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What it does

AutoOrganize adds the AO Chest. Place a few next to each other and they become a network. Put items into any one of them and each stack moves to the chest that holds its category. Ores go with ores. Food goes with food. Nothing is lost, duplicated, or left in the wrong place.

It was built for survival servers where players share space and still expect their things to stay theirs.

Craft Chests, redstone and a lever. Place it anywhere you would place a chest.	Connect AO Chests that touch on any of their six faces join one network. Diagonals do not.
Fill Close a chest, or let a hopper feed it. Every stack moves to the right chest, spreading across as many as the category needs.	Direct Hold the AO Wand, sneak, and right-click a chest to manage it.

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Recipes

AO Chest Chest Redstone Chest Redstone Lever Redstone Chest Redstone Chest

AO Wand Any Planks AO Chest Stick Stick

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Categories

Fourteen categories ship by default, assigned by material so results are consistent and predictable.

Ores & Minerals	Building Blocks	Natural Blocks	Wood & Logs
Tools & Weapons	Armor	Food	Farming
Mob Drops	Redstone	Brewing	Enchanting
Transportation	Miscellaneous

Names, enchantments, durability, custom model data and every other item property pass through untouched.

Want something different? Create your own. A custom category belongs to you, holds the item types you choose, and overrides the default for your chests only.

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Your storage, your rules

Every AO Chest records the player who placed it, and every player keeps a private organization: their own category assignments and their own custom categories.

Two players can build chests that touch. They share a network on the map and nothing else.

Sorting only ever moves items between chests owned by the same person. A neighbor's chest never receives your items, and your layout never changes theirs.

Trust, when you want it

Run /ao trust <player> to let someone manage how your storage is organized.

They can	They cannot
Use the wand on your chests	Open your chests
Change category assignments	Break your chests
Create, rename and delete your custom categories	Grant trust on your behalf
	Touch anyone else's storage

Run /ao untrust <player> and it ends immediately, including any menu they have open. Every action in the wand menu checks permissions again at the moment it happens.

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Double chests

Two AO Chests belonging to the same player merge into a double chest exactly as you would expect. The pair behaves as one unit with a single category and a single label.

Chests belonging to different players, and ordinary chests, never merge with an AO Chest. That closes the one loophole that would otherwise let a double chest bridge two owners.

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The wand menu

Sneak + Right Click an AO Chest while holding the AO Wand.

• See the chest's category, owner, slot usage and network size
• Assign any default or custom category
• Return the chest to automatic assignment
• Create, rename and delete custom categories
• Add or remove item types from a custom category by holding the item

Menus are locked against shift-clicking, dragging, hotbar swaps and every other way of pulling an item out of an interface.

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Everything else

Labels

Each chest displays its category above or beside it as floating text, kept in sync as categories change and removed when the chest is broken. Labels do not block clicks, collide with players, or persist in the world file.

Hoppers

Hoppers can feed AO Chests, and what they deliver is sorted like anything else. Output from AO Chests is off by default and can be enabled in the settings. If nothing in the network has room, the item stays in the hopper.

Protection

AO Chests can only be broken by their owner, resist explosions, and cannot be moved by pistons. Dispensers cannot place them, and an AO Chest cannot be used as an ingredient in other recipes. Each of these is a setting.

Commands

Command	Description	Permission
/ao info	Plugin information	autoorganize.use
/ao category	Your chests and categories at a glance	autoorganize.use
/ao trust <player>	Let a player manage your organization	autoorganize.trust
/ao untrust <player>	Revoke that access	autoorganize.trust
/ao trustlist	List who you have trusted	autoorganize.trust
/ao settings	Edit the configuration in a menu	autoorganize.admin
/ao reload	Reload configuration and messages	autoorganize.admin
/ao debug	Diagnostics	autoorganize.admin

/autoorganize works as an alias.

Permissions

Permission	Default	Grants
autoorganize.use	Everyone	Place and use AO Chests, basic commands
autoorganize.wand.use	Everyone	Use the AO Wand
autoorganize.category.manage	Everyone	Change categories and manage custom categories
autoorganize.trust	Everyone	Use the trust commands
autoorganize.admin	Operators	Everything above, plus reload, debug, settings and optional ownership override

Ordinary players never receive administrator privileges. Admin override is separate from trust and can be switched off.

Configuration

Every option can be changed in game with /ao settings, or in config.yml. All messages live in messages.yml and support MiniMessage.

Network size, custom category limits, name length, trust limits, hopper behavior, protection rules, label display and menu timeouts are all adjustable.

Built for servers

• SQLite storage, written off the main thread
• Ownership, categories, assignments and trust survive restarts, chunk unloads and reloads
• Networks update when chests are placed or broken, not on a timer
• Unloaded chunks are never force loaded; chests there are skipped and picked up later
• Items are never deleted, duplicated or overwritten. If there is no room, they stay where they were
• No per-tick tasks

FAQ

Can other players see or open my chests? Not unless you allow it. Opening is limited to the owner by default, and trust never grants it.

What happens if I break a chest in the middle of my network? The network splits into whatever is still connected. The broken chest's contents drop as normal.

What happens when a category is deleted? Chests using it return to automatic assignment, and their items are left alone until they are next sorted.

Will it fill my chests with junk? Only if you put junk in. Items that fit no available chest stay where you left them.

Does it work with region protection plugins? AutoOrganize respects cancelled events, so plugins that block building or interaction keep working as usual.

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