Typically referring to piston movements or redstone dust, when it turns on and off in the same gametick, this makes redstone dust not power, and sticky pistons to spit out their blocks

An extension of n-Wide tileable, but where a solution has been provided by the author on how to put 2 Slices(Slice) of the same system next to each other, by moving/editing some components within t...

A box loader that can be accessed whilst loading

It aligns items within a block to ensure some sort of behavior. More basic concepts involve simply letting items in a water or ice stream hit against a block with a certain hitbox, while more compl...

A Batcher groups item entities together before periodically releasing them into a waterstream or iceline. This is done to improve lag and because some filters ( Especially 2x filters ) would be on ...

An encoding where each digit of a code is either on or off (we say it has a binary state, usually represented with 0s and 1s). A four digit (Bit) signal could have the states 0000 or 0110 or 0100, ...

Short for binary digit: the digits in a binary system.

Block event delay usually refers to piston updating other pistons in a chain reaction within a single game tick. Since pistons activate during the block event phase of the tick (kind of) and things...

A Block Update detector is a device that has something happen when it receives an update. Example: A piston that is Quasi-powered (Quasi connectivity) but not yet updated is called "BUDded", and wi...

Typically reliable collection of a box during either unloading or box displays where you can grab items out of a box, and have it break the box for other use

A Box Comparer is a contraption that takes two boxes as input, and compares them by signal strength. A Box comparer normally has dedicated outputs for the fuller and less full boxes. Box comparers ...

Usually used as a way to tag Loaders(Loader) and Box Displays(Box Display) that restart themselves when boxes come in and they were previously empty.

A contraption that displays a shulker box and has some or all of the following features: a button to dispense a new box, breaking of the box when it empties, automatically dispensing a new box when...

A box matcher is a device which checks if a specific item type is contained in a box. The box can be a mixed box, in which a match means that a slot in the box has the desired item type. Box matche...

A Box Separator is a contraption that takes boxes as input and separates them into different outputs based on their contents. This could for example be a contraption that takes single item-type box...

A Box Sorter is a contraption that takes in boxes of a single item-type, takes the first item out and assigns the box to a storage Slice that matches the filter of that item.

A box splitter is a contraption that takes in a mixed box as input and unloads the box into single item-type boxes. These devices work by unloading a box using a variable filter. The variable filte...

A box yeeter is a device which destroys the shulker box item entity, releasing its contents as item entities. The box item is permanently destroyed in the process. This mechanic was introduced in 1...

A bucket is a container, typically holding a specific subset of items. Buckets are used to fragment large bodies of information into callable and searchable subsets to speed up a search process by ...

Refers to the quality of not keeping items inside inventory blocks which are meant for transport. Designs which do buffer boxes are not desirable because in many cases it means those items are not ...

At it's simplest, a bulk storage is just a system that stores a lot of items, usually a single type per module and in box form. The challenge usually comes in trying to make the system compact, ext...

Butterfly tiling or miror tiling refers to the technique of flipping every other slice to avoid crosstalk between slices. Butterfly tiled devices are in effect, 1wABt.

A cart yeeter is a device which breaks a cart with an inventory, emptying its contents in item entity form. The cart item is also collected separately for recycling. Cart yeeting was introduced in ...

A hall containing chests for items. It usually come in slices(slice) so that it can be stacked and extended as large as needed. They differ widely in functionality and amount of items available in ...

A chunk loader is a simple device which keeps certain chunks loaded in the game. This allows for devices in the chunk to continue operating even when the player is far away. All redstone machines r...

A Comparator Update Detector is based on the behavior inherent to comparators where they don't notice inventory changes when reading it through a solid block (including an inventory being moved awa...

A term used for when 2 tiled Slices(slice) are interfering with each other in any situation.

A cyclical variable sorter (cycvar) is a variable sorting device which takes in mixed boxes and outputs single-type boxes with minimum partial box output (ideal output). A cycvar works similarly to...

In storage tech terminology, DC is an abbreviation for a doublechest.

A Decoder has two main meanings in storage tech: A contraption that translates code or data to item, like an encoded storage hall, the inverse of an Encoder, or one that translates code into user-r...

A contraption is said to be directional if it exhibits a different behavior when rotated or mirrored. This is usually caused by some internal component being directional itself, which in turn is m...

Similar to Hopper speed, but less frequently used. Refers to the speed at which items are processed in a dropper when clocked at the minimum interval (1 item every 4gt). 1x Dropper speed is equal t...

A line of droppers to transport items fast.

Some contraptions are not Dustless, but the dust they use does not get updated (does not change ss(Signal Strength)). This can be because it is either used to steadily power a component, or because...

A contraption that makes no use of redstone dust. Redstone dust is one of the single most laggiest components in the game, since it gives 25 updates for each ss(Signal Strength) change. When increa...

Unlike traditional fixed bulk storage systems, a dynamic bulk will automatically allocate storage slices to item types depending on what item types are input.

A system is said to be encoded when a signal in the form of a code is used to decide the fate of items or boxes. In broader terms, it refers to systems that use codes to transfer instructions. Code...

An Encoder has two main meanings in storage tech: A contraption that translates items into a code, where code can be any sort of signal in any base (bin, hex, other less used ones) or other codes (...

A Fill Sorter is a Box Separator that has different outputs based on how full the box is, usually Empty / Full / Partial. IsEmpty is a Fill Sorter that only has outputs for empty and not-empty ( Fu...

A Loader combined with an item filter that fills a box with just one item type.

Short for fixed type item sorter: a sorter that filters out one single item type and can't be changed without manual intervention.

A measure of how many frames a client is able to process each second. This is similar to, but independent of TPS, which denotes server-side performance.

Can process items without pausing at any point. Fullspeed box loaders and unloaders have special box breaking mechanisms so that it doesn't pause item flow when the box is being replaced. Fullspeed...

A Furnace Array is a device which distributes items across multiple furnaces to efficiently smelt lots of items at a time. Furnace arrays can vary widely in sizes from 32 to 1728 and beyond. Furna...

Minecraft iteratively runs its processing code in a loop. One cycle of this loop is called a Tick or Gametick (gt). Gameticks are also used as the default measurement of time while working with re...

Annotates if a signal comes from a global system ( a "brain" ), or from within a Slice. For example, one global clock could send signals to 8 slices on an interval, or all 8 slices could have their...

A contraption, usually a 1-wide tileable(n-Wide Tileable) one, that has only one output for all the Slices(Slice), in contrast to one output per slice (see Slice Preservation).

A grouper is a variable box sorting device, which checks if a box contains a specific item type anywhere in the box. This is similar to a box matcher, but instead of having a fixed filter which is ...

A code where each digit of the code has 16 possible states (usually represented as 0 to 9 and then A to F). It's most commonly implemented with signal strength values, where ss(Signal Strength) 0 r...

Hopper hashing occurs when a device depends on a specific ticking order of hoppers for operation. This is a problem because hoppers are block entities, which are ticked in a location dependent but ...

Refers to the speed at which items are processed in a hopper (1 item every 8gt, or 2.5 items per second). Usually written as an integer (e.g. "3x hopper speed"). ## Common hopperspeeds 1x: 9000 ite...

Hopper-locking powers inactive hoppers with redstone to prevent them from doing anything, reducing lag. Because a locked hopper can’t move items, it can skip several expensive checks each tick and ...

Ideal box output refers to a device which outputs minimal partial boxes after the contents of mixed boxes are sorted into single item-type boxes. What this means is that for each type, every box ex...

An input handler is an item pre-processing device which attaches to user input interfaces in main storage systems. Because the user can input anything, a robust input handler must be capable of pre...

A device, mechanism or feature that allows the user to request items. The requested items may land in a user accessible inventory or be used to restock some component. Some systems can also use ite...

Item entities are items in entity form. Each item entity can have a full stack of items, up to 64 items for 64-stackables. ## Item entity tick Every game tick, item entities will do the following ...

Usually part of a Box Sorter, a keygen is a contraption that takes one item out of a box, breaks it and sends the item and sends one through one hopper or Dropperline and the other through another ...

A Liquid Update Detector (LUD) is a device that uses liquids to detect a special set of updates, some of which can be detected with a Block Update Detector, with a Comparator Update Detector or wit...

A contraption that fills a shulkerbox with items and then breaks the shulkerbox.

A contraption is said to be locational when it exhibits different behavior when built in different locations in the world. This is almost always caused by redstone dust updates themselves being loc...

a Lead Item Filter is a box filtering process which checks the item in the first slot of the box to check if it is stackable or nonstackable. if the lead item is stackable, it returns the item to t...

A lead unstackable filter grouper (LUF grouper) is a device which checks if a box contains a certain item type, with the filter set dynamically like in a grouper. The difference between a normal gr...

Matrix addressing refers to using a coordinate system to efficiently activate components by their coordinates.

A Merger is a contraption that takes 2 boxes as input, and merges them into one. Mergers can work of mixed boxes, however most mergers assume that both boxes only contain one itemtype and are ofte...

A shulker box with multiple item types.

A Loader that can handle multiple itemtypes going to the same box. Fullness detection is usually done by reading that items are backing up in the container ( hopper / dropper ) feeding the box.

Mods can be 2 types - client side or server side, client side mods just effect the client side of the game, so mostly the visuals and server side mods effect the code of the game / what the game do...

Refers to the mechanic where an item entity will begin movement only in certain ticks. The modulo 4 operation (remainder after dividing by 4) is used to determine what specific tick it will begin t...

Abbreviation for main storage, typically having a bulk, chest halls and a MIS to sort items

A measurement of how many milliseconds it takes to process each gametick. If a server exceeds 50MSPT in total, then the game will slow down, as there is no longer enough time to process all 20 tick...

A type of item sorter (system) that sorts multiple item-types into a single chest or group of chests, usually used to reduce space used by single item-type sorters to group not too common items int...

Annotates the width of a slice, and whether or not you can build them right next to each other. There are systems that are 1 wide, but you can't put 2 next to each other due to Crosstalk, so they d...

A pair searcher is a contraption that takes in multiple boxes (usually single item-type boxes) and outputs pairs of boxes so that the boxes of each pair have the same item type. They differ in spee...

PallaPalla is a legendary Technical Minecraft Youtuber known for pioneering the field of encoded storage technology years before anyone else. Despite Palla's retirement from Minecraft, his concepts...

A concept used developed by PallaPalla to use the passive readouts from a chest hall to allow for loading with items until it reaches a certain signal stregth before then loading it full of boxes

A code is said to be parallel if the all the bits of the signal are sent through individual wires or lines This usually allows for faster and easier to use codes than Serial codes, but it tends to ...

Perfect item aligner refers to a contraption that aligns items in all three axes before sending them down a stream, where they usually get picked up by hoppers. Since these contraptions are usually...

Term used to describe contraptions that are almost Storage Tech. Examples are Furnace Arrays, Brewers, Crafting stations, Autocrafters, ...

Pipelining (also referred to as hyperthreading), is design paradigm where a process with multiple steps can occur simultaneously with another process at a later stage. A process here can refer to a...

A contraption that makes no use of pistons. This is to reduce client-side lag(fps) due to tile entities in 1.16+ and general server-side lag, since each piston has to check all the Tile Entities(Ti...

A hopper that is unlocked in the same tick as it's supposed to suck up an item. If the item entity is created in that tick, as it would be with for example timing a shulker box breaking correctly, ...

A Loader that makes use of a Precision Hopper to achieve Slice Preservation

The effect of quasi-powering a piston, dropper or dispenser. A good way to visualize when a block is being quasi-powering is to imagine a redstone lamp above the component. If that lamp was to be o...

Referring to 2 Gameticks, a redstone tick is the time it takes for a repeater to power, an observer to turn on. It is also equivalent to a tenth of a second (assuming no lag)

A restock station is a simple device which displays shulker boxes of useful items for the player to take items from. It's called a restock station because it allows the player to restock on food, f...

A rising/falling/dual edge detector or monostable is a device which outputs a short pulse when: - Rising edge: Change from unpowered to powered outputs a short pulse - Falling edge: Change from pow...

Typically a .litematic file or a .schematic file in older versions or with different mods than litematica. It is a blueprint that tells you how to build redstone builds, tells you what materials yo...

No visible redstone components in UI

A sequential shulker unloader is a device which takes out items of a specific type out of a mixed box, and then breaks the box when it runs out of that item type. SSU's work by putting a shulker bo...

A code is said to be serial if the bits of the signal are sent one after the other through a single wire. This is more space and resource efficient than Parallel codes, but usually slower and harde...

Components used to convert Serial codes into Parallel codes or viceversa. These sometimes also act as Encoders(Encoder) or Decoders(Decoder), in the computational redstone sense. For example serial...

Signal strength isolated, signal strength independent, or SSI all refer to item filter designs which cannot crosstalk with each other regardless of signal strength output. This is done by A/B tilin...

A contraption that does not make noise when activated. Sources of noise are: pistons, uncovered note blocks, trapdoors, doors and fence gates, and droppers or dispensers failing to fire. Silent con...

A repeatable ( Preferably tileable ) component within a system.

A contraption is said to be slice preserving if it outputs the shulker boxes or items within the slice, in contrast to Global Output, where there's one output for all Slices(Slice). This term is mo...

A Box Display that will only break the shulker box when it's both empty and closed. This will prevent the situation where the box breaks while you are looking inside of it.

A contraption that has no moving parts or, more loosely, that has no pistons spitting blocks, or other forms of Toggle state. This term is also sometimes interchangeably used with Pistonless, altho...

Abbreviation for redstone dust/comparator Signal Strength

Stack separation is a term which refers to the practice of taking a pile of item entities and separating them into single entities using ticking order to send a single stack at a time. It also can ...

Cart stacking refers to putting multiple cart entities in the same location. This can be done by dropping carts onto a rail from above, the carts will snap onto the rail regardless of how many cart...

SVAR stands for Shulker Variable sorter. It takes the form of an array of variable filters, which when empty are set by the first item and box pair that passes over them, and if they are already se...

Short for "temporary storage", it refers to a specific storage device used in variable sorting systems to store partial boxes. These temp storages will typically store a partial box item until a se...

Tile entities (less often referred to as Block Entities) are blocks that have NBT-data attached to them, for example all blocks with inventories. More information on the block entity wiki page

Refers to the phenomenon where short pulsing a comparator for 2gt only causes it to activate if it is pointing into another comparator or repeater block. ## Details The scheduled block tick list i...

Usually used to refer to intentionally having sticky piston's drop its block by sending it a <3gt pulse in order to cycle between two different states (toggling between block in and out). Important...

A measurement of how many gameticks are happening each second. The game normally operates at 20TPS, but if MSPT exceeds 50ms then the game will start to slow down. Mods such as Carpet Mod are able ...

A device or contraption to convert between encodings of a signal: Binary to Hexadecimal, hex to octal, pulse length to binary, block event delay to overloaded comparator, etc.

A contraption that removes item contents from a shulkerbox.

A system to filter out unstackable items from a stream of stackable items. Usually done by reading the signal strength the item produces when in a container.

An item sorter that sorts unstackable items into different categories. Regular item sorters can not be used for this use case, because the items don't stack, so unique behaviors of each item type h...

Update order is the order in which Minecraft will process actions. Because Minecraft is a software program, actions that appear to occur simultaneously must occur sequentially one after another in ...

User interface. The part of a contraption or system that the end user interacts with, regardless of the inner workings of the system.

An item filter that does not always filter for the same item, but instead can be remapped, meaning getting the item type reassigned (in contrast with Fixed Sorter). There are many different types ...

A whitelister or blacklister is typically a device which checks if the first item in a single-type box is within some set or list of item types. Whitelisters/blacklisters are useful for quickly det...