Sort Chest

Sort Chest is a Forge client mod for Minecraft 1.20.1 that adds quick organization buttons to container screens. Each button acts on the open chest: one sorts its contents, one refills matching items from the player's inventory, one fills the container from the inventory, and one dumps container items back into the inventory. A small sort-mode button sits next to the sort control, and a hover tooltip explains the mode currently selected.

The sorting is category based. Items are grouped by their broad kind, so building blocks, raw materials, tools, weapons, armor, food, potions, redstone parts and miscellaneous goods each end up together instead of in alphabetical or stack order. Modded items are included where they expose item tags, registry names and item information, which the sorter reads to place them. The mod works by simulating normal inventory clicks rather than editing inventory data directly, which keeps its behavior close to ordinary play.

Because the buttons appear only on the player's client, Sort Chest is client-side only: a player's client needs it installed to show the sorting buttons, while servers do not. Multiplayer players can use it on servers that do not run the mod. The mod depends on Architectury API, which must also be installed. It is released under All rights reserved and is not open source. Files exist for 1.20.1 only, published under Forge.