Big Chest
| Big Chest | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Crafted Item |
| Recipe | Carpenter's Shop (5,000g) |
The Big Chest is the large wooden storage box, holding nearly twice as much as an ordinary Chest. It solves the classic mid-game problem of a yard crowded with dozens of small boxes. The recipe is sold by Robin, so any farm with enough gold can learn it. Its best trick is the upgrade: placing it on top of an old chest swaps the boxes and carries every item across. Like the smaller chest, it can be recoloured freely to keep a storage system tidy.
Recipe
Robin sells the recipe at the Carpenter's Shop on the Mountain. It costs a fair sum, so saving up for a while is often needed.
Building one takes a large pile of Wood and a pair of Copper Bars. Chopping trees on the farm supplies the Wood. The bars come from smelting Copper Ore with Coal in a Furnace, and both the ore and the coal turn up in the Mines. Each bar takes about half an in-game hour to smelt, so the Wood can be gathered while the Furnace works. Copper Bars are also needed for the first round of tool upgrades, so early copper is often spoken for.
These are the ingredients one batch needs.
| Name | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Wood | 
|
120 |
| Copper Bar | 
|
2 |
Use
A Big Chest works exactly like a normal one, only with a much longer storage grid. It holds seventy different stacks, against thirty-six in a standard chest. It suits bulky stock such as harvests waiting for processing, piles of Wood and Stone, or a season's worth of seeds.
Upgrading is quick. Holding the Big Chest and using it on an existing chest replaces that box in the same spot. Every item moves into the new chest, and the old box drops to the ground to be picked up and reused. The colour bar above the storage grid works the same as on the small chest, so a colour-coded system carries straight over. A blue box for fish or a green one for crops stays easy to spot, just bigger.
Notes
Upgrading the boxes one at a time works well. Swapping the busiest chests first, such as those beside the shipping area or the processing machines, frees the most space for the effort. Each swap also leaves a spare small chest that can be set up somewhere new.
The Big Chest is made of wood and copper. For a grey stone look, the Big Stone Chest does the same job and is built from Stone instead. Its recipe comes from the Dwarf in the Mines rather than from Robin.
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