Truhenpost

Connect chests and barrels with an in-game menu. Items travel invisibly from senders to receivers, with no hoppers or pipes in between.

Note: The plugin's in-game messages are in German. "Truhenpost" means "chest mail".

Features

• Simple menu: Sneak and right-click an empty chest or barrel with a Chest Connector, then choose sender or receiver and one of 16 colours.
• Colour groups: Senders and receivers of the same owner and colour belong together.
• Several chests: Receivers are filled in turn. A full receiver pauses until it has free slots again, and the items wait safely in the sender.
• Any distance: The far end is loaded briefly when needed (can be turned off).
• Item filter: Choose per chest which item types pass, from what's in the chest or from your own inventory. A sender only sends the selected items, a receiver only accepts them. One sender can sort emeralds into one chest and totems into another. The selection is saved.
• Protected chests: Only the owner and admins can open, extend or break connected chests. Explosions and fire can't destroy them. Only the owner can place a hopper underneath.
• Public chests: The owner can make a single chest public. Anyone can put items into a public sender but not take them out, and anyone can take items from a public receiver but not put them in. Settings and breaking stay with the owner.
• Receivers are take-only: Players can't put items into a receiver by hand, but hoppers can.

Getting started

Craft a Chest Connector from a hopper and an ender pearl. Every connected chest uses one connector, and you get it back when you disconnect or break the chest.

Commands

Configuration (config.yml)

Good to know

• Tested on Paper 26.3 with Java 25.
• All chests of the same owner and colour are one group, so give a public chest its own colour.
• Filters work by item type: all enchanted books count as the same item, for example.
• Items no receiver accepts stay in the sender.