Better Handling

🎒 Better Minecraft Handling

Smarter inventory. Cleaner gameplay. Less hassle.
A lightweight Fabric quality-of-life mod that improves inventory handling, item visibility, sorting, refill behavior, and dropped item management.

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✨ About Better Minecraft Handling

Better Minecraft Handling is designed to make everyday Minecraft gameplay smoother, cleaner, and more comfortable.

Whether you are mining deep underground, building large structures, organizing chests, fighting mobs, or carrying a Totem of Undying, this mod helps reduce small annoyances and keeps your gameplay flowing.

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⭐ Main Features

• 🔁 Auto-Refill: Automatically refills your selected hotbar slot when a stack is used up.
• 📦 One-Click Sorting: Sort your inventory and supported containers with a compact button.
• 📦 Easy Storage: Open a Chest and press "X" to sort the same items into the chest.
• 🧲 Stack Merging: Matching items are combined whenever possible while sorting.
• 🛡️ Dedicated Totem Slot: Adds an extra slot above the offhand slot for your Totem of Undying.
• 💾 Persistent Totem Storage: Totems in the dedicated slot are saved and restored after relogging or server restarts.
• 👁️ Better Visibility: Dropped items and hostile mobs can receive a clean white outline for easier visibility.
• 🚫 No X-Ray Advantage: Outlines only appear when the entity is actually visible.
• 🧲 Nearby Item Stacking: Dropped items can automatically merge into larger stacks nearby.
• ⛏️ Block Drop Stacking: Items from mined blocks can be merged shortly after dropping.

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🔁 Auto-Refill

Running out of blocks while building or mining can interrupt your flow. With Auto-Refill, the mod can automatically refill your currently selected hotbar slot from your inventory when the stack is empty.

This is especially useful for:

• 🧱 Building blocks
• 🔥 Torches
• 🍗 Food stacks
• ⛏️ Common mining materials

Important: Auto-refill is designed to stay out of your way and does not interfere while inventory or container screens are open.

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📦 Inventory & Chest Sorting

Keep your inventory clean with a compact one-click sort button. Matching stacks are merged whenever possible, and items are organized into a cleaner order.

Sorting works in:

• 🎒 Player inventory
• 📦 Chests and supported containers

This is especially helpful after mining trips, building sessions, farming, looting, or long adventures.

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🛡️ Dedicated Totem Slot

Better Minecraft Handling adds a dedicated extra slot above the offhand slot for your Totem of Undying.

The slot is designed specifically for Totems and gives you a clean place to keep your emergency protection item without using a normal inventory slot.

• 🟢 Only accepts Totem of Undying
• 🎒 Does not use a normal inventory slot
• 👀 Visible directly inside the inventory screen
• 💾 Saved after relogging and server restarts
• 🎨 Uses a gray Totem placeholder icon when empty

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👁️ Better Item & Mob Visibility

Dropped items and hostile mobs can be highlighted with a clean white outline and subtle glow effect, making them easier to spot in caves, mines, darkness, and cluttered areas.

To avoid unfair visibility advantages, the outline system respects visibility checks and is not intended to reveal mobs or items through walls.

The outline effect can be toggled with a keybind. This toggle only affects the visibility outline system — sorting, auto-refill, Totem slot, and item stacking remain active.

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🧲 Dropped Item Stacking

Too many dropped item entities can create clutter and may affect performance. Better Minecraft Handling can automatically merge nearby matching dropped items into larger stacks.

This helps keep the world cleaner when many items are dropped at the same time.

• 🧲 Nearby dropped items can merge automatically
• ⛏️ Block drops can be stacked shortly after mining
• 📦 Stacks fill up to their normal maximum stack size
• ⚙️ Can be enabled or disabled in the server config

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⚙️ Configurable & Lightweight

The mod is designed to be useful, simple, and lightweight. Several features can be adjusted through client and server configuration files.

• ✅ Lightweight quality-of-life design
• ✅ Built for Fabric
• ✅ Client-friendly visual options
• ✅ Server-side options for item stacking
• ✅ Focused on convenience without changing Minecraft’s core gameplay style

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💡 Perfect For

• ⛏️ Miners who want better visibility and cleaner drops
• 🏗️ Builders who constantly refill blocks
• 🧭 Adventurers who want smoother inventory handling
• 🛡️ Players who always carry a Totem of Undying
• 📦 Anyone tired of messy inventories and crowded item drops

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🎮 Better Minecraft Handling

Focus on your adventure — let the mod handle the small stuff.