Legacy Vault: A Personal Inventory That Outlives Every World
Every Minecraft player knows the pain of starting fresh. You leave behind a world, and with it, everything you worked for. Legacy Vault changes that equation entirely. This add-on gives each player a personal inventory that exists outside the world itself, meaning your items stay yours no matter where you travel next.
What Makes Legacy Vault Different
Place a vault block, open it, and start storing. That's it. The vault data lives on the server rather than inside the world save, so switching to a new world or starting over doesn't wipe your progress. Your vault is still there, waiting.
Three vault types cover different needs:
- Rustic Vault — a personal vault crafted with a Chest at the center of the recipe. Only you can open it.
- Classic Vault — same personal functionality with a different look, crafted using a Barrel at the center.
- Community Vault — a shared vault accessible by any player or an allowlist. Ideal for server shops, donation chests, or faction storage.
Vault Expansion and Progression
New players begin with one row of nine slots. Vault Upgrade items unlock additional rows, up to a maximum of ten rows and ninety slots. Right-click your vault while holding an upgrade to unlock the next row. Upgrades are consumed on use unless you're in creative mode.
The best part? Your tier carries over between worlds. Reach tier five in one world, and your expanded vault is waiting in the next. Vault Upgrades can drop from adventure chests found in dungeons, mineshafts, strongholds, temples, woodland mansions, end cities, nether fortresses, bastion remnants, and ancient cities. Server admins can configure drop chances and counts.
Interface Features That Save Time
The vault GUI includes a scrollbar for viewing all rows in one screen, a locked-slot indicator showing an X overlay on rows you haven't unlocked, and a search bar that dims non-matching items while keeping everything in place. There's also a sort button that alphabetizes your unlocked rows in one click, plus an item count tooltip that shows how many of the same item exist in other slots.
Server Administration and Configuration
All admin commands require permission level two and operate under /legacyvault. Admins can inspect player vaults, reload vault data from disk, clear contents, transfer items between players, list placed vault coordinates, set tiers directly, and toggle encryption without restarting the server.
Item whitelist and blacklist controls use datapack item tags. The system blocks certain storage mods by default, including Iron Chests, Sophisticated Backpacks, Sophisticated Storage, Traveler's Backpack, and Treasure2 containers, to prevent bypassing slot limits. Config-based regex patterns still work as a fallback.
For players who want a streamlined way to manage add-ons, the foxygame.net launcher offers one-click installation for Legacy Vault, automatically matching the correct build to your game version so you can skip manual file placement entirely.
Encryption and Data Safety
Enable encryptVaultData in the server config, or use /legacyvault encryption on, and vault files on disk become scrambled. This protects against file theft and UUID spoofing. Toggling is safe at any time since existing files continue working either way. Just remember to back up config/legacyvault/legacyvault-secret.dat — losing that file means encrypted vaults cannot be read.
Vault saves are also crash-safe. Files write to a temporary location first, then swap in, so a crash or power cut during a save cannot corrupt your data.
Compatibility and Requirements
Legacy Vault requires the GottschCore library and supports both Forge and NeoForge across modern Minecraft versions, including 1.20.1 and 1.21.x. Configuration settings live in serverconfig/legacyvault-server.toml, where admins can adjust starting tier, maximum tier, personal and community vault toggles, per-world tier resets, encryption, and loot drop behavior.
How to Install
If you're wondering how to install Legacy Vault, the process is straightforward. Download Legacy Vault for Minecraft along with GottschCore, drop both files into your mods folder, and launch the game with your preferred loader. Server owners should place the same files in the server mods directory. Once running, the config file generates automatically, and you can fine-tune every setting to match your community's needs.
Legacy Vault for Minecraft solves a problem that has frustrated players for years: losing everything when starting a new world. With persistent storage, tier progression that follows you, and robust admin tools, it turns every new beginning into a continuation rather than a reset. Whether you run a large server or play solo, this add-on keeps your items exactly where they belong — with you.