Essential Vault
Portable household knowledge: survival, compact encyclopedia, history, language and selected practical learning.- Survival manual
- Wikipedia Mini
- Human history
- Dictionary
SANCTUARY READY · KNOWLEDGE VAULT V3
A library that still works offline.
Survival guidance is only the first layer. Sanctuary can preserve a compact copy of the knowledge people rely on: encyclopedia, history, medicine, science, repair, education, maps, language and culture — without turning this page into a wall of files.
Choose a vault size
Six clear tiers. The build tool measures the current archive sizes and keeps headroom for updates.
Core Vault
Deep text-first reference for a household, small group or portable Node.- Full-text Wikipedia
- Primary sources
- Language
- Open textbooks
Community Vault
Visual encyclopedia plus primary sources, education, repair and wider practical reference.- Wikipedia with images
- History sources
- Language
- Education
Deep Community Vault
Shared learning/resilience node with room for larger technical, medical and educational collections.- Community Vault core
- Medicine
- Computing
- Engineering
Civilisation Vault
Long-duration local library spanning the major branches of human knowledge.- All core knowledge domains
- Medicine
- Computing
- Repair
Archive Vault
Preservation-class Node with headroom for books, developer material, multiple languages, maps and future archives.- Civilisation Vault
- Multilingual knowledge
- Developer Q&A
- larger books
What the vault protects
The detailed V3 dataset spans 17 knowledge domains, grouped here into six simple layers.
◎Stay safeField manuals, first aid, household planning and local resilience.
WKnow the worldWikipedia, dictionaries, geography and broad reference.
⌛Remember historyHuman chronology, competing perspectives and primary sources.
⚙Keep things workingRepair, engineering, computing, growing and practical skills.
▤Keep learningMathematics, science, textbooks, courses and children’s education.
◇Preserve cultureLiterature, philosophy, religion, arts, language and civic knowledge.
Featured core archives
A few dependable anchors stay visible here. The full file-level catalogue lives one level deeper.
Full English Wikipedia article text without images. Sanctuary’s preferred high-density encyclopedia archive.
~48 GB · Kiwix / WikipediaThe richest standard English Wikipedia ZIM, including images. Best suited to larger SSDs and permanent Nodes.
~115 GB · Kiwix / WikipediaA dedicated English Wikipedia history selection for smaller drives. Full articles, no images.
~701 MB · Kiwix / WikipediaHistorical documents, literature, speeches, laws and other source texts. Complements rather than duplicates Wikipedia.
~11 GB · Kiwix / WikisourceLarge offline dictionary, etymology and language reference.
~8.5 GB · Kiwix / WiktionaryOpen textbooks and practical learning material across science, computing, language and other subjects.
Catalog-dependent · Kiwix / WikibooksBuilt for real drives
Sanctuary stores its own manuals and manifests in the repo. Giant knowledge archives stay at their official source and are resolved when a USB, SSD or Node is prepared.
- Current Kiwix catalogue resolution
- Actual remote file-size checks
- Capacity budget and free-space reserve
- Torrent/direct download options
- Checksums and archive dates
Commercial packs stay rights-clean
Not every useful offline source can legally be placed on a paid Sanctuary USB. V3 separates commercially redistributable/open material from non-commercial or rights-review collections.
- Wikimedia/open archives retain attribution and licence metadata
- iFixit, OpenStax and PhET are flagged non-commercial
- Project Gutenberg receives a UK rights-review warning
- Kolibri channels are checked resource-by-resource
- Community-only Nodes can have a different content profile from paid media
Human history stays deep
The history layer combines a chronology/index with encyclopedia context and primary-source material, rather than presenting one Sanctuary-written story as the only account.
- Prehistory to contemporary history
- Africa, Asia, Europe, Americas and Oceania
- Migration, trade, technology, religion and law
- Conflict, empire, colonialism and decolonisation
- Wikisource primary documents beside summaries
Keep the website simple. Keep the vault deep.
The public page stays curated. Detailed archive names, licensing, versions, checksums, source queries and storage calculations live in the Advanced Catalogue and machine-readable manifests.
Offline archives are snapshots, not live intelligence. Current emergency, medical, legal, conflict and travel instructions take precedence. Sanctuary does not proxy giant third-party archives through Vercel.