Multi Panel UI

Among the many hardships facing the dedicated Minecraft player is the tedium of micromanagement. You open a furnace to retrieve iron bars, close it, open a chest for logs, close it, open your inventory, craft the logs to planks, close your inventory, open a crafting table, make some pistons, close the table, open a chest, put the pistons away. It's a lot of clicking just to switch from GUI to GUI, and if you happen to forget ingredients, it gets even worse.

The goal of the Multi Panel UI mod (concept) is to eliminate the extra keystrokes and clicks required to switch from one GUI to another.

Concept
When the player opens his or her inventory, not only is the inventory screen displayed, but so are the contents of any chests, furnaces, enchanting tables, etc. that normally could be reached from where the player is standing. The GUIs are scaled down and tiled to fit the screen, and you can freely move items back and forth between chests, furnaces, crafting tables, your inventory, and your equipment slots. If there are truly too many GUIs to display, then they will scroll vertically using the mouse wheel, a scrollbar, or when the mouse cursor touches the top or bottom edges of the screen.

For consistency, right clicking a chest or furnace works exactly the same as opening your inventory&mdash;your inventory and all nearby containers are opened.

Additional clean-up

 * If the player moves after opening a GUI, for example due to falling or being pushed by water or mobs, then any containers that pass out of reach will be closed, and any that become newly reachable will be opened.
 * In vanilla, the player's "belt" hotbar is displayed twice when an inventory is opened&mdash;once at its normal location at the very bottom of the screen, and again inside the inventory GUI. With this mod installed, it will only be displayed once, at its normal location, which will become interactive.