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Stock Display Frame

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Summary

The Stock Display Frame is a frame you hang on any container — a vanilla chest, barrel, or shulker box, or the mod's Iron Chest — and it shows the item count inside right on the frame, in real time. It uses no energy: it's a warehouse convenience, "price tags" for rows of chests, so you can read how full they are without opening a window.

Mini-example: Put a diamond in the frame on your ore chest → it shows how many diamonds are in there. Swap the diamond for iron → it now counts iron ingots. Empty frame → no number at all.

How the number is counted

An item is in the frame → the number equals how many items of that type are in the container (the item acts as a filter).
The frame is empty → no number is shown (it looks like a plain frame).
No container behind the frame → no number.
The container is empty (with a filter in the frame) → shows 0.

Only top-level slots are counted — it does not dig into shulkers or bundles sitting inside the chest. A double chest — vanilla or one of the mod's own doubles — counts as one container: a frame on either half shows the combined total. The frame recounts once per second.

The filter is a real item in the frame: a radioactive filter (a uranium ingot, say) radiates just like the same item in a plain frame, with no cap — even on a shielding chest.

Interface

There's no screen. The number is drawn flat on the frame's face, in its bottom strip — white with a dark outline, no backdrop. It turns with the frame (not a billboard), so it's only visible from the side the frame faces.

Put a filter item in with a right-click → the number appears.
Right-click again (or hit the frame) → the filter pops back to you, the number disappears.
The filter item is raised and shrunk a little to make room for the digit; with no filter the frame looks like a plain one (item centred).
Unlike a vanilla frame, the item does not rotate — rotation would just be noise for a filter. Filled maps can't be placed in it.
Display distance — up to 24 blocks (the text hides beyond that, for performance).
Formatting: the exact number below 10,000, abbreviated after that — 12.3k, 1.2M.

Block Properties

The frame is an entity, not a block (just like the vanilla item frame). It's the same size and behaves the same way: flat, on a wall, no collision. Right-click a block face to hang it, hit it to take it down; break the block behind it and the frame pops off, dropping its own item.

What	Value
Type	entity (like a vanilla item frame)
Placement	on a wall, floor, or ceiling face
Drops itself	yes (as the mod's frame item, plus the filter if any)

Recipes

Crafted at a workbench: a vanilla item frame in the center, surrounded by wooden gears, silver ingots and gold dust. The idea is to "upgrade" an ordinary frame into a counting one with precise mechanics and precious electronics.