About Balanced Crates
From ModrinthNifty Storage Blocks That Make Good Decorations.
📖 About Balanced Crates: This mod adds new vanilla-friendly crate blocks. Crates have large amounts of storage compared to single chests. Crates can also be used as building blocks/decorations. Crates are designed to be vanilla-friendly chest alternatives that allow compact storage. Crates come in every wood type.
📦Storage: While a single chest has 27 slots, crates have 66 slots of inventory space! This allows for highly compacted storage. Right-clicking on a create will manually open it, allowing any player to take from, it's inventory, A player will be able to tell if a create is open when the top lid is removed. A crate can be closed by pressing the "Close Crate" button within the crate's GUI.
📚Decoration: Crates can easily be used as decorative blocks in many situations. a crate's texture is based upon what wood type is used to craft it, giving the player more option when building with wood. A crate can also be rotated much like a furnace, allowing the player to create patterns. A crate's open state can also be used in many ways.
⚒️Redstone: Being storage blocks, crates can be used in place of a chest in any Redstone situation where a Chest might be needed. This allows for higher amounts of storage and enables the player to make much more compact machines.
📃Support & Credits:
Mod Authors: LicitLettuce (Owner, Artist, Mod Creator) Mcreator (Program for Simple Mod Creation)
Mods Used In Screenshots: Farmers Delight, Just Enough Items (JEI), Metal Works, Mario 64 Paintings.
Shaders Used In Screeenshots: Complementary Reimagined
If you experience any problems while using this mod let me know through the issue tracker. If you have any feature suggestions let me know in the comments! You can use this mod in modpacks. This mod is not allowed to be redistributed. This mod will be updated to the next Minecraft version. This mod is a Forge only mod for the time being. Feel Free to Join Our Discord!: HERE
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 5 Minecraft versions, the newest being 1.21.4.
Loaders
Runs on Forge and NeoForge.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Balanced Crates on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Minecraft servers. We download it from Modrinth, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Required on the server
- Server type needed
- Forge, NeoForge
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Minecraft — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 1.8.2.1.21.4, released 2025-08-01
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| NeoForge | 1.21.1 to 1.21.4 (2 versions) | 1.21.4 |
| Forge | 1.20.1 | 1.20.1 |
From 5 recorded builds of Balanced Crates.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.8.2.1.21.4 | 2025-08-01 | 1.21.4 | NeoForge |
| 1.8.2.1.21.1 | 2025-08-01 | 1.21.1 | NeoForge |
| 1.8.11-1.21.4 | 2025-05-27 | 1.21.4 | NeoForge |
| 1.8.1.1.21.1 | 2024-10-10 | 1.21.1 | NeoForge |
| 1.8.1.1.20.1 | 2024-10-10 | 1.20.1 | Forge |
Run Balanced Crates on a Minecraft server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogBuilding & decoration
Blocks, furniture, decorations and building tools.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Balanced Crates as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- ForgeNeoForge
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 1.21.4 and 4 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-02Open ↗
- ✓Authorlicitlettuce, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseMITFree












