Inventory Sorter Buttons - Inventory Tweaks, Revived

The classic chest sorting buttons are back on every GUI, for every mod.

Inventory Sorter Buttons is a faithful revival of Inventory Tweaks (the Tekkit Classic era, 1.41b) for modern Forge 1.19.2. The same 10×10 buttons with the same pixel-drawn glyphs, the same settings screens, the same rules and item tree files, rebuilt from the ground up with server-authoritative sorting that works on any mod's containers.

The Buttons

Four little buttons on every chest-like GUI, exactly where you remember them:

• z — sort (merge stacks, order by category)
• || — sort in columns (each item type gets its own column)
• = — sort in rows (each item type gets its own row)
• ... — open the settings screen

Vanilla GUIs get the classic horizontal row in the top-right corner. Modded GUIs, Iron Chests, storage mods, machine buffers, anything. Get the classic vertical column off the left edge. Any menu with 9+ freely-usable container slots qualifies automatically, no per-mod support needed.

Sorting Everywhere

• Middle-click any container to sort it, hover your own inventory to sort that instead
• R sorts your main inventory (rebindable in Controls), in and out of GUIs
• Your hotbar is never touched, just like the original's D LOCKED rule
• Sorting runs on the server through each menu's own slots, so it's safe with any mod's containers and on dedicated servers. No client-side click simulation

The Classic Extras

• Auto-refill: when a hotbar stack runs out or a tool breaks, it refills from your inventory
• Shortcuts: the original mappings: Ctrl+Click moves one item, Ctrl+Shift+Click moves all stacks of that item, Space+Click moves everything in that section, Alt+Click drops the whole stack
• Sort on pickup and auto-equip armor: the "More options..." page is all here, PvP warning included
• Every feature has its toggle in the recreated "Inventory and chests settings" screen

Rules & Item Tree Files

The heart of Inventory Tweaks, modernized:

• InvSortButtonsRules.txt: the same grid rules you remember: A food fills the top row with food, 1 pickaxe fills the first column, A1-C4 block, B FROZEN... plus modern keywords: registry names (A1 minecraft:cobblestone) and item tags (B #forge:ores).
• InvSortButtonsTree.txt: the same XML item tree, but leaves match by registry name, item tag, or item class (class="sword" matches every sword from every mod), so modded items categorize themselves.
• Edit a file, press the sort key, and it reloads: exactly like the original. On multiplayer, every player gets their own rules, synced automatically.
• Broke a file? Delete it and the default regenerates.

For Modders

A small stable API (com.invsortbuttons.api) lets you put our buttons right inside your own GUI: implement ISortButtonHost on your screen to anchor the button strip wherever you want (or hide it), implement ISortableMenu on your menu to define exactly which slots are sortable (or opt out), and call InvSortButtonsApi.sortOpenContainer(mode) to trigger sorts yourself. Full documentation is on the wiki.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.19.2
• Forge 43+
• Install on both client and server (needed for server-side sorting)
• No other dependencies

New in 1.1.0 — Move All buttons (Inventory Profiles Next style): a down-arrow Take All button next to the sort buttons empties the container into your main inventory (never your hotbar — overflow stays in the chest), and an up-arrow Put All button above your inventory slots moves your main inventory into the container (hold Shift to include the hotbar). Works entirely client-side, on vanilla and modded GUIs alike.

Credits

• Jimeo Wan (Marwane Kalam-Alami) — creator of Inventory Tweaks, one of the most beloved quality-of-life mods ever made. The buttons, glyphs, layouts, sorting algorithms, settings screens, and config file formats here are all recreated from Inventory Tweaks 1.41b. The original was released under the MIT license, which is what makes this faithful recreation possible — thank you.