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The storage crafting menu shows craftable recipes from the player's inventory and nearby chests.
StorageWorkbench

StorageWorkbench

Plugin

Craft from nearby chests through a vanilla-compatible storage crafting menu for Paper servers.

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StorageWorkbench

Paper plugin Server side No client mod MIT License

Craft from your storage room, not from your pockets.

StorageWorkbench turns a normal crafting table into a storage-aware crafting station. Put chests near the workbench, fill them with materials, and craft through a vanilla-compatible server menu without manually carrying every ingredient.

It is built for Paper servers that want a practical storage quality-of-life upgrade while keeping the game friendly to Java players and Bedrock players connecting through Geyser.

Why Try It

Without StorageWorkbench With StorageWorkbench
Move ingredients into your inventory before crafting. Craft directly from nearby chests.
Stop when your inventory is full. Craft output goes to inventory when possible, or drops near the player if needed.
Search through storage manually. Use recipe categories, sorting, pagination, and refresh.
Java-only UI tricks can break for Bedrock players. Uses vanilla server inventory screens and vanilla items.
Storage rooms are just storage. Storage rooms become crafting rooms.

How It Works

  1. Place a crafting table near your chests.
  2. Sneak-right-click the crafting table.
  3. Pick a recipe from the Storage Crafting menu.
  4. StorageWorkbench consumes ingredients from the player inventory and nearby chests.
  5. Crafted output is placed in the player inventory when possible.

Regular right-click still opens the normal vanilla crafting table.

Players can also look at a crafting table and run:

/swb open

Core Features

Feature Details
Storage crafting menu Server-side inventory GUI opened from normal crafting tables.
Nearby chest support Uses items from the player inventory and nearby chests.
Direct chest consumption Chest ingredients are consumed directly from storage, not moved into the player inventory first.
Full inventory support Crafting still works when the player inventory is full.
Categories All, Building, Tools, Combat, Redstone, Food, Transport, Ingredients, Misc.
Sorting Name, Available, Output, Category.
Max crafting Shift-left-click crafts the maximum available amount.
Controller-friendly max mode A max-mode button helps Bedrock/Xbox players use maximum crafting.
Chest highlights Included chests get lightweight vanilla particle highlights while the menu is open.
Multiplayer-aware sessions Each player has an independent crafting session.

Designed For Vanilla-Compatible Servers

StorageWorkbench does not require:

  • Client mods
  • Resource packs
  • Custom textures
  • Custom fonts
  • Custom packets
  • External services
  • Databases
  • Telemetry

The menu uses normal server inventory screens made from vanilla items. This is intentional: it keeps the plugin practical for mixed Java and Bedrock communities using Geyser/Floodgate.

Compatibility

Target Support
Platform Paper
Minecraft versions 1.21.x and 26.1.x
Java for 1.21.x servers Java 21
Java for 26.1.x servers Java 25 or newer
Client-side install Not required
Resource pack Not required
Dependencies None
Geyser/Floodgate Designed around vanilla server inventory screens for better cross-client behavior.

StorageWorkbench is not a Fabric or Forge mod. It is a Paper plugin and should be installed on the server.

Chest Search Range

Default range around the crafting table:

Direction Blocks
North 5
South 5
East 5
West 5
Up 5
Down 0

Horizontal directions use world axes because crafting table blocks do not have a facing direction. Diagonal chests inside the resulting rectangular area are included.

Server operators can change the range through commands or in plugins/StorageWorkbench/config.yml.

Commands

Player command:

Command Permission Description
/swb open storageworkbench.use Opens the storage crafting menu while looking at a crafting table.

Admin commands:

Command Permission Description
/swb status storageworkbench.admin Shows plugin status and active sessions.
/swb range show storageworkbench.admin Shows the current chest search range.
/swb range default storageworkbench.admin Restores the default range.
/swb range horizontal <blocks> storageworkbench.admin Sets all four horizontal directions at once.
/swb range set <north|south|east|west|up|down> <blocks> storageworkbench.admin Sets one direction.
/swb reload storageworkbench.admin Reloads the plugin config.

Permissions

Permission Default Purpose
storageworkbench.use Everyone Allows using StorageWorkbench crafting.
storageworkbench.admin Operators Allows changing StorageWorkbench settings in game.

Installation

  1. Stop the Paper server.
  2. Back up the server folder, especially world, world_nether, world_the_end, plugins, and config files.
  3. Copy storage-workbench-1.0.0.jar into the server plugins folder.
  4. Start the server.
  5. Adjust plugins/StorageWorkbench/config.yml if needed.
Default configuration 
enabled: true

storage-range:
  north: 5
  south: 5
  east: 5
  west: 5
  up: 5
  down: 0

storage-menu-enabled: true
highlight-chests-enabled: true
highlight-batch-size: 12
highlight-ticks-between-batches: 2
highlight-refresh-ticks: 20
borrow-custom-chest-items: false
debug-logging: false

Performance

StorageWorkbench is built to avoid repeated expensive world scans:

  • Chest discovery runs per player storage crafting session.
  • The plugin scans loaded chunk tile entities instead of every block in the search volume.
  • Recipe availability is based on a compact material index built from current inventory contents.
  • Chest particles are batched and only active while the storage crafting menu is open.
  • Item consumption checks the current chest slot state before taking items.

Safety

StorageWorkbench does not generate chunks, edit blocks, rewrite world files, migrate world data, use a database, or make external network calls.

Still, any plugin that moves items should be tested carefully before use on a valuable live world.

Recommended rollout:

  1. Make a full server backup.
  2. Test on a copied world or separate test server.
  3. Test normal crafting table behavior.
  4. Test sneak-right-click storage crafting.
  5. Test full inventory behavior.
  6. Test two players crafting from the same nearby chest area.
  7. Install on the live server only after the copied-world test looks correct.

Known Limitations

  • A server plugin cannot add new tabs to the client-side vanilla recipe-book panel in a Java/Bedrock-compatible way without a client mod or resource pack.
  • StorageWorkbench uses a server-side inventory menu with vanilla item buttons instead.
  • The legacy vanilla recipe-book preview mode exists as a fallback but is disabled by default.
  • Some unusual custom recipes or heavily customized item metadata may not behave like simple vanilla shaped and shapeless recipes.

License

StorageWorkbench is released under the MIT License.

Project members

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Technical information

License
MIT
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