Sort your items using the Automatic Chest Sorter.

The chest sorting system works using storage minecarts and is able to move entire inventories instantly.

A very basic example of a chest sorting setup.

The storage cart can be put into one of three modes by having the cart pass over a powered activator rail with a wool block under it.

The color of the wool will change the mode of the minecart.

• Red Wool = Chest to Cart mode - Take items out of chests and put them into the minecart. (Note: currently to reduce abuse, the chest MUST be named "Input" use an anvil to rename the item)
• Blue Wool = Cart to Chest mode - Take items out of the cart and put them into the chests.
• White Wool = Disabled mode - Returns the cart back to vanilla behavior

There are other settings that you can use:

Take Conditions:

• Green Wool = Leave one of each item type behind.
• Orange Wool = Don't leave any items behind
• Yellow Wool = Leave one of each stack behind.

Put Conditions:

• Magenta Wool = Only transfer if the target already contains the same type of item
• Brown Wool = Transfer regardless of what is in the target.
• Pink Wool = Top up existing stacks in the target. (not implemented yet)

Once you have configured the cart using the wool blocks, when the cart passes over a powered activator rail it will scan for nearby chests (2 blocks up, 2 blocks down, 1 block east, west, north, & south) and will put or take items as you have configured it.