## 0.1.4

**New**
- **Wooden trunks** are now recognised as sortable containers.
- **Container-group editor** added to the in-game config screen (ConfigLib): edit which
container kinds are grouped together, right from the settings UI.
- **Crates** are treated as single-type sticky containers, so a crate keeps its one item
kind instead of being mixed.
- Backpack sorting is re-hooked for every online player when the option is enabled, not
just on next join.

**Fixes**
- Trunks opened via their other multiblock half now sort correctly; collapsed/ruined
trunks are left alone.
- Corrected multiblock filler → principal block resolution, so the right inventory is
targeted.
- Restored the container-kind guard at hook time and tightened multiblock candidate
checks (no more sorting the wrong block).
- Config UI no longer resets settings to defaults when saving.

**Internal**
- Extracted `ContainerGroupCodec` for container-group wire encoding, with added unit
tests for container recognition and grouping.

Thanks to @AJIADb9 (Kirill) for the contributions.

v0.1.2

• Proper per-room sorting. Each room is found by flooding its open space from the closed chest, stopping at walls, doors and stairs. A cellar/fridge behind its door no longer mixes with the outside, and a hall of any size is fully covered. Open or oversized areas only sort the chest you closed (a Carry-On or dungeon chest won't dump into nearby containers).
• Consistent network. Closing any chest in a room now sorts the exact same set of containers (fixed a case where some chests pulled a smaller network than others).
• "Valence" layout (default). Each distinct item gets its own chest, spreading across as many chests as the room offers; when there are more items than chests they fill up evenly (2, then 3 per chest), grouped by family. CompactRoom = true keeps the old dense packing.
• One sort per session. Closing several chests in a row triggers a single room sort after a short debounce instead of a heavy sort per chest (no more server lag spikes).
• Read-only containers protected. Collapsed/ruined trunks and any retrieve-only loot container are never touched.
• Backpack sorting off by default, and the player inventory is never reshuffled unless you opt in.
• Storeys are separated by solid floors/ceilings and stairs/ladders.
• Cleanup: removed obsolete room options; sorting needs no tuning out of the box.

v0.1.1

New features

• In-game settings screen (ConfigLib). If ConfigLib is installed, AutoSort adds a settings panel: a per-player /sort overlay switch for everyone, plus an admin section to tune the sorting and edit the list of sorted container types. The list auto-discovers containers from every loaded mod. Available in English and French.
• Room compaction (CompactRoom, on by default). The room's containers are packed from a stable reference — the room's door, or a fixed corner with several doors, or the lowest container in open areas. Chests fill up in order and the far ones are left empty. The reference no longer depends on which chest you closed.
• Floor separation (SeparateFloors, on by default). A solid floor/ceiling layer now splits storeys, so a ladder or open stairwell no longer merges two floors into one sorting network. Works at any ceiling height.
• Backpack sorting (SortPlayerBackpack, on by default). A player's backpack content is sorted when they close their inventory; bag slots and the hotbar are never touched.
• Multiplayer-safe trigger. When several players or chests in a room are open, only the last one closed triggers the sort — items never shuffle while someone is still editing.

Fixes

• Chests and storage vessels (jars) no longer mix: containers are grouped by block code instead of the shared chest inventory class.
• Sorting is no longer blocked forever by a stale "open" state (e.g. a player who disconnected with a chest open).
• The overlay now follows container contents in real time and mirrors the real chest GUI (localized title, correct columns, centered layout, depth inset).
• A chest closed alone now sorts reliably.
• ConfigLib container list no longer shows a duplicate entry.

v0.1.0 — Initial release

First public release of AutoSort.

• Sort on close: closing a chest you changed re-sorts the whole storage network (idempotent — an already-sorted chest never reshuffles).
• Semantic sorting: items grouped into 17 categories and laid out top-to-bottom, left-to-right.
• Variant clustering: every variant of an item stays together (all gears, all planks, all fruit…).
• Cross-chest consolidation: one item type ends up in one chest, overflowing to the next only when full.
• Connected nearby containers are treated as a single virtual inventory.
• Room-aware: a closed door keeps two storage rooms separate (toggleable).
• Chests and storage vessels (jars) are sorted separately, never mixed.
• Optional /sort overlay (alias of /autosort): a read-only HUD showing a container's contents, mirroring the real GUI and updating in real time.
• Fully configurable via ModConfig/autosort.json.

Requires Vintage Story 1.19+. Sorting runs server-side; the overlay needs the mod installed client-side.