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Geochests
Take the world with you!

Download Link
1.6.4 = Download Here
1.7.2 = Download Here
1.7.10 = Download Here

Features

• Geochests let you pick up and place down areas of blocks in the world!
• Pick up Geochests and carry them with you - they keep their inventory!
• Supports all vanilla block types as of Minecraft 1.7.10, in both Survival and Creative mode!
• Now also supports all vanilla entity types (e.g. paintings, minecarts, mobs, etc.) as of Minecraft 1.7.10!
• Responds to a redstone signal allowing complex new interactions!
• 5 different colours and sizes - From 3x3 through to 11x11!
• Chaining Geochests allows you to store areas of any shape or size! Like that village? Well now you can steal it!

After years of enjoying Minecraft’s many awesome mods, I thought it was finally time to give something back. Enter the Geochests Mod - I hope you enjoy it!

Take your home with you






Take the guesswork out of mining






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Note: I've done my best to make the mod stable, but this is only version 1.2, so please let me know if you see any bugs and I'll try to fix them in future updates.

Major Features Added

• Version 1.0 = Original version (as seen on TDM mod spotlight: )
• Version 1.1 = Geochests now also capture entities.
• Version 1.2 = 10x Better maximum storage (A LOT), Geochests are now soulbound, added Geobed.

Installation

1. Make sure you are running Minecraft 1.6.4 or 1.7.2 or 1.7.10 with Forge (I find the Technic Launcher particularly useful for this).
2. Drop the zip file (or the jar file for 1.7.2 and 1.7.10) into your mods folder.
3. Play the game!

Tips and Tricks

• To build Geochests you’ll need geodite which is mined from geodite ore and you’ll need lots and lots of coloured wool (using a Geochest you can even bring your sheep farm with you!)
• Geodite ore only exists above sea level and is most easily found in the extreme hills biome where it is sometimes exposed on cliff faces. Alternatively you can craft Geodite by placing an emerald and some magenta dye into the crafting grid.
• You can now use the config file to turn on/off world spawned Geodite ore and/or crafting Geodite to suit your tastes. You can also use the config to alter the spawn height of Geodite ore and to specify how a Geochest should treat blocks and entities from other mods.
• To build a 3x3 White Geochest, place a normal chest in the middle of a crafting table. Place geodite above it and fill every other square with white carpet.
• To upgrade to a 5x5 Yellow Geochest, use the same recipe but with a White Geochest in the middle and using yellow carpet instead of white.
• Use the same pattern to upgrade Yellow to Blue (7x7), Blue to Red (9x9) and Red to Black (11x11).
• To trigger a Geochest, right click on it, then press the button with the Geochest icon on it. This will swap whatever is in the chest with whatever is in the world in front of the chest. You can also sneak-right-click with an empty slot to swap without opening the chest.
• If you have multiple Geochests you can name them to easily distinguish between them in your inventory. Use the textbox to the left of the button with the Geochest icon. The larger the chest, the longer its name can be.
• When other Geochests are placed within the area of the first, triggering the first chest will also trigger the others, before placing them in the Geochest’s inventory. This allows you to chain Geochests.
• Once you have enough geodite, experiment with chaining Geochests - you can chain many more than just 2 chests together, in fact the potential for chaining is near limitless (That's right, it's Chestception!)
• When working with large chains, you may find a Geovisualizer useful. Create this by crafting geodite with a stick, then to use it, simply equip and right click on a Geochest - this will toggle showing the area that will be collected by the current chain.
• If you’re running a server, you can set the maximum chain limitations in the Geochest config file to protect your server from excessive use of this feature.
• There are togglable options per chest, accessed by the "+" button in the bottom right-hand corner of the Geochest gui. The options are:

A Caution on Use with Other Mods

This mod has been thoroughly tested with all block and entity types in Minecraft 1.7.10 and should work without any significant hitches. Use with other mods and mod packs however has not been thoroughly tested and should be approached with great caution!

Non-vanilla blocks will not rotate with the chest. This is generally harmless but can result in things like lava pipes suddenly spilling out onto the ground. As such, I’ve included an indicator to show if your chest is in the same orientation as its contents (the top of the clasp on the chest is magenta when it is oriented the same and grey when it isn’t), and as of version 1.0.7 I've also included an option settable per Geochest to lock the chest's orientation.

A far more significant risk, however, comes from the fact that not all mods know how to handle their blocks being unexpectedly ripped out of the world and put back again elsewhere! In extreme cases, they can crash and/or cause data loss in the geochest or the affected chunk. If combining Geochests with other mods or mod packs, back up your server regularly!

All that said, this mod provides a lot of utility and makes a fun addition to most mod packs - so please do comment if you find another mod or mod pack that Geochests plays nicely with!

Thank You

Thank you for trying out my mod - I hope you have fun and I look forward to hearing all your feedback!
~Sirwol~

@Cheeyev - Thanks

Currently there is no option to craft Geodite manually instead of having it spawn in the world, but that's a neat idea - I'll definitely put a settable option for that in the next update.

And you can definitely use it in your modpack (the more people who do that the better as far as I'm concerned) - just back up your world and check to see how it behaves with the other mods first. I've used it a fair bit with Attack of the B-Team and some mods such as Biomes-a-plenty work very happily with it, whilst other mods such as Statues and Carpenter's Blocks not so much.

As for why 1.6.4 - that was the norm back when I started work on this. I only just finished it after a long hiatus - I guess a 1.7.10 version may be in order

@xeronut - I've given a fair bit of thought to how I could support modded blocks/entities, but rotation is where things come unstuck. Rotation was never standardized and is handled differently by just about every block type in the game. It was a mammoth task even just to support all the vanilla block types - Also supporting all the extra blocks from the popular mods would be impractical.

So the best solution I can see would be to create some kind of standard which other mods could implement if they wanted to be compatible with Geochests. It's something I'd like to add in the future, but it's probably only worth it if Geochests becomes popular enough that other modders would bother to implement my method of rotation storage.

Quote from Cheeyev»

Also, if you don't want Geodite to spawn in your world, can you craft it manually?

I had a little time tonight, so I've added this as a feature and updated the build to 1.0.4.

You can now set mineableGeodite and craftableGeodite to true or false in the ModGeochests config file (both default to true). Geodite ore will only spawn when mineableGeodite is true. And if craftableGeodite is true, you can combine an emerald with magenta dye to create Geodite.

Hey everyone, thanks for all the kind words - it makes me super inspired to keep adding more! This weekend I'm going to add a Geobench that lets you toggle different kinds of chest behaviour (e.g. making the chest be at the top rather than the bottom so you can carry around underground houses!)

@tomberry87 - Awesome mod spotlight, keep spreading the word

@Fixided - Yes please!!! I'd love for anyone using the mod to post what they can and can't get to work with this mod so I can look at ways to improve compatibility.

Quote from JoshJW»

Could you try to make a chest that holds more.

You can chain Geochests, so if you want to hold more, try placing a second, third, etc. Geochest in the area of the first one. When you trigger the first one, the effect will chain and collect up even larger areas. It requires a little work to lay down all the chests, but you can collect whole villages into a single chest this way!