So I generally sort items by block types. Wood logs, Wood planks, then wood items (fences etc) Then same with cobble, stone and stone bricks. Wool separated by colour The rest of the blocks (actual blocks like clay blocks, terracotta etc) I call misc Armour and tools i group together Food (if needed) misc items (incl mob drops) redstone (anything redstone related) Plants and saplings Valuables (gold, iron and grass) Rares (heads and special items) As for layouts, i just go with what looks cool
So thats how I sort items: Glass, Terracotta, Concrete and Glass are sorted by color individually in each chest. All wooden stuff alone. All flowers alone. All dyes alone. All books alone All plants (excluding flowers) alone All cobblestone stuff alone. All stonebrick stuff alone. All stone stuff alone. All Tools and Armor alone. All Snow and Ice together. All mob drops (passive and hostile mobs) together. All food alone y u m ( I dont even need food but ye I use it for my food dispensers) All nether stuff related (netherrack, netherwart, netherbricks, etc..) alone. All end stuff related (endstone, chorus fruits/plants/flowers, etc..) alone All ocean stuff related (prismarine shards, blocks, etc..) alone. All light sources (Torches, Glowstone, Sea Lantern, etc..) alone. All music stuff (jukebox, noteblocks, discs, etc...) alone. All shulker boxes alone : ) All redstone related stuff (redstone dust, blocks, repeaters, etc...) alone. And any other stuff I would label as Misc or Junk. I put my rares and valuables mostly in shulkerboxes in my enderchest. So ye lol
I have all my chests just stacked up, 5 high, with spruce logs between them. Like this: This is what I store on each stack: The first has my rare kinda stuff, diamonds, grass, iron, gold and emeralds The second has charcoal and coal, lapis, rares/spawners, sand/dirt and a chest for buckets and other illegals The third is my stone stack, so I have three chests for just stone, one for stone bricks and one for other stone items Then is my cobble stack, so I have four chests for just cobble and one for other cobble items The next two rows are all wood, so I have a chest for leaves, a chest for saplings, a chest for every wood log and then a chest for planks and other wood items Then there's a row with food, two chests for mob drops, one for seeds/farming and one for farmed items The next row has chests for ocean items, prismarine, flowers/dyes, nether items and then netherrack Then there is the row with a chest for carpet, two chests for coloured wool and two for white wool The next row has chests for redstone, redstone items, banners, terracotta and glass Then there's the tools stack, so there is a swords chest, axes, pickaxes, bows/arrows and shears/hoes Finally, there is the random stack so there are chests for light, flint/gravel, crate keys, end items and then a misc chest My storage is quite random but quite organised at the same time. It just depends what you prefer and how you find it easiest to put things away but also find them
