[Request] Storage lectern organizing, and Source Relay; Fills all Source jars nearby
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I've found the storage lectern to be very difficult when it comes to organizing what items go where, for example, I avoid just placing items directly into the storage without using the Named chest labels, as the items just go to the first chest I ever linked, instead of, say, sending Iron ingots to an already existing stack of iron ingots in the chest that has them already.
If the storage sent the items to already existing stacks, mindlessly sending items directly into the storage lectern would be more convenient and comfortable, it would make labels and named chests less of a 'necessity' for avoiding mixing everything
Even when using Named chests this proves to be a bit, tho much less- of an issue, as eventually I get the same items occupying space on two chests, when the same item could be on chest 1 and economize space on chest 2, EX: Two Chests named "Ores", the first I only place ingots and raw ores, the second I like to place Ore blocks, sending Iron Block into the storage after choosing the "Ores" label, sends the iron block into the first chest that only has ingots and raw ores instead of the second "ores" chest with ore Blocks.
This is a problem for organization reasons, it eventually causes the same item to occupy two spaces when it could only use One, it's a problem I faced on AE2 digital storage, organizing is essential to save space, and the way the storage lectern, well, Storages (lel) also makes Crafting using the lectern a bit inconvenient as it De-Organizes every time you use the Reset button to send items back, or you have to manually send items back to their original named Chests with the labels.
Btw, is there a way to decide which Named chest will have which Symbol? like, the crystal symbol is my "Stone blocks" named chests, but it used to be the "plants" chest before I re-named some of them, it would make remembering which chest is which quicker if I could select the symbol icons
Now, Source Relay Idea: EDIT: Either I missed it due to the different name, or it got updated very recently, but this already exists xD
Instead of 'Relay' it's 'Retransmiter', very good to know its there :V
Source Relay: Battery, Deposits Source on all nearby Source Jars, and receives source from other source relays. Used to receive Source from Far away source generators and have a set place meant for the source "Battery" only (stacking a TON of Source jars make it look like a battery :v), it would also be accompanied by that other Source Relay that collects source from all nearby jars, so one massive pack of Jars could deposit and send source without needing a generator nearby.
The convenience of having it deposit on jars automatically aside- it would be a convenient way to send all source from generators to One single massive "Battery" of jars, without having to place many source jars for every generator and individually link them, or even building a "Battery" around some specific generator.
Maybe I'm using some of the mentioned items wrong, like the storage lectern, many people mention chest proximity but my problem so far has been Which chest was Linked first, so Idk what's happening exactly
That's all, thanks for the patience, and thx 4 reading uwu