Minecraft mod, server and client

Six crates, up to 512 a slot

Each tier adds a row of nine. One module on the tab lifts every slot from 64 to 512, and the screen splits into pages once the grid no longer fits.

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An echo crate, a copper crate, a double iron crate and a vanilla chest standing on a stone platform. — An echo crate, a copper one, an iron pair, and a chest of the game to read them against.

The crates

Copper to echo, six tiers

They are ordered by how dangerous the material is to fetch, not by the usual iron, gold, diamond ladder. Each tier is the crate before it surrounded by eight of the new material.

Copper27
Iron36
Amethyst45
Prismarine54
Breeze63
Echo72

The tiers in detail

The six crates lined up on a platform, copper through echo, with a vanilla chest at the end of the row. — The six, in order, with the chest of the game at the end for scale.

Capacity

A slot that holds 512

What changes the capacity sits on the tab hanging off the left edge of the screen. The mod ships three modules, 128, 256 and 512, and a crate takes the strongest offer rather than the sum: two 256 modules still give 256.

Pull the module out, close the screen, and everything above the new capacity drops on the ground. Emptying a crate before taking its module back is the only safe order.

What the module changes

A copper crate screen, the 512 module on the tab, one slot carrying 512 redstone dust. — The 512 module on the tab, and a slot carrying 512 redstone dust.

Rows

Sixteen modules, twenty-four rows

A row module is a chest surrounded by planks, and each one adds nine slots to the crate holding it. The cell under the capacity one takes sixteen at once, so a copper crate can end up bigger than an echo one.

Adding or taking one back reopens the screen, because a menu's slot list is fixed once it has been built. That happens at the start of the next tick, never inside the click.

How rows add up

An echo crate whose tab carries sixteen row modules, with six page numbers down the right edge of the screen. — Sixteen row modules in the lower cell, and the crate is up to six pages.

Sorting

Two buttons above the corner

One orders by name, the other by how full each pile is. Both gather identical stacks into one, which is where the free slots come from. Pressing again reverses it, and the drawing shows what the next press will do, not what the last one did.

The order is worked out on the player's own machine. A server holds no language files, so it cannot know that this player reads Pierre where another reads Stone.

Sorting, search and pages

A copper crate sorted by name, the button tooltip reading Sort Z to A. — Sorted by name. The tooltip reads Z to A, which is what the next press will do.

Pages

When the grid no longer fits

A page holds four rows at most. Past that the screen splits, and the pages share the rows evenly: six rows give two pages of three, not one full page and one nearly empty.

The numbers stack down the right edge, with no scrollbar, and a dot marks the pages that carry something. The page number never reaches the server, so no slot index can be steered from outside.

How the screen splits

An eight-row echo crate cut into two pages, the numbers 1 and 2 down the right edge of the screen. — Eight rows, two pages of four. The dot on the 1 says that page carries something.

Automation

A hopper fills all the way up

Hoppers and pipes write into a slot up to the crate's capacity instead of stopping at 64. It is the one part of the mod that depends on what else is installed.

With lithium, it is off. Lithium replaces the hopper wholesale and keeps its own copy of the target inventory: against a container answering more than 64 it takes the items out and never writes them in. Measured, not assumed. So while lithium is present a crate tells automation 64 a slot, which costs the feature and keeps the items.

Hoppers, pipes and lithium

An iron crate screen whose first slot carries 96 dirt blocks, the 512 module on the tab. — A hopper pushed past the 64: the slot carries 96, and it keeps going.