No worries, glad its working ! :D

Looks like that save was just funky, worked fine in the new one (both current and in experimental/the family update). My bad!

Its possible they were learning the previous research needed to build the crate itself. Which might look like its stuck in a loop. Double check the Learning menu to see.

Current version and just yours, it was about 5-6 days with a 14 building noble; started a new game so I'll try again to see if I was just unlucky or something.

Which game version, any other mods?

My nobles keep researching the crate over and over again without ever ending. (action completes, then repeats)

Just updated. New info above in the description :)

@Kendric - SotD The research tier.

@Vane More so meant to be an alternative path to making storage. Probably better idea to have them expand on the shelves instead.

I believe you've overbalanced them. 4 shelves can fit into 1 grid square, and 4 tall shelves hold 4x4 = 16 item slots. And shelves only cost wood. Crates, on the other hand, cost wood, copper, silver, gold, per tier respectively and only silver crate holds more than 4 tall shelves per square. And silver and gold are way more expensive than wood, so there's basically no incentive to build crates.

Satoru, what would I have to edit to make the basic chest crafteble with skill 1?

No worries, happy to help!

Thanks for the info.
Details on stuff like this seems quite rare on the internet.

Slots are per item stack. So 10 slots can hold 10 different stacks of items. Its meant to be a another way of doing storage without being too op. Yeah you basically got it right. Nice and Fancy is where the benefits come in using them over the Shelves.

I'm not sure what slots mean in this context.
Is it how many stacks of stuff it can take?
So a normal stockpile tile has 4, a short shelf 2, tall shelf 4 and so on?
If it's like this then the tall shelf is still superior to the basic and fine chest, since a chest requires a full tile while 4 tall shelves can occupy one tile, resulting in a 16 stack storing capacity per tile.

If I'm wrong about this please calrify.
I couldn't really find anything online explaining how storage works.

Yeah, storage's in game don't list whats in the storage. So you wont know how many are in each specific one. Since they are big boxes you cant visually see inside them. I'll check if i can maybe give a way to see in the top of them.

Well for the first ones I made it for fruits and vegetables, so 1 for apples, one for potatoes, etc. I only flagged one item per crate, and not the whole category: Food.The next ones were for Clay because I has so much of it. So I just checkmarked Clay! Time has past, and they are all still empty, I never see anything inside them like a 25 slot storage area full of apples, or pumpkin, or anything at all. They are still as I set them

What do you mean by it doesnt show any content?

OK, Thank You for responding. I guess I didnt understand because they dont show any content yet. I downloaded your other mod with 10x stack and that will solve my problems anyway, so thanks for that, much better

Hi, they function the same way as other storage's in game. Main difference is they can end up with higher amount of storage slots.

How do these work, I build them but they still seem empty. I presume, that when they put lets say "clay" inside one that the clay shows up, but nothing ever happens so I cant tell?