In Minecraft, there are multiple ways to collect and organize a wide array of in-game items. These are referred to as storage options.
Each storage option in Minecraft is quite different from one another. All of them are unique in their own ways, having varying purposes and uses. However, they do share one commonality: holding multiple items.
When it comes to optimal organization within Minecraft, players will often want to be strategic about where and why items are placed within storage. While every storage option in Minecraft can be helpful, some are objectively more efficient than others.
Disclaimer: this article reflects the opinions of the author.
What are the best storage options in Minecraft?
5) Bundle
Made with rabbit hides and strings, bundles are meant to help expand the limited inventory space that players have within Minecraft, similar to that of a shulker box. They changed the in-game rules regarding stacking items, allowing for multiple stacks to take up one space within a bundle. Plus, bundles can be placed inside of each other for maximum efficient storage.
Some players find that bundles do not help with issues concerning limited inventory, especially given the fact that unstackable items cannot be used within them.
In many cases, it is likely easier to use a shulker box rather than a bundle if the supplies are attainable. However, bundles are far easier to make given that players do not have to venture into the End dimension.
Perhaps as the items become more commonly used within Minecraft after the 1.18 update, players will find that bundles are some of the best storage items available.
4) Barrel
For individual Minecraft players, ender chests can be quite convenient. Whatever is placed into one ender chest can be accessed from any other, placed in any location.
Ender chests are great for traveling across the Minecraft world. Of course, transporting multiple items via ender chests requires at least two: one to place the items in, and another to access them later.
Interestingly, ender chests also emit their own light. However, because these chests can be a bit expensive to make and have limited inventory space overall, they are only ideal in certain situations.
2) Shulker Box
However, with a shulker box, they can collect a whole regular chest worth of items into one single inventory slot.
The shulker box can be broken and picked up with all the items still inside. Once it is placed again, the items will become accessible. This makes shulker boxes some of the most efficient organizational tools in all of Minecraft.
One unfortunate fact about these boxes is the difficulty involved in acquiring them. Players must enter the End dimension, travel to the outer islands of the End, locate an end city, and then finally destroy enough shulker mobs to craft a shulker box.
However, once the shulker boxes are obtained, they can be complete game changers. They are great for traveling since so many items can be compacted into a player’s inventory. Plus, shulker boxes can be colored using dyes, giving them a fun edge that other Minecraft storage options lack.
1) Chest

