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Contraband Scanner (Nirvana)

by miyuu

Contraband Scanner lets players check the area for prohibited items with a right click, reporting what it finds in chat.

NeoForgeClient and serverMIT License1.21.1

What it does

Right-clicking with the scanner in hand searches the surroundings for forbidden items and writes the result to chat. The scan covers chests, barrels, shulkers, furnaces, hoppers and dispensers, along with the items lying on the ground, growing plants, cars and other blocks from mods that expose a standard item handler. Inventories of other players and ender chests are included too. The default scan radius is 50 blocks.

The scanner never reveals exact coordinates. It reports prohibited items as zones and gives a cardinal direction, so a player learns that something is nearby and which way to go. Holding a detector item in the hand switches to a metal detector mode: it passively rings and beeps while the selected item is carried, and the closer a prohibited item is, the more often the squeak sounds and the higher its tone. The mod ships with Nirvana mod items and is published for NeoForge 1.21.1 under the MIT License, though it is not open source.

Key features

  1. Area scan on right click

    A right click checks the area and writes to chat whether a prohibited item was found, with a full report listing finds.

  2. Zoned detection without coordinates

    Results show detection zones, from close proximity up to 16 blocks, out to 50 and farther to 100, never exact locations.

  3. Metal detector mode

    A held item triggers passive rings and beeps, with pitch rising near zones and falling for distant ones.

  4. Configurable ranges

    The detector, scan and far radii can each be adjusted, with the scan radius defaulting to 50 blocks.

Compatibility

Latest build for each game version and loader.

1.21.11.3.0
ReleaseBetaAlphaNot available

Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.

Questions

Does Contraband Scanner need to be installed on the server?

Yes. Servers that run it need every player to install it too.

Which game version does Contraband Scanner support?

The mod is published for 1.21.1 only, on NeoForge, with the latest file being 1.3.0.

Can the scanner show exact item locations?

No. It reports detection zones and a cardinal direction, and does not give out exact coordinates.

What the author says

Item "Prohibited Scanner": by pressing RMB, it checks the area and writes to the chat, whether a forbidden item was found (by default - items from the nirvana mod). What is scanned in radius (default 50 blocks): - containers - chests, barrels, shulkers, furnaces, hoppers, dispensers and any mod blocks that provide a…
miyuu, on the Modrinth page

Official listing

Owner
miyuu
Published
2026-06-20
Updated on Modrinth
2026-06-21
Facts verified
2026-10-15