ChestTransporter

Chest Transporter

Stop moving chests block by block — and stop leaving your farm animals behind, too. Just grab the whole thing.

🎯 The Concept

Ever spent ten minutes emptying a chest just to move it three rooms over? Or chased a cow across the map to get it into the right pen? Chest Transporter fixes both problems with the same tool: a mechanical, steampunk-styled tool with a spring-loaded claw that opens up, grabs a chest (or a barrel, a shulker box, a mob spawner) with everything still inside it, or captures a whole living creature — and hands it back to you fully intact wherever you decide to put it down.

🚫 No more temporary inventories, no more "staging" chests, no more double chests torn apart mid-move, no more half-built pens before you go catch the animals.
✅ One click to pick up, one click to place back down (or release).

⚙️ Key Features

• 📦 Capture with inventory intact — right-click a chest (including double chests), a barrel, a shulker box, or any storage block from other mods, and the tool disassembles it along with everything inside.

• 🔄 Faithful placement — right-click a block to put it back down exactly as you found it: same orientation, same custom name, same lock.

• 🐄 Capture living creatures too — right-click a mob to "bottle it up" and release it somewhere else, exactly like you would with a block. The tool's tooltip always shows which creature you're carrying.

• 📈 A four-tier progression for mobs as well: wood captures passive animals, iron adds villagers (and the wandering trader), diamond adds hostile creatures, netherite rounds it out with bosses (Wither and Warden included). The Ender Dragon is deliberately never capturable, at any tier, to avoid risking corruption of the end-fight state.

• 🔗 Native cross-mod compatibility — automatically recognizes any chest/barrel using the common c:chests / c:barrels tags, plus every vanilla variant (including copper chests at every oxidation stage).

• 👾 Works on mob spawners too — vanilla and modded (e.g. Apothic Spawner).

• ⚡ A miniature steam engine with genuinely rotating gears (not just painted on) and a gauge that pulses — because even a work tool can have personality.

🏆 The Four Tiers

Every tier is unlocked with a crafting-table recipe, in progression: the final jump to Netherite happens at the smithing table, following the same upgrade ritual as diamond tools — because a chest that weighs like a boulder (or a thrashing Warden) deserves the same treatment as a legendary sword.

📥 Installation

Requires NeoForge. Copy the jar matching your Minecraft version into the mods folder.

🙏 Credits and Inspiration

The idea of "picking up a chest and carrying it elsewhere" isn't new: it comes from the classic Chest Transporter mod by cubex2 for Minecraft 1.12.2 and earlier versions — a small but beloved staple for anyone who's built a base with too many chests scattered around. Full credit for the original concept goes to them.

📜 A note on code and rights: cubex2's original mod is distributed all rights reserved. This project does not reuse, decompile, or derive from any part of it — no code, no models, no textures, no assets of any kind. What was taken from that mod is only the base idea ("a tool that picks up a chest along with its contents"); everything else — the game logic, mechanics, source code, 3D models, textures, balancing — was written and drawn entirely from scratch for this project, built on modern NeoForge.

✨ This version expands significantly on the original concept: native cross-mod compatibility, double-chest handling, shulker box and mob spawner support, an entire four-tier creature capture system, and a completely new steampunk aesthetic.

🚧 Project Status — Work In Progress

Chest Transporter is an actively developed project. The core mechanics (block capture, mob capture, transport, placement, the four tiers) are complete and tested, but:

• 🎨 Models and textures are hand-made/placeholder: functional and on-theme, but not yet at the level of a dedicated artist — they'll keep improving in future versions.

• ⚖️ Durability and effect balancing is still subject to adjustment based on community feedback.

• 🔮 More cross-mod integrations and visual polish are planned (more elaborate animations, additional detail on the 3D model).

💡 Bug reports, ideas, and feedback are welcome — this is a project that grows with the people who play it.

👤 Author

Created and maintained with ❤️ by DNomad.

📦 Other projects: curseforge.com/members/dnomad/projects

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