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How to Automatically Sort Player Chests on Your Minecraft Server (ChestSort)

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ChestSort is an essential quality-of-life plugin that eliminates the headache of messy storage rooms. It allows players to instantly organise their chests, barrels, shulker boxes, and even their own personal inventories with a single click. Items are automatically grouped and sorted by category, making it incredibly easy to find what you are looking for after a long mining trip

1. Download the ChestSort Plugin

Note: Make sure to match your Server Version and Platform.

chestsort-plugin.png Locating and downloading the ChestSort plugin from the official SpigotMC resource page

2. Log In to Your Panel

3. Select the ‘Files‘ Tab

Cybrancee panel Minecraft files page, with files tab outlined

4. Select the ‘Plugins‘ Folder

Navigating to the plugins folder in the server file manager.

5. Upload the ‘ChestShort.jar‘ Into the ‘Plugins‘ Folder

Uploading the ChestSort jar file into the server's plugins directory

6. Restart Your Server

7. How to Sort a Chest Manually

Once in-game, simply open any chest, barrel, or shulker box that is disorganised. Hover your mouse over any item inside the chest and press your Middle Mouse Button (the scroll wheel). The entire container will instantly organise itself by item category and alphabet

A disorganized Minecraft chest filled with scattered items before using the ChestSort plugin
A Minecraft player's chest instantly organizing its items into neat rows after using the ChestSort middle-click feature

8. How to Enable Automatic Sorting

If you do not want to click a button every single time you open a chest, you can tell the server to do the work for you!

Open your game chat and type: /sort on. From now on, whenever you dump your items into a chest and close it, the plugin will automatically sort the entire container for you in the background! (If you ever want to turn this off, simply type /sort off)

A player using the /chestsort on command in the game chat to enable automatic background chest sorting

9. Essential ChestSort Commands

/sort onInstantly turns on automatic sorting for your character when closing a chest
/sort offInstantly disables auto-sorting for your character
/sortOpens the personal settings GUI to toggle hotkeys and other sorting preferences
/sort hotkeysOpens a specific chat menu to manually rebind which keys trigger the manual sorting
/invsortInstantly sorts the player’s personal inventory instead of a chest

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