Sophisticated Storage Upgrades: Item Pickup, Magnet, Feeding, and More
This guide explores various upgrades for Sophisticated Storage blocks, enhancing functionality for item pickup, magnetic collection, player feeding, and other specialized uses.
Item Pickup Upgrades
Storage blocks can automatically collect items from the world using pickup upgrades.
Pickup Upgrade: Enables a storage block to pick up items.
Advanced Pickup Upgrade: Allows a storage block to pick up items and provides additional filtering options for item collection.
Magnet Upgrades
Magnet upgrades allow storage blocks to draw items towards them from a distance.
Magnet Upgrade: Attracts items into the storage block's inventory from a certain range.
Advanced Magnet Upgrade: Attracts items into the storage block's inventory from a greater range and offers more filtering options for which items are collected.
Feeding Upgrades
Feeding upgrades provide a way for storage blocks to supply food to the player.
Feeding upgrade: Feeds the player with food items stored within the storage block's inventory.
Advanced Feeding upgrade: Feeds the player with food from the storage block's inventory and includes more options to customize when food is fed to the player.
Alchemy and jukebox
Two upgrades act on the player rather than on items.
Alchemy Upgrade: automatically uses potions, food carrying effects, or milk buckets from the storage. The 
Advanced Alchemy Upgrade adds filtering by effect, so it can drink what you want and leave the rest.
Jukebox Upgrade: turns the storage into a portable jukebox. The 
Advanced Jukebox Upgrade supports more discs and adds playback options.
Compacting and compression
Compacting Upgrade: compresses items into their block forms, handling 2x2 recipes. The 
Advanced Compacting Upgrade covers both 2x2 and 3x3 recipes with fuller filtering.
Compression Upgrade: compresses and decompresses automatically, which is the one to use when you want the storage to decide rather than to follow a filter.
Experience
Experience Pump Upgrade: moves experience between a Tank upgrade and the player, letting a storage block bank levels the way it banks fluids.
Choosing between basic and advanced
Every pairing above follows one rule: the basic version does the job, the advanced version adds filters. If a storage block only ever sees one kind of item, the basic upgrade is the cheaper and equally effective choice. Filters only start paying for themselves once a block is on a busy pipe network and has to be selective about what it accepts.
Covers the mod’s in-game guide topics: Pickup Upgrade Advanced Pickup Upgrade Magnet Upgrade Advanced Magnet Upgrade Feeding upgrade Advanced Feeding upgrade