# Craft From Chest What the Mod Does
\nCraft From Chest is a Minecraft mod that lets you use items stored in nearby chests and other containers when you craft at a crafting table as long as you use the recipe book to fill or craft the recipe.
\n# The Problem It Solves
\nNormally, the recipe book only uses items in your inventory. If your materials are in chests, you have to open each chest, move items into your inventory (or into the crafting grid), then craft. This mod lets the recipe book \u201csee\u201d those chests so you can craft without moving everything into your inventory first.
\nHow It Works In-Game
\nOpen a crafting table and use the recipe book (the book icon in the crafting GUI).
\nClick a recipe to fill the grid or craft (e.g. click once to fill, again to craft).
\nThe recipe book can now take ingredients from:
\nYour inventory (as usual), and
\nAny container within range of the crafting table: chests, barrels, shulker boxes, and other blocks that hold items.
\nWhen you take the crafted result, those ingredients are used and removed from the right place including from the chests. You don\u2019t get free items; the chests are actually emptied for what you crafted.
\nSo: recipe book at crafting table = can use items from nearby chests.
\nManual crafting (dragging items into the grid yourself) is unchanged: only your inventory and what you put in the grid are used.
\n## How Far \u201cNearby\u201d Is
\n30 blocks wide from the crafting table (15 blocks in each horizontal direction).
\n5 blocks above and 5 blocks below the crafting table.
\nSo you get a flat, wide area around the table rather than a huge sphere. Containers anywhere in that box can be used by the recipe book.
\nWhat Counts as a Container
\nAny block that holds items and is in that range works: chests (single and double), barrels, shulker boxes, and other storage blocks that expose an inventory. If the game treats it as a container, the mod treats it as a source for recipe-book crafting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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