What is it?
What is it? is a Fabric utility that searches the Minecraft Wiki for the item, block or entity a player is looking at.
What it does
Pressing the default O key looks up the item, block or entity under the cursor and opens its page on minecraft.wiki. Searches follow the language the Minecraft Wiki supports, and other languages fall back to a translation key search. Only the client needs it; a server does not, and clients on any server can run it alone.
The mod is published for Fabric only, across 12 release versions covering 1.20 – 1.21.4. The latest file is 1.0.1 for 1.21.4, released 2025-01-07. The code is not open source, and the mod is released under All rights reserved. Its author recommends the Hey Wiki mod instead.
Key features
Wiki lookup by key
A default keybinding opens a Minecraft Wiki search for the item, block or entity under the crosshair.
Language-aware search
Searches work in every language the Minecraft Wiki supports, and a translation key search covers the others.
Looks at the cursor target
The search targets whatever the player is looking at, so no typing is needed to find an item page.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
1.21.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.20.x7 of 7 versions with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Multi Language Item Search is also Fabric and client-side only, but it is published for 1.21.11 – 26.2 and is open source under the MIT License. TMYK is open source under the MIT License and covers 1.18 – 26.3 on Fabric.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What is it? | Fabric | 1.20 – 1.21.4 | Client-side only | 2025-01-07 |
| Multi Language Item Search | Fabric | 1.21.11 – 26.2 | Client-side only | 2026-06-20 |
| TMYK | Fabric | 1.18 – 26.3 | Not published | 2026-04-29 |
Questions
Does What is it? need Fabric API?
In the catalog
What is it? is one of 36,990 Utility mods on ModsFinder, and one of 25,772 Utility mods for Fabric. 17,979 mods support Minecraft 1.21.4.
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What the author says
Allows to search any block/entity that player is looking on or item on cursor on minecraft.wiki by pressing a keybing (by default 'O') Works for every language, that Minecraft Wiki supports. Other languages will use translation key for search.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/what-is-it
- Owner
- NotTouchedGrass
- Published
- 2024-07-08
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-01-07
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15