..and so he leapt from the chains that bound him to the dullness, proclaiming "I shall take this no longer!"
And he grasp his mighty mallet and lay down his legendary anvil, and he worked, watching closely the ones that went before him. His work continued on for many days, many times he did stop to reforge a small piece of this mighty object.
And on the ninteenth day his work did stop, as he stared in amazement at what he had created. And he declared "With this great tool, I shall store 16777216 blocks, a great many mines it shall contain! I shall call it MineStore!"
And so it was, he had created his tool, MineStore, despite the naysayers. And with it, he held a great many mines in a complex fashion."
-The Book of the Mines, 11:29 (9th edition)