Baskets

Baskets are the earliest form of storage known to humankind, predating even pottery, and are still used today. Baskets can be made from many materials that are readily available around the world.

In Basket Case, baskets are used for early game item storage and transportation. The smallest baskets can be made without tools or crafting table. You can also use baskets decoratively.

Here are a variety of Basket Case’s baskets in different colors and sizes:

Small oak bark basket Medium birch bark basket Large acacia bark basket Small jungle bark basket Medium dark oak bark basket Large spruce bark basket Small birch twig basket Medium spruce twig basket Large dark oak twig basket Small oak twig basket Medium jungle twig basket Large acacia twig basket

The coloring of wicker and baskets made from bark strips vs. twigs might seem backward at first. Remember that bark strips are the flexible inner bark of the tree after the brittle outer bark has been stripped away, so their color is the same as the tree’s wood. On the other hand, twigs are covered with thin, flexible bark that’s the same color as the rest of the bark on the tree. So twig baskets are colored like the tree’s bark.

Basket Case offers three sizes of basket—small, medium, and large—made from the appropriate size of wicker.

There are three basic types of basket, each made from a different type of wicker:

  • Twig baskets (made from twig wicker)
  • Bark baskets (made from bark wicker)
  • Generic baskets (made from generic wicker)

Baskets can be made from each of the six vanilla tree types. All these varieties add up to 39 total baskets, depending on how you have configured Basket Case.

Obtaining

Small baskets can be crafted without a crafting table. Medium and large baskets require a crafting table.

Medium and large baskets require cordage to bind the wicker together. Twig and bark baskets must use the appropriate kind of bark strips.

Twig baskets

Recipe for small twig baskets
Recipe for small twig baskets
Recipe for medium twig baskets
Recipe for medium twig baskets
Recipe for large twig baskets
Recipe for large twig baskets

Bark baskets

Recipe for small baskets from bark strips
Recipe for small baskets from bark strips
Recipe for medium baskets from bark strips
Recipe for medium baskets from bark strips
Recipe for large baskets from bark strips
Recipe for large baskets from bark strips

Generic baskets

Generic baskets of medium and large size require cordage to bind the wicker together. The images here show only twine as cordage, but Basket Case also supports vines and bark strips by default. See the cordage page for a full list of options.

Recipe for small generic basket
Recipe for small generic basket
Recipe for medium generic basket
Recipe for medium generic basket using twine as cordage
Recipe for large generic basket
Recipe for large generic basket using twine as cordage

Using

Baskets behave differently than chests and regular blocks.

Placing. Baskets can only be placed on solid flat surfaces. Hold a basket in your main hand and right click while targeting a block. The basket will be placed. You can also place a basket from your off-hand, as long as you aren’t holding a placeable block in your main hand.

Picking up. While sneaking, use (right click) the basket with an empty hand. The basket will drop into the world as an item.

Breaking or destroying. Break the basket without sneaking. The effects of doing this changed in v2.1.95.

  • Before v2.1.95, breaking the basket destroys the basket itself, and its contents drop. Breaking it while sneaking makes the basket and its contents to drop.
  • After v2.1.95, breaking the basket makes the basket and its contents to drop wether you are sneaking or not. You can enable the old “hardcore” basket destruction behavior in the config settings.

Opening a basket from your inventory. While holding a basket in your main hand, use it (right click) without targeting a block. Looking up at the sky is a good way to make sure you’re not targeting a block.

Previewing basket contents. With your inventory open, hover over any basket and press Shift. The contents of the basket will display as part of the tool tip.

Basket contents in tool tip when holding shift
Basket contents in tool tip when holding shift

Storage capacity. Baskets have a limited number of storage slots, and the slots have smaller stack sizes. (The stack sizes can be configured.)

Basket # of Slots Max Stack Size Max # of Items Held
Small basket 4 16 64
Medium basket 8 32 256
Large basket 12 48 576

Decoration. Baskets are a great piece of rustic decor. If desired, you can turn off their storage capacity completely, making them only useful for decoration.

Configuring

In the config settings, baskets can be tweaked in the following ways:

  • You can choose to prevent wood-specific baskets.
    • If you prevent wood-specific baskets, only generic twigs and bark strips from Primal Lib will be present (if configured to be turned on in the Primal Lib config). Generic twigs and bark strips can still be crafted into wicker and baskets, but they will be generic wicker and baskets that look like oak.
    • If you allow wood-specific baskets, then generic twigs, bark strips, and wicker will not be available. Instead, wood-specific twigs and bark strips will be present, which can be crafted into wood-specific baskets.
  • You can choose to disallow small, medium, or large baskets. Doing so also prevents that size of wicker from being crafted. For example, if you disallow large baskets, then large wicker cannot be crafted.
  • You can make baskets decorative only, so they can’t function as containers.
  • You can specify the maximum stack size for items in each size of basket. The defaults are 16 for small baskets, 32 for medium, and 48 for large. The highest you can set the max stack size is 64.
  • You can make it so baskets can be carried in your regular inventory. By default, baskets can only go in the hot bar.
  • You can make it so baskets can be put in other containers, such as chests (starting with 2.1.109).
  • You can make it so baskets are destroyed when broken unless you are sneaking. (Before 2.1.95, this behavior could not be turned off.)

Data

Small baskets

Item Item ID Translation ID OreDictionary Terms
Small generic basket basketcase:
basket_small_generic
item.basketcase:
basket_small_generic.name
n/a
Small acacia bark basket basketcase:
basket_small_bark_acacia
item.basketcase:
basket_small_bark_acacia.name
n/a
Small birch bark basket basketcase:
basket_small_bark_birch
item.basketcase:
basket_small_bark_birch.name
n/a
Small dark oak bark basket basketcase:
basket_small_bark_dark_oak
item.basketcase:
basket_small_bark_dark_oak.name
n/a
Small jungle bark basket basketcase:
basket_small_bark_jungle
item.basketcase:
basket_small_bark_jungle.name
n/a
Small oak bark basket basketcase:
basket_small_bark_oak
item.basketcase:
basket_small_bark_oak.name
n/a
Small spruce bark basket basketcase:
basket_small_bark_spruce
item.basketcase:
basket_small_bark_spruce.name
n/a
Small acacia twig basket basketcase:
basket_small_twig_acacia
item.basketcase:
basket_small_twig_acacia.name
n/a
Small birch twig basket basketcase:
basket_small_twig_birch
item.basketcase:
basket_small_twig_birch.name
n/a
Small dark oak twig basket basketcase:
basket_small_twig_dark_oak
item.basketcase:
basket_small_twig_dark_oak.name
n/a
Small jungle twig basket basketcase:
basket_small_twig_jungle
item.basketcase:
basket_small_twig_jungle.name
n/a
Small oak twig basket basketcase:
basket_small_twig_oak
item.basketcase:
basket_small_twig_oak.name
n/a
Small spruce twig basket basketcase:
basket_small_twig_spruce
item.basketcase:
basket_small_twig_spruce.name
n/a

Medium baskets

Item Item ID Translation ID OreDictionary Terms
Medium generic basket basketcase:
basket_medium_generic
item.basketcase:
basket_medium_generic.name
n/a
Medium acacia bark basket basketcase:
basket_medium_bark_acacia
item.basketcase:
basket_medium_bark_acacia.name
n/a
Medium birch bark basket basketcase:
basket_medium_bark_birch
item.basketcase:
basket_medium_bark_birch.name
n/a
Medium dark oak bark basket basketcase:
basket_medium_bark_dark_oak
item.basketcase:
basket_medium_bark_dark_oak.name
n/a
Medium jungle bark basket basketcase:
basket_medium_bark_jungle
item.basketcase:
basket_medium_bark_jungle.name
n/a
Medium oak bark basket basketcase:
basket_medium_bark_oak
item.basketcase:
basket_medium_bark_oak.name
n/a
Medium spruce bark basket basketcase:
basket_medium_bark_spruce
item.basketcase:
basket_medium_bark_spruce.name
n/a
Medium acacia twig basket basketcase:
basket_medium_twig_acacia
item.basketcase:
basket_medium_twig_acacia.name
n/a
Medium birch twig basket basketcase:
basket_medium_twig_birch
item.basketcase:
basket_medium_twig_birch.name
n/a
Medium dark oak twig basket basketcase:
basket_medium_twig_dark_oak
item.basketcase:
basket_medium_twig_dark_oak.name
n/a
Medium jungle twig basket basketcase:
basket_medium_twig_jungle
item.basketcase:
basket_medium_twig_jungle.name
n/a
Medium oak twig basket basketcase:
basket_medium_twig_oak
item.basketcase:
basket_medium_twig_oak.name
n/a
Medium spruce twig basket basketcase:
basket_medium_twig_spruce
item.basketcase:
basket_medium_twig_spruce.name
n/a

Large baskets

Item Item ID Translation ID OreDictionary Terms
Large generic basket basketcase:
basket_large_generic
item.basketcase:
basket_large_generic.name
n/a
Large acacia bark basket basketcase:
basket_large_bark_acacia
item.basketcase:
basket_large_bark_acacia.name
n/a
Large birch bark basket basketcase:
basket_large_bark_birch
item.basketcase:
basket_large_bark_birch.name
n/a
Large dark oak bark basket basketcase:
basket_large_bark_dark_oak
item.basketcase:
basket_large_bark_dark_oak.name
n/a
Large jungle bark basket basketcase:
basket_large_bark_jungle
item.basketcase:
basket_large_bark_jungle.name
n/a
Large oak bark basket basketcase:
basket_large_bark_oak
item.basketcase:
basket_large_bark_oak.name
n/a
Large spruce bark basket basketcase:
basket_large_bark_spruce
item.basketcase:
basket_large_bark_spruce.name
n/a
Large acacia twig basket basketcase:
basket_large_twig_acacia
item.basketcase:
basket_large_twig_acacia.name
n/a
Large birch twig basket basketcase:
basket_large_twig_birch
item.basketcase:
basket_large_twig_birch.name
n/a
Large dark oak twig basket basketcase:
basket_large_twig_dark_oak
item.basketcase:
basket_large_twig_dark_oak.name
n/a
Large jungle twig basket basketcase:
basket_large_twig_jungle
item.basketcase:
basket_large_twig_jungle.name
n/a
Large oak twig basket basketcase:
basket_large_twig_oak
item.basketcase:
basket_large_twig_oak.name
n/a
Large spruce twig basket basketcase:
basket_large_twig_spruce
item.basketcase:
basket_large_twig_spruce.name
n/a