Golem Barrel

Copper golems that sort into chests and dump the rest into a barrel.

Golem Barrel makes the vanilla copper golem a lot more useful as a sorter. Golems only put items into chests that already hold that item, and everything that doesn't match goes into a barrel. Your sorting chests stay clean, and no random items end up in empty chests.

It changes as little as possible: walking, timing, animations, the 10-chest scan and the search range all stay vanilla.

✨ Features

• No more junk in empty chests: golems only fill a chest that already contains the item they're carrying.
• Barrels as an overflow: once a golem has checked its chests (up to 10, like vanilla) and found no match, it puts the item into a barrel, whether the barrel is empty or not.
• Full barrels are skipped: the golem moves on to the next barrel with room. If no barrel has room, it uses an empty chest it already checked on that trip.
• Same-chunk priority: chests in the golem's own chunk are checked first, (then the rest by distance, the same way vanilla does).
• Barrels don't use up a chest check: they don't count toward the 10-chest limit.
• Works across chunk borders: put the barrel in a neighbouring chunk. While that chunk is unloaded the golem waits like vanilla, then carries on as soon as the chunk loads.

🛠️ Ideal setup

1. Place a copper chest with a copper golem nearby.
2. Place your sorting chests and put one of each item you want sorted into them.
3. Place a barrel for everything else, in the same chunk or a neighbouring one.

The golem takes items from the copper chest. It fills the matching chests and sends everything else to the barrel.

⚙️ Config

config/golembarrel.yml:

Barrel: true

same_chunk_priority: true

Restart the game or server after editing the config. With both set to false, golems behave exactly like vanilla.

🖥️ Server-side

The mod only has to be installed on the server. Players can join with a vanilla client. In singleplayer, just install it like any other mod.