Builder's Shulkers

Builder's Shulkers lets you use a shulker box's contents without ever placing it down. Open and rearrange one straight from your inventory, and place blocks from a shulker held in your hotbar while you build.

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Build straight from your hotbar

• Hold a shulker box in your hotbar and press Ctrl + right-click to enter Pocket-Build mode
• Scroll the mouse wheel to select the previous/next different block inside the box. Its name and count show by your hotbar, and the box opens with a dissolving lid that reveals the selected block rendered inside it
• Right-click to place that block straight from the box while the box stays in your hand
• Middle-click a block you already have in the box to jump straight to it
• Hold Ctrl to peek at the box's full contents in an overlay above your hotbar

Open shulker boxes from your inventory

• Right-click a shulker box in your inventory to open it
• Move items in and out with all the usual controls: left and right click, shift-click, drag, hotbar number keys, and drop
• Close it with Escape, or by right-clicking the same shulker again
• While one is open, you can right-click another to switch straight to it
• There are open and close sounds, and the lid smoothly animates

Multiplayer

• Works in multiplayer, including the lid animations on shulkers other players hold
• Players without the mod can still join the server normally: they simply do not see the extra animations and sounds

Customization

• Settings screen: Press B (rebindable) to open it and tune the cosmetics: lid animations, the lid effect (dissolve, disappear, or stay solid), the block rendered inside the box and its count, the open/close sounds, and more.
• Custom keybinds: Every control lives in Options -> Controls under "Builder's Shulkers" and can be rebound or unbound: the Pocket-Build hold key (default Left Control), a peek key (default Left Control), and a single-press "Toggle Pocket-Build" (unbound by default) to enter and leave the mode with one button (handy on a controller or on touch).
• Gamerules: Server admins can turn the access from inventory and Pocket-Build features on or off.

Designed to fit in

• Vanilla+: improves shulker handling without changing how the game looks or feels
• Built on the vanilla shulker container (same screen, same data), so it plays nicely with most other mods, and it works with shulker boxes added by other mods

Safe by design

• Everything that moves items is handled by the server, so your items can never be duplicated

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21.9+, 26.1.x or 26.2
• Fabric Loader and Fabric API, or Neoforge

Put this mod and Fabric API in your mods folder.

Open source

Builder's Shulkers is open source.

• Code: https://github.com/Moncef-dev/builders-shulkers
• Found a bug or have an idea? Send it here: https://github.com/Moncef-dev/builders-shulkers/issues

Builder's Shulkers lets you use a shulker box's contents without ever placing it down. Open and rearrange one straight from your inventory, and place blocks from a shulker held in your hotbar while you build.

Build straight from your hotbar

• Hold a shulker box in your hotbar and press Ctrl + right-click to enter Pocket-Build mode
• Scroll the mouse wheel to select the previous/next different block inside the box. Its name and count show by your hotbar, and the box opens with a dissolving lid that reveals the selected block rendered inside it
• Right-click to place that block straight from the box while the box stays in your hand
• Middle-click a block you already have in the box to jump straight to it
• Hold Ctrl to peek at the box's full contents in an overlay above your hotbar

Open and manage shulker boxes from your inventory

• Right-click a shulker box in your inventory to open it
• Move items in and out with all the usual controls: left and right click, shift-click, drag, hotbar number keys, and drop
• Close it with Escape, or by right-clicking the same shulker again
• While one is open, you can right-click another to switch straight to it
• There are open and close sounds, and the lid smoothly animates

Multiplayer

• Works in multiplayer, including the lid animations on shulkers other players hold
• Players without the mod can still join the server normally: they simply do not see the extra animations and sounds

Designed to fit in

• Vanilla+: improves shulker handling without changing how the game looks or feels
• Built on the vanilla shulker container (same screen, same data), so it plays nicely with most other mods, and it works with shulker boxes added by other mods

Customization

• Settings screen: Press B (rebindable) to open it and tune the cosmetics: lid animations, the lid effect (dissolve, disappear, or stay solid), the block rendered inside the box and its count, the open/close sounds, and more.
• Custom keybinds: Every control lives in Options -> Controls under "Builder's Shulkers" and can be rebound or unbound: the Pocket-Build hold key (default Left Control), a peek key (default Left Control), and a single-press "Toggle Pocket-Build" (unbound by default) to enter and leave the mode with one button (handy on a controller or on touch).
• Gamerules: Server admins can turn the access from inventory and Pocket-Build features on or off.

Safe by design

• Everything that moves items is handled by the server, so your items can never be duplicated

Requirements

• Minecraft 26.1.x or 26.2
• Fabric Loader and Fabric API

Put this mod and Fabric API in your mods folder.

Open source

Builder's Shulkers is open source.

• Code: https://github.com/Moncef-dev/builders-shulkers
• Found a bug or have an idea? Send it here: https://github.com/Moncef-dev/builders-shulkers/issues