5 best Minecraft storage mods to make your life easy

Every player would agree that storage systems are a big part of Minecraft. Over the years, Minecraft has introduced Quality-of-Life features to make inventory management more player-friendly and less stressful, with the addition of shulker boxes in 2016’s Exploration Update and the recently added bundles in 2024’s Bundles of Bravery game drop.

Mojang even introduced the copper golem to provide a helping hand for sorting storage systems. Yet, some players may still find inventory and storage management a hassle they do not want to spend time on. Fortunately, Minecraft’s modding community has plenty of incredible storage mods to make your in-game life easier. Below, we have shared some of the best storage mods for Minecraft for you to try.

Note: This article is subjective and solely reflects the writer's opinion.

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Best Minecraft storage mods worth checking out

1) Inventory Profiles Next

Inventory Profiles Next is a powerful Minecraft Java mod featuring shortcuts for sorting inventories, moving items cleanly from your inventory to chests, locking inventory slots, and more. One of the features I use frequently in this mod is the inventory-sorting keybind that automatically organizes my items.

Having the same items scattered across different chests and your inventory is a common Minecraft experience. Inventory Profiles Next gives you a keybind to sort all items in a specific order. This is just one of the many features of the mod. I recommend installing it and pressing R + C to open its mod menu. There are plenty of configuration options, such as setting up different profiles, locking item slots, choosing sorting order, and more.

Download Inventory Profiles Next mod.

2) Shulker Box Tooltips

Shulker Box Tooltips mod feature (Image via Mojang)

Shulker boxes are among the most useful items in Minecraft, especially in the endgame where players build huge farms and mega-bases. Despite being useful, they can be annoying because shulker boxes only show the items stored in their first few slots. With the Shulker Box Tooltips mod installed, you can simply hover over a shulker box and press Shift to view everything inside.

Mojang has already added a similar feature for the recently added bundles. Players can hope developers bring this mod’s functionality to vanilla Minecraft in future updates.

Download Shulker Box Tooltips mod.

3) Sophisticated Backpacks

Sophisticated Backpacks are great for explorers (Image via Mojang & P3pp3rF1y)

Exploring new biomes and structures often leads to the same problem: not having enough space to bring everything back. As shulker boxes are an endgame item and bundles can only hold so much, many players want a middle option, and that is where Sophisticated Backpacks comes in.

As you can guess from the name, this mod adds a carryable backpack for players to use. After crafting a backpack, you can upgrade it through different tiers, ranging from leather to netherite. With each tier, your backpack unlocks more item slots and upgrade slots.

Wondering what an upgrade is? Sophisticated Backpacks also introduces many Quality-of-Life upgrades you can unlock, such as auto-pickup, a cooking slot, a smelting slot, a portable jukebox, and more.

Download Sophisticated Backpacks mod.

4) Nether Chested

Nether Chested mod (Image via Mojang & YouTube/HenriU Plays Minecraft)

Nether Chested is a simple but extremely useful Minecraft storage mod. It adds a new Nether-themed chest, which may look like a reskin of regular chests, but do not underestimate it. Instead of storing just 64 blocks per slot, you can store 512 blocks of a type in one slot. This chest also has a double-chest variation, meaning you can store over 27,000 blocks in total.

Download Nether Chested mod.

5) Better Compressed Blocks

Better Compressed Blocks mod (Image via Mojang)

Minecraft already has plenty of compressed blocks to help you save space, such as diamond blocks, coal blocks, and more. But what if there were even more compressed versions? The Better Compressed Blocks mod answers that question.

This mod introduces condensed versions of common Minecraft blocks like cobblestone, sand, iron, different wood types, and many others. If you want to save even more storage space in Minecraft, give the Better Compressed Blocks mod a try.

Download Better Compressed Blocks mod.