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 collected a lot of materials. It takes a long time to find what you need when it is cluttered up in chests. This tutorial is geared more towards people that prefer to store items in specific categories.

Storage
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 progress further in the game, you will eventually need to make storage rooms with categorized chests to store items. Chests and shulker boxes are some of the most important blocks in the game. Here are the basic steps for organizing everything into a good sense of order.


 * Make at the very least 10 or 12 double chests.
 * Since trapped chests don't connect to double chests, you can alternate between normal and trapped chests to save a lot of space. This is not going to be necessary as of 1.13.
 * 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”. Note that it is possible to stack chests directly on top of one another.
 * If you are not tight on space, you may want to place signs or item frames with the item you will place in the chest next to, above, or on the chests for easy categorization. To place a sign or item frame on a chest, place the sign or item frame while sneaking.

For people that just started playing, here are some tips:


 * Put your chests in a room, not out in the open.
 * Place chests with valuables like iron ingots, gold ingots, and diamonds, or rare things like saddles, glowstone, and enchanted items, in special, impenetrable places.
 * Don't make conspicuous rooms for rare items in multiplayer.
 * Group items together inside chests (don't put things in at random).
 * If need be, creeper proof your storage facility with obsidian, layers of dirt, etc. Make it as sturdy as possible! Don't forget to light up the room so mobs can't spawn inside.
 * Cats can jump onto chests and prevent the player from using it. Don't let your pets in!
 * If you have a lot of iron, gold, lapis lazuli, redstone, emeralds, diamonds, bone meal and/or coal, craft them into their respective blocks to allow for more compact storage.
 * 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.
 * Chests will not open with a block on top (except transparent blocks like torches and glasses, and non-full blocks like slabs and other chests). You can place upside down stairs or half slabs to change this.
 * Label your chests! It will help you later in the game when you have many more items.

For people that have played a while, here are some extra tips:
 * Place an ender chest in your storage room. On singleplayer worlds you can keep some basic supplies to share between your bases and on multiplayer you can use it to store valuable items.
 * Once you have killed the ender dragon and explored the outer end islands, you will be able to store items in shulker boxes, which are much more compact than chests. You may want to use this storage system design:

Your storage room is, more or less, symbolizing everything you have accomplished in that world. If you are careless, you will have a difficult time expanding and advancing.

Categories
Once you have completed your storage room, you'll want to be consistent with your organizing across all the singleplayer and multiplayer worlds that you play on. One of the main things to do is to come up with a few general categories for every item and block in main categories:

Remember that many items can fit in multiple categories. For example, most types of food would also fit into the mob drops or natural categories. You will need to decide what categories have priority over others.

Another idea for organization is to organize each chest based on where they are in the creative inventory. For example, use the labels in the creative inventory like building blocks, decoration blocks, redstone, tools, combat, and others. Note that this will not work if you have a huge supply of items, but if this is the case, you can divide each category between two different chests.

The exact categories you decide to organize items will vary between players–organize them in a way that is convenient for you.

If you have tons of stacks of many blocks and items, having a different chest for a different block/item ID would help you to store huge amounts of items. Storing huge amounts of items this way, however, requires huge amounts of space.

At the entrance of your house or base, you may want to have a temporary chest that can be used for anything, so you can go farming while you keep your mining or building the setup in an easily accessible place.

It is also helpful to have a chest for items that need to be sorted. This will discourage you from simply putting items in random chests when you need to empty your inventory quickly.

Contents
The setup of how you put items in a specific chest is important too. Putting them randomly is going to make everything a mess, so you should group the same items and blocks together. Create rows of the same thing or section off the chest to specific items. One possible way to do this with multiple tools that have been used before, with differing durability, is to sort them like this: first, sort them by tool, sectioning them off in the chest vertically by pickaxe, shovel, hoe, etc.; then, by what they're made of–any diamond tools go to the top, while stone or wood goes to the bottom. Within the spaces of the tools, the new ones would be higher up than the used ones. For example, a new iron pickaxe would be higher than the used ones, but still not higher than a used diamond pickaxe. How you sort your items in the chests can save your sanity in the future.

Inventory
Cleaning up your inventory and hot bar can also benefit players by making unofficial hot keys. This way, you don't have to look at your hot bar to select what item you want and you can find an acceptable limit for the extra resources you carry. Inventory management is crucial if you want to be an efficient player.

The following are suggestions only. There is no one way to organize an inventory, and if you are overflowing with items, you may need to adjust your item locations.

Suggestion 1
This is a method of inventory organization that is capable of changing depending on the task at hand. It uses a general layout with easy access to many items and utilities, but also leaves room for personalization.

General Layout
The screenshot to the right shows the different "zones" in the inventory. The color codes are explained below:

Slot Switching
There are two ways you can navigate the hotbar: using the mouse wheel to switch between items, and using keyboard keys. The mouse wheel is better for beginners, but it takes longer to scroll to an item and you have a high chance of skipping over the item you want. The keyboard keys can allow to you to switch to any slot on the hotbar from anywhere, but requires you to memorize the keys and you have limited mobility in the split second you switch slots.

Here are the recommended keyboard bindings to and what fingers are assigned to them:

Tips and Tricks

 * Hotkeys
 * is for torches.
 * is for cobblestone.
 * is the easiest key to press, so having your sword here is good practice. However, you will need to change the switch-to-off-hand hotkey.
 * You can hover over an item stack in a chest or in your inventory and press a hotkey, and that item will swap with the item currently on the hotbar slot you selected. If nothing is on the hotbar slot, that item will move there.
 * You can hover over an empty square in an inventory and press a hotkey, and the item in that hotbar slot will jump to where your mouse pointer is.


 * Mouse Wheel
 * The water bucket is in the middle.
 * The sword is actually only one slot from the torches and two from the pickaxe.


 * Both
 * You should have your sword selected when you're not using any other items.
 * Putting things in their places even before you have the items to occupy every space will get you used to where everything is, even early game.
 * Having a crafting table and furnace with you at all times lets you be prepared in case your pick breaks while mining or other things of that nature.

Suggestion 3
This layout is designed for instant access to items you might need quickly, and places items with similar purpose next to each other so they can be accessed with a single scroll. It is also very flexible and has several slots that can be changed without sacrificing the functionality of the layout.

Tips and Tricks

 * Put blocks underneath your chest and put that specific block in the chest (dirt, cobblestone, iron,etc.). For minerals make a block of iron, gold, or diamond, incase you are playing on a multinational server.
 * You can use item frames to label your storage room. (Although not recommended due to larger server/clientload)
 * You can place trapped chests and normal chests next to each other to save space.
 * For better and more compact chest organization (for chest labeling), hold down the Sneak button (Left Shift by default) and, while holding a sign or item frame, place the sign or item frame on the chest. When placing an item frame on a chest, look at the item frame and place the item or block in the frame. This trick is handy for better organization and prevention of getting confused of what goes where.

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教程/整理物品