But if you can double your inventory size with a simple speed penalty (ornate gleam chests are what, 48 slots?) I donāt think itād be harsh enough, so carrying such a setup while mining would become the norm. Carrying a beacon control and a fuel stack would be a minor inconvenience compared to the gain. Imo the penalty would have to be strong enough so itās not the go-to setup for all activities.
Thatās fair enough. It is a reasonable concern, I think.
Can you (or anyone else too) think of any potential penalty that might work/feel balanced? Other than simply limiting the amount of chests carried at maximum, any other penalty I can think of, I can also think of a workaround for. 
Either way, I feel that if there are too many penalties or inconveniences to such a method of moving storage, then there may be no point in having it at all anyway, because then it ends up feeling like a chore to use it anyway. 
The thing is, at the moment, even without the ability to move chests, with a minimal amount of setup you could already easily put a beacon next to a mining spot and set up some warps so that moving their contents is just as trivial and cost-free back to your base; but that requires setup and by definition is also an exploit of an unintended behaviour with how warping worksā¦ I donāt know anyone that uses this for mining, but the possibility to hoard thousands of freshly mined materials in a small amount of space with quick travel convenience is already possible.
In an ideal world Iād rather such convenience exploits were simply non-existent and that we were just able to move our stuff, regardless of what that stuff is, with tools provided by the game itself in a legitimate way. As I said in my OP, at the moment, I feel punished for āhoardingā blocks and building materials.
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I feel the pain and would welcome a tool like this, but I also think itās a bit different from a beacon warp setup since itās 100% portable and lives in your inventory.
Maybe you canāt use tools while you have such a chest in your inventory? Or canāt jump? Or some combination, like slower movement per chest and canāt use tools?
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Ok, letās all agree we need back packs. 
We have explored a system for allowing players to collapse a beacon and then get the blocks + items from a special storage on another world.
So itās would work as long as you wanted to take the entire beacon.
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That could work maybe. If weāre moving chests, we probably donāt really want to be using other tools anyway? Restricting grapples and block-breaking tools perhapsā¦ Not sure what would be best though. I think restricting jumping completely might be too much, depending on where youāre moving the storage.
Lock it to the hand the tool is inā¦ youāre either holding it or placing it no inbetween
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That would have helped massively for my move really. As I said in the OP, I still have a lot of stuff on the same area as my old base, stuff that I likely wonāt move so soon because of the distance and its non-urgency, plus Iād still be needing to make an equivalent storage area at the new place.
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Good point.
Would have to make all storages beacon-placed only. It would make it impossible to abuse on exo trips.
Would that work in a similar fashion to the world regen? Iām just wondering if you explored an instant option or a time delayed one.
Thank you so much for this!!
Not sure if this will come soon or not but just knowing about the things you guys have on mind makes my day better.
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Nice sketch! I like the idea of a durability of 1.
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What would be pretty neat is a cut and paste for the builds within those beacons
THAT would be INSANELY good for people needing to move off world due to numerous reasons, Mainly due to harassment from other players making either a mess of roads or offensive trolling type builds due to some immature grudges towards certain guilds 
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Not sure how possible would that be. Matching the terrain and the space wouldnāt be easy.
But being able to pack everything is enough help already! Having to tear down a building/city is already half the process lol
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All actions must happen over time - as we canāt allow anything to stall the server. Beacons can be any size so the sever, if time was available per tick, would extract gradually.
This could still happen extremely quickly in a matter of seconds or minutes.
So it would be a bit like regen - but regen is configured to happen even slower.
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How long would the stores stuff remain in the stores state? Indefinitely I hope!
Awesome, thatās what I was expecting to happen. I like the idea a lot 
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Back to the OPās idea.
What if the penalty is that once the tool has picked up itās payload of storage(s) you are unable to perform any other actions except eating? Iād also suggest that you gain a status effect noting the state you are in with a tooltip of instructions.
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As discussed before I do like this option as long as it is the whole beacon or something like that since no user can easily select what blocks they might use in their building of the new location. I do still feel that we need a true ācut/pasteā option for users that are not wanting to build something new in that location and instead want to literally lift and shift their build (within reason) to another spot or planet. Without the cut/paste feature those that might have to use this feature to āmoveā end up just having another grind of having to rebuild.
In regards to the OP, though, I do personally love the idea of a tool that allows me to move a whole chest and its contents from one spot to another. There have been many cases where I put stuff in one location and then wished I had put the chest somewhere else. Instead of having to run back and forth I could just pick up the whole thing and move it. I donāt know how chests āhold their stuffā but it would be nice to have that movable especially if we ever want carts/boat or some other way to transport our chests. I could see trade being executed like this.
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