
A mod that adds vanilla-friendly backpacks.
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Portable Chests
With Port-a-Chest you can craft Portable Chests, Portable Large Chests, and Portable Ender Chests that you can wear in your chest slot or in your back trinket slot.
To open an equipped Portable Chest, press your assigned keybinding (B by default).
To open a held Portable Chest instead, right click while crouching.
If you have multiple Portable Chests, priority defaults to the one in your chest slot, followed by your back trinket slot, main hand, and off hand. You can configure the priority order through the mod's settings in Mod Menu.
While hovering over a Portable Chest, hold Left Shift to preview its contents.
Note:
When used with Variant Vanilla Blocks, Port-a-Chest adds Portable Chests and Portable Large Chests for all vanilla wood types, plus a resource pack to replace the default versions with oak variants.
Recipes
Portable Chests can be crafted with two leads and one chest.
Portable Large Chests can be crafted by adding one more chest above or below the first one.
Alternatively, you can extend a Portable Chest into a Portable Large Chest without losing any items.
For developers
Feel free to make your own mods and resource packs to add or modify Portable Chests.
Port-a-Chest is available under the MIT license.
For modpack creators
You are free to include Port-a-Chest in any modpack, as long as you don't modify the contact information found in the fabric.mod.json file, and all downloads are hosted on Modrinth. Thank you for considering my mod for your modpack!
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.20.1
- 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 portachest-1.0.0+1.20.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 180 KB
- Download link checked 31 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.