About

Better Shulkers is an open-source Fabric and NeoForge Minecraft mod that works completely on the server (no client mod needed) and improves many aspects of shulker boxes. This is intended to be used on vanilla-compatible servers, however should work fine with modded content.

Features

This is a brief list of features. More can be found on our website:

Open shulker boxes from your hotbar or inventory
Quickly move lots of items into a shulker using shift-clicking in your inventory
Automatically pick up items and place them in a shulker box
Enchant with Material Collector or use a recipe to assign materials to a shulker
Visual display to show shulker box whitelists

Compatibility

The mod is compatible with Minecraft 1.21 and above.

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Configuration & Permissions

Configuration Options

The mod creates a bettershulkers.toml file in your server's config folder. Here are all available options:

Option	Default	Description
`item-pickup-type`	`ENCHANTMENT`	Controls how shulker boxes can pick up items automatically. Options: `ENCHANTMENT`, `RECIPE`, `NONE`
`open-from-inventory`	`true`	If true, players can open shulker boxes by right-clicking them in their hand or in their inventory.
`show-material-display`	`true`	If true, item displays will render on the shulker box lid to show the material. Note: Displays may appear slow if players have high latency.
`require-permission-for-command`	`true`	If true, players will need permissions to use the `/shulker` command.
`require-permission-for-right-click-open-shulker`	`false`	If true, players will need `bettershulkers.open` permission to open shulker boxes by right-clicking them.

Permission Nodes

The following permission nodes are available for server administrators:

Permission Node	Description
`bettershulkers.command.set`	Allows setting a shulker's material using the `/shulker` command.
`bettershulkers.command.reload`	Allows reloading the configuration file using the `/shulker` command.
`bettershulkers.open`	Allows opening shulker boxes by right-clicking them in hand. (permission req. for this disabled as default)

Commands

/shulker set <material> - Set a shulker box's material (requires bettershulkers.command.set permission)
/shulker reload - Reload the configuration file (requires bettershulkers.command.reload permission)

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