Smart Item Highlight

Smart Item Highlight is a lightweight client-side Fabric mod that makes finding matching items inside storage screens easier.

When you pick up an item with your cursor, every other occurrence of that item is covered with a translucent light-green overlay. Matching items are highlighted in both the open container and your own inventory.

Features

Highlights every matching occurrence of the held item
Highlights items in both the container and player inventory
Works with the hotbar
Activates automatically when an item is attached to the cursor
Uses a subtle translucent light-green overlay
Matches items by item type
Fully client-side
No commands, configuration or keybinds required

Supported Screens

Smart Item Highlight works with standard Minecraft container screens, including:

Chests
Double chests
Barrels
Shulker boxes
Hoppers
Dispensers
Droppers
Other standard inventory-based container screens

Support for modded storage screens may depend on how those screens are implemented.

Requirements

Minecraft 26.2
Fabric Loader
Fabric API

The mod only needs to be installed on the player's client. It does not need to be installed on the server.

Installation

Install Fabric Loader for Minecraft 26.2.
Download and install Fabric API.
Download the latest Smart Item Highlight .jar file.
Place the .jar file inside your Minecraft mods folder.
Launch Minecraft using the Fabric profile.

On Windows, the default Minecraft mods folder is usually:

%appdata%\.minecraft\mods

Usage

Open a supported container.
Pick up an item so it is attached to your cursor.
Every other slot containing the same item will be highlighted.
Place the item back into a slot to remove the highlights.

No setup is required.

Item Matching

Items are matched by their item type.

This means the mod currently ignores differences such as:

Stack size
Durability
Custom names
Enchantments
Other item data

For example, holding one diamond pickaxe will highlight other diamond pickaxes, even when they have different durability or enchantments.

Building from source

More information on how to build the .jar file from source can be found on the github repository here.

Licence

This project is distributed under the licence included in the LICENSE file.

Credits

Smart Item Highlight was developed by @haittorrs (Github) with the assistance of AI tools.

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