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ParanoidObsessive posted...

I usually start out making chests as I go, making a new one every time one fills up. At first it's mostly just everything getting dumped in the same chest with no real order, but after the first few, I start to color-code and sort them to better organize stuff.

Usually by the end of the first year I've got a rainbow-colored ring of chests all around the outer edge of my house (leaving a gap to get in the front door). Once everything is going well and I've started making consistent money (generally around the time I get to the point of being able to make kegs and wine), I'll start upgrading my house and building a ton of sheds around the farm. Then I shift the clothing and souvenir chests into my bedroom (or the room under it, which I usually turn into an office of some kind), and shift decorations and furniture into the basement (along with a chest or two for aging wine and storing my winning fair display items). Then I put three light blue chests in the corner of the kitchen to act like a pantry to store all my food. And once I have kids, I'll usually have a chest in the kids' room with all toys and stuffed junimos.

For sheds I usually make a farming shed, a fishing shed, an animal shed, and a workshop shed. Along with multiple keg sheds for making wine, coffee, and tea.

In the farming shed I have three chests per season (one for forage, fruits, and seeds, one for flowers, and one for crops), each color-coded (light green for spring, dark green for summer, orange for fall). I've also got four extra chests - white for winter forage, dark red/brown for mushrooms and cave carrots, yellow for desert/island stuff, and black for tree saplings, fertilizers, and unused scarecrows and sprinklers. It's also where I keep my seed makers, and I'll occasionally use the leftover middle space for preserve jars or cactus plants.

My fishing shed has a ton of chests to hold multiple quality levels of each type of fish (which usually winds up taking 3-4 chests), which I color teal. Then an extra light-blue chest for forage (seaweed, algae, shells, coral, etc). A black chest for lures and bait. An orange chest (as close as I could get to gold) for the legendary fish. Then four worming bins and all of my recyclers, and a bunch of preserve jars for making caviar.

My animal shed usually gets set up near my barn and coop, and winds up being where I store all my cheese/mayo/cloth/oil machines for processing animal stuff, along with a chest where I keep my leftover milking pail, shears, hay, and anything else animal-related I'm storing.

The workshop shed is basically just workbench with a black chest on either side (with one chest having all my ores, wood, stone, and other materials, while the other chest has all my gems and minerals). Then I've got another chest or two for storing whatever minerals or relics I can't fit in the other chests. This shed is also where I keep all my furnaces, kilns, and wood chippers.

My keg sheds are basically just a large collection of kegs I use to make wine (especially once I've got the greenhouse working), while I'll usually have one shed devoted to coffee (with 32 kegs and 48 plant pots with coffee) and one for tea (same general layout).

I usually also put a chest in the mines (to hold my "adventure gear" - mostly bombs and food) and one in front of the Skull Cavern (same). Sometimes one down on the ocean docks (if I'm putting crab pots there). A couple in the side room once I get the island farmhouse.

And after I've gotten pretty much everything else sorted out, I usually make a "clubhouse" of some kind to store weapons/rings and a few other souvenirs and decorations, which I decorate in different ways depending on what sort of character I'm pretending to play as (ie, I've had an "elf" character with a forest-themed room, a pulp adventurer one with a sort of Victorian club with bookcases and displayed relics, a mermaid-themed one with fishtanks and aquatic decor, etc).

If you ever looked at one of my playthrough files and looked at the stats that show you how much of every item you've ever crafted, chests are probably my #1 most commonly crafted item.

Thats how I start, as well When I first get enough for a chest, I just make one until it fills, then I make another. Im not sure how many I have to have before I start color coded and separating them but its usually enough to where I need to find certain things

I never thought about it, but I should probably make a shed Then I could do something else with that bottom room Though having stuff there is nice because I can do stuff before I leave the house

But seeing how you do stuff, I should probably make more chests I have quite a few, but not that many. And you have them all over the place

I do have a chest for next day items, though. Like if the Luau is tomorrow, I make sure I have the ingredient ready early and put it in the next day chest. Or gifts for birthdays (and just weekly gifts when I was still working on most of the friendship meters)