I have ours set up pretty well now that we are in year 6. We make each colored based on what’s in them:
Mining
Forage
Non-mining resources (wood, sap, bait, fiber, moss, etc)
Flowers
Water items – non fish
Fish (alphabetically) currently I have 3 fish XL chests
Mushrooms & seeds
Fruit
Wine/juice
Jelly/jam
1 xl chest for each seasons crops, with Fall/winter together
1 for extra farming equipment/machines
1 for artifacts
1 for things I need to bring to town, ginger, dessert (mystery boxes, tackle, books & such to sell)
1 for roe in my fish pond area
We use auto grabbers to store the animal stuff in barns coops.
Then we use 4 Junimo boxes to hold our 2 upgraded swords, cheese, bombs & staircases for mining dives)
I usually have a “garden” chest with seeds, fertilizer, and sometimes tools; a Mines chest, with ore, coal, etc; a quests/fair chest because I know what villagers will ask for; and some catchalls.
Brown chest: Resources (wood, stone, hardwood, moss, algae, monster loot, fishing jelly, etc)
Green chest: Crops (seeds, fertilizer, fruit and veg awaiting processing)
Black chest: Mining (ores, coal, bars, gemstones)
If it doesn’t fit in one of those, I don’t keep it lol
I always had issues with this until I built the crafting table thing. Now I just keep everything in large chests around it except for fridge stuff and things that are going into hoppers.
Tbh, it has changed a lot year to year how I keep things. My first two years were a trainwreck 😂
It’s like you just asked what color binders do I use for math, English, science, and history. No there’s not a right answer but *absolutely* there are wrong answers
Mine is just organised chaos.
Similar main setup as most people here but wanted to say – click that red/white button on the right side of your chests. It *auto deposits all items from your inventory into existing stacks in the chest*. Makes end of day so much faster. I go click that in my mining, gem, and production chest and 90% of my inventory is handled without doing anything
So I have chests surrounding the workbench for:
Purple – Craftable minerals like copper, iron, gold, iridium, and gems and I include batterys and all bars
Brown chest – Wood, stone, hardwood, wood seeds, sapling
Red chest – All Monster Loots in one chest
Blue chest – Beach forages like clams, or fishing like seaweeds
Then I have a row of chests for:
pink – decoration, functional furnitures, floors, paintings, machines
green chests – farm seeds, forages, fruits, veggies
orange chests – coop & barn produces
blue chests – water catches, fish pond produce, tackles & baits
gray chests – artifacts & others
1 chests for weapons & tools
All of above are in a shed.
Below are in the house.
1 big chest for lucky day skull cavern run
1 ref for ingredients
1 ref for cooked food
So far I’ve got
Fishing
Fruit
Vegetables
Mushrooms
Gems and minerals
Gardening (seeds, fertilizer, sprinklers, rarecrows)
Monster loot
Crafting materials next to the workbench (which includes wood, stone, fiber, sap, and lots of stuff from other chests for convenience)
Stuff to take to town (gifts, quests, events, geodes)
Special weird stuff I don’t know what to do with yet
It evolves as I do. I definitely have one or two “building supplies” chests next to a work bench and near the smelters.
A “things from the water” chest, and a veggie and preserve fruit bin, and a wine cask bin.
A seeds and farm equipment bin.
A special gifts and fair winning items bin.
Weapons I never use but am weirdly attached to (usually with dungeon diving supplies like stairs, bombs, and candy) bin.
A household items bin.
A food item that doesn’t fit in my fridge bin.
A wine and cheese bin for the basement.
And eventually an I don’t know where this “human Skelton, golden pumpkin, and broken capsule go” bin. That’s like the everything drawer in your kitchen that has alligator clips, sharpies, candles, a broken Ariel cake topper, a single ketchup packet and novelty glasses for new years 2002.
So, I have the following:
Long-term storage: one of each weapon (sorted by weapon type per chest), one of each decor item (I don’t sort these, sadly), a variety of trinkets, all artifacts I keep, and so forth. These are currently behind my mailbox but have also been in sheds or in the house in other games.
Dresser next to my bed for all shirts, pants, accessories, hats, etc.
In my house, I have the fridge, two mini-fridges, and two chests for cooking. One chest contains completed meals and my Qi Seasoning so it doesn’t get automatically uses. The other chest contains fish needed for specific recipes so I can fetch them instead of turning rare fish into sashimi. The fridges contain no-star crops and forageables I need for cooking so they’re available in the cooking menu instantly.
Next to my house, near the spouse’s backyard, I place a cluster of 3×3. The middle is the workbench which can pull from all adjacent chests. I leave a slot in the middle so I can walk up to use the work bench.
The first chest is for gems and iron bars.
The second chest is for basic materials: fiber, wood, stone, sap, moss, etc. And multiple stacks of each.
The next contains any fish and fishing gear I can use for crafting or want handy. I fish a lot.
Another chest contains forageables, batteries, and other things I might need for crafting.
A last chest near but not adjacent to the workbench holds useful things I don’t want to craft with, like fairy dust, caviar, tents, cooking kits, etc.
I also keep four chests near my cropland, one for each season. These also contain tree seeds, fertilizers, spare scarecrows, sprinklers, etc.
I keep a chest near my tunnel winery for spare ancient fruit, a chest in my greenhouse to hold my starfruit seeds, a chest in each barn/coop for the eggs and milk that haven’t been put in the mayo/cheese machines yet, and a golden chest by my bed that holds my max-score Grange Display and other important valuables I cherish.
Then again, I’m on year 7, it’s my third farm, and I’m trying to max out the money counter. YMMV
I color code mine.
Gray is stuff from mining minus gems, Green is food, brown is seeds and tools, blue is fishing related. I then have a couple chests at the foot of my bed for furniture,weapons,artifacts and gems.
Ive got tons of chest, I organize by color and everything has a type obviously such as fish, weapons, farming/seeds, fruit ect… pretty simple
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Many ways are valid. Here’s mine:
**ON THE FARM**
* 1 “Generic building and farming stuff” for wood, stones, tree seeds, fertilizer, etc.
* 1 “Furnace stuff” so copper, gold, quartz, coal, smelted bars, etc.
* 1 “Gems stuff” for diamond, ruby, etc.
* 2 “Fish” for alphabetically sorted fish (perhaps Albacore to Lingcod; Lionfish to Woodskip)
* 1 “Fish stuff” for seaweed, algae, jelly, roe, bait, etc.
* 4 “Seasonal Farming” for crops and seeds and forageables, 1 for each season (color coded: Green for Spring, Yellow for Summer, Orange for Fall, Blue for Winter)
* 1 “Flowers” for… flowers lol (Sometimes two chests because they only stack per color)
* 1 “Mushrooms” for the mushroom cave. This holds mushrooms and dried mushrooms, since I keep a Dehydrator in the mushroom cave.
* 2 “Coop” for each coop, 1 for holding eggs and rabbits feet, 1 for holding mayo since I keep Mayo Machines in the coop.
* 2 “Barn” for each barn,1 for holding milk and wool, 1 for holding cheese. Ostrich eggs have to be transferred over to the coop chest on occasion.
**BUSTOP** (bottom left corner of the screen, right near the entrance to my farm property)
* 1 “Generic Mine stuff” for bombs (don’t keep these on the farm property!!!) and my weapons, enemy drops like Solar Essence, energy tonics, Farm warp totems, and healing food. Plus, I put my farming gear here while I’m away (hoe, axe, fishing rod, etc.)
**MINE ENTRANCE** (both The Mines and Skull Caverns)
* 1 “Backup Mine Stuff” for stairwells, stones for building stairwells, backup warp totems, backup healing food, and a place to dump what I’ve collected if my backpack gets too full and I go back down.
…and I think I’m forgetting some more chests but these are the main ones.
• Season chests by color, two shades, one for the seasonal forage and the other for crops; green, yellow, orange, blue (one chest for obvious reasons).
• Brown chest as a catch all
• Black chest for mine stuff -> later divided into three chests; black for the bulk, grey for the artifacts and geode crystals, and red for mob drops.
• blue for fish—often divided into two or three for rated, forage, etc
• chest for farm production items; honey, caviar, jams, etc etc.
• chests inside the barns and coops for their specific groupings.
• chest inside the greenhouse for fruit and ancient fruit with an exterior chest as the “working” stuff that will be turned into wine/jam.
Then later in the game once sheds are built and upgraded, there is a workbench attached to 3 giant chests that cover everything that needs to be crafted; fish, resources, mining stuff.
I’m sure I missed many, but yea. Theres a method after 10 years of playing this game.
At the start of the game I have chests for:
* Mining + Monster loot (basically dump anything from the mines)
* Crops
* Foraging
* Fish
* Tools/Seeds/Misc
Eventually I get a shed and make a bunch more chests for specific things. Like vegetables, fruit, flowers, artifacts, minerals etc. Basically just the categories the game lists, plus a few others like decor items or usable uncategorised things like warp totems/books/tents. The chests are grouped together in ways that make sense, like putting all the different crop chests next to each other.
I also put a chest at the entrance of skull cavern with everything I could need, and chests in all the farm buildings for the produce
It’s usually vibes until I get get a crafting shed built. Then I keep all crafting material around a workbench
Ohhh, I reaaaallllllly shouldn’t tell you about mine… I have a digital hoarding problem. 😳
I have a storage shed. One chest for each type of item and each season. I color the chests by season, and just remember which ones are forage, crops, fish etc
https://preview.redd.it/b3wsn7xnhuyg1.png?width=2559&format=png&auto=webp&s=3581127ecb71fdaed65fff0af60db1845d592cd1
Here is my year one on a new save if it helps. And before anyone says anything I know I need to move the silos, I am just lazy.
Black = Tools, Bombs, & Current weapons
Grey = Tool overflow & things I need to take to Gunther
Dark Pink = Cooked & Misc Food
Maroon = Construction materials & Non-seasoned forageables
Teal = Valuables (gems, geodes, mystery boxes, ingots, batteries, artisan goods, ext)
Purple = Farm supplies (sprinklers, lightning rods, paths, fertilizers, statues, ext.)
White = Mob drops
Dark Blue = Fish, Fishing supplies, And Fishing Drops
Lime = Spring (1 seeds, 1 crops & 1 forageables)
Yellow = Summer (same as spring)
Orange = Fall (same as spring)
Light Blue = Winter (seeds, powder melons, forageables all in one)
Light Pink = Flowers
All others are unassigned overflow
And on the left you can see a little of my industrial area where I use the automate mod, hence the chest near each group.