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Variant Swap
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Quickly cycle through block and item variants by holding a key and scrolling your mouse wheel (works with mods too!)
Includes quality of life improvements and small tweaks to enhance and customize gameplay.
Fabric is a mod loader for versions 1.14+ of Minecraft, particularly popular for client side and optimization mods.
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Variant Swap is a mod that lets you change the variant of the item you're holding by using a customizable key (Z by default) and scrolling. When you scroll, you'll also see at the top of the screen a quick preview of what's before and after the selected item (for a few seconds).
In Creative mode, you can switch through every available variant of the item, while in Survival mode it only shows items you have in your inventory. It works with both vanilla and modded items!
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The mod's generated mappings and configuration file are located in your Minecraft (or server) folder under /config/Variant Swap/.
Available settings in config.json:
- OP level (4 by default) - for the
/variant-swapcommand - Delay (50ms by default) - this is to throttle the scrolling
On servers it is recommended to change the OP level as desired. The /variant-swap command can be used to reset the delay (cooldown) to its default value or to change it to another value (still in ms).
For Developers
If your mod adds items or blocks and you want to organize them into specific custom categories, add a variant_swap tag to each item/block. This tag will determine the group in which the item is categorized.
For example, imagine you have a mod that adds various furniture items, and you want to categorize them by wood type instead of grouping all chairs together. You could tag all oak items with variant_swap:oak (so oak or whatever you wanna call the category), all spruce items with variant_swap:spruce, and so on.
Variant Swap is a mod that lets you change the variant of the item you're holding by using a customizable key (Z by default) and scrolling. When you scroll, you'll also see at the top of the screen a quick preview of what's before and after the selected item (for a few seconds).
In Creative mode, you can switch through every available variant of the item, while in Survival mode it only shows items you have in your inventory. It works with both vanilla and modded items!
Customization
The mod's generated mappings and configuration file are located in your Minecraft (or server) folder under /config/Variant Swap/.
Available settings in config.json:
- OP level (4 by default) - for the
/variant-swapcommand - Delay (50ms by default) - this is to throttle the scrolling
On servers it is recommended to change the OP level as desired. The /variant-swap command can be used to reset the delay (cooldown) to its default value or to change it to another value (still in ms).
For Developers
If your mod adds items or blocks and you want to organize them into specific custom categories, add a variant_swap tag to each item/block. This tag will determine the group in which the item is categorized.
For example, imagine you have a mod that adds various furniture items, and you want to categorize them by wood type instead of grouping all chairs together. You could tag all oak items with variant_swap:oak (so oak or whatever you wanna call the category), all spruce items with variant_swap:spruce, and so on.
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Creative Showcase #2 -
Creative Showcase And before you can ask - yes you can scroll both forward or backwards if you wanna go back :d! -
Survival Showcase Of course it works with items not only from your hotbar but from your whole inventory, for demonstration purposes I only had items in the hotbar though. -
Quickly Switch Scroll to preview & switch variants
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Quickly Switch Scroll to preview & switch variants -
Survival Showcase Of course it works with items not only from your hotbar but from your whole inventory, for demonstration purposes I only had items in the hotbar though. -
Creative Showcase And before you can ask - yes you can scroll both forward or backwards if you wanna go back :d! -
Creative Showcase #2
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