Echo Weaver Posted August 22, 2025 Report Posted August 22, 2025 As I'm entering, I guess, late game on my first playthrough, I'm finding Storage Vessels to be kind of annoying. Chest-like storage is fine until you get to having a lot of stacks of the same thing. What I'd really like to have now is something more like a crate with the top off -- store a whole bunch of the same thing in a single storage item and be able to tell at a glance what's in it. Additionally, the way of adding and removing items with a crate works well when you're dealing with higher volumes, and it's overall more immersive. Afaict, the only thing that works like a crate is a crate. Every other storage container I've poked through in the game seems to use the stack-slot inventory UI. In fact, the only thing I've found so far in mods that works like a crate is the flour bag in Storage Shelves. The suite of the lovely containers in Storage Shelves probably covers my use case, except that for my Vanilla+ game I really don't want something that elaborate. Just one tweaked crate would be enough. I set off to make my own. Creating a new crate or patching the existing crate to have the spoilage rate of a Storage Vessel is easy. The problem is that you can't see the spoilage status of the contents on the tooltip. Considering that the vanilla crate already tells you its spoilage rate on the tooltip, it seems weird that it doesn't contain any info about the contents. It LOOKS like one actually needs to make a full-on code mod to change the crate tooltip. I guess before launching into learning the API, I wanted to sanity check. 1. Is there no json-available behavior for a container show the spoilage status of its contents? 2. Has nobody really made this thing?
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