Worse Barrels

Worse Barrels

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Worse Barrels

Worse Barrels is an opinionated barrel mod.

I've found a lot of "barrel" mods aren't really to my satisfaction; mainly because they can hold hundreds, even thousands or tens-of-thousands of stacks of items in just one block space. Some even provide wireless item transport, sorting, or even basic autocrafting functionality. While these features - don't get me wrong! - are great, and extremely convenient, I'm just not a player that enjoys things being convenient - give me challenges to store and manipulate that many items, don't let me just throw upgrades at the wall until all my problems go away.

And thus, Worse Barrels.

These barrels suck, and it's by design. They hold eight stacks of items, period, full stop, the end. There are no upgrades. The size is not configurable.

The intended use is less "Store all of my cobblestone, ever, in the whole world", and more as a small item buffer, filter, or front-end for a larger storage unit somewhere else, that you can bring the items to for convenient one-click access.

Although, hey, you can nest them - so it's not impossible to store crazy numbers of items in a small space. It'll just be a space much, much larger than one block, and it won't be easy.

Completed features:

  • Barrels placeable in 12 directions (NESW, ceiling NESW, floor NESW).
  • Interact with the barrels with devices such as hoppers.
  • Read the contents of the barrel with a comparator.
  • Break or crush the barrel to keep its contents, like a shulker box.
  • Dispense the barrel to place it, also like a shulker box.
  • Render the item on the front of the barrel. Yknow, so you can actually see what's inside...
  • Interact with the barrels to insert and remove items. Kind of important.

This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/

Ironically enough, despite being made as a reaction to me disliking Storage Drawer's balance, I borrowed nine lines of code from it, in RenderTileWorseBarrel.java. Absolute lifesaver. Storage Drawers is MIT and its license is therefore reproduced in STORAGE_DRAWERS_LICENSE.md.