FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

Hello maybe there already exists such a mod, but so far I have not found anything.

I would like to have four additional button's in the chest interface:
1. store all
2. take all
3. autostack all items from inventory to chest if there is a partial stack of the same item in the chest
4. autostack all items from chest to inventory if there is a partial stack of the same item in the inventory

For example in the 2-d game terraria such buttons exist and once you have played such a game a bit you will sorely miss them. This is especially true for minetest due to the fact that inventory operations are quiet laggy and you are not only limited by click speed here.

Usecases:
1. store all
- put your current gear in a chest to switch to a different task (example mining --> farming)
2. take all
- get a predefined gear for a specific task
- want to move a chest to a different location, but the chest is full
3. autostack inventory --> chest
- semiautomatic sorting (having chest with partial stacks for ores, stones, foods,...)
4. autostack chest --> inventory
- refresh your food/torces stack in inventory

So a typical 'workday' in minetest could be like this:
1. use 'take all' on the mining chest
2. do some mining and come back home
3. visit your ore and stone chests and use the 'autostack' feature to unload your goods in the predefined chests
4. use 'store all' on the mining chests to clear your remaining inventory (put your mining equip back)
5. go to your farming area and use 'take all' on the farming chest
6. harvest your crops and go back to your farming chest(s)
7. ... guess you see the pattern

It could be handy to have two arrow buttons at the side of the inventory view for chests which let you click UP to move and sort all your inventory to a chest and DOWN to move and sort all the chest into your inventory... or... Double-clicking an item would quick copy it to and from a chest/inventory...

Such chests would be very helpful. I got very annoyed about the standard locked chest which got made broken by that "feature" that hides content from non-owners. Most servers are far too slow for that functionality, and most of the time you just want to check what's in which chest.

When returning from mining operation, a chest that "sucks" all cobble out of inventory *and* bags would be fine and save a lot of time. Sorting the ores is usually less of a problem.

For building purposes, that store all/retrieve all functionality would be very helpful. Even and especially on servers dedicated to building.

Taking entire filled chests, carrying them around and placing them elsewere can be done with the wrench included in the technic mod/game.

Sokomine wrote:Such chests would be very helpful. I got very annoyed about the standard locked chest which got made broken by that "feature" that hides content from non-owners. Most servers are far too slow for that functionality, and most of the time you just want to check what's in which chest.

When returning from mining operation, a chest that "sucks" all cobble out of inventory *and* bags would be fine and save a lot of time. Sorting the ores is usually less of a problem.

For building purposes, that store all/retrieve all functionality would be very helpful. Even and especially on servers dedicated to building.

Taking entire filled chests, carrying them around and placing them elsewere can be done with the wrench included in the technic mod/game.

Actually, ashenk made a mod that does that. It is really cool, and would definitely be a must for me.