ChestCat

ChestCat adds a small buttons to your inventory and chest screens so you don't have to sort by hand. It also has a category system: give chests a job (tools, food ores...). Sort everything nearby in one go.

INVENTORY AND CHEST SORTING

Open your inventory (or the Inventory tab in creative) and a small button grid shows up to the right of the panel. Open a chest or barrel and a row of buttons appears above it.

• S sorts M switches to the sort mode L lets you pick a mode from a list

• O opens the layout options

• Q quick-stacks your items into nearby containers that already hold that item

• G pulls everything out of the open chest into your inventory P pushes your inventory into it

Sort modes: Alphabetical, Quantity ( to low) Quantity (low to high) By Mod, By Type (weapons, tools, armor, food, blocks, then everything else) By Color and Registry Order. There's also a " Menu Order" option, which currently behaves the same as registry order.

Layout options: fill by rows or by columns start from the left or the bottom-right corner and choose whether the hotbar gets sorted or left alone. Stacks are merged before sorting.

SORTING CHESTS BY CATEGORY

Press N (rebindable in Controls) to open the Nearby Chests menu. It lists every chest and barrel within 16 blocks its category and how full it's. Hit "Sort Nearby" and the mod pulls everything out of those chests and files it back so one chest ends up with tools, another with food and so on. Your own inventory isn't touched.

Categories: Tools, Weapons, Armor, Food, Ores & Ingots Redstone, Potions & Brewing, Dyes & Decoration Wood, Blocks, Misc.

To give a chest a category sneak and right-click it with a hand or click its row in the menu. Chests you never assign get a category the time they're sorted based on whats already inside and its saved after that.

ALSO INCLUDED

• Auto-refill: when the tool or weapon in your hand or off hand breaks the same item from your main inventory takes its place.

• Slot locking: middle-click a slot in your inventory screen to lock it. Locked slots are skipped by sorting and quick-stack. Main inventory not the hotbar) and locks reset when you relog.

• Inventory sort keybind: comma by default.

GOOD TO KNOW

• NeoForge 1.21.1

• Install it on the server as well as the client since the sorting runs server-side. Singleplayer works as normal.

• If the chests can't hold everything during a category sort the leftovers are dropped on the ground next, to you. The chat message tells you how many.

• Your sort mode and layout choices aren't saved between sessions.