How to put item in container without opening it?

[Snowhusky5]

Hi. I'm making a mod which involves putting an item into a structure, a few operations being performed on that item, and then the structure spitting out the item(s) again. I figured using the container component would be the best way to go about this, but I don't want the player to actually see the inventory of the structure (or bother making a widget for it). So, is there a good way to put inventoryitems inside of a container without actually having a player opening it? Unfortunately, from what I tried, setting container.canbeopened to false prevents players from adding items just by clicking on the structure with an item, so is there some other way I can manage it?

Note that this structure will be able to accept literally any inventoryitem in the game. I thought I could probably get it to work by making the structure have the fueled component, and then adding any fuel it takes to the inventory of the structure, but that would entail adding the fuel component to every item in the game, which I thought would probably be a bad idea, not to mention it wouldn't work with modded items (probably).

[Aquaterion]

Maybe look into Pig king? sounds exactly like what you want, give it items, and give back other items

[Snowhusky5]

3 minutes ago, Aquaterion said:

Maybe look into Pig king? sounds exactly like what you want, give it items, and give back other items

no, the pig king doesn't have an inventory, he works almost identically to fueled items; anything you give him just gets converted into gold, much like how logs and charcoal get converted into fuel time.

Edited February 27, 2016 by Snowhusky5

[Aquaterion]

I do remember playing on a server with locked containers, and clicking them with an item actually lets you put the item in, but still tells you that the container was locked, so maybe something like that?

[Muche]

Maybe shelf component could be useful for it (used in birdcage and lureplant)?

[Snowhusky5]

31 minutes ago, Muche said:

Maybe shelf component could be useful for it (used in birdcage and lureplant)?

oh yeah, lureplants. I'll check out how those work.