Storage

Chests and tanks hold items and fluids between the steps of your factory. You start with the Wooden Chest; bigger chests, the Storage Tank for fluids and the Logistic Chests for Goblins come with research.

Chests

	Wooden Chest	Iron Chest	Steel Chest
Epoch	0	1	1
Unlocked by	Start	Logistics	Steel Processing
Size	1 × 1	1 × 1	1 × 1
Slots	16	32	48
Recipe	4 Wood	8 Iron Plate	8 Steel Plate

• Press Use to open a chest.
• Grabbers put items into any free space and take out whatever the next block accepts.
• When you pick up a chest, its contents go into your inventory with it. Whatever does not fit drops to the ground.

A chest at the end of a line is a good buffer: it catches the overflow so the machines in front of it keep working, and you can see at a glance how much you produce.

Storage Tank

The Storage Tank stores fluids such as water, oil and lubricant.

	Storage Tank
Epoch	2
Unlocked by	Fluid Handling
Size	3 × 3
Capacity	25,000 units
Connections	one pipe connection in the middle of each side
Recipe	20 Iron Plate + 5 Steel Plate

How pipes, pumps and fluids work is explained on Fluids.

Logistic Chests

Logistic Chests connect your factory to the flying Goblins of a Goblin Hut. All three have 32 slots and are unlocked by the Goblin Logistics research (Epoch 2).

Chest	What Goblins do with it
Logistic Chest (Provider)	take everything out of it and bring it where it is needed
Logistic Chest (Requester)	bring every requested item up to a full stack
Logistic Chest (Storage)	store items there and take them out again

Each one is made from 1 Steel Chest + 3 Electronic Circuit.

To request an item, open a Requester and search for the item, use the item in your hand, or simply put one of it into the chest. Goblins then keep it topped up to a full stack.

Goblins, their huts and their range are explained on Goblins.

Death Chest

When you die, a Death Chest appears where you fell, holding your whole inventory (54 slots). Anyone can empty it with Use, and it disappears once it is empty. You cannot craft, mine or pick up a Death Chest, and creatures do not attack it. See Death and Respawn.

See also

• Grabbers
• Fluids
• Goblins
• Death and Respawn