Handy Toolbox

Stop carrying a dozen crafting tools. Put them in a toolbox, and JEI still uses them.

GregTech-style packs ask for a hammer, a file, a saw, a wrench, a screwdriver, a wire cutter… in a lot of recipes. You end up with half your inventory full of tools, and backpacks, tool belts or other toolboxes don't help: JEI's [+] button only looks at your inventory, so a tool stored anywhere else counts as missing.

Handy Toolbox fixes that. Keep your tools in the box. When you click [+] in JEI, the tools the recipe needs come out of the box and go into the crafting grid. When you close the crafting screen, they go back into the box, with the durability they have left.

How it works

1. Craft a Handy Toolbox and keep it anywhere in your inventory (or in your offhand).
2. Right-click it to open it and put your tools inside. It has 18 slots.
3. Open a crafting table (or your 2x2 inventory grid), find a recipe in JEI and click [+].
4. Missing tools are taken from the box and placed into the grid with the rest of the recipe.
5. Craft as usual. When you close the screen, the tools return to the box.