Mannequin_fellow
Greenhorn
Title is self explanatory, where do you keep them? On a random place in the farm? In your house? A shed? Do you even sort your chests, if so how?
Where do you keep your chests?
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SurprisedPikachuBob3
Farmer
Depends how far through the save I am 
Though by the late game I normally organize it in a big shed with big chests for maximum storage
Though by the late game I normally organize it in a big shed with big chests for maximum storage
Mango Choo-choo
Farmer
placing chests is an esthetic question
MogBeoulve
Local Legend
My storage is organized by use/purpose, mostly.
I start with a few chests just outside the house and one by the mines until I get a little further into the game. I move to chests surrounding a workbench just inside my front door as soon as I can manage to fit them all inside (when I am really on a roll, I delete furniture to jam them indoors). Once I get too many things accumulated that are not used for crafting, a couple more chests pile up nearby to hold the excess. I have no consistent color scheme, aside from refusing to use blue for a chest containing fish.
Mines chest: weapons, bombs, coffee
Chest set apart from workbench: temporary holding for anything to be donated for bundles or the museum, geodes, food, fish I keep for later fish ponds, bait, tackle, stockpiled gifts, crop seeds
First chest on the left or top: stone, ore, coal, minerals, bars, batteries
First chest on the right or bottom: wood, hardwood, sap, tree seeds, forage, wild seasonal seeds, moss, mixed seeds, tapper products
Third chest: periwinkles, fishing jellies, slime and other monster loot, dwarf computer
I also set aside a chest for extra artifacts and usually one for fish (I hate fishing, so I keep at least one of every fish just in case I need one for a quest).
On Ginger Island, there is also a chest devoted to fulfilling Qi's Prismatic Grange quest: salmonberries, torches, weeds, and blackberries. It seems every save I wind up using something different for orange and purple.
When I get into really late game, the chests go a little crazy: trinkets, books, warp totems, flowers, plus anything waiting to be processed as I am pretty lazy about loading machines.
I keep extra animal products and a LOT of extra hay, but these stay in each coop or barn's own chest or autograbber.
I start with a few chests just outside the house and one by the mines until I get a little further into the game. I move to chests surrounding a workbench just inside my front door as soon as I can manage to fit them all inside (when I am really on a roll, I delete furniture to jam them indoors). Once I get too many things accumulated that are not used for crafting, a couple more chests pile up nearby to hold the excess. I have no consistent color scheme, aside from refusing to use blue for a chest containing fish.
Mines chest: weapons, bombs, coffee
Chest set apart from workbench: temporary holding for anything to be donated for bundles or the museum, geodes, food, fish I keep for later fish ponds, bait, tackle, stockpiled gifts, crop seeds
First chest on the left or top: stone, ore, coal, minerals, bars, batteries
First chest on the right or bottom: wood, hardwood, sap, tree seeds, forage, wild seasonal seeds, moss, mixed seeds, tapper products
Third chest: periwinkles, fishing jellies, slime and other monster loot, dwarf computer
I also set aside a chest for extra artifacts and usually one for fish (I hate fishing, so I keep at least one of every fish just in case I need one for a quest).
On Ginger Island, there is also a chest devoted to fulfilling Qi's Prismatic Grange quest: salmonberries, torches, weeds, and blackberries. It seems every save I wind up using something different for orange and purple.
When I get into really late game, the chests go a little crazy: trinkets, books, warp totems, flowers, plus anything waiting to be processed as I am pretty lazy about loading machines.
I keep extra animal products and a LOT of extra hay, but these stay in each coop or barn's own chest or autograbber.
Jayamos
Farmer
I tend to store stuff where I need it.
Very early game: one or two supply chests in the house or in front of it, one at the top of the Mines near the mine cart to change out inventory.
This expands in my current playthrough to this ridiculousness (it works, though).
Bedroom
1. weapons, bombs, mining food right next to the TV
2. Spare tools and inventory I don’t want to take to the mines
3 + 4. Decor
5. Sewing supplies
Near front door
1. Gifts
2. Stuff to take when I’m out and about: geodes etc. to crack, items for desert trader, fishing bobbers and bait.
Kitchen
One chest with one slot holding Starfruit Wine waiting to age. That’s it.
Also several fridges.
Bat cave
1. Fruit and fish for dehydrators
Greenhouse
1. Supplies for the kegs, jars, and oil makers there
2. Seeds and fertilizer
Processing shed
1. Supplies for the serious money-making kegs and preserve jars.
Workshop shed
1. Crafting material from mines, metal bars
2. Ditto from foraging, spare sprinklers, fencing, pathing.
Slime hutch
1. Various things for coping with slimes or feeding slime egg presses or incubators.
Mines
1. That same chest that’s been sitting there since the beginning. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
Skull Cavern
1. Mostly there to keep the Return Scepter safe when I’m doing a run, plus some spare mining food.
Whew.
Very early game: one or two supply chests in the house or in front of it, one at the top of the Mines near the mine cart to change out inventory.
This expands in my current playthrough to this ridiculousness (it works, though).
Bedroom
1. weapons, bombs, mining food right next to the TV
2. Spare tools and inventory I don’t want to take to the mines
3 + 4. Decor
5. Sewing supplies
Near front door
1. Gifts
2. Stuff to take when I’m out and about: geodes etc. to crack, items for desert trader, fishing bobbers and bait.
Kitchen
One chest with one slot holding Starfruit Wine waiting to age. That’s it.
Also several fridges.
Bat cave
1. Fruit and fish for dehydrators
Greenhouse
1. Supplies for the kegs, jars, and oil makers there
2. Seeds and fertilizer
Processing shed
1. Supplies for the serious money-making kegs and preserve jars.
Workshop shed
1. Crafting material from mines, metal bars
2. Ditto from foraging, spare sprinklers, fencing, pathing.
Slime hutch
1. Various things for coping with slimes or feeding slime egg presses or incubators.
Mines
1. That same chest that’s been sitting there since the beginning. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
Skull Cavern
1. Mostly there to keep the Return Scepter safe when I’m doing a run, plus some spare mining food.
Whew.
Lew Zealand
Helper
Farmers Bobbi arrange their chests in a double row of pretty rainbow colors outside in early and mid game:
She likes like the quick access but in later game they end up in a Big Shed along with a few each of the general machines like the Crystalariums, Smokers, Recycling Machines, Bait Makers, etc. Then the Shed slowly fills with mostly Preserves Jars and maybe some Kegs if Bobbi is feelin' it. Usually there will already be a second Big Shed 50/50 with Kegs and Jars but In true Farmer Bobbi fashion, she may go with only a single mixed-use Shed next save. Chest Colors in general but way totally optionally are:
Good stuff/Projects
Fruit
Veggies
Fish
Bait, Bobbers, Crab Pot stuffs, meta-fish
Gems and Mining equipment
Minerals
Artifacts
Mushrooms and Seeds
Forage
And there are tiers of Good Stuff/throw junk here/pockets too cluttered in the purple to blue range.
She usually sticks a Chest next to the Elevator in the Mine to dump stuffs off quick and she aspires to add one near each Fishing spot but identifying safe pathing spots for these Chests has proven to exceed the minimum effort threshold for our dozy farmer. So she just crams her pocketses full with stinkyfish and when even Elliott steers clear of her for the smell, she knows the Fishing day is done.
She likes like the quick access but in later game they end up in a Big Shed along with a few each of the general machines like the Crystalariums, Smokers, Recycling Machines, Bait Makers, etc. Then the Shed slowly fills with mostly Preserves Jars and maybe some Kegs if Bobbi is feelin' it. Usually there will already be a second Big Shed 50/50 with Kegs and Jars but In true Farmer Bobbi fashion, she may go with only a single mixed-use Shed next save. Chest Colors in general but way totally optionally are:
And there are tiers of Good Stuff/throw junk here/pockets too cluttered in the purple to blue range.
She usually sticks a Chest next to the Elevator in the Mine to dump stuffs off quick and she aspires to add one near each Fishing spot but identifying safe pathing spots for these Chests has proven to exceed the minimum effort threshold for our dozy farmer. So she just crams her pocketses full with stinkyfish and when even Elliott steers clear of her for the smell, she knows the Fishing day is done.
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Cuddlebug
Farmer
A few in front of the Farmhouse, a few inside, usually kitchen and cellar. I don't use sheds for them that much, since I used to place kegs, jars and machines in the cellar... usually I don't place chests outside the farm, cause I often forget about them.
Terdin
Farmer
In front of the farmhouse I have one chest each for the crops/forage from Spring, Summer, and Fall, color-coded for the season. Winter forage/crop tends to be placed in one of those since there isn't much of it. One dark gray for crafting material, one purple for flowers from any season, and one blue for fish.
Indoors I keep one near the cellar with wine for aging, and stuff awaiting processing on any of the machines I keep in the house. Often I have a second chest with decorations for the house, but until there's enough of it that too might be stored in the processing chest.
One chest in each of the sheds with produce that will be processed in that shed. One chest by the barn and coop with animal produce since I process their stuff in the coop/barn, eventually moving the inventory there to the auto-grabbers. One chest in the mines containing spare weapons and stuff for the mines (and what I unload to have more space in the backpack when mining). One chest near each of my prefered fishing spots. In my latest save I added one near Leah's home for the trout derby and never bothered to remove it.
Since the chests away from the farmhouse are defined by where they are, there's no need to color-code them.
Indoors I keep one near the cellar with wine for aging, and stuff awaiting processing on any of the machines I keep in the house. Often I have a second chest with decorations for the house, but until there's enough of it that too might be stored in the processing chest.
One chest in each of the sheds with produce that will be processed in that shed. One chest by the barn and coop with animal produce since I process their stuff in the coop/barn, eventually moving the inventory there to the auto-grabbers. One chest in the mines containing spare weapons and stuff for the mines (and what I unload to have more space in the backpack when mining). One chest near each of my prefered fishing spots. In my latest save I added one near Leah's home for the trout derby and never bothered to remove it.
Since the chests away from the farmhouse are defined by where they are, there's no need to color-code them.
Luna_Tuna
Farmer
This reminds me of my Minecraft storage room lol, unless I get lazy and just start dumping stuff in random chests lol
Terdin
Farmer
Some of the items are kind of ambiguous. Should jellies be in the fishing chest or the material chest? Should seaweed and algaes be in fishing, material, or a fridge? Spare books and artifacts also don't have a designated space and might end up where it's most convenient.
Luna_Tuna
Farmer
I think jellies should be in the fishing chest but that’s my opinion, also SDV should add a bookcase and you can add spare books there like the books you have
Luna_Tuna
Farmer
Maybe you click the bookshelf and then a UI comes up and you then tap the book you want ( you would have to scroll on console) but you could click a button on NS so the UI goes away
Tameerkat
Newcomer
Hold up. you can dehydrate fish?
imnvs
Local Legend
In the house? Chests for food, clothes, adventuring supplies (including bombs and staircases).
In a shed? Crafting materials that you'd use at a workbench. Food to be processed into wine/preserves/etc.
Jayamos
Farmer
Yes! Technically, you can smoke them with a fish smoker.