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Your workstations, wherever you go.
Craft, smelt, and manage your workstations without ever placing them down.
By LuminaCherry
Ever been exploring, mining, or building something and realized you needed a crafting table or furnace, but didn't feel like placing one down?
Project HoverCraft makes workstations a little more convenient by letting you use them directly from your inventory.
Simply hover over a supported workstation and press V to open its interface.
No placing blocks, picking them back up, or carrying your entire setup around.
And unlike a temporary crafting menu, your workstations actually remember what you put inside them.
Crafting tables work pretty much how you'd expect, except you don't need to place them anywhere.
Hover over a crafting table in your inventory, press V, and you'll have access to a full 3x3 crafting grid.
The nice part is that the grid remembers its contents.
If you're halfway through crafting something and need to close your inventory, you can come back later without losing what you were working on.
Crafting tables aren't the only workstations that can be used on the go.
Project HoverCraft also supports Furnaces, Blast Furnaces, and Smokers.
Each one keeps track of its own inventory and processing progress, just like a normal placed furnace.
And yes, your furnaces can keep smelting while they're in your inventory.
So if you've got some ores to process while exploring, you can start smelting them and continue doing whatever you were doing.
One of the main things I wanted to avoid was making portable workstations feel like temporary menus.
Instead, each workstation remembers its own contents.
You can put items into a furnace, close it, continue exploring, and come back to it later.
The same goes for crafting tables. Anything you've left in the crafting grid will still be there when you open it again.
You don't have to constantly empty and refill everything just because you closed an interface.
Having furnaces work from your inventory is useful, but being able to see what they're doing without constantly opening them is even nicer.
Project HoverCraft adds additional tooltip information to portable furnaces.
These tooltips can show:
It makes managing multiple portable furnaces a little easier, especially when you're busy doing other things.
Since workstations can contain items, Project HoverCraft also includes a few safeguards to prevent you from accidentally losing anything.
Closing a portable workstation doesn't drop or delete its contents.
Workstations also cannot be placed while they contain stored items or active processing data.
That way, you won't accidentally place a furnace that's halfway through smelting something and lose its stored progress.
There's no complicated setup needed to use your portable workstations.
Just open your inventory, hover over a supported workstation item, and press V.
That's it.
The keybind can also be changed in Minecraft's controls menu under its own Project HoverCraft category.
Currently, Project HoverCraft supports:
Each workstation keeps its normal purpose, with the added convenience of being usable from your inventory.
Project HoverCraft isn't meant to completely replace normal workstations or turn your inventory into a giant machine.
It's just a way to make a few of those everyday Minecraft tasks less annoying.
Whether you're exploring caves, collecting resources, or building far away from your base, being able to craft and smelt without constantly placing blocks can be surprisingly useful.
And having your furnace finish processing items while you're busy doing something else is a pretty nice bonus.
Keep crafting. Keep smelting. Keep moving.
Made by LuminaCherry
