Utility Nexus Admin

v1.1.0 - Alphabetical creative tabs (Minecraft 1.21.1)

New client-side quality-of-life feature: the creative inventory tab bar is now sorted alphabetically by the name each player actually sees. Built for Minecraft 1.21.1 / NeoForge 21.1.249 (Java 21).

🎨 Creative tabs, sorted A–Z

The problem

NeoForge builds the creative tab order once, when the registries are frozen: the ten vanilla tabs first, then every mod tab appended at the end — unless a mod declares withTabsBefore / withTabsAfter edges. The result is a topological sort by tab id, so on a pack with dozens of mods the tab bar ends up grouped by mod instead of by name, and finding a tab means scanning the whole bar (NeoForge pages it 10 tabs at a time).

The fix

• Tabs are sorted by display name — the label the player reads, not the tab id
• Sorting uses the collation rules of the player's own language, so a Spanish client gets Armas next to Bloques and accented names sort with their own letter (Añadir lands with the A entries)
• Ties fall back to the registry id, so the order is deterministic across launches (a tab with an unresolved translation key simply sorts by that key)

Scope and notes

• Only the order of the tabs changes; the items inside each tab are untouched
• The hotbar, search, operator and inventory tabs keep their fixed columns — NeoForge draws them separately and they are unaffected
• Client side only. The mixin sits in the client list of the mixin config, so a dedicated server neither applies it nor loads any client class
• Disable it with creative.sortTabsAlphabetically = false in config/utility_nexus/admin/config.toml, or live with /una config set creative.sortTabsAlphabetically false

Notes

No change to the datapack loader, the chunk pregenerator, the /una command tree or any existing config key — this release only adds one new boolean. Verified: ./gradlew clean build is green.

JAR: utility_nexus_admin-1.21.1-neoforge-21.1.249-1.1.0.jar