See this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/k171x6/11_adds_a_new_linked_chest_only_available_in_the

Rseding specifically says it was added for mods, and it sounds perfect for this mod to use. I'm not much of a modder, nor do I know if you've already considered this, so apologies if it isn't possible.

No, I wasn't aware of this, but I don't think linked chests would be useful for this mod. It looks more suited for Factorissimo or Clusterio.

Ah, okay. I was thinking it could somehow optimize the way the chests merge and share the same inventory while still being an arbitrary size. Thank you for the quick response!

I think the linked chests work by sharing one inventory in the backend, which merged chests already do anyway, since they are a single entity.

There is not much to do if I would like to use the linked chests, since they would basically totally replace this mod, while being super cheaty.

I found a mod that's similar to what I meant: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/SchallAutolinkedChest

It wouldn't feel as cheaty to use linked chests to be honest, probably less so, since it's built into the game now. I'll stop bothering you about this, though, as it's completely your decision.

It is just slightly different mod. Enables any arbiterary share of chests to be linked. Not quite as cheaty as I first thought.

The bottom line it that mod for this already exists, so there is no benefit of duplicating it. But thanks for the info, I didn't know about this feature in 1.1 at all.

Linked chests don't allow to read their content.