Inventory Manager+

Inventory Manager+ is a lightweight but powerful inventory-management mod designed to make moving, organizing, protecting, and restocking items dramatically faster without turning Minecraft inventory management into a complicated automation system.

Instead of replacing the vanilla inventory experience, Inventory Manager+ builds on top of it with practical tools for everyday gameplay.

Quickly sweep items into a chest by dragging across them, deposit only the items that already belong in a container, protect important inventory slots, inspect shulker boxes without constantly placing them down, or create complete reusable inventory layouts with Inventory Profiles.

Whether you're unloading after a mining trip, restocking before an expedition, managing storage, organizing shulkers, or maintaining a carefully arranged hotbar, Inventory Manager+ is designed to reduce repetitive inventory work while keeping you in control.

Feature Overview

Inventory Manager+ includes:

Shift + drag rapid inventory transfers
Empty-slot-safe sweep gestures
Deposit Matching
Shulker-aware depositing
Withdraw / stack restocking
Individual slot locking
Locked-slot protection
Shulker inventory previews
Color-aware shulker presentation
Internal shulker slot locks
Inventory Profiles
Multiple saved profiles
Profile naming
Profile duplication
Active-profile selection
Exact inventory/hotbar layouts
Desired item quantities
Creative-style searchable item picker
Variant-aware item selection
Durability-insensitive tool matching
Exact potion/enchantment/custom-stack matching
Profile rearrangement from current inventory
Profile restocking from open containers
Partial fulfillment when supplies are limited
Protection against profile overfilling
Persistent profile data

Features

Sweep / Drag Transfer

Inventory Manager+ makes moving groups of items between inventories much faster.

Hold:

Shift + Left Mouse Button

and drag across inventory slots to rapidly transfer items.

When a container is open:

Drag across your inventory to move items into the container.
Drag across the container to move items into your inventory.
Empty slots are simply ignored.
Starting the drag over an empty slot does not cancel the sweep.
Passing across empty spaces does not interrupt the gesture.

This makes unloading or collecting groups of items much faster than individually Shift-clicking every stack.

The feature still uses normal Minecraft inventory transfers—it does not duplicate or generate items.

Deposit Matching

The Deposit Matching button is designed for quickly unloading items into organized storage.

Instead of dumping your entire inventory into a chest, Deposit Matching checks what items are already stored inside the open container.

Only matching items from your inventory are deposited.

For example, if a chest contains:

Cobblestone
Stone
Coal
Iron Ingots

and your inventory also contains:

Diamonds
Food
Torches
Tools
Cobblestone
Coal

using Deposit Matching transfers the Cobblestone and Coal while leaving unrelated items alone.

This makes the feature especially useful for:

Organized storage rooms
Material chests
Farms
Mining storage
Building supplies
Sorting items after exploration

Shulker-Aware Depositing

Deposit Matching can also work with supported items stored inside shulker boxes carried in your inventory.

This allows matching materials inside your carried shulkers to be deposited into the open container without requiring you to repeatedly:

Place the shulker.
Open it.
Remove the items.
Break the shulker.
Deposit them manually.

The system still respects protected/locked content where applicable.

Slot Locking

Important items shouldn't disappear into a chest just because you used a bulk inventory action.

Inventory Manager+ includes a slot-locking system that lets you protect individual inventory slots.

Activate lock mode and select the slots you want protected.

Locked slots are visually marked and respected by inventory-management actions such as Deposit Matching.

This is useful for protecting:

Tools
Weapons
Food
Torches
Rockets
Building supplies
Utility items
Carefully arranged hotbar slots

Instead of permanently treating an entire hotbar as untouchable, you decide exactly which slots matter.

Shulker Box Preview

Inventory Manager+ includes shulker-box inventory previews so you can inspect stored contents without constantly placing and opening the box.

Previews display the items stored inside the shulker in an inventory-style layout.

This makes it much easier to identify:

Building-material shulkers
Tool boxes
Redstone supplies
Mining storage
Food and expedition supplies
Mixed storage boxes

Colored shulker boxes are visually themed appropriately to make different boxes easier to distinguish.

Supported preview behavior also includes pinned/interactive functionality where implemented, making shulkers more useful directly from inventory management screens.

Inventory Profiles

One of the largest features in Inventory Manager+ is Inventory Profiles.

Profiles let you design reusable inventory and hotbar layouts.

Instead of repeatedly reorganizing your equipment manually, create a profile describing exactly what you want to carry and where you want it.

For example:

Hotbar Slot 1:
Diamond Pickaxe

Hotbar Slot 2:
Diamond Sword

Hotbar Slot 3:
Bow

Hotbar Slot 4:
Torches ×64

Hotbar Slot 5:
Golden Apples ×16

Inventory Slot:
Fire Resistance Potions ×3

Save the profile and reuse it whenever you need that loadout again.

Profile Creator

The Inventory Profile editor provides a visual representation of your inventory and hotbar.

Select a slot and configure:

Desired item
Desired quantity
Exact inventory position
Exact hotbar position

Profiles can then be named, saved, edited, duplicated, deleted, and selected as your active profile.

This makes it possible to create different loadouts such as:

Mining
Building
Nether Expedition
Ancient City
Combat
Exploration
Redstone
Farming
Boss Fight
General Survival

Searchable Item Picker

Inventory Profiles include a Creative-style searchable item picker.

Instead of requiring you to already possess an item while designing a profile, search Minecraft's available item catalog and select what you want.

Search supports actual item-stack variants where possible—not merely basic registry item IDs.

That allows profiles to distinguish items such as:

Potion of Fire Resistance
Potion of Healing
Potion of Strength
Splash Potions
Lingering Potions
Tipped Arrows
Enchanted Books
Firework variants
Named items
Modded item variants

This is especially important because many Minecraft items share the same base item but contain different meaningful stack data.

Apply Profiles From Your Inventory

When applying a profile from the normal player inventory, Inventory Manager+ rearranges the items you already possess to match the saved layout as closely as possible.

It does not create missing items.

If you have:

Diamond Pickaxe
Diamond Sword
Torches
Food
Bow

scattered throughout your inventory, applying the profile moves the available matching items into their configured positions.

If something is missing, the available parts of the profile are still applied.

Apply Profiles From Containers

Inventory Profiles become even more useful while a chest or other supported container is open.

Applying a profile can pull the items you need directly from the container into the configured inventory slots.

The system checks:

What the profile requests
What you already have
How many more are required
What matching items exist in the container

It then pulls only what is needed.

For example:

Profile target:
Torches ×64

Already carrying:
Torches ×20

Container:
Torches ×64

Inventory Manager+ needs only 44 more, so it pulls the required amount rather than another full stack.

If the chest only contains 25:

20 already owned
+25 available
=45 total

the profile is filled as closely as possible.

Inventory Manager+ does not intentionally exceed the saved target quantity.

Profiles Never Create Items

Inventory Profiles are organizational tools, not Creative Mode.

Applying a profile:

Does not spawn items
Does not duplicate items
Does not restore missing equipment
Does not manufacture supplies
Does not pull more than is actually available

It simply rearranges and transfers real items already available to the player.

Transfer Feedback

Inventory Manager+ includes visual feedback for inventory actions so transfers do not feel completely static.

Depending on the action and current implementation, matching and transferred slots may use subtle highlights, movement effects, or transfer/pop feedback.

The goal is to make inventory actions easy to follow without filling the screen with excessive visual effects.

Designed for Vanilla-Style Gameplay

Inventory Manager+ is intended to improve inventory interaction without replacing Minecraft's storage gameplay.

It does not:

Automatically sort every chest in the world
Generate items
Teleport items across arbitrary distances
Build storage networks
Replace vanilla containers
Require an external inventory server
Use external AI

It simply gives the player better tools for managing the inventories and containers they are already using.

Multiplayer

Inventory Manager+ is designed to work in multiplayer environments where the required mod components are installed appropriately.

Inventory transfers that affect container or player inventories are handled through normal server-authoritative behavior rather than trusting the client to invent item changes.

For the safest and most consistent experience, install the matching version on both the server and participating clients where required by the release.

Supported Versions

Inventory Manager+ is currently built specifically for:

Minecraft Fabric 1.20.1
Minecraft Fabric 26.2

Each Minecraft version uses its own separately built JAR.

Install the file made for your exact Minecraft version.

Requirements

The only required dependency is:

Fabric API

There are currently:

No required configuration libraries
No required Mod Menu dependency
No required Cloth Config dependency
No optional dependencies required for normal functionality

Inventory Manager+ does not support Forge or NeoForge.

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