Storage items

Storage items are Furniture items that can be right-clicked after being placed, to reveal forty Inventory slots, in four rows of ten, for storing items. These items allow the player to offload excess items, freeing space in their inventory. They can also be used for organizing items, eg. one Chest can hold Ores, while another can hold Gems. Stationary storage can also be renamed, to further help in organizing items (see Rename below).

All Storage items must be Placed in order to access their contents or store items. They can be freed by a Pickaxe, but most need to be emptied beforehand (see Stationary and Portable storage below).

Functions

Placed storage items

Dressers are storage items on  PC,  Console,  Mobile,  Old Chinese,  tModLoader, and  tModLoader Legacy only

Storage items have special functions which improve management, organization, and efficiency.

Loot All

Loot All removes all items from the storage item (starting from the top-left) and places them in the player's inventory (starting from the bottom right). This allows easy looting when scouting areas for treasure.

Deposit All

Deposit All has the opposite effect of Loot All, placing all items in the player's inventory (starting from the bottom-right) into the storage item (starting from the top-left). Any items which can be stacked, will be stacked. This is a quick way of offloading a bunch of items quickly when in a hurry. Items in the hotbar and items favorited with alt-click or the Right Trigger (console editions) will not be deposited.

Quick Stack

Quick Stack detects all of the items in your inventory that can be stacked with the same item inside the storage item, and places it in there. All items will be moved, creating new stacks in the storage if needed. Quick stack will also automatically convert coins in your piggy bank or safe.

In the main inventory screen, there is a button (below the coins) for "Quick stack to nearby chests". This does almost the same as if you manually clicked Quick Stack on each chest, but doesn't quick stack items from the hotbar, and also moves unstackable duplicates of items (for example, tools). It does work with non-chest storage, despite the tooltip. Around the player, it has a reach of 37 blocks to the left and right, 37 blocks below, and 38 blocks above, significantly further than you can naturally reach.

Sort Items  

Sort Items moves items around inside a container, sorting and relatively color-coding the item slot by type briefly. When you click the button, items are sorted starting from the top-left and ending at the bottom-right, and the occupied item slots are briefly and relatively color coded. When all of the items in the container are of the same type, the background color for every item is light blue.

The player's inventory screen has a similar sort items button, found below the coins slot, which sorts items also by rarity, but this does not affect the hotbar.

Rename

Renaming allows you to type in a new name for the storage item, which is helpful for organizing large storage rooms. Names can be up to 20 characters long. This name will be visible above the list of functions, and will also replace the storage item's icon shown when hovering the mouse cursor over it. The name can be removed by entering a blank name, restoring the icon and default name. In the console version, you must be offline to rename chests.

Restock

Restock allows you to restock all stackable items in your inventory using items from the chest. This can be helpful for restocking Potions, building blocks, and other stackable items.

Stationary storage

Stationary storage is public, shared storage space. It includes the Chest, Barrel, Trash Can, and Dresser. They have the following characteristics, which differ from portable storage:

• These must remain in place while they contain items, and cannot be freed or picked up until emptied. They can however be blown up by bombs if they are not naturally generated.
• Each stationary storage item holds a separate 40-slot inventory where different items can be placed; For example, 2 Trash Cans and 3 Chests will offer the player 240 (when adding inventory) total slots of storage.
• Quick stack to nearby chests stacks into both stationary and portable storage.
• The player can craft items from a chest while it is open without having to place its contents in the player inventory beforehand.
• Stationary storage contents are saved with the World data, as opposed to the Character data, and will therefore not be available to players when visiting other worlds or multiplayer servers.
• In a multiplayer world, the contents of stationary storage are accessible to other players.
• In a multiplayer world, while one player is accessing a stationary storage item, no other players may access it.

Portable storage

Portable storage
Piggy Bank
Money Trough, provides additional access to the Piggy Bank
Void Vault
Void Bag, provides additional access to the Void Vault
Safe
Defender's Forge
Eye Bone, provides additional access to the Piggy Bank

Portable storage provides an access point to additional personal storage. Personal storage includes the Piggy Bank, Safe, Defender's Forge, and Void Vault. The Piggy Bank can also be accessed via the Money Trough and Eye Bone, and the Void Vault can also be accessed via the Void Bag. They have the following characteristics, which differ from stationary storage:

• These can be freed and picked up while they contain items, making them valuable tools for effectively increasing a player's inventory slots.
• All portable storage items of the same type share the same inventories; for example, purchasing multiple Safes will not offer the player more inventory slots, as each Safe accesses the same shared 40-slot portable storage space, but having multiple Safes will afford the player more points of access to the Safes' shared 40-slot contents. The same rule applies to Piggy Banks, Void Vaults, and the Defender's Forge: each item type has a separate 40-slot inventory space shared by all duplicate items of that type. If the player has purchased the Defender's Forge, a Safe, a Piggy Bank, and crafted a Void Vault, they will have a total of 160 portable storage slots, which is the maximum portable storage that any one character can have. By contrast, if the player has only purchased four Piggy Banks, they will just have one 40-slot portable storage space, though they can access the space from any of the Piggy Banks.
• Portable personal storage contents are saved with the Character data, as opposed to the World data. Their contents are accessible from world to world, and from server to server.
• In a multiplayer world, each player will have access to their own personal storage, regardless of who placed the portable storage item. Items placed in portable storage are not accessible to other players.
• In a multiplayer world, multiple players can access the same portable storage item at the same time.
• Moving coins into portable storage periodically is useful, especially when exploring new or hazardous areas. Coins stored there will not be lost in case of death, even if the portable storage item containing them is in the character's inventory at the time.
• Portable storage items cannot be renamed.
• Items can be purchased using all money in personal storage — including money in inventory, Piggy Bank, Safe, Void Vault, and Defender's Forge.
• Quick stack to nearby chests stacks into both portable and stationary storage. Portable storage will always be prioritized over stationary storage when quick stacking.
• The slots of portable storage inventories are a slightly lighter pink in color, as opposed to the maroon color of stationary storage slots. This helps in quickly identifying which type of storage are being accessed.
• Portable storage items can be placed inside other types of storage, including inside other portable storage. For example, the Safe can be carried around inside the Piggy Bank. This does not permit access to the stored portable storage while it is stored. In the example, to use the Safe, the player would have to place the Piggy Bank (or use a Money Trough or Eye Bone), remove the Safe from it, and then place the Safe to access its contents.

The Money Trough and Eye Bone provide additional access points to the Piggy Bank, and they all share the same storage space. The main differences are that the Money Trough does not need a solid block to be placed on, and summons a Flying Piggy Bank that can exist over any block and be accessed by right clicking on it, similarly to the Piggy Bank. The Eye Bone summons a pet named Chester that follows the player. The Money Trough is a rare drop from Dripplers and Blood Zombies during a Blood Moon, and the Eye Bone has a chance of dropping from the Deerclops.

Showcase storage

Showcase storage
Mannequin
Womannequin
Hat Rack
Weapon Rack
Item Frame
Plate

Showcase storage items allow the player to "place" items that are not normally placeable. In this manner, players can display armor, accessories, weapons, or tools.

• Mannequins and Womannequins can be used to display Armor, Accessories, Vanity items, and Dyes.
• Hat Racks can be used to display Hats and Helmets of any kind.
• Weapon Racks can be used to display Weapons and many Tools.
• Item Frames can be used to display all kinds of items.
• Plates can be used to display Food and drink items which grant any Well Fed buff or the Tipsy debuff.

Notes

• There is a maximum limit of 8000 / 1000 storage containers (excluding portable and showcase storage items) in each world. Attempts to place additional storage items will result in the item immediately dropping to the ground as an item rather than being placed.

Trivia

• Two of the four items for portable storage can be purchased from the Merchant, the Piggy Bank (1) and the Safe (20).

History

Desktop 1.4.0.1:

 PC version

• Desktop 1.4.0.1:
  • Increased Quick Stack range.
  • Increased limit of storage containers from 1000 to 8000.
  • Mannequin and Womannequin now have their own inventory, similar to that of a chest.
  • Mannequin and Womannequin can now display accessories and dyes.
  • Added Void Bag and Void Vault.

• Desktop 1.3.4: Added Defender's Forge item.

• Desktop 1.3.0.4: Fixed 'quick stack to all chests' potentially eating loot in old/modded worlds.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1:
  • Added Item Frames and new Chests.
  • Dressers can now act as chests.
  • Quick stack now creates new stacks in chests for items the player has in inventory if applicable.
  • NPCs now avoid sitting near chests.
  • Chests open/close is now animated.
  • Added ability to favorite items by pressing Alt+Left Click. Favorited items cannot be quick-trashed, quick-stacked, or deposited.
  • Added an inventory button to Quick Stack to All Nearby Chests, making inventory management much quicker.
  • Items can now be crafted from a chest while it is open without having to place its contents in the player inventory beforehand.
  • Items can now be purchased using all money in personal character storage - including money in the inventory, Piggy Bank, and Safe.

• Desktop 1.2.3.1: Fixed a bug where coins would disappear during Quick Stack. Fixed an exploit where the player could duplicate coins with Quick Stack.

• Desktop 1.2.3: Placed storage items can now be renamed.

• Desktop 1.2:
  • Now require a Pickaxe to remove instead of a Hammer.
  • Storage slots increased from 20 to 40.
  • Added multiple new chest types

• Desktop 1.0.6: Loot All, Deposit All, and Quick Stack functions added.

 Console version

• Console 1.08: Added Chest naming, Quick Stack, and Restock.