Original Mod By - Consular
Cardboard Boxes is a mod that adds an early game alternative to shulker boxes! Because convenience shouldn't be exclusively for the rich!
You can craft a cardboard box quite early with the following recipe: image
You can even dye your box after you've made
Of course, there are a few key differences between the cardboard box and the shulker box. The most noticable being that cardboard boxes only hold 9 stacks of items rather than 27. However, cardboard boxes do not need space above them to be opened. Cardboard boxes will also break instanly with your fists.
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Hopefully you have something more valuable to store than raw cod, happy boxing!
- 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 cardboardboxes-1.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 97 KB
- Download link checked 7 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.