Critical Crates
Critical Crates adds storage crates in many wood, glass and iron variants that protect stored items, and its crate types can be upgraded for extra features.
What it does
Each crate type stores items in its own way. The mod adds crates made from many vanilla wood types, the current forms of wood, plus crimson and warped crates. Those two are fire and lava resistant, although the other wood crates can burn and destroy their contents when handled carelessly. Some types carry their own features, and a crate can be upgraded with a selected assortment of upgrades meant to address common storage problems such as item destruction. Upgrades should be chosen with care, since a crate only accepts an upgrade once.
Stained glass crates come in the vanilla colors, running from white and light gray through the darker shades and on to pink. Right-clicking a glass crate with a different dye changes its color, and right-clicking it with a soap item removes the color. Glass crates show the item they hold in the top left inventory slot, and any crate can be given a custom label. Iron crates expand the traditional single or double chest size and are more durable.
Key features
Wood and crimson crates
Crates come in vanilla wood types, plus crimson and warped variants that resist fire and lava.
Stained glass colors
Glass crates come in every vanilla dye color and can be recolored or cleared with dye or soap.
Item previews
Glass crates display the stored item in the top left inventory slot, so the contents are visible at a glance.
Custom labels
Any crate can be renamed with a label, which lets players mark what each crate holds.
Upgradable iron crates
Iron crates enlarge the storage beyond a chest and are more durable, with upgrades available for specific problems.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Iron Crate is a Fabric and NeoForge storage mod for 1.21.1 – 26.2 under All rights reserved, not open source. Crates Mod targets Forge and NeoForge for 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 under All rights reserved, also not open source. Balanced Crates covers Forge and NeoForge for 1.19.2 – 1.21.4 and is released under the MIT License, but it is not open source as a separate entry. Bear's Storage Crates is NeoForge only for 1.21.1 under the MIT License. Crated Up is a server-side only NeoForge mod for 1.20.6 under All rights reserved, so players can join without it.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Critical Crates | NeoForge | 1.21.1 – 26.2 | Client and server | 2026-08-01 |
| Iron Crate | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21.1 – 26.2 | Client and server | 2026-10-03 |
| Crates Mod | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-07-24 |
| Balanced Crates | Forge and NeoForge | 1.19.2 – 1.21.4 | Client and server | 2025-08-01 |
| Bear's Storage Crates | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-09-02 |
| Crated Up | NeoForge | 1.20.6 | Server-side only | 2024-07-20 |
Questions
Which loaders and versions does Critical Crates support?
Does the server need Critical Crates?
Are crimson and warped crates safer than wood crates?
In the catalog
Critical Crates is one of 4,058 Storage mods on ModsFinder, and one of 1,794 Storage mods for NeoForge. 13,894 mods support Minecraft 26.2.
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What the author says
Critical Crates focuses on storage improvements for a variety of different types of players by providing a new crate block. These crates have a large number of variations from each type of vanilla wood to all current forms of glass. Some types may even have their own features! In addition, they can even be customized…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/critical-crates
- Owner
- CriticalPickle
- Published
- 2025-08-09
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-08-01
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15