Interaction Preview

Interaction Preview

See what's inside chests, furnaces and other blocks without opening them. Tag villagers, see their trades, find any item in your storage.

Minecraft Java 1.21.11, Fabric. Client-side mod; when the server has it too (always true in singleplayer), previews get live data.

Features

Block previews. Look at a block and its interface appears in the world, facing you.

Block	What you see
Chest, large chest, barrel, shulker box, ender chest, hopper, dispenser, dropper	Vanilla-style window with items, counts and durability
Furnace, blast furnace, smoker	Slots, flame, progress, "next in 0:07 · all in 1:42", "no fuel"
Brewing stand	Bottles, ingredient, fuel, progress, time left
Campfire	The four items on the fire, per-item progress, time left
Cauldron	Level and content (water, lava, powder snow)
Composter	Level 0–8
Beehive, bee nest	Honey level, bees inside

Villager tags. Press T on a villager, or N anywhere, to open the Tag Manager:

• up to 3 tags per villager;
• 16 colour presets or a colour wheel;
• a searchable list of every tagged villager with profession, level, coordinates and distance, editable from anywhere.

Glow through walls. Tagged villagers can glow in their own colour through walls; the text does not show through walls.

Trades. A trades panel next to the villager you look at, with enchantment names on books and out-of-stock trades marked.

Bed and workstation. Lines through walls to the villager's bed and workstation.

Missing villager alerts. A chat message when a tagged villager is not where it was last seen, or dies.

Storage (B). Shift+T gives a container a label (name and colour), shown as the panel title and above the block. Search goes through labels and through everything the mod has seen inside containers, including items inside shulker boxes. Results are outlined through walls; /ipreview find <item> does the same from chat.

Looks.

• Vanilla or dark theme, overridable per block, with frame and fill colours.
• Tag styles: tooltip, dark, outline or text only, next to the crosshair or above the head.
• Smooth animations throughout, which can be switched off or sped up.

Profiles (O). Standard, Minimal, Storage and Villagers. Each keeps its own settings.

Show previews. Always, while holding Left Alt, or toggled with it.

Export / import. Settings, profiles, villager tags and container labels go to one file. A backup is made before importing.

Languages: English, Russian, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Polish, Ukrainian, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, Korean.

Server side (optional)

On a vanilla server the client only knows what you have seen. The mod remembers container contents after you open them, and trades after you open the trading screen once.

With Interaction Preview on the server (singleplayer always has it), you also get:

• live contents and cooking/brewing progress;
• times to ready;
• bees in hives;
• trades without opening the trading screen;
• villager bed and workstation.

The server only answers about blocks and villagers within reach of the asking player, read-only. Unopened loot chests are not revealed.

Install

1. Fabric Loader 0.17+ and Fabric API for 1.21.11.
2. Put interactionpreview-1.0.0+mc1.21.11.jar into mods. Mod Menu is optional and adds a settings button.

Controls

Key	Action
T on a villager	Tag Manager for that villager
Shift+T on a container	Label the container
N	Tag Manager with all tagged villagers
B	Storage: labels and search
O	Next settings profile
Left Alt	Show previews (when set to hold/toggle)
/ipreview	Settings

All keys can be changed in Controls or in the mod settings.