Inspired by ethoslab Pixel storage system, www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7Nwua4ZYTI&t

Here is my skulkerbox storage prototype of it.

To my knowledge, Etho hasn't uploaded a schematic or video tutorial on how he made his pixel, so I decided make my own concept version of it based on what I knew about redstone.

It's currently just a prototype and was purposely made into separate section so i could take things apart and change them around so I could understand what was happening and correct issues that showed up.


I may make a compact version of this now that this prototype is working but I decided to upload this prototype for those that wanted to make a similar shulkerbox storage system to etho's pixel but want to design it in there own way (just like I did with this prototype).

Hope with everything spaced out the people will be able to figure out what is what and how things are moving.



But to give a run down, I have the structure divided into 3 sections base on their function.

RedZone: This is the area that a user will interact with the machine. Items for searching, Shulkerbox Storage, and Shulkerbox loading for Items you searched for.

BlueZone: Heart of the system, The Search Engine. Using a Dynamic-item filter (instead of the normal static filter), it searches shulkerboxes for the item your wanting. When Search is done, it sends the search item back to the search box in the red zone to be reused again.

Green Zone: Item combiner. after finding the shulkerbox with the item(s) your wanting in the blue zone, It places the item back into the original shulkerbox and then sents that shulkerbox to the red zone where the shulkerbox will appear on the floor.


Now I dont claim im a redstone expert or anything like that (maybe im a advance redstone user?) but I like to challenge myself in making redstone contraptions that very few people have done and shown how to build it. (Maybe someone has done a search engine base on a shulkerbox storage system but I've only seen etho's video of it and he couldn't show that much as it was so tightly pack.)



Hardest part about this build: Hopper Junction.

While i've used them in the past, I never had a need use them with something that required high speed switching that this build required. When you need shulkerboxes with the item you want to go to a combiner to put an item back into it, you really need to switch fast to allow the next shulkerbox to be searched.

After wasting a good 4 or 5 hours on different ways of attempting to get a high speed hopper junction switch, I figured out that by attaching the hopper junction to the item filter of the search engine, it gave me the high speed switching needed for the contraption to work (and it's fairly compact already as you barely need any additional redstone on top of the filter to make this work.)

Alright, well I hope this helps anyone looking to build a system like this!

P.S. The world download is called "mass stoarge 3_0," just so you dont get confused when you download it from mediafire.