Smart Chest Organizer

# Smart Chest Organizer

You come home from a mining trip with an inventory full of cobblestone, iron, redstone and random junk. Your storage room is a wall of chests that look like someone threw everything in blindfolded. Smart Chest Organizer turns that chore into two clicks: one to sort, one to put everything where it belongs.

## Features

### One-click sorting
– A small **Sort** button appears in the top-right corner of every chest, double chest, ender chest, barrel and shulker box.
– A second **Sort** button sits next to your own inventory, both in containers and in your normal inventory screen (E).
– Sorting:
  – **combines incomplete stacks** (three stacks of 20 cobblestone become one stack of 60),
  – **groups identical items together**,
  – puts everything in **alphabetical order**, with empty slots at the end.
– Items with different enchantments, names or contents stay as separate stacks, so nothing gets merged that shouldn’t be.
– Your **hotbar is left alone** by default, so your tools stay where you put them.

### Middle-click to sort
– **Middle-click** (press the mouse wheel) on any slot to sort that part of the screen – the chest if you click a chest slot, your inventory if you click an inventory slot.
– Disabled in Creative mode, where middle-click copies items in vanilla.

### Quick Deposit
– Click the **Quick Deposit** button (the arrow into a tray) to move items from your inventory into the open chest – **but only item types that chest already contains**.
– Example: a chest with some cobblestone and iron gets all your cobblestone and iron, and nothing else.
– **Shift + click** Quick Deposit to only **top up stacks that aren’t full yet**, without using any empty slots in the chest.
– Your hotbar is never emptied into chests (unless you turn that on).

## Works on every server

This is a **client-side only** mod. All sorting and depositing is done with normal inventory clicks – exactly what you’d do by hand, just faster – so it works in singleplayer and on multiplayer servers without the server needing the mod. It does not add items, look inside closed chests or do anything a player couldn’t do by clicking.

(Some servers have their own rules about inventory mods; please follow them.)

## Settings

`config/smartchestorganizer.properties` is created the first time you start the game:
– `sortMode` – `name` (alphabetical, default) or `id` (Minecraft’s own item order, similar to the Creative menu)
– `sortHotbar` – also sort the hotbar (default false)
– `depositHotbar` – also deposit from the hotbar (default false)
– `middleClickSort` – middle-click sorting on/off (default true)
– `showButtons` – show the buttons (default true)

Restart the game after editing the file.

## Requirements

– Minecraft **1.21 or 1.21.1**
– **Fabric Loader** 0.15.11 or newer
– **Fabric API**
– Java 21 (included with the official Minecraft launcher)

## Installation

1. Install Fabric Loader for Minecraft 1.21.1 (with the CurseForge app or the official Fabric installer).
2. Install **Fabric API** for 1.21.1 (listed as a required dependency; the CurseForge app installs it automatically).
3. Put the `smart-chest-organizer` .jar file in your `.minecraft/mods` folder.
4. Start the game with the Fabric profile and open a chest.

## Modpacks

You are free to include Smart Chest Organizer in any modpack, no need to ask.

## Also by this author

– **Floating Damage Indicators** – see damage, healing and critical hits as floating numbers.
– **Smart Tool Safety** – get warned before your tools break and pick the right tool with one key.

*The project logo is an illustration created with AI assistance; it is not an in-game screenshot. The screenshots in the gallery are real, unedited in-game captures.*

AI DISCLOSURE NOTICE  (already at the end of the description; keep it there)
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Note: The project logo was created with AI assistance. All gallery screenshots are real in-game captures.