1) I have not done anything to make my chests act any differently from regular chests. If there comes any official support for this, I am pretty sure it would just work. But I will not implement this myself, at least not in the near future, as I already have updates planned and started, but put on hold because of real life, which I would much rather prioritize if I get some time to work on the mod.
2) Blueprints only work when single chests (1x1 size) are copied to the blueprint, as you cannot obtain the items for longer chests through normal gameplay. I would like to fix this, but I cannot promise anything atm.