Nearby Chest Crafting

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

1. Open a crafting table or your inventory recipe book
2. The mod scans nearby inventories within the configured radius
3. Nearby items appear in the side panel and count toward recipe availability
4. When you craft, ingredients are pulled from nearby storage
5. 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

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