Refill Chests
Refill Chests lets chests that players have already looted be restocked with fresh loot, using the original loot tables for each chest.
What it does
Chests that players have looted can be refilled after looting, so a loot chest does not stay empty for the rest of a world. The mod is intended as a vanilla-friendly alternative to myLoot's Lootr approach, keeping the vanilla loot table behaviour and choosing new items from the same tables. Refill Chests is server-side only, and Fabric API is required alongside it on Fabric 1.20.1.
The mod records which chests each player has looted, so refilling only applies to chests a player has already opened. A command refills chests with a new set of loot drawn from the original loot tables. A second command lists how many chests have been refilled, and a regenerate command rebuilds them. Because the record is kept while the server runs, the loot must be regenerated before the server is shut down, or the list of looted chests is lost.
Files exist for Fabric only, and the latest file is 1.20.1-1.0.0 for 1.20.1, published 2023-08-22. The mod covers game versions 1.16.5 – 1.20.1 across five release versions, and its source code is public under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only.
Key features
Refilling looted chests
A chest that a player has already looted gets stocked again with fresh items, drawn from the same loot tables it started with.
Looted-chest record
The mod keeps track of which chests each player has looted, so refills apply only to those chests.
Refill command
A command refills chests with new loot, and a regenerate command rebuilds the refilled chests.
Refill count
A chests list command reports how many chests have been refilled.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Use cases
Who it’s for: Server owners who want loot chests to be restocked for their players. The mod is installed only on the server, so players join without installing anything.
How it compares
Chest Refill is open source under the MIT License, runs server-side only and works on Fabric and Forge for 1.17.1 – 1.19. Loot Refill is also server-side only and open source under the MIT License, but it targets Fabric for 1.20.3 – 1.21.8. myLoot is open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only and needs the client and server, covering 1.18 – 1.20.1, unlike Refill Chests, which needs only the server.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Refill Chests | Fabric | 1.16.5 – 1.20.1 | Server-side only | 2023-08-22 |
| Chest Refill | Fabric and Forge | 1.17.1 – 1.19 | Server-side only | 2022-06-12 |
| Loot Refill | Fabric | 1.20.3 – 1.21.8 | Server-side only | 2025-06-21 |
| myLoot | Fabric | 1.18 – 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2023-07-24 |
Questions
Does Refill Chests need Fabric API?
Do players need to install Refill Chests?
What happens to refill records when the server stops?
Which game versions does Refill Chests support?
In the catalog
Refill Chests is one of 36,990 Utility mods on ModsFinder, and one of 25,772 Utility mods for Fabric. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
This mod is meant to be a vanilla friendly version of myLoot, or Lootr. Though it is not exactly the same due to limitations needed to make it remain server side. Using this mod, it will record every chest that is looted by a player. Then with the run of a command all the chests will be refiled with a new set of loot…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/refill-chests
- Owner
- The-Architects727
- Published
- 2023-08-22
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2023-08-22
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15