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[copyboy]

Hello everyone, copyboy here.

Yes, INVedit is discontinued. There will be no more updates or new features coming from my end. You can continue to use it in the feature, new items will just be missing, unless you find or take the time to update the items.txt file that comes with it, along with the images.

As for the reasons why I stopped, there's two main ones:
- This tool is now almost 3 years old, and I've learned quite a bit in all this time. I can barely even look at its code anymore, let alone update it to add additional features. INVedit probably has been useful to a lot of people, but there's a time where everything has to end. This is it.
- While all the positive feedback from you was great, there have been very few donations, and they became more and more rare over the years. Even after I put a lot of work into updating INVedit to add more features, like editing enchantments.

Now lets quickly talk about the future. The source code of this tool is open, and pretty much public domain. Anyone crazy enough and with enough time can update it. Peacem4k3r and DHIteration actually started that and made some pretty sweet changes, but I haven't heard anything of them lately.
And then there's mCraftPanel, who is working on a successor to INVedit, starting from scratch, which is probably the best idea.
I will of course update this thread when any of them release their projects.

If you know of any similar, or maybe just helpful tools which I should take note of in the helpful tools section below, please let me know!

Happy minecrafting everyone!
~copyboy

Spoiler: Old post

INVedit is the (more like "some kind of") successor of NBTedit. With it you can create your own porta- wait, wrong game. You can use it to edit your inventory both Singleplayer and Multiplayer, if you're the server host.

Here's a screenshot of a regular game inventory opened in INVedit:


Here's a list of features:

• Edit item names, lore, color (leather armor) and player (heads).
  
• Add, edit and remove enchantments on items.
  It is possible to give any item any enchantment with any level.
  
• Edit books. This includes title, author, content and whether it's "signed".
  
• Loads blocks and items from the enclosed files.
  This means anyone is able to update INVedit themselves, add items from mods, etc.
  
• Groups for faster access of individual blocks.
  
• Search box lets you filter items.
  
• If possible, displays item damage as bar.
  
• Stacks items almost like in the game itself.
  
• Tabs for editing multiple inventories simultaneously.
  You can move items between tabs.
  
• Quick load and save.
  
• Automatic updating.

But wait, there's more! Please ..

• .. read the tutorial below if you have problems, before asking.
  
• .. keep in mind that you can only edit your Inventory with this.
  
• .. don't bug Mojang if something goes wrong because of INVedit or a similar tool.
  
• .. consider sending a private message to me instead of asking in the thread.
  
• .. redownload the full thing, if updating fails.

Download: Direct #1, Direct #2 - Version 1.0.2 for Minecraft 1.4
INVedit usually is forward-compatible with new versions of Minecraft, new items will just be missing.

You will need the .NET Framework 4.0 (Client Profile) to run this - you usually have this already installed. You can find it here (web installer) or here. May also work with Mono or Wine on Linux and Mac, but there is no guarantee or support. If you're an unexperienced Mac or Ubuntu user, this is probably not the right tool for you. There are a few unofficial tutorials on how to do it, but I really suggest using a different tool or mod.

Source code: On github.com. It's public domain, do what you want.



FAQ

Spoiler:

Will you make this for Mac/Linux?
No. INVedit should run fine with Mono.
Also check for alternatives. If you find good ones let me know so I can link them.

How do I get <item>?
INVedit "knows" about most items, but many aren't listed in any group.
To get them, you need to enter the item's ID in the search bar.
Also works with items from mods and snapshot versions, they will just be displayed as unknown items.
You can find the IDs of all items on the wiki page for Data values.
Some items use their "damage" value to distinguish between different versions of the same item, for example wood, leaves, wool, dyes. A few mods use this so save on block/item IDs.
You can see and change the damage value of items when you select them.

Common problems

Spoiler:

Error messages "The application has failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135)"
and "Unable to find a version of the runtime to run this application"
and "Could not load file or assembly 'System.Core [...]' or one of its dependecies."
and many more weird error messages:
Make sure you have .NET 4.0 (link above) installed and working correctly. If you're not sure, try to reinstall or repair it. If that doesn't fix it, please send me a PM.

Error message "Failed to parse column ITEMS at line 235 in file items.txt":
Automatic updating was broken. Old versions were having problems updating the .exe. If you try to do it anyway, the next time you start a message box will pop up displaying the above error and the first group will be missing. To fix this, just redownload it.
You may have downloaded this old version recently, because I switched servers and I didn't pay attention to what I uploaded. Sorry about that.

Error message "System.IO.InvalidDataException: The magic number in GZip header is not correct. [...]":
Make sure your world file isn't corrupted, and that you are actually opening a valid Minecraft file.

Error message "Can't find Inventory tag":
This shows up if you're trying to edit a level.dat of a multiplayer world, as the inventories get stored in seperate player files - you can open these with INVedit by the way.

Changes do not appear in the world:
Make sure you quit the world before editing the inventory in it.
For multiplayer, only the player whose inventory you're editing must be offline.

Again, before asking any questions, also read the tutorial post below.
It usually will help you with your first steps and shows you some more features.

Other helpful tools you may want to check out:
- Not Enough Items: Inventory editor mod and more by ChickenBones.
- Too Many Items: Inventory editor mod by Marglyph.

- NBTedit: Raw NBT editor by me.
- NBTExplorer: A better NBT editor by jaquadro.
- In-Game NBTEdit: Forge compatible mod for editing (tile) entities by Davidee.
- MCEdit: World editor by codewarrior.

[copyboy]

Spoiler: Old tutorial post

Quick start

Click New if you want to create a completely new inventory.
Click Open to open an .inv or .dat file.
Now edit your inventory by dragging and dropping items from the item list at the right, moving them around or modifying their count or damage.
At last, Save it as and .inv file or save over an existing .dat file to modify the inventory inside.
Make sure you exit the world before editing it, the changes won't affect a running game.

Click the small arrows next to open or save to use the quick-load/save feature:


Items are grouped together, you can switch between these groups by clicking on them.
You can also filter for any item with the search bar:



Out of bounds



1) A simple iron pickaxe, which is damaged a little bit.
2) A gold shovel with negative damage. Negative damage means more uses. Minimum is -32657.
3) 64 cobblestone blocks, with positive damage. Tools with damage above their maximum will have their damage displayed like this as well.
4) 255 dirt blocks. Note the red border of the text. Same with stacked tools, since you can't do that ingame.
5) A nonexistent item with ID 80.

• Tools and armor with negative damage are useful, because it means they have more durability than they normally have.
  
• Setting the damage of blocks to anything but 0 or tools above their maximum doesn't do anything (except destroying the tool with the next use). There are a few special blocks and items, where damage is used to distinguish different versions of the same item, for example wool.
  
• You can carry multiple tools in one slot. It won't destroy the whole stack if one tools is destroyed.
  
• When setting block counts to a high number (e.g. 255), they count as infinite as long as you don't restart the game.
  
• Java's bytes are signed (-128 to 127) whereas C#'s are unsigned (0 to 255). You can notice this ingame, when stacks of blocks or items larger than 127 disappear, do nothing or don't work as expected.

Other controls

Delete: Deletes the selected item.

When dragging:
Normal: Move/swap items.
Ctrl: Copy items. Overwrites existing items.
Alt: Split items. Like right-clicking ingame.

When item slot is selected and scrolling the mouse wheel:
Normal: Change count.
Shift: Change damage.
Ctrl: Modify x4.


Editing items.txt

Even tho it should be self-explanatory, I'll tell you how it works.
Here is a valid items.txt example file:

:version 0
# This is a comment, just for decoration

1 Stone terrain.png 1,0
4 Cobblestone terrain.png 0,1
48 Moss_Stone terrain.png 4,2
5 Wooden_Planks terrain.png 4,0
17 Wood terrain.png 4,1 0
17 Dark_Wood terrain.png 4,7 1
17 Birch_Wood terrain.png 5,7 2

266 Gold_Ingot items.png 7,2
278 Diamond_Pickaxe items.png 3,6 +1024
332 Snowball items.png 14,0 x16
345 Compass items.png 6,3 (x1)

~ Stone 4 1,4,48
~ Wood 17 5,17
~ Items 266 266,278,297,332

+ 35 Fortune 3 278

(Sorry or the messy example, this markup is screwing with my whitespace.)
The version value is used for checking for updates.
If you want to update, but also want to keep your items.txt, simply back it up.

INVedits loads the file line by line and tries to parse it.
These lines are divided into columns, which are seperated by spaces.
<ID>  <name>  <image file>  <image coords>  (<damage/stack>)

The first value is the item's ID, you can find the IDs of items for example here.
The second one is obviously the name. Any spaces have to be replaced with an underscore.
Next up is the image file where the item icon can be found.
The next two values are the image coords where the icon is located. 15,15 would be the bottom right one.

The last column is optional and contains one of these:

The damage value of an item. This is used by Minecraft to identify items which have the same ID, e.g. wood.
The maximum damage of a tool. Begins with a "+".
The maximum stack count of a block or item. Begins with an "x".
If the stack count is in brackets, that means INVedit will create them with that count. For example workbenches and compasses can be stacked, but there is no reason to do that.

Lines which define a group start with "~".
~ <name>  <icon>  <items>

The name will not be displayed in INVedit.
icon is an item ID. Its image will be used as icon for the group.

Lines starting with "+" define enchantments.
+ <ID>  <name>  <max level>  <enchantable items>
Again, the name needs to have its spaces replaced with an underscore.

[MPeti]

Sounds great! *downloads*

[lowerthanlow]

makes me sad how you just deserted nbtedit like that. I liked that one better than this one. You could edit the damage done to tools, you could edit health, blocks (if you didn't want to download omen ), air, light, etc. This is very nice though, and i'm sure i will use it for all inventory editing, all though there is a problem with this : new releases will glitch this up so bad, bacuse you can't have an auto update type thing on it.

sorry for the rambling, i suppose that you know what i mean. sorry for the unconstructive critisism.

Ps. keep up the good work.

[BigD145]

NBTedit lets me alter my spawn and position. I'll stick to that.

I have nothing else relevant to say.

[copyboy]

lowerthanlow said:

makes me sad how you just deserted nbtedit like that. I liked that one better than this one.

You got it slightly wrong. It's a completely different piece of art ... eh, software and serves a different purpose. With "successor" I meant I took this to next level, which apparently doesn't have as much freedom as NBTedit.

lowerthanlow said:

You could edit the damage done to tools [...]

You still can set the damage to watever you want.

lowerthanlow said:

This is very nice though, and i'm sure i will use it for all inventory editing

See? That's what this is all about

lowerthanlow said:

there is a problem with this : new releases will glitch this up so bad

You can add the new blocks yourself by editing the items.txt. It shouldn't be that hard to figure out.

Also, you're welcome and thank you for the critisism ;D

BigD145 said:

NBTedit lets me alter my spawn and position. I'll stick to that.

There's an easy solution for your problem: Use NBTedit to do stuff INVedit can't do aaand ... quicklyaddsomeinfiniteTNTtoyourinventorywithINVedit!!1 Do whatever you want to

[Flaky]

Ah, finally, a GUI that allows me to actually know what I'm editing without having to refer to a list. Thank you. I definitely have to check this out. I already downloaded but I'm lazy =P

[NinjaQ]

Oh god
I love you so much

[BigD145]

I have nothing relevant to say here.

[Fatalis]

I get the following error whenever I try to load up my level.dat:

System.BadImageFormatExeption: Could not load file or assembly
'NBT, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of
its dependencies.  An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.
File name: 'NBT, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=null'
at INVedit.Inventory.Load(String filename, Dictonary 2 slots)
At INVedit.MainForm.BtnOpenGameClick (Object sender, EventArgs e)

[mrsquidon]

So how does this work?
Do you just open the level.dat and edit the inventory and save it?

[Baldr]

mrsquidon said:

So how does this work?
Do you just open the level.dat and edit the inventory and save it?

Yes, thats it.

[mrsquidon]

Baldr said:

mrsquidon said:

So how does this work?
Do you just open the level.dat and edit the inventory and save it?

Yes, thats it.

Alright I just did that aaaaand... I spawned beneath the map forever doomed to wander endlessly.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

[Kaizo]

If you can somehow make it able to edit your spawn position on the previewer map, I would love you.

[hakre1]

Fatalis said:

I get the following error whenever I try to load up my level.dat:

System.BadImageFormatExeption: Could not load file or assembly
'NBT, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of
its dependencies.  An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.
File name: 'NBT, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=null'
at INVedit.Inventory.Load(String filename, Dictonary 2 slots)
At INVedit.MainForm.BtnOpenGameClick (Object sender, EventArgs e)

Getting the same error, I'm on windows 7 64bit so it obviously comes with .net 2.0...

[Inzuki]

"5) An item slot. If selected, it has a black rectangle inside."

That rectangle looks blue to me.

I am a very picky person.

[DarkCybrid]

I get an error when opening level.dat

In short, it doesn't work for me

[mrsquidon]

THIS PROGRAM IS FULL OF HOLES.
I SAY WE BURN THE PROGRAMMER AT THE STAKE LIKE A WITCH BACK IN YE' OLDEN DAYS!!!

[copyboy]

Fatalis said:

I get the following error whenever I try to load up my level.dat:

Thanks, I forgot to compile my NBT.dll for every processor :/

mrsquidon said:

Alright I just did that aaaaand... I spawned beneath the map forever doomed to wander endlessly.

copyboy said:

• .. backup your level.dat file, because this may have bugs. Nobody's perfect.

I'll see what I can do, tho.
EDIT: It'd be nice if you told me how you managed to do that, because I'm not able to reproduce this bug.

DarkCybrid said:

I get an error when opening level.dat
In short, it doesn't work for me

I can't get any information out of your post.
In short, can't fix it.

[Zuriki]

I must admit, this doesn't make any sense. You have one piece of software that can (unintuitively perhaps) edit everything in level.dat you then release another piece of software that can do less? It may be more intuitive but less software = better.

I'm sticking to NBTedit thanks. Unless you decide to combine this with editing the other aspects of level.dat