Nether Chest
by Kira-NT
Nether Chest adds a storage block that works like an Ender Chest but with one inventory shared by every player on a server.
What it does
The block is crafted as a single item, and the recipe uses an Eye of Ender in place of a Nether Star, a choice the author made for balance. A player who wants to avoid the Wither fight can swap in a datapack that replaces the Nether Star with the Eye of Ender recipe. Installation of that datapack is described in the author's linked article.
Nether Chests can be handled with Silk Touch without losing the block. Hoppers and comparators interact with them as they do with ordinary chests. Enabling multichannel mode gives a Nether Chest one more slot, which can be fixed to one channel, while every channel holds a separate inventory.
Nether Chest needs Fabric API on Fabric. Cloth Config API and Mod Menu are optional; with Mod Menu installed, values can be edited in the config file from the mod list. A server running it needs every connecting player to have it too. Files exist for 1.16.4 – 1.20.4 on Fabric, with the latest file mc1.20-5.2 for 1.20.4, and the code is open source under the MIT License.
Key features
Shared inventory
All players on a server open the same Nether Chest contents, which suits group storage.
Ender Chest style access
Opening the block works much like an Ender Chest, so items can be reached from anywhere in the world.
Multichannel mode
An optional mode adds an extra slot per chest that can be locked to a channel, each with its own inventory.
Hopper and comparator support
Hoppers and comparators can read from and write to the block, as they can with regular chests.
Configurable values
Numbers and options can be changed directly in the config file, or through Mod Menu.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
1.20.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.19.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.18.x3 of 3 versions with builds
1.17.x2 of 2 versions with builds
1.16.x2 of 2 versions with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Optional 2
Use cases
Who it’s for: Server owners who want a shared remote storage block, and players who already use Ender Chests and want a group version of them.
How it compares
Iron Chests (Fabric) is client and server, licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only, and published for 1.16.5 – 1.17.1. LockStorage is open source under the MIT License, runs as client or server optional, and has a single file for 1.19.2. Larger Ender Chest is server-side only, not open source, and publishes for 26.1 – 26.1.2, so players can join without installing it.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nether Chest | Fabric | 1.16.4 – 1.20.4 | Client and server | 2023-12-20 |
| Iron Chests (Fabric) | Fabric | 1.16.5 – 1.17.1 | Client and server | 2021-07-22 |
| LockStorage | Fabric | 1.19.2 | Client or server, optional | 2024-09-15 |
| Larger Ender Chest | Fabric and Quilt | 26.1 – 26.1.2 | Server-side only | 2026-05-29 |
Questions
Does Nether Chest need Fabric API?
Does every player need Nether Chest installed?
Can the Wither crafting requirement be avoided?
In the catalog
Nether Chest is one of 4,058 Storage mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,474 Storage mods for Fabric. 13,907 mods support Minecraft 1.20.4.
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What the author says
Don't you think something's missing? There's personal cloud storage, but there's no shared one that could act as a kind of file sharing service. And isn't it strange that we have an overworld chest, an ender chest, but no nether chest? Well, behold! This mod adds a single block to the game - the Nether Chest. It…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/nether-chest
- Owner
- Kira-NT
- Published
- 2021-06-16
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2023-12-20
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15