Chest Preview

Evidence

Ran on Kiln's test stand (2026-11-04): ChestPreviewClient did not start: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/minecraft/network/protocol/Packet.

What it needs from Kiln

• Mixin
• net.minecraft.client.gui.screens.inventory.AbstractContainerScreen
• net.minecraft.client.multiplayer.MultiPlayerGameMode
• net.minecraft.client.multiplayer.PlayerInfo
• net.minecraft.client.server.IntegratedServer
• net.minecraft.core.Direction.Axis
• net.minecraft.core.FrontAndTop
• net.minecraft.core.NonNullList
• net.minecraft.network.protocol.game.ServerboundContainerClosePacket
• net.minecraft.server.players.PlayerList
• net.minecraft.util.Mth
• net.minecraft.world.Container
• net.minecraft.world.Nameable
• net.minecraft.world.entity.decoration.HangingEntity
• net.minecraft.world.inventory.AbstractContainerMenu
• net.minecraft.world.inventory.AbstractFurnaceMenu
• net.minecraft.world.inventory.BlastFurnaceMenu
• net.minecraft.world.inventory.ChestMenu
• net.minecraft.world.inventory.ContainerData
• net.minecraft.world.inventory.CrafterMenu
• net.minecraft.world.inventory.DispenserMenu
• net.minecraft.world.inventory.FurnaceMenu
• net.minecraft.world.inventory.HopperMenu
• net.minecraft.world.inventory.ShulkerBoxMenu
• net.minecraft.world.inventory.Slot
• net.minecraft.world.inventory.SmokerMenu
• net.minecraft.world.level.block.ChestBlock
• net.minecraft.world.level.block.ShulkerBoxBlock
• net.minecraft.world.level.block.entity.AbstractFurnaceBlockEntity
• net.minecraft.world.level.block.entity.BlockEntity
• net.minecraft.world.level.block.entity.ChestBlockEntity
• net.minecraft.world.level.block.entity.CrafterBlockEntity
• net.minecraft.world.level.block.state.properties.ChestType
• net.minecraft.world.phys.AABB
• net.minecraft.world.phys.HitResult.Type
• net.minecraft.network.protocol.Packet
• Minecraft.execute()
• Minecraft.gameMode
• Minecraft.getSingleplayerServer()
• Minecraft.hitResult
• ClientPacketListener.getPlayerInfo()
• and 23 more

On the roadmap: Minecraft's libraries and client API (0.2), Code next to data (0.3), Machines (0.4), Mixin (0.5)

In the author's words

Animated in-world container contents preview

Scan

Scanned on 4 November 2026 against Kiln 0.2.0, file chest-preview-1.0.0+26.3.jar. The scan reads the mod's classes; it does not run them.