About
Nearby Item Crafting lets you craft with items stored in nearby chests and other inventories instead of moving every ingredient into your player inventory first.
Features
- Craft using ingredients from nearby inventories while keeping vanilla crafting flow
- Updates the recipe book so recipes become craftable when nearby storage contains items
- Adds a nearby-items panel with item counts, search, scrolling, and sorted entries
- Click items in the nearby panel to locate their storage
- Highlights chests in the world, including double chests
- Optional distance labels and locate-trail effects for faster chest finding
- Cancel button returns nearby-sourced ingredients back to storage
- Quick spacebar shortcut to fill one set from the selected recipe
- Configurable refresh timing, scan radius, highlight color, and panel defaults
How It Works
- Open a crafting table or your inventory recipe book
- The mod scans nearby inventories within the configured radius
- Nearby items appear in the side panel and count toward recipe availability
- When you craft, ingredients are pulled from nearby storage
- Use the cancel button to send nearby items back if needed
Requirements
- Minecraft 1.21.11
- Fabric Loader 0.18.4+
- Fabric API 0.141.1+1.21.11
- Optional: Mod Menu for in-game config screen
Configuration
If Mod Menu is installed, you can configure:
- Nearby scan radius
- Highlight color and opacity
- Highlight duration
- Distance labels and locate-trail effects
- Nearby panel default open state
- Auto-refresh interval
Notes
The mod is built around vanilla crafting screens rather than adding a global shared inventory. On singleplayer, your local config controls scan radius. On a dedicated server, the server config controls the actual nearby-inventory range.
Bugs and Support
For bug reports, please open an issue on GitHub or message through Discord:
- Issues: https://github.com/DerkOttersberg/bluethooth-chest/issues
- Source: https://github.com/DerkOttersberg/bluethooth-chest
Bug reports are easier to fix if you include:
- Minecraft version
- Fabric Loader version
- Fabric API version
- Mod version
- Steps to reproduce
- Latest log or crash report, if available
Also Check out!
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.1
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as bluethooth-chest-1.21.1-1.3.0-1.21.1-forge.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 85 KB
- Download link checked 31 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.