Open Inventory & Inspect Gear

🧰 Open Inventory & Inspect Gear

Open Inventory & Inspect Gear is a light, simple and powerful mod that lets you open / check / inspect a player’s inventory, inspect their equipment, and interact with their backpack.

Whether you’re an administrator or a player, this mod provides powerful but secure tools:

open a player’s inventory,

open their backpack while standing behind them,

inspect their equipment in read-only, with no possibility of stealing.

Every feature is fully configurable: you can enable or disable commands, show or hide sections (backpack, storage, hotbar, armor, utility), and fine-tune permissions, distance limits, and language localization.

Backpack and inspect commands can target the nearest player by default, or a specific player if specified. You can also force your player to specify a player via configuration.

✨ Features

✅ Open another player's inventory with a simple command.

🎒 Open a nearby player's backpack from behind.

🛡️ Inspect a player's equipment in read-only (no stealing possible).

🎯 Commands target the nearest player by default, with optional player argument.

⚙️ Fully configurable commands (can be disabled individually).

⚙️ Configurable sections: backpack, storage, hotbar, armor, utility.

👑 Admin command that ignores config and shows everything.

👑 Admins can manage the inventory of offline players

🔄 Reload config without restarting.

🌍 Editable language files: EN / FR / DE / ES / IT / RU / PT / TR / PH (by ChatGPT sorry).

🔐 Permissions per command and per feature.

🚀 Optimized performance & permission handling.

🕑 Future Plans

Display the player’s name in menus

Open Backpack or Inspect without using a command, by interacting directly with the player

Display the slot type on each slot

Properly separate each section with a label

🐞 Bug Reports & Suggestions

Found a bug, have an idea, or want to request a feature?

✅ Best way: join my Discord and post in the appropriate channel

⌨️ All commands

By default, backpack and inspect commands target the nearest player. You can specify a player name, and optionally force this behavior in the config.

Command Description

/openinv [player] Opens the target player's inventory

/invadmin [player] Opens the full inventory regardless of config

/backpack [player] Opens the target or nearest player's backpack

/inspect [player] Inspects the target or nearest player's equipment (read-only)

/openinv reload Reloads the plugin configuration

🔐 Permissions

Permissions are properly linked and enforced per command and interaction.

Command Permission

/openinv [player] openinv.use

/backpack openinv.interact

/inspect openinv.inspect

/invadmin [player] openinv.admin

/openinv reload openinv.reload

Feature Permission

Bypass inv distance limits openinv.distance.bypass

Bypass interaction blocking openinv.blocking.bypass

Bypass inspect distance limits openinv.inspect.distance.bypass

⚙️ Configuration file

The configuration file is organized by sections. Each command, interaction, permission, distance rule and visible inventory section can be fully customized.

settings

pluginEnable : enables or disables the plugin

prefix : prefix added before plugin messages

language : existing language file (EN / FR / DE / ES / IT / RU / PT / TR / PH)

commands

commandDefault : main command to open inventory

commandAliases : aliases for main command

commandAdmin : admin command

commandAdminAliases : admin command aliases

commandBackpack: backpack command

commandBackpackAliases : backpack command aliases

commandInspect : inspect command

commandInspectAliases : inspect command aliases

permission

permissionUse : permission for /openinv [player]

permissionReload : permission for reload command

permissionAdmin : permission for admin inventory

🧩 Open Command Settings

Settings section called invBasicCommandSettings applied to the main inventory opening command.

blockingInteractionInInventories

blockingWhenInventoryOpen : blocks interactions when inventory is open

blockingInteractionPermission : permission to bypass blocking

distanceLimitations

enableDistanceLimitations : enable distance checks

maxDistanceBlocks : maximum distance allowed

bypassInvDistancePermission : permission to bypass distance limits

whatToShowWhenUse (true/false)

showBackpack

showStorage

showHotbar

showArmor

showUtility

🔎 Inspect Interaction

Inspect mode config section called inspectInteraction. Allows safe equipment viewing only, with no interaction or item stealing possible.

enabled : enables inspection

enableDistanceLimitations : enable distance checks

maxDistanceBlocks : max allowed distance

permission : required permission

bypassInspectDistancePermission : permission to bypass inspect distance limits

forcePlayerArgument : require explicit player name instead

whatToShowWhenInspect (true/false)

showBackpack

showStorage

showHotbar

showArmor

showUtility

🎒 Backpack Interaction

Backpack config section called backpackInteraction. Provide access is secure, distance-limited, and configurable.

enabled : enables backpack interaction

maxDistanceBlocks : max interaction distance

minBehindAngleDegrees : minimum angle behind target

permission : required permission

blockingInteractionInBackpack : opens backpack in read-only

forcePlayerArgument : require explicit player name

whatToShowWhenOpenBackpack (true/false)

showBackpack

showStorage

showHotbar

showArmor

showUtility

🌍 Language Files

On first launch, the plugin generates lang_EN.json. Changing the language setting will automatically generate the corresponding file (e.g. lang_FR.json). I’ve used ChatGPT to translate multiple languages in order to improve accessibility. But all messages are fully editable.

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