Sorted - Inventory & Chest Sorting, Quick Stack

Sorted adds a few buttons to your inventory and chest screens. They sort, move items to and from the chests around you, and search everything you've put away. Nothing is needed on the server.

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Quick Stack

Stand in your storage room and click Quick Stack. Every stack goes to the nearby chest that already holds that item, or the same material: raw iron goes to the chest with your iron. The chests that took something light up for a moment. What has no chest stays with you.

Shift+Click also puts away the items that have no chest yet, in the chest that fits best. To put away a single stack, pick it up and click Quick Stack; Shift+Click sends every stack of that item. Quick Fill tops up the stacks you carry from nearby chests, and Pull All takes a whole chest.

While Quick Stack, Quick Fill or emptying into nearby chests runs, a small card above the hotbar shows how far it is, with a bar. You can move, resize or hide it in the HUD tab of the settings, where Reset all panels puts it back (26.x; on 1.21.x the progress is the line above the hotbar).

Sort a chest

One click sorts the open chest and groups what belongs together. Shift+Click lays it out in columns, Ctrl+Click in rows, Alt+Click compact with no grouping. A chest remembers the layout you picked, and the settings let you choose what a plain click does.

It sorts by what things are, not by name. In a redstone chest the dust, torches, repeaters and comparators share a row, pistons get the next, then droppers, dispensers and hoppers, then rails.

A wood chest in rows gets one kind of wood per row, with logs, planks, stairs and slabs in the same order each time.

Sort your inventory

Tools, weapons and armor come first, then food, then blocks grouped by material, then the rest. The order is the same every time. Your hotbar isn't touched. Press R with the inventory open, or use the button.

Shulker boxes are sorted by what's in them, so a box of redstone ends up next to your redstone. A shulker box in your inventory also shows its main item on the lid, so you can tell the boxes apart without hovering each one.

Sorting on pickup and sorting a chest when you open it are options, both off by default.

Keep what you need

Alt+Click an item and it's no longer sent to chests. Alt+Scroll sets a number instead: keep 2 stacks of rockets, and only what's above that leaves. Hover Quick Stack or Quick Empty, or hold Alt, to see which stacks will stay.

/sorted keep opens the list of rules. You can share a list as a code.

Find an item

Sorted remembers what was in every chest, barrel and shulker box you've opened, per world and per server. Press ` and type a name in Find Items: you get the total, and which containers hold it. Click a result and those containers light up in the world, through walls, as a filled box or an outline.

Look in the room you're in, your base, everything loaded or the whole world. Results come as a grid of icons or as a list with the nearest container and how far away it is.

What it shows is what was there when you last opened the container. With auto-scan on, containers within reach are read as you walk past.

See inside without opening

Placed shulker boxes show what's in them on the lid, with the name if you gave them one. Chests and barrels can do the same, but that's off until you turn it on in the settings. You choose how many items show and from how far.

In singleplayer the contents are read live. On a server they come from what Sorted has recorded, so a container shows up after you've opened it once.

With Jade or WTHIT installed, their tooltip on a container also shows what Sorted remembers is in it, and how long ago that was (26.x).

After you die

Sorted remembers where everything was in your inventory. When you pick your items back up, they go to the slots they were in, hotbar and armor included.

Looks like the game

The buttons use vanilla button frames, so a resource pack that restyles buttons restyles these too. The icons are sprites a pack can replace.

On 26.x, Find Items, the keep list and the settings start in the Minecraft look. One click in the settings switches them to the VoxelSprout look, dark, light or following your computer. The settings have a Presets tab that sets a few things at once, a search across every tab, and a short walkthrough under Help.

Sorted comes in English, Dutch, German, French and Russian.

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Controls

Keys, change them in Options → Controls

`	Sorted: Open Container Search (the same key is ± on some Mac keyboards)
R	Sorted: Quick Sort Inventory
not set	Sorted: Open Keep List

In an inventory or chest screen

Click a sort button	Sort
Shift+Click	Columns, one kind of thing per column
Ctrl+Click	Rows, one kind of thing per row
Alt+Click a sort button	Compact, no grouping
Alt+Click an item	Keep it, it's never sent to a container
Alt+Scroll an item	Keep a number of stacks of it
Hold Alt	Show which stacks are kept

Commands

/sorted or /sorted help	Every command, clickable (26.x)
/sorted config	Settings, with or without Mod Menu
/sorted keep	The keep list
`/sorted menuguard [on\	off\
/sorted storage [add]	Show, or add, the last container screen you opened from another mod
/sorted onboarding	The walkthrough (26.x)
/sorted report	Report a bug or ask for a feature (26.x)

On servers

Sorted runs on your client only, so it works on vanilla servers and Realms. It moves items with the same clicks you would make, at a limited rate (15 a tick by default, about 300 a second).

What it does to stay out of trouble

• If a server kicks you while a sort is running, Sorted slows down on that server and remembers it. It keeps slowing down until the kicks stop. You can also set the rate yourself.
• Shop, auction and other menus that a server shows as a chest are recognized and left alone.
• Some servers don't allow this kind of mod. Sorted has a list of those and switches itself off completely when you join one. You can add servers to it.
• A server running VoxelSprout Policy can turn single features off, or cap how fast Sorted clicks. Sorted tells you in chat what that server turned off, and your settings stay as they are for other servers.

Whether you're allowed to use it is up to the server. Check the rules if you're not sure.

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Requirements

• Fabric, with Fabric API, and on 1.21.x also YACL
• NeoForge 26.1.2 to 26.3, nothing else needed
• Mod Menu (optional, Fabric), adds a settings button to the mods list. /sorted config works without it

On NeoForge 1.21–1.21.1 the Fabric file runs with Sinytra Connector and Forgified Fabric API.

Version support

Tested before each release: 1.21.11 and 26.3 on Fabric, 26.1.2, 26.2 and 26.3 on NeoForge.

Built from the same code but not tested each release: 1.21–1.21.3, 1.21.10, 26.1–26.2 on Fabric, and NeoForge 1.21 with Connector. Bugs there get fixed too, so please report them.

Bugs and ideas

On 26.x, type /sorted report, or use Help in the settings. You see everything that would be sent, with names and paths taken out, and nothing goes until you press Send. When your report gets an answer, the game tells you. On any version, the Discord works too.

Containers from other mods

The chest buttons show on vanilla chests, barrels and shulker boxes. A storage mod can add its own containers, and then sorting, Quick Stack, Quick Fill, search and the labels work on them too. For a mod that hasn't, open one of its containers, close it and run /sorted storage add.

These work without that, tested on Fabric 1.21.1:

• Farmer's Delight: cabinets
• Storage Delight: drawers, cabinets and bookshelves with doors
• Handcrafted: cupboards, drawers, counters, desks, nightstands, shelves and side tables
• Another Furniture: drawers
• Macaw's Furniture: drawers, cabinets, wardrobes and counters

Backpacks get the sort buttons too, tested on Fabric 26.3: Traveler's Backpack, Packed Up, Bag of Holding, Nemo's Backpacks and Tiered Backpacks.

Making a mod? The storage API, and the lookup API BuildPrint uses, are on the Sorted wiki with examples. Neither needs a hard dependency on Sorted.

Modpacks and videos

Use Sorted in any modpack, on CurseForge, Modrinth or anywhere else. Show it in videos, streams, reviews and mod showcases, monetized or not. You don't need to ask for either. A link back to this page is welcome.

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