«Bored of Minecraft's basic user interface? Sick of approaching your enchanting table only to be presented by the same grey menu as the crafting table? Looking to add some colour into your game?

Introducing Colourful Containers! A container GUI replacement mod that hopes to match the menu to every one of Minecraft's colourful intractable blocks»

- Chris XENO

And now I'm introducing completely remade, retextured, reimagined version – Recolourful Containers with new versions support, new textures and even more immersion!

All GUIs were changed with inspiration taken from the block its associated with. Fixes for vanilla Minecraft textures, HUD changes, even animated GUIs in vanilla and much MUCH MORE!

Changed textures graphic:

Changed textures list:

Crafting table
Anvil
Enchanting table
Brewing stand
Loom
Cartography table
Stonecutter
Grindstone
Smithing table
Crafter
Dropper, Dispenser
Furnace, Blast furnace, Smoker (1.20.2+)
Hopper
Chest
Boats with chest (1.21.2+)
Minecart with chest
Villager
Inventory
Recipe book
Book
Beacon
HUD
XP bar (1.20.2+)
Some small UI changes and fixes

"Vanilla+" features (please read "Installation guide" for more info):

Villagers' GUIs with professions
Ender chest
Barrel
*Colored Shulker boxes (1.20.2-1.21.8)
Horse, Skeleton horse, Zombie horse
Camel, Mule, Donkey, Llama

*To use coloured shulker box feature, you must remove the empty symbol at the end of the shulker box name in the anvil. Do not remove empty symbol in the beginning!

OptiFine/OptiGUI features:

Villagers' GUIs with all combinations of types and professions (OptiGUI exclusive) (Animatica exclusive)
Ender chest
Trapped chest
Christmas chests
Barrel (OptiGUI exclusive)
Coloured Shulker boxes
Horse, Skeleton horse, Zombie horse
Camel, Mule, Donkey (with and without chest - OptiGUI exclusive)
Llama (with carpet colours)
Chipped, Damaged anvil (OptiGUI exclusive)
Written Book (OptiGUI+Animatica exclusive)
Book on a lectern (OptiGUI 3.0+ exclusive)

Mod support:

Accessories
Armor Chroma
Axiom
Backslot (OptiGUI exclusive)
Charm of Undying (OptiGUI exclusive)
Better Enchanting
Cloth Config
Detail Armor Bar
ItemSwapper
Language Reload
Mod Menu
Recursive Resources
Sawmill
What Are They Up To

If you want full experience, combination of OptiGUI and Animatica or OptiFine is required

OR

If you don't want to use OptiGUI, or you are using only OptiFine mod, you can activate built-in "Vanilla+" mode in the language settings

How to use:

For other languages support, use separate VANILLA+ pack at the bottom of the version page below the main file

Q&A:

Q: Where can I ask about anything (that is not in this list)?

A: Join Recolourful Discord server and ask there!

List of known issues:

With OptiFine:

Villagers professions don't work
Barrels show Chest GUI texture
Boats with Chest show last visited chest-like container GUI texture
Some horse-like entities are unsupported

It is recommended to use "Vanilla+" mode, if you are using only OptiFine

Q: Chests/shulker boxes/Villagers' professions GUIs don't work!

A: Check if you have either OptiGUI or OptiFine installed or changed language to "Vanilla+"

Q: Can you add support to X mod?

A: Short answer: I can, in theory. Leave your suggestions in the comments or submit them in Discord!

Q: Can I use Recolourful Containers in modpack / Can I modify Recolourful Containers / Can I do X with Recolourful Containers?

A: Check Terms of Use at the bottom of the description

Q: I want to support you! How can I do that?

A: About that…

If you don't want a server but still want to support me, share this pack with your friends or showcase it on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, anywhere! Just leave a link to this page, I really appreciate it!

Don't forget to like and follow for future updates!

Chris_XENO for his original Colourful Containers texture pack
Shrimpsnail for helping with custom shader code, a lot of stuff has become possible thanks to him
Kryqu for inspiration for villagers' GUIs

Terms of use:

If you think that you can't do something about this pack, please ask me beforehand :)

You can:

Include this pack in a free modpack
Include this pack in your private server
Modify this pack (for personal use only)
Use this pack in any forms of media, including YouTube, Twitch, etc.

You can not:

Distribute this pack, it's assets and modified assets on any platforms in any form without my consent

Barely Modded

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Minecraft: Java Edition

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Barely Modded v1.8.0

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[1.8.0] - 2025-11-13

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