Crafting Station

A crafting table that shows the container behind it. Lay out a recipe and pull the ingredients across without closing the screen or walking back and forth.

How It Works

Place the Crafting Station against a container — it faces you when placed, so the block it reads is the one directly behind it. Opening the station shows two halves: the container's slots on the left, under its own name, and the usual 3×3 grid with your inventory on the right.

Both halves are live. Drag or shift-click between them like you would in any container screen. Shift-clicking from the container sends items straight to the crafting grid, which is what you opened the station for.

The grid keeps what you leave in it, so a station can stay set up with a recipe between two visits. A comparator placed against it reads how full the grid is.

Supported Containers

Detection uses the same vanilla helper a hopper uses, so anything a hopper can pull from works here:

Chest, trapped chest	27 slots
Double chest	54 slots, shown as one panel
Barrel, shulker box	27 slots
Dispenser, dropper	9 slots
Hopper	5 slots
Modded containers	whatever they hold

The Panel

The panel sizes itself to the container. A hopper behind the station shows five slots, a double chest shows all fifty-four, and anything taller scrolls — mouse wheel or the scrollbar on the right, whose handle is sized to the share you are looking at.

Recipe

Shapeless: 1 Chest + 1 Crafting Table.

Requirements

Minecraft	1.20.1
Loader	Fabric ≥ 0.16.10
Fabric API	required
Environment	client and server, including dedicated

License

Released under the MIT License. Play it anywhere, put it in a modpack, read the source and build on it — just keep the copyright notice.