SmarterCopperGolems

SmarterCopperGolems extends normal Copper Golem behavior. Copper Golems can now organize storage chests for you and generally behave smarter when putting items into chests.

You can just make golems smarter, or even have them fully sort chests for you, similar to client-side inventory sorting mods but in a more vanilla-friendly way.

How to use it

1. Put a copper chest near normal chests. The normal vanilla search range is about 32 blocks horizontally and 8 vertically.

2. Sneak-right-click a normal chest with the configured chest-control item (copper ingot by default) to enable sorting for that chest.

3. A sorted chest's first column acts as labels:

   • Put the item type for each row in the first slot on the left.
   • The eight slots to the right are that item's storage lane. Items are sorted by ItemType, ignoring data components.
   • Golems will look for nearby chests that have a storage lane for the items they are holding, so you can have e.g. a "wood chest", "stone chest", "tools chest" etc easily.

4. Sneak-right-click a Copper Golem with the configured golem-control item (copper ingot by default) to cycle its mode:

   • VANILLA: unchanged Minecraft behavior.
   • STACK: merges identical stacks after delivery.
   • SORT: prefers matching sorted lanes, slowly fixes existing misplaced matching items, and falls back to unsorted chests when no matching lane has room.

Configuration

The default control item is a copper ingot and costs nothing. Each interaction can use a different item and optionally consume an amount:

interactions:
  golem-mode:
    item: COPPER_INGOT
    amount: 0
  chest-sorting:
    item: COPPER_INGOT
    amount: 0

Set amount above zero to consume that many items from the player's main hand on a successful interaction.

All player-facing messages and the sorted chest title are configurable with MiniMessage support.

There are no permissions or commands.