This Is What U Need
by hypevhs
This Is What U Need lets players share the item they are holding in chat, so other players can see its tooltip and texture.
What it does
Holding an item in the inventory and pressing the chat key while hovering over it shares that item in chat. The default key is Ctrl+T. Players who have the mod see the shared item with its texture and tooltip, while players without it still see the item's name as plain text.
The mod is server-side only, so only the server needs it and players join without installing anything. It requires Fabric API. The source code and issue tracker are public, and the code is open source under the MIT License. It is published for Fabric and Quilt, with a single 2.0.0 release for 1.19.2 dated 2023-08-02, and it is a fork of the Show What Got mod with fixes for a few crashes on certain Minecraft versions.
Key features
Item sharing in chat
Hovering over an item in the inventory and pressing the chat key posts the item to the chat window.
Tooltip and texture display
Players with the mod see the shared item's texture and tooltip, not only its name.
Text fallback
Players without the mod receive the item name as text, so they still know what was shared.
Configurable chat key
The default shortcut is Ctrl+T, and it can be changed in the controls settings.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Use cases
Showing gear to a group
A player can share an enchanted tool or armor piece so teammates can read its enchantments in the tooltip.
Who it’s for: Players and server owners who want item links in chat that display full tooltips for players who have the mod installed.
Questions
Does This Is What U Need have to be installed on every player's client?
Which loaders does This Is What U Need support?
Can players change the key used to share an item?
In the catalog
This Is What U Need is one of 5,392 Social mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,084 Social mods for Fabric. 12,559 mods support Minecraft 1.19.2.
Similar mods
What the author says
This is a fork of Apace100's Show Me What You Got that fixes crashes and other bugs when used with specific Minecraft versions. A simple mod which allows displaying your items to other users in chat.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/this-is-what-u-need
- Owner
- hypevhs
- Published
- 2023-08-02
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2023-08-02
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15