Minecraft plugin OpenInv

🔌 About OpenInv

OpenInv is a Minecraft plugin for server staff that provides real-time access to player inventories and ender chests. It supports opening and modifying inventories for online and offline players, includes read-only and edit modes, and adds snapshot/history features driven by a database backend.

🎯 Purpose

OpenInv solves the administration need to inspect, manage, and preserve player inventories for moderation, recovery after grief or death, auditing, and troubleshooting. It is intended for server administrators and moderators on Bukkit-family servers.

⚙️ Features

• View and edit player inventories in real time (includes armor and offhand slots).
• Open and modify player ender chests, including for offline players.
• Read-only mode to allow inspection without edits.
• Database-backed snapshot/history system (configurable; supports persistent storage of inventory snapshots).
• Snapshot types such as automatic snapshots and death snapshots with configurable limits.
• Freeze/unfreeze player inventories to prevent changes while investigating.
• Inventory search command to locate items inside a player's inventory.
• Support for opening containers silently (no animation/sound) and opening containers blocked by blocks or entities (AnyContainer / SilentContainer behavior).
• Configurable GUI layout and snapshot limits.

🧩 Who It Is For

• Public and private survival/SMP servers that need inventory auditing or recovery.
• Moderation-heavy servers where staff must inspect player inventories.
• Servers that want persistent inventory snapshots for rollback or investigation.

🏗️ Example Use Cases

• An admin inspects a suspected cheater's inventory in read-only mode to collect evidence.
• A moderator restores a player's lost items using a stored snapshot after an accidental deletion or death.
• Staff freeze a player's inventory while investigating suspicious activity.

⌨️ Commands

(Help and additional shortcuts are provided by the plugin's help command.)

🔐 Permissions

⚙️ Installation

📥 Setup

• Download the official plugin JAR for your server software.
• Place the JAR into your server plugins/ directory.
• Restart the server and check the console to confirm the plugin loaded.

(These steps reflect the plugin's standard installation procedure for Bukkit-family servers.)

🧠 Technical Notes

• Confirmed supported server software: Bukkit-family servers with Spigot and Paper compatibility.
• Confirmed supported Minecraft versions: 1.16 through 1.21.x (plugin releases list support across these versions).
• Java: the plugin is documented to run on Java 17 for modern releases.
• Storage: the plugin includes a database-driven snapshot system with support for persistent storage (examples document MySQL and SQLite backends).
• Configuration: GUI layout and snapshot limits are configurable via the plugin's configuration files.

🤝 When This Plugin Is Useful

If your server requires reliable inventory inspection, persistent inventory history, or moderation tools to manage player inventories and ender chests (including offline players), OpenInv provides those capabilities with configurable modes and a snapshot system that preserves records for investigation or recovery.