Pocket Butler

Small quality-of-life tweaks that keep your inventory tidy and your hands full. No new items, no new blocks: just less time spent in menus.

✨ Features

🖱️ Middle-click sorting

Middle-click a slot in any inventory screen:

• on your inventory → sorts your main inventory (your hotbar is left alone);
• on a chest, barrel, shulker box, dispenser or hopper → sorts that container.

Identical stacks are merged first, then everything is ordered by item type. A small sort button is also added to chest screens. In creative mode, middle-clicking an item still picks it like in vanilla.

📦 Quick deposit

• Open chest: click the arrow button (top right) or press G to move every item the chest already contains from your inventory into it.
• Nearby chests: press G outside of inventories to do the same with every chest, barrel and shulker box within 8 blocks. Particles show which containers got filled.

Your hotbar is never emptied and unopened loot chests are ignored.

🔁 Auto-refill

When something in your hands runs out, an identical item from your inventory takes its place:

• ⛏️ Broken tools, weapons and shields: your second iron pickaxe jumps into your hand.
• 🧱 Last block placed: the next stack of the same block is moved to your hand.
• 🍎 Last food eaten.
• 🏹 Arrows held in your hand, emptied by a bow or crossbow (tipped arrows are only replaced by the same effect).
• 🎆 Firework rockets while flying with an elytra.
• 🛡️ Broken armor: an identical piece, or the best armor you carry for that slot (never one with Curse of Binding).
• 💀 Totem of Undying: off by default because many PvP servers consider it cheating; enable it in the config.

🧩 Mod compatibility

• Rebindable keys: sort, quick deposit and nearby deposit are in Options → Controls → Pocket Butler. Change them if another mod already uses middle-click or G.
• Modded chests are detected automatically when they only contain plain storage slots. Others can be added with extraSortableMenus, and troublesome ones blocked with blacklistedMenus (modid:menu or a whole mod with modid:*).
• Safe sorting: if a container has special slots (filters, locked slots, different stack sizes), sorting is cancelled and nothing moves.
• Nearby deposit targets come from the block tag pocketbutler:deposit_targets (all #c:chests, #c:barrels and shulker boxes by default), so modpacks can add their own storage with a datapack. It uses NeoForge's standard item handler, so modded storage works too.
• Modded items are refilled like vanilla ones; refillBlacklist excludes items or whole mods.

⚙️ Configuration

Every feature can be toggled. The config is a server config (one per world), synced to players when they join: on a server, the admin decides. In singleplayer, open it from the Config button in the mod list.

❓ FAQ

Does it need to be on the server? Yes, all the logic runs on the server. Auto-refill works on the server side; sorting and quick deposit also need the mod on the client. A client with the mod can still join a server without it (sorting is simply disabled).

Does it work with claim/protection mods? Nearby deposit respects spawn protection but cannot see claims from mods such as FTB Chunks or Open Parties and Claims. On such servers, admins can disable enableNearbyDeposit.

Fabric / other versions? For now, only NeoForge 1.21.1.

Made by MiniMaffre with AI assistance (code, text and artwork). Licensed under MIT.