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The copper golems feel somewhat limited in usefulness since they currently cannot even sort a basic starter base efficiently. A more practical design could involve them using categories when they cannot find an exact match for an item. For example, if a copper golem picks up a red rose but cannot locate that specific item, it should place it alongside other flowers. If no relevant category exists, the golem could then place the item in a chest which has mostly random things If the golem still cannot find an appropriate spot, it should return the item to a copper chest and move on to the next task. At present, they are only truly effective for sorting simple resources such as coal and iron into designated chests, like those used in farms. Additionally, it would be much more efficient if the golem could memorize items it has previously seen in chests. This way, instead of checking every chest repeatedly, it could go directly to the correct chest when it encounters the same item again.
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    I very much agree. As I write this I am listening to my 5 copper golems attempt to sort my furnace output (smelting copper and iron) and my dump chest. They handle the furnace pretty well because the proper chest is one of three nearest to the output. The dump chest (containing largely tuff, deepslate, and some lava buckets) they struggle with. For the bulk of the items in the chest the golems have to pass several other chests and they get very bogged down searching each one. They've been at it a good 10 minutes now and have clear about 10 stacks from the dump chest (with runs to the furnace output).

    Improving copper golem memory (remembering where an item was) would be huge.

    Increasing the number of normal chest they can visit would probably help (I don't know many end game storehouses that have 10 or fewer chests).

    Allowing them to sort by category would help a lot.

    Having a chest UI to determine what could go in would help a lot but be more complicated for the player.