Builder's Shulkers
Modby Moncef_dev
Open your shulker boxes from your inventory, and hold one in your hotbar to place blocks straight from it !
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Last Updated
Nov 7, 2026
Description
Builder's Shulkers lets you use a shulker box's contents without ever placing it down. Open and rearrange one straight from your inventory, and place blocks from a shulker held in your hotbar while you build.
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- Hold a shulker box in your hotbar and press Ctrl + right-click to enter Pocket-Build mode
- Scroll the mouse wheel to select the previous/next different block inside the box. Its name and count show by your hotbar, and the box opens with a dissolving lid that reveals the selected block rendered inside it
- Right-click to place that block straight from the box while the box stays in your hand
- Middle-click a block you already have in the box to jump straight to it
- Hold Ctrl to peek at the box's full contents in an overlay above your hotbar
Open and manage shulker boxes from your inventory

- Right-click a shulker box in your inventory to open it
- Move items in and out with all the usual controls: left and right click, shift-click, drag, hotbar number keys, and drop
- Close it with Escape, or by right-clicking the same shulker again
- While one is open, you can right-click another to switch straight to it
- There are open and close sounds, and the lid smoothly animates
Multiplayer

- Works in multiplayer, including the lid animations on shulkers other players hold
- Players without the mod can still join the server normally: they simply do not see the extra animations and sounds
Designed to fit in
- Vanilla+: improves shulker handling without changing how the game looks or feels
- Built on the vanilla shulker container (same screen, same data), so it plays nicely with most other mods, and it works with shulker boxes added by other mods
Customization
- Settings screen: Press B (rebindable) to open it and tune the cosmetics: lid animations, the lid effect (dissolve, disappear, or stay solid), the block rendered inside the box and its count, the open/close sounds, and more.
- Custom keybinds: Every control lives in Options -> Controls under "Builder's Shulkers" and can be rebound or unbound: the Pocket-Build hold key (default Left Control), a peek key (default Left Control), and a single-press "Toggle Pocket-Build" (unbound by default) to enter and leave the mode with one button (handy on a controller or on touch).
- Gamerules: Server admins can turn the access from inventory and Pocket-Build features on or off.
Safe by design
- Everything that moves items is handled by the server, so your items can never be duplicated
Requirements
- Minecraft 26.1.x or 26.2
- Fabric Loader and Fabric API
Put this mod and Fabric API in your mods folder.
Open source
Builder's Shulkers is open source.
- Code: https://github.com/Moncef-dev/builders-shulkers
- Found a bug or have an idea? Send it here: https://github.com/Moncef-dev/builders-shulkers/issues
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