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Overview
Storage Containers is functional inventory containers. Windrose offers 9 storage pieces from the Storage and Beds - Storage sub-category, plus 20 Label pieces (10 Cloth + 10 Wooden) for sorting.
Storage Pieces
Piece | Material | Role |
|---|---|---|
Storage Basket | Cheapest storage option; small capacity. | |
Storage Sack | Plant Fiber, Cloth | Sack-style storage; small capacity. |
Storage Bale | Plant Fiber, Hay | Hay-bale storage variant. |
Storage Crate | Wooden crate; mid-capacity. | |
Storage Barrel | Wood, Iron Bands | Sealed wooden barrel; mid-capacity. |
Wooden Chest | Wood, Iron Hinges | Standard wooden chest; high-capacity. |
Weathered Chest | Weathered Wood | Weathered chest variant; same capacity as Wooden Chest. |
Wrought Iron Chest | Iron, Wood | Iron-reinforced chest; highest durability. |
Pirate Chest | Wood, Iron, Gold trim | Decorative pirate-style chest; functions identically to Wooden Chest. |
Labels (Organization)
Windrose includes 20 Label pieces (10 Cloth and 10 Wooden variants of each) that snap onto storage containers for inventory sorting. Labels do not auto-sort items but make it easy to visually identify which chest holds which category:
Label Names | Variants |
|---|---|
Alchemy, Clothing, Cooked food, Food ingredients, Ore, Ship, Trade, Treasure, Weapons, Wood | Each label comes in Cloth and Wooden styles for a total of 20 label pieces. |
Capacity and Placement
Storage containers sit on Floor pieces. They can be placed indoors or outdoors; interior storage is safer from raiders because wall HP adds to the total time needed to reach the chest. Capacity scales from Storage Basket (smallest) to Wooden Chest (standard) to Wrought Iron Chest (highest durability per chest).
Tips
Place Wooden Chests in a dedicated storage room within Bonfire range so they count as part of your camp.
Use Labels to sort storage by type: Alchemy chest for potions, Ore chest for mining haul, Cooked food chest for meal supplies.
Wrought Iron Chest has the highest HP of any storage container; use it for your most valuable items.
Storage Basket is the cheapest option and useful for catching demolish refunds when tearing down structures.
A basement storage room (see Basements and Foundations) is the most secure placement; raiders need to breach the house above to reach basement chests.
See Also
Quality-of-Life Interactions
Storage containers integrate with the Workbench and other crafting stations in two ways that are easy to miss on a first playthrough: one-key deposit and remote-pull crafting.
Quick Deposit (Q Key)
Standing next to a chest and pressing Q transfers every item in the player's inventory that already has a matching stack in that chest, without opening it. A labeled Ore chest pulls all Copper Ore and Foothills Iron Ore out of the bag in a single tap; a Cooked food chest pulls all buffed meals; a Cloth chest pulls fabric stacks. The shortcut works from outside the chest, so a storage-room sweep becomes a single walk-past per labeled container rather than a scroll through the inventory grid.
Opening a chest and pressing X (or the equivalent controller binding) runs the same Deposit Similar action from the inside, which is useful when sorting a fresh haul where most of the stack still belongs in the bag.
Remote-Pull Crafting From Storage
Crafting stations read from every container placed inside the same Bonfire radius. A recipe at the Workbench does not require the raw materials to be on the player's person as long as a chest inside the Bonfire plot contains them. The same rule applies to the Smelting Furnace, the Cooking Fire, the Shipwright's Workshop, and every other station that lives within that circle. Dump a mining haul into the Ore chest and the Smelting Furnace already sees the ore as a valid input for Copper Ingots; no bag transfer needed.
Available count. Opening any station's recipe list shows an Available number next to each ingredient; that number is the sum of the player's inventory and every chest in range, not just the personal bag. If a recipe refuses to start despite the Available count showing enough materials, the culprit is usually a chest placed a hair outside the Bonfire's visible glow; nudge the chest closer until the station picks it up.
Labels Versus Pull Rules
The Storage Labels that snap onto containers are purely cosmetic identifiers; they do not route items or enforce category-only contents. The pull rule fires off actual stack matches, so two chests with the same item type will both contribute to a recipe's Available total regardless of how each is labeled. Labels are useful for the player's own mental map of the storage room, not for the crafting engine.