Portable Storage Interface

The Portable Storage Interface is a block that allows stationary contraptions to directly interact with onboard inventories.

Obtaining

Breaking

A Portable Storage Interface requires a pickaxe to be mined, in which case it drops itself. If mined without a pickaxe, then the mining is slower and it drops nothing.

Crafting

Name	Ingredients	Crafting Recipe
Portable Storage Interface	Andesite Funnel + Brass Casing

Wrench

Shift-right-clicking on a Portable Storage Interface with a Wrench will destroy the Portable Storage Interface and place it in your inventory.

Usage

Transferring Items

Portable Storage Interfaces are used on moving contraptions including Mechanical Pistons, Bearings, or Cart Contraptions.

For Portable Storage Interfaces to interact they must face each other at 1-2 blocks apart. The moving interface must have an onboard inventory while the stationary interface has something inserting or extracting directly from it, such as a Mechanical Belt or Funnel. Inventory will then be exchanged at the rate of the inserting or extracting component.

Moving structures will stall when interfaces meet. A redstone signal can be applied to break off the connection.