PA9 Shulker Pick Block

Pick block reaches into your shulker boxes now.

Tired of digging a block out of a shulker box just because it's not sitting loose in your hotbar? ShulkerPickBlock extends vanilla pick block (middle-click) so it scans the shulker boxes in your inventory — main inventory and off-hand — and pulls the matching item straight into your hand. No placing the box down, no manual digging. It also hooks into Litematica's Easy Place, so schematic building pulls the right block from the right box automatically as you go.

Features

• Pick block from inventory shulker boxes — Middle-click a placed block and, if it's not already loose in your inventory, ShulkerPickBlock finds it inside a carried shulker box (slots 0–35 and off-hand) and hands it to you.
• Smart source selection — When multiple boxes hold the item, the mod prefers the box with the largest stack so you don't fragment your storage. Configurable.
• Never loses your held item — If your hotbar destination is full, your currently-held item is safely swapped into the box's freshly emptied slot instead of being overwritten, with an on-screen notice. Picks are declined outright if they'd risk nesting a shulker box inside another.
• Configurable hotbar placement — Choose VANILLA, CURRENT_SLOT, or LRU (least-recently-used) behavior to match your playstyle.
• Litematica Easy Place compatibility — Optional and auto-detected. Supplies consecutive block types from different boxes with zero extra clicks, and safely disables itself if Litematica's internals don't match rather than crashing.
• HUD notification — Get an on-screen note whenever an item is pulled from a box, with configurable toggle and duration.
• Runtime-reloadable config — Run /shulkerpickblock reload to apply config changes without restarting, or /shulkerpickblock status to check current settings.
• No dependencies required — Works standalone; Litematica and Mod Menu are supported but optional.

Important Note — Multiplayer Servers

Works fully in single-player, LAN worlds you host, and in creative mode on any server.

On multiplayer servers in survival mode, vanilla servers don't allow a shulker box in your inventory to be emptied, so the pick will be reverted. Your client briefly shows the item in your hotbar, then the server puts it back in the box. This is a limitation of Minecraft's network protocol, not a bug: there is no packet for changing the contents of a shulker box that is still in item form. In creative mode the mod uses creative-mode slot packets instead, so it works on any server.

Requires: Fabric Loader 0.18.4+, Fabric API 0.154.0+26.2, Minecraft Java Edition 26.2, Java 25 Optional: Litematica (tested against litematica-fabric-26.1.2-0.27.4, sakura-ryoko fork), Mod Menu

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