Forgebound Chests

Forgebound Chests adds five upgradeable metal chests above the vanilla wooden chest. Start from a normal chest, then climb Copper → Iron → Gold → Diamond → Netherite. Each tier keeps your items, grows storage, and uses its own forged look.

Chest Tiers

Place two chests of the same tier side by side to make a double chest. The GUI shows up to 16 columns and 6 rows at a time, with a scrollbar for the rest.

Crafting

Copper through Diamond use the same glass-core pattern so they do not collide with vanilla “surround with 8 materials” recipes:

Result	M	G	C
Copper Chest	copper ingot ×4	glass ×4	vanilla chest (or trapped chest)
Iron Chest	iron ingot ×4	glass ×4	Copper Chest
Gold Chest	gold ingot ×4	glass ×4	Iron Chest
Diamond Chest	diamond ×4	glass ×4	Gold Chest

Netherite Chest uses tinted glass and 1 netherite ingot:

G = tinted glass · C = Diamond Chest · N = netherite ingot

In-world Upgrade

You can also upgrade a placed chest without emptying it. Hold the next tier's material in your main hand and right-click the chest. Contents and custom names are kept. Double chests cost twice as much. You cannot skip tiers.

• Wooden chest, trapped chest, or vanilla copper chest → Copper: 8 copper ingots
• Copper → Iron: 8 iron ingots
• Iron → Gold: 8 gold ingots
• Gold → Diamond: 8 diamonds
• Diamond → Netherite: 1 netherite ingot

Chest GUI

• Search items by name
• A–Z / Z–A sort
• Tidy merges stacks and packs empty slots

Hoppers and comparators work. The Netherite Chest item is fire and lava resistant.

Requirements

• Minecraft 26.2
• Fabric Loader
• Fabric API

Install on both client and server.