Spectra Better Chests

Sorting runs on demand. A player can trigger it from a button on the container screen, or configure the sort to happen manually, and the chosen sorting method is applied to the chest whenever the button is pressed. The default configuration can be changed so the same behavior applies to every container the player opens.

The sort follows different algorithms depending on how much space the container has, how many items it holds and how many item types are present. A double chest with six rows and five item types, for example, first tries to give each type its own row across nine columns. If the rows do not fit, the mod tries to fit the items into columns, and if that fails it places items left to right and top to bottom. Non-full stacks of the same item are merged before ordering, and tools with durability are ordered by damage, with the least damaged item first.

Installation covers the server and each player's game. Files are published for Fabric and NeoForge across six release versions, 1.21 – 1.21.11, and the source code is available under the Apache License 2.0, which makes the project open source.