Tutorials/Organization

Organization is a very important habit to get into in Minecraft. Organization helps with finding things quickly and easily, especially later in the game when you have loads of stuff.

The Basics
Early on in the game, you find that one double chest will be able to fit most of your items, carrying most of your wood, weapons, and tools. However, to fully progress in the game, you will eventually need to make large storage rooms with categorized chests to store items. Chests are one of the most important blocks in the game. They can store any excess stuff that you throw into them. Here are the basic steps for organizing everything you don't know what to do with:

  Gather a bunch of wood and make a few double chests.  Have so much stuff it's driving you crazy!  Build a large room for the chests. If you are tight on space, you can embed some chests into the floor or make chest "shelves".  If you are not tight on space, you may want to place signs next to or above the chests for easy categorization. 

Now, for those people that just started playing or have no common sense, here are some common sense tips:

  Put your chests in a ROOM, not in the open.  Place chests with valuables like iron, gold, and diamond, or rare things like saddles, glowstone, and enchanted items, in special, impenetrable places.  Group items together inside chests (don't put things in at random).  If need be, creeper proof your storage facility. Make it as sturdy as possible!  Cats can now jump onto chests and prevent the player from using it. Don't bring your pets in!  If you have a lot of iron and you want to save space, craft 9 ingots into an iron block for more compact storage (same for the other ores).  Different kinds of logs, wooden planks, saplings, wool, leaves, slabs, stairs, sandstone, mushrooms, tools, food, seeds, music discs, and stone bricks will not stack. Keep this in mind when organizing. 

Your storage room is, more or less, symbolizing everything you have accomplished in that world. If you are careless, you'll be back to square one.