Minecraft:Inventory

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A survival inventory pop-up screen in Template:Editions.

The inventory is the pop-up menu that the player uses to manage items they carry. From this screen a player can equip Minecraft:armor, craft items on a 2×2 grid, and equip Minecraft:tools, Minecraft:blocks, and Minecraft:items. The player's skin is also displayed here.

Overview

The inventory is opened and closed by pressing

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The inventory is saved upon exiting a world or server, so the player retains exactly the same items upon re-entering the world or server.

Slots

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Most items stack up to 64, while some items stack to 16, like many projectiles, or do not stack at all, like items with durability. All items can stack up to 99Template:Only or 127Template:Only using componentsTemplate:Only or commands.

Calculators/Item stack

There is also a 2×2 Minecraft:crafting grid, which allows any recipe that fits to be crafted but does not offer item storage. This is not available in Creative or Spectator mode in Template:Editions.

Armor is considered equipped only when it is in an armor slot; when in any of the regular inventory slots, it is not considered "worn" and does not offer protection. Held armor can be equipped by {{#vardefine: control | right click on mouse or left trigger on gamepad }}using it, exchanging it with any armor already occupying that slot.

Items have tooltips if the cursor is hovered over them, displaying their name, enchantments, lore, and some item-specific information such as the version of a written book. Pressing

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Pressing {{#vardefine: control | right click on mouse or left trigger on gamepad }}use on a block with an inventory, such as a Minecraft:chest, crafting table, or a Minecraft:furnace opens its GUI and allow items to be transferred between the 27 main slots, the 9 hotbar slots, and the block's GUI.

The only available slots for setting attributes are "mainhand", "offhand", "head", "chest", "legs", and "feet".

Recipe book

{{#vardefine:params|0 }}Template:Hatnote The recipe book has a catalog of all the recipes in the game and serves as a Minecraft:crafting guide. It shows every crafting recipe that the player has had materials for.

Crafting recipes are organized into different categories in the recipe book through the different tabs. In Java Edition, the categories are:

• All recipes
• Minecraft:Tools, Minecraft:weapons, and Minecraft:armor
• Building materials
• Minecraft:Food and miscellaneous items
• Minecraft:Redstone components

In Bedrock Edition, the categories are:

• recipes

Managing inventory

Stacks can be grabbed as a whole by pressing left-click on the stack and can be split in two by pressing right-click. If the stack is an odd quantity, then it leaves the smaller half behind (for example, a stack of 7 grabs 4 items and leaves 3 in the slot). Conversely, holding a stack of items in the player's cursor and left-clicking in an inventory slot places the full stack into the slot and right-clicking places items one at a time. If there is already a stack in that slot, it gets swapped with the grabbed stack. Double-clicking an item grabs up to a full stack from all the items within the inventory.

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Dragging a stack of items with the cursor over an inventory using the left mouse button divides the stack equally over the dragged-over slots (with the remainder staying on the cursor), whereas dragging the stack around using the right mouse button places one item of that stack in each dragged-over slot. Regardless of which mouse button is used (left or right), this occurs only with slots that are empty or contain identical items. If this amount of items does not fit onto the stack anymore, the rest stays on the cursor.

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Pressing (by default)

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Creative inventory

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Creative mode item selection screen in Template:Editions (opened to the search tab)

In Creative mode, the inventory contains a block selection menu containing all blocks and items found in survival, plus a few additional items not obtainable in Survival. The blocks and items are organized into various tabs that differ slightly between Java and Bedrock.

External inventories

Template:Redirect Many blocks and some non-player entities have their own inventory-like menus that pop up to allow manipulation of items.

Note: Despite the fact that ender chest, crafting table, beacon, anvil, enchanting table, and villager inventories are actually internal behind the scenes, they are listed here as external because they require clicking on something external.

Java Edition

• Inventory
  Inventory
• Survival Inventory tab in Creative inventory.
  Survival Inventory tab in Creative inventory.
• Search Items tab in Creative inventory.
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• Inventory
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  Survival inventory tab in Creative inventory.
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Mob inventory

Certain Minecraft:mobs have inventory slots, used for various purposes.

• Minecraft:Villagers have 8 slots, not accessible to the player, which they use to collect various farming-related seeds and foods.
• Minecraft:Piglins have 8 slots, not accessible to the player, which they use to collect various items.
• Pillagers have 5 slots, not accessible to the player, which goes unused, as pillagers don't change their inventory automatically or drop items from it upon death.^{[more information needed]}
• Minecraft:AgentsTemplate:Only have 27 slots that are accessible to the player by a GUI, and can be accessed by the agent according to its programming.
• Donkeys and mules, when equipped with a Minecraft:chest, have 15 inventory slots accessible to the player.
• Llamas and trader llamas, when equipped with a chest, have 3, 6, 9, 12 or 15 inventory slots, corresponding to their Strength stat.
• Allays have 1 inventory slot, not accessible to the player, which they use to collect items that match a player given held item.

History

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

• Mockup of a supposed Survival inventory. It was made over the screenshot in a graphics editor.<ref name="Mockup"/>
  Mockup of a supposed Survival inventory. It was made over the screenshot in a graphics editor.<ref name="Mockup"/>

Trivia

• When sleeping or riding a Minecraft:pig, Minecraft:horse, Minecraft:boat, or Minecraft:minecart and the inventory screen is accessed, the avatar is shown in the respective position. However, only the player is displayed.{{

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Gallery

Development images

Java Edition

• Inventory in Java Edition Indev 0.31 20100104-2258
  Inventory in Java Edition Indev 0.31 20100104-2258
• Inventory in Java Edition Indev 0.31 20100110
  Inventory in Java Edition Indev 0.31 20100110

Bedrock Edition

• First image of the offhand slot
  First image of the offhand slot
• An early look of the inventory screen.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>
  An early look of the inventory screen.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>

In other media

• Pixel art of Makena in the inventory.
  Pixel art of Makena in the inventory.

See also

• Minecraft:Crafting
• Smelting
• Item repair
• Items
• Item durability
• Blocks
• Entity
• Recipe book

Notes

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