Holo Screens

Every inventory becomes a real screen floating in the world.

Quick summary

Holo Screens replaces every inventory-style menu with a physical screen that floats in front of you in the world. Open your inventory, a crafting table, a furnace, a chest, an enchanting table or a trinket menu and the screen appears about a block away, right where you're looking. Your crosshair is the mouse. Walk around it, walk away from it, and it closes behind you.

• Minecraft 26.3, NeoForge
• Client-side only (not needed on servers)
• Works with any standard container screen, including modded ones

Full description

No more popups

Normally, opening a menu freezes your view and pins a flat window to your screen. Holo Screens removes that. Menus become objects in the world, and you stay in the world with them.

Press E (or open any container) and a screen spawns roughly one block in front of you, in the direction you're facing. It stays where it appeared. You can step to the side, circle behind it, or turn your back and leave.

Your crosshair is the cursor

Point at the screen and the spot your crosshair hits is the mouse pointer. Everything works the way it does in a normal menu:

• Click to pick up, place and swap items
• Right-click to split stacks and place single items
• Drag to spread items across slots
• Scroll to move through lists, such as the creative tabs
• Shift-click to quick-move stacks. Shift is still your crouch key, so you'll crouch while you do it
• Number keys and Q work on whatever slot you're pointing at
• Typing works in text fields such as the creative search bar. While a text box is focused, your keys go to it and don't move your character

Click while you're not aiming at the screen and you interact with the world as usual. You can keep walking, looking around and fighting while a screen is open.

Works with every menu

Holo Screens doesn't pick a few menus to convert. It takes over every standard container screen:

• Your personal inventory and the creative inventory
• Crafting tables, furnaces, smokers and blast furnaces
• Chests, barrels, shulker boxes and ender chests
• Enchanting tables, anvils, grindstones, smithing tables and stonecutters
• Villager trading, brewing stands, hoppers, dispensers and droppers
• Modded containers and trinket/curio-style menus that use standard container screens

Close it your way

• Press E or Esc to close it
• Walk more than 20 blocks away and it closes on its own
• It also closes if the container changes, such as when a chest is closed by the server

When a screen closes, the container closes with it, exactly as if you had shut a normal menu.

Built to look like it belongs

The menu itself floats in the world exactly as it looks in vanilla, with no frame, no box and no darkened backdrop. It sizes itself to the menu and resizes smoothly when the menu changes, such as when you switch creative tabs. It pops into place when you open it. It's drawn at your window's full resolution, and items, tooltips, the player preview and animated elements all render the way they do in vanilla. You can see it from behind too.

Good to know

• Client-side only. Install it on your own game; servers don't need it and aren't affected
• Pause, chat, title and options screens are left alone. Only container-style menus become holo screens
• One screen is open at a time, just like a normal menu