Nether Chest

Imagine the storage system in Minecraft as different types of data storage devices in real life:

• A regular chest is like a hard drive: it's stationary, and you can only access its contents through direct contact.
• A shulker box resembles a USB flash drive: portable, but accessing the items inside also requires physical interaction.
• An ender chest is personal cloud storage: upload your items to the "cloud" and access them from anywhere in the world at any time.

But doesn't it seem like something is missing? There's personal cloud storage, but no shared one that could function as a file-sharing service. And isn't it strange that we have a regular chest, an ender chest, but no nether chest? Now this problem is solved!

This mod adds just one block to the game — Nether Chest. It functions almost identically to an ender chest, except it has a shared inventory for all players on a server.

Crafting Recipe

This recipe might seem expensive, but from a balance perspective, everything is more than justified:

• The Wither is a relatively weak enemy even at maximum difficulty. Therefore, obtaining a few extra nether stars shouldn't be too challenging.
• Nether Chest is an "endgame" block. If you can afford to spend a nether star on crafting a chest, then a bit of time-saving isn't considered cheating. However, in the early stages of the game, exchanging items between players separated by thousands of blocks might be overpowered.

IMPORTANT: Nether Chests should be harvested with Silk Touch enchantment if you don't want to lose your nether stars. :)

If you play on Peaceful mode (or simply don't want to fight the Wither), you can use this datapack (which replaces the nether star with an eye of ender in the crafting recipe). Refer to this article if you're unfamiliar with the datapack installation process.

Multichannel Mode

When multichannel mode is enabled, each Nether Chest gains an additional slot that can be used to lock the chest to a specific channel with its own unique inventory.

Redstone Integration

Nether Chests are compatible with hoppers and comparators.

Configuration

If you have Cloth Config installed, you can customize the mod's behavior. The configuration file is typically located at ./config/nether_chest.json and by default looks like this:

{
  "allowHoppers": true,
  "allowInsertion": true,
  "allowExtraction": true,
  "enableMultichannelMode": true,
  "ignoreNbtInMultichannelMode": false,
  "ignoreCountInMultichannelMode": false,
  "channelBlacklist": [],
  "channelWhitelist": []
}

You can edit any of these values directly in the configuration file or via ModMenu.

Installation

Requirements:

• Minecraft >=1.16.x
• Fabric Loader >=0.10.0
• Fabric API >=0.25.0

Building from Sources

Requirements:

• JDK 17

Linux/MacOS

git clone https://github.com/Kir-Antipov/nether-chest.git
cd nether-chest

chmod +x ./gradlew
./gradlew build
cd build/libs

Windows

git clone https://github.com/Kir-Antipov/nether-chest.git
cd nether-chest

gradlew build
cd build/libs