Simple Storage Manager
Simple Storage Manager is a lightweight storage-network mod built around vanilla barrels.
Instead of replacing your storage room with large futuristic machines, Simple Storage Manager lets you connect barrels to a shared network, upgrade them, search through their contents and access everything remotely.
The goal is simple:
Keep the Minecraft storage feeling, remove the storage-room frustration.
✨ Features
📦 Storage Networks
Create your own storage network and connect barrels using the Storage Linker.
Linked barrels become part of one shared storage system while still behaving like physical storage containers in your world.
- Connect multiple barrels to one network
- Access everything from one interface
- Multiple independent networks
- Network ownership and member permissions
- Configurable barrel priority
- Linked barrels have their own visual appearance
🔗 Storage Linker
The Storage Linker is your main tool for managing physical storage.
Use it to:
- Link barrels to a storage network
- Unlink barrels
- Select the active storage network
- Manage connected storage
Only barrels belonging to the selected network are affected.
📡 Wireless Terminal
The Wireless Terminal gives you remote access to your entire storage network.
Instead of opening barrels one by one, all stored items are combined into a single searchable inventory.
Features include:
- Aggregated network inventory
- Search
- Sort by quantity
- Sort alphabetically
- Ascending and descending sorting
- Scrollable storage browser
- Exact stored item counts
- Deposit items directly into the network
- Deposit All functionality
If the same item exists in several linked barrels, the terminal displays it as a single combined entry.
🛠️ Wireless Crafting Terminal
Need to craft something without running back to your storage room?
The Wireless Crafting Terminal combines your network inventory with a regular crafting grid.
You can:
- Browse your complete storage network
- Take ingredients directly from storage
- Craft items from the same interface
- Return unused ingredients to the network
It is an upgraded version of the standard Wireless Terminal.
Barrel Upgrades
Each linked barrel contains 4 Upgrade Slots.
Upgrades allow individual barrels to specialize for different jobs.
⬆️ Capacity Upgrades
Capacity upgrades increase how much each logical barrel slot can hold without increasing the number of visible slots.
Available tiers:
- Iron Capacity Upgrade — x16
- Gold Capacity Upgrade — x128
- Diamond Capacity Upgrade — x1024
- Netherite Capacity Upgrade — x8192
For example, a normal stackable item with a stack size of 64 can store:
- x16 → 1,024 items per slot
- x128 → 8,192 items per slot
- x1024 → 65,536 items per slot
- x8192 → 524,288 items per slot
The barrel still contains the familiar 27 storage slots — they simply become much larger internally.
🔎 Filter Upgrade
The Filter Upgrade lets you control which items are allowed inside a barrel.
Filters support:
- Item whitelist
- Item blacklist
- Exact items
- Item tags
- Multiple filter rules
- Separate searchable item and tag lists
The filter configuration is stored directly on the upgrade item.
That means you can remove the upgrade, move it to another barrel and keep its configuration.
🔒 Lock Upgrade
The Lock Upgrade reserves barrel slots for their current items.
This is useful when you want a barrel to remain dedicated to specific resources without allowing other items to occupy the reserved slots.
🕳️ Void Upgrade
The Void Upgrade can destroy items that exceed the available storage capacity.
Useful for automated farms where excess resources would otherwise clog the system.
Combine it with filters and priorities to create controlled overflow storage.
⚙️ Barrel Priority
Every linked barrel has a built-in priority value.
Priority determines which eligible barrel receives items first.
Use:
-10-1+1+10
to adjust the value directly from the Linked Barrel GUI.
Storage routing considers filtering and available capacity before selecting the appropriate destination.
This makes it possible to build storage setups such as:
High-priority filtered barrel → normal storage → overflow/void barrel
📦 Packing Tape
Need to move a heavily upgraded barrel?
Use Storage Packing Tape.
Applying Packing Tape to a linked barrel seals the barrel together with its stored contents and configuration.
The packed barrel preserves:
- Stored items
- Large logical item counts
- Installed upgrades
- Filter configuration
- Lock reservations
- Priority
- Original storage network information
The barrel also receives a distinct packed appearance.
Break the sealed barrel and you receive a Packed Linked Barrel item containing the complete storage payload.
🚚 Moving Packed Barrels
When a Packed Linked Barrel is placed again:
- If its original network still exists and you have permission, it automatically reconnects.
- Otherwise it remains sealed.
- A sealed barrel can later be connected to another permitted network using the Storage Linker.
This allows even extremely large storage barrels to be moved without spawning thousands of item entities.
👥 Multiplayer & Permissions
Simple Storage Manager is designed with multiplayer servers in mind.
Storage networks support:
- Ownership
- Members
- Individual permissions
- Controlled linking and unlinking
- Controlled container breaking
- Storage management permissions
This allows shared team storage without giving every player complete control over the network.
⚡ Automation
Linked storage works with automation such as hoppers while respecting the storage system.
Storage rules such as:
- Available capacity
- Filters
- Locked slots
- Void behavior
are handled by the storage network instead of bypassing it.
🎨 Vanilla-Friendly Design
Simple Storage Manager intentionally avoids the appearance of a highly futuristic digital storage mod.
The mod is designed around:
- Barrels
- Simple tools
- Upgrade items
- Wireless access
- Minecraft-style textures
- Physical storage rooms that still look like storage rooms
You can build a warehouse full of barrels and still gain many of the conveniences normally associated with digital storage systems.
🚀 Quick Start
- Create or select a Storage Network.
- Obtain a Storage Linker.
- Link some barrels.
- Place items inside the linked barrels.
- Use a Wireless Terminal to access the combined inventory.
- Add upgrades to specialize individual barrels.
- Upgrade to a Wireless Crafting Terminal when you want remote crafting.
- Use Packing Tape when you need to move an important linked barrel.
📋 Current Storage Support
Currently supported:
- ✅ Vanilla Barrels
Possible additional container support may be considered in future versions.
The initial focus is making the barrel storage system stable, intuitive and powerful before expanding to additional container types.
🧪 Development Status
Simple Storage Manager is actively being developed.
New systems are tested incrementally, but development versions may still contain bugs or undergo balancing and interface changes.
If you find a problem, please include as much information as possible:
- Minecraft version
- NeoForge version
- Simple Storage Manager version
- Singleplayer or multiplayer
- Steps to reproduce the issue
- Relevant logs or crash reports
🔮 Planned / Possible Future Features
Some ideas being considered for future versions include:
- Additional supported storage containers
- More upgrade types
- More network-management options
- Additional automation support
- Further GUI improvements
- Multiplayer improvements
- More configuration options
Features listed here are ideas rather than promises and may change during development.
💬 Feedback
Feedback, bug reports and suggestions are welcome.
If you have an idea that fits the philosophy of simple, powerful and Minecraft-friendly storage, feel free to share it.
❤️ Simple Storage Manager
Connect your barrels. Upgrade your storage. Access everything from one place.
The Simple Storage Manager Team
