Smart Inventory Manager

Smart Inventory Manager is a client-side Fabric mod that adds fast, safe inventory sorting with clean icon buttons, keybinds, multiple sort modes, JSON config recovery, Mod Menu support, and broad localization.

Author: Matfi1

Features

• Sort the player inventory from the inventory screen.
• Sort common containers: chest, barrel, shulker box, hopper, dispenser, and dropper.
• Use compact icon buttons instead of large text buttons.
• Switch sorting mode from an in-game icon button.
• The mode icon changes to match the selected sort mode.
• Long hover tooltips explain each icon.
• Settings are available from the main/pause menu and with a keybind.
• Sorting respects protected hotbar slots when ignoreHotbar is enabled.
• Sorting respects configured lockedSlots.
• Invalid config files are backed up and replaced with defaults.
• No mixins in the MVP.

Sort Modes

• Item ID
• Category
• Count
• Durability
• Name A-Z
• Name Z-A

Controls

Default keybinds:

• I: sort player inventory
• O: sort opened container
• K: open Smart Inventory Manager settings

You can change these in Minecraft's controls menu.

Supported Versions

Built Modrinth jars are saved in dist/modrinth/.

Minecraft	Jar
1.21	SmIm-1.21.jar
1.21.1	SmIm-1.21.1.jar
1.21.2	SmIm-1.21.2.jar
1.21.3	SmIm-1.21.3.jar
1.21.4	SmIm-1.21.4.jar
1.21.5	SmIm-1.21.5.jar
1.21.6	SmIm-1.21.6.jar
1.21.7	SmIm-1.21.7.jar
1.21.8	SmIm-1.21.8.jar
1.21.9	SmIm-1.21.9.jar
1.21.10	SmIm-1.21.10.jar
1.21.11	SmIm-1.21.11.jar
26.1	SmIm-26.1.jar
26.1.2	SmIm-26.1.2.jar

Minecraft 26.1 and 26.1.2 require Java 25.

Installation

1. Install Fabric Loader for your Minecraft version.
2. Install Fabric API for your Minecraft version.
3. Put the matching SmIm-*.jar file into your mods folder.
4. Optional: install Mod Menu to open the config screen from the mods list.

This is a client-only mod. It is not required on servers.

Config

The config file is created here:

config/smartinventorymanager.json

Config keys:

• enableInventorySort
• enableContainerSort
• buttonSide
• buttonScale
• animationEnabled
• sortMode
• ignoreHotbar
• lockedSlots

If the JSON is broken, Smart Inventory Manager renames it to a timestamped .broken backup and creates a new default config.

Localization

Included languages:

• English (en_us)
• Russian (ru_ru)
• German (de_de)
• French (fr_fr)
• Spanish (es_es)
• Portuguese, Brazil (pt_br)
• Italian (it_it)
• Polish (pl_pl)
• Ukrainian (uk_ua)
• Turkish (tr_tr)
• Dutch (nl_nl)
• Czech (cs_cz)
• Hungarian (hu_hu)
• Chinese, Simplified (zh_cn)
• Chinese, Traditional (zh_tw)
• Japanese (ja_jp)
• Korean (ko_kr)

Compatibility

Smart Inventory Manager uses Fabric screen events and avoids unsafe widget-list indexes. If a screen is not recognized, the feature path fails softly instead of crashing the client.

Manual compatibility test targets:

• Sodium
• Iris
• Mod Menu
• Mouse Tweaks
• Shulker Box Tooltip
• JEI
• libIPN

These are manual test targets, not full compatibility certifications. Mods that also move inventory slots may conflict if both mods sort at the same time.

Building

Build all supported Modrinth files:

./scripts/build-modrinth.sh

Build one Minecraft version:

./gradlew clean build -PmcVersion=1.21.11

Build 26.x with Java 25:

JAVA_HOME="$PWD/.jdks/jdk-25" ./gradlew clean build -PmcVersion=26.1
JAVA_HOME="$PWD/.jdks/jdk-25" ./gradlew clean build -PmcVersion=26.1.2

Successful jars are copied to:

dist/modrinth/

Manual Test Plan

• Open the player inventory.
• Confirm the sort and mode icons are outside the inventory GUI, not in the center.
• Open chest, barrel, shulker box, hopper, dispenser, and dropper.
• Click Sort in every supported screen.
• Switch sort modes and confirm the mode icon changes.
• Use keybinds for player inventory and container sorting.
• Change GUI scale and reopen screens.
• Corrupt the config JSON and confirm backup plus default regeneration.
• Launch with Mod Menu and confirm the config screen opens.
• Launch with Sodium/Iris and confirm the GUI still renders.

Roadmap

Planned ideas for future releases:

• Quick Stack
• Restock Hotbar
• Auto Refill
• Interactive Slot Locking UI
• Clean Inventory

License

MIT