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Bulk action buttons in chests

Suggestion: Add 4 buttons on the side of the chest interface for some simple bulk actions:

Fill Stacks (1 arrow up): Fill all incomplete stacks in the chest as much as possible with items from the inventory. So if the chest has 5 iron in it and the player has 5 iron in inv the button will move all iron to the chest. But if the chest has no iron at all the players iron will not be touched, and if the chest has 63 iron then only 1 iron will be put away. No additional slots become occupied when you use this button, only existing slots get filled.

Store All (2 arrows up): Put everything into the chest if possible. This is the same as shift clicking every item in the inv into the chest.

Replenish Stacks (1 arrow down): Same as fill stacks but into the player inv.

Take All (2 arrows down): Same as Store All but into player inv.

These buttons would display to the side of the chest GUI and show a description of their action when hovered.

Use Cases:

Coming back from a mining trip, you can use the fill stacks button to put away all the ores youve collected into the ores chest without touching the rest of your items with just one click

When building a large structure with any block (ex. cobble) you can rclick drag a stack of cobble in your inventory to fill some amount of slots with 1 cobble each, then Replenish Stacks on a chest filled with cobblestone to quickly take that many stacks of blocks.

When looting chests in a structure you can quickly take everything with the press of one button.

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    I really like this suggestion, especially the Fill Stacks feature.

    One addition I think would be extremely important is a dedicated "Deposit Similar" button, like the one in Valheim.

    The key difference is that Deposit Similar would move all items from the player’s inventory that already exist anywhere in the chest, regardless of whether the stacks are full or not. It wouldn’t require incomplete stacks to function.

    This is incredibly useful when organizing storage rooms. For example:

    • After mining, you could instantly deposit all ores into your ores chest without touching tools, food, or building blocks.

    • After farming, you could deposit crops into the food chest with one click.

    • It dramatically reduces repetitive clicking in late-game worlds with large storage systems.

    Since this already works very smoothly in Valheim, it would fit perfectly as a quality-of-life improvement in Minecraft without changing the core gameplay.