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Visual Creative Tab Editor

by kltyton

Visual Creative Tab Editor is a library that lets players and server owners reorganize vanilla and modded creative tabs in-game, with its layouts stored as reloadable datapack data.

FabricForgeNeoForgeClient and serverGNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or laterOpen source1.20.1 – 26.2

What it does

Creative tab items can be dragged to reorder the icons around them, which makes room automatically. Checkboxes select several items at once for moving, grouping or deleting, and a batch-delete button and context menu handle removal. Holding a dragged icon at the left or right edge turns the creative-inventory pages, and hovering it over another category tab opens that tab. A long press on an empty area of the creative inventory frame opens a single editing session, where every tab and item edit is held as one pending draft until an explicit Save applies it or Cancel discards it.

Tabs can be created, renamed, given a new icon, and filled with items from an existing category. Tab definitions come from ordinary datapacks, which may replace individual fields on existing tabs or add entirely new category tabs, with conflicting fields resolved by the real datapack load order. The mod maintains two datapacks of its own, so newly installed mods appear automatically while modpacks can still override the generated layout. Visual edits to world-wide settings are synchronized to every player in the world, while client-local layouts stay with the individual user.

Key features

  1. Drag-and-drop reordering

    Dragging a creative tab item reorders the surrounding icons, and multi-selection moves or groups several items together.

  2. Cross-tab editing

    Hovering a dragged item over another category tab opens that tab, and edge hold turns pages so items can move across the inventory.

  3. Single draft and save

    Every change to tabs and items is collected in one draft and written in one save step, and the user confirms it with explicit Save or Cancel buttons.

  4. Datapack-driven definitions

    Titles, icons, contents and ordering are stored in datapacks, so modpack authors avoid maintaining large JSON files by hand.

  5. Search ordering

    The search tab keeps a stored preferred order, and items from newly installed mods are still appended to it.

Compatibility

Latest build for each game version and loader.

26.22.2.0+mc26.2-fabricNot available2.2.0+mc26.2-neoforge
26.1.22.2.0+mc26.1.2-fabricNot available2.2.0+mc26.1.2-neoforge
1.21.12.2.0+mc1.21.1-fabric2.2.0+mc1.21.1-forge2.2.0+mc1.21.1-neoforge
1.20.12.2.0+mc1.20.1-fabric2.2.0+mc1.20.1-forgeNot available
ReleaseBetaAlphaNot available

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

Requirements

Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.

Required 1

Fabric APILightweight and modular API providing common hooks and intercompatibility measures utilized by mods using the Fabric toolchain.
Required

How it compares

Full comparison

Creative Tab Organizer (CTO) is a Forge and NeoForge mod for 1.20.1 – 1.21.1, client-side only, with All rights reserved and not open source. Creative Tab Layouts (CTL) is a NeoForge mod for 1.21.1 only, client and server, under the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 or later and open source. Visual Creative Tab Editor is open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later, runs on client and server, and covers 1.20.1 – 26.2 across Fabric, Forge and NeoForge.

ModLoadersGame versionsEnvironmentUpdated
Visual Creative Tab EditorFabric, Forge and NeoForge1.20.1 – 26.2Client and server2026-10-15
Creative Tab Organizer (CTO)Forge and NeoForge1.20.1 – 1.21.1Client-side only2026-09-27
Creative Tab Layouts (CTL)NeoForge1.21.1Client and server2026-07-29

Questions

Does Visual Creative Tab Editor need Fabric API?

Yes. Fabric API is required on Fabric. The Forge and NeoForge files do not list it as a dependency.

Do players need the mod if the server runs it?

The server and every player need the mod installed.

Where do the tab definitions live?

Definitions are loaded from regular datapacks. A pack with higher priority only has to supply the particular fields it intends to alter; everything else is inherited from lower-priority packs.

In the catalog

Visual Creative Tab Editor is one of 3,514 Library mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,348 Library mods for Fabric. 13,894 mods support Minecraft 26.2.

Library mods3,514Fabric modsMods for 26.213,894

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What the author says

Visual Creative Tab Editor turns vanilla and modded creative tabs into a reloadable, data-driven catalog and adds an in-game editor inspired by a phone home screen. You can organize tabs and items without manually maintaining large JSON files, while modpack and server authors can still control titles, icons…
kltyton, on the Modrinth page

Official listing

Owner
kltyton
Published
2026-07-12
Updated on Modrinth
2026-10-15
Facts verified
2026-10-15

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