Faster Block Entities

Certain block entities, including chests and beds, are normally drawn by a renderer that runs every frame. This mod draws them with ordinary block models instead, which the author describes as an optimization. Coverage includes normal, trapped and ender chests, the copper chest variant, and undyed shulker boxes plus the sixteen dyed colours. Animated parts are left out where a model cannot follow them.

Shulker boxes are turned off by default, because the lid opening gives useful feedback that a static model would hide. A configuration key restores the vanilla renderer and animation for a block, and changes take effect on the next launch. Parts of the rendering that are not covered stay with Minecraft, so the mod leaves those draws untouched. Files are published for Fabric and NeoForge, for 26.1.2 and 26.2, and the 1.1.0 release is the latest for both loaders.

The blockstate model and atlas resources come from FastChest and remain under its original MIT terms, as explained in the NOTICE file. The mod is open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later, and the source code and issue tracker are public.