Bottomless Chest

A buildable chest that holds as much as you want, with a search box you type into to find things again.

What it does

• Unlimited storage. One chest replaces a wall of them. Tested with a million stacks.
• Type to find. A search box sits at the top of the chest window and filters as you type. Matching items are grouped by name so like things sit together.
• Category search. @food, @weapon, @armor, @material, @ammo, @tool, @trophy, @misc. Combine them with text: @food ber finds Blueberries. Several categories widen the search; several words narrow it.
• Take All and Stack respect the search. With a filter active they act on what matches, not on the whole chest.
• Works on dedicated servers. The server holds the contents and sends only what is on screen, so a huge chest costs no more to browse than a small one.

Building one

Hammer, under Furniture, at a workbench. The cost is configurable.

Using it

• Type to filter. Escape clears the search; pressing it again closes the chest.
• The mouse wheel or the scrollbar moves through a large chest.
• The green slot at the end of the page is always free, so there is somewhere to drop into a full chest.
• Holding the use key deposits matching stacks without opening the chest.

Notes

• Everyone on a server needs the mod, including the server itself. Joining without it is refused with a version mismatch rather than allowed - a client that cannot resolve the chest would otherwise destroy it.
• A chest that still holds something cannot be dismantled. Emptying an unlimited chest onto the ground would spawn an item for every stack, which is not something a world recovers from.
• Contents are stored beside the world save in <world>.bottomless.dat, not inside the world file. Back it up along with the world. If a chest is ever destroyed anyway, its contents survive there and bottomless list will show them as orphaned, ready to be reattached to a new chest with bottomless rebind <id>.

Configuration

com.myrridin.bottomlesschest.cfg:

Commands

bottomless list - every chest store in this world, and whether it is in use or orphaned. bottomless here - which store the nearest chest uses. bottomless rebind <id> - point the nearest chest at a different store, to recover one.

Changelog

0.1.0

First release.

• Buildable chest with unlimited storage and a typed search filter.
• Category tokens (@food, @weapon, ...) and name-sorted results.
• Take All and Stack respect the active search.
• Dedicated server support: contents are held server-side and paged to clients, so chest size does not affect network cost.
• Contents stored beside the world save rather than in the world file, and survive a destroyed chest, a crashed client or a failed mod load.
• Chests holding items cannot be dismantled, and never spill their contents on destruction.