📖 About Balanced Crates: This mod adds new vanilla-friendly crate blocks. Crates have large amounts of storage compared to single chests. Crates can also be used as building blocks/decorations. Crates are designed to be vanilla-friendly chest alternatives that allow compact storage. Crates come in every wood type.
📦Storage Applications: While a single chest has 27 storage slots, crates have an inventory of 60 slots! This allows for highly compacted storage. Right-clicking on a crate will manually open it, allowing any player to take from it's inventory. A player will be able to tell if a crate is open if the top lid is removed. A crate can then be closed by pressing the "Close Crate" button within the crate's GUI.
🏠Decorative Applications: Crates can easily be used as decorative blocks in many situations. a crate's texture is based upon what wood type is used to craft it, giving the player more option when building with wood. A crate can also be rotated much like a furnace, allowing the player to create patterns. A crate's open state can also be used in many ways.
🔌Redstone Applications: Being storage blocks, crates can be used in place of a chest in any redstone situation where a chest might be needed. This allows for higher amounts of storage and enables the player to make much more compact machines.
❔Questions:
- Will there be a fabric port for this mod? - Yes
- Will this mod be updated to 1.20? - Yes
- Can I used this in my modpack? - Yes
- Can I redistribute this mod? - No
- Will more crate types be added? - Yes
How well does this work with create contraptions?
In reply to Tronkat55:
should work seamlessly anywhere a chest would be, but it has not been tested yet.
I see crates can be left opened/closed but what's the point? Or just for decoration?
In reply to uhmbyee:
Decoration
im sorry if i missed this information somewhere, is there a way to config the storage space of the crate? i just want more variation in storage blocks without the added storage space
In reply to william773377
No there isn't. I will plan on adding this though
In reply to LettuceMuncher__:
awesome! thanks for the quick reply. i use 1.16.5 though, are you still updating your mod for this version?
In reply to william77337733:
Yes, 1.16.5, 1.18.2, and 1.19.2 forge are still in active development
In reply to LettuceMuncher__:
youre a legend, will be checking back in every so often for updates
can you make it so that you can like combine multiple crates to make one big crate?
or just like connect multiple crates?
In reply to apimembeku:
It is in the works
In reply to LettuceMuncher__:
thank you
Is there any possible the crates will act like to shulker box?
I hope they could keep the inventory :)
In reply to LuxrLuxray:
I can make a similar mod like that but with what you asked for
In reply to LuxrLuxray:
Thank you for the suggestion! I am working on other crate types for the next major update and there is an "early game" version your idea being developed. However, this is a vanilla plus mod and its based upon the development style of vanilla Minecraft. If I added shulker box functionalities to regular crates it would be pointless to get a shulker box because they are cheaper and they have more storage. Crates are meant to be balanced storage alternatives to chests, having slightly more storage but not able to be doubled. they are not meant to make other storage options obsolete.
Hello! may i use your mod in a video?
In reply to marbledfoxx:
You can use my mod!
In reply to LettuceMuncher__:
Hello! i deeply apologize for the delayed Balanced Crates mod showcase, i will try my best to get it done by 2023! i will send a link to it once it is done :] btw, is there a discord server for this mod?
In reply to marbledfoxx:
That's fine! When you get time to create the video just make sure you are using the newest version 1.5.0. This version has unique crate textures for each wood type!
everytime when i break a crate, it just disappears