BetterSort

BetterSort

Sort chests and your inventory with one click. BetterSort also refills your hotbar when a stack runs out and stashes your items into nearby chests - no client mods needed. For Paper, Purpur and Folia 26.x - perfect for survival, SMP and friends servers.

How it works

Action · Result
Double-click an empty slot · sorts that inventory - the chest or your own inventory
Middle-click an empty slot (creative mode) · same as double-click
Sneak + left-click a chest with an empty hand · sorts the chest without opening it
/sort · sorts your inventory - the hotbar stays as it is
/stash · puts your items into nearby chests that already contain them
A stack in the hotbar runs out / a tool breaks · the same item moves into the hotbar

Features

• Sorting by category (building blocks, other blocks, redstone, materials, food, tools, combat, brewing), alphabetical or by amount
• Tidy layout - every category starts in a new row
• Natural order - ores by value, tools and armor by tier, wood families together (oak log, oak planks, oak slab, ...) - and stacks are merged
• Chests, double chests, barrels, shulker boxes, the ender chest, dispensers, droppers, hoppers and storage minecarts - never menus of other plugins
• Hotbar refill for blocks, food and broken tools
• Quick stack (/stash) into chests in a configurable radius
• Respects protection plugins (WorldGuard, GriefPrevention, ...) and locked containers
• Safe: the item count is checked before anything is changed - no lost or duplicated items
• Every player can turn auto-sorting (/sort auto) and refill (/sort refill) on or off
• Folia support - one jar for Paper, Purpur and Folia
• MiniMessage messages, English, German, French, Spanish, Polish, Russian, Portuguese, Turkish and Chinese included
• New config options are added automatically, optional auto update from Modrinth (off by default)

Using BetterCarry too? Update it to 1.2.1 or newer.

Commands & permissions

• /sort - sort your inventory (alias /bettersort)
• /sort auto - sort chests automatically when you open them
• /sort refill - turn hotbar refill on or off
• /stash - put your items into nearby chests (alias /quickstack)
• /sort reload - reload config and messages

Permission · Default
bettersort.sort · everyone · sort chests and the own inventory
bettersort.refill · everyone · hotbar refill
bettersort.stash · everyone · /stash
bettersort.admin · OP · /sort reload, update notices

Requirements

• Paper, Purpur or Folia 26.1 - 26.3, Java 25
• No other plugins needed

Bug report & support

If you need help or have a bug please contact me via discord (add hassanbwo). I will guarantee quick help - Thanks for supporting :)

config.yml

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BetterSort – config.yml

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Sort chests and your inventory with one click, refill your hotbar automatically

and stash items into nearby chests - no client mods needed.

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How it works (default):

Double-click an empty slot -> sorts that inventory (the chest or your own inventory)

Middle-click (creative mode) -> same as double-click

Sneak + left-click a chest -> sorts the chest without opening it

/sort -> sorts your inventory

/stash -> puts your items into nearby chests that already contain them

All messages are in messages_en.yml / messages_de.yml (MiniMessage like or and & color codes)

Check the plugin page for more information: modrinth.com/plugin/bettersort

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If you need help or have a bug please contact me via discord (add hassanbwo).

I will guarantee quick help - Thanks for supporting :)

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How items are sorted:

category - building blocks, decorations, redstone, transportation, materials, food, tools, combat, brewing

alphabetical - by item name (A-Z)

amount - biggest stacks first

sort_mode: category

How the sorted items are placed:

rows - every category starts in a new row (looks tidy, small categories share a row if space is short)

compact - one stack after the other

layout: rows

Ways to sort

controls:
double_click_empty_slot: true
middle_click: true
sneak_left_click: true

Sort chests automatically when they are opened.

This is only the default - every player can change it with /sort auto

sort_on_open: false

When a stack in the hotbar runs out (blocks, food) or a tool breaks,

the same item moves from the inventory into the hotbar. Players can change it with /sort refill

refill_hotbar: true

/stash puts all items of the inventory (not the hotbar) into chests nearby

that already contain the same item

quick_stack:
enabled: true
radius: 8

Sounds (Minecraft sound names, "" = no sound)

sounds:
sort: "ui.loom.select_pattern"
stash: "entity.item.pickup"

Worlds where BetterSort is disabled

disabled_worlds:

• example_world

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Language of all messages: en (English), de (Deutsch), fr (Français), es (Español),

pl (Polski), ru (Русский), pt (Português), tr (Türkçe) or zh (简体中文)

You can add your own language, e.g. messages_it.yml -> language: it

/sort reload (permission bettersort.admin) reloads config and messages.

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language: en

Updates from Modrinth: a newer version is always announced in the console.

enabled: download new versions automatically. Downloads are checked with the SHA-512 checksum from Modrinth

and installed on the next server restart (plugins/update folder). Only releases for your

Minecraft version and server software (Paper, Purpur, Folia) are downloaded.

major_versions: also download big updates (e.g. 2.x -> 3.0) automatically, otherwise they are only announced.

auto_update:
enabled: false
major_versions: false

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