SmarterCopperGolems

Smarter Copper Golems

Smarter Copper Golems extends normal Copper Golem behavior. Golems can now organize storage chests for you.

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.