Inventory Profiles Next | Sort, Lock and Refill Inventory

If your storage room has more chests than your mine has torches, Inventory Profiles Next is built for you. This mod takes over the tedious half of survival play, the stack sorting, the chest dumping, and the restocking, so you spend less time shuffling items and more time actually playing. It has been around for roughly five years, picked up around 42 million downloads along the way, and it is still getting updates as of September 2026. Everything runs client-side too, so it works on servers you do not control.

One-Click Sorting, Dumping and Restocking

The core loop could not be simpler. Point at a chest and the dump button drops your whole inventory into it with one click. A second button moves matching items between your inventory and the chest, so every stack type you and the container share gets consolidated in a single click. Sorting itself offers three orders, by category, alphabetically, and by count, and IPN remembers your preference per container. Your shulker stash can stay alphabetical while your farm storage sorts by category. If the built-in orders do not fit your hoard, you can define custom sorting rules that teach IPN your own item groups. For quick single-stack shuffling while you work, Mouse Tweaks adds drag and scroll item movement that pairs neatly with it.

Locked Slots and Auto-Refill

Sorting is only safe if it respects your gear. IPN lets you lock item slots in place, and every sort ignores them. You can also keep locked slots empty, which fences off rows from junk. The setup most players settle on is locking the hotbar plus a keep row of essentials, then sorting the rest freely, since locked slots hold their order through every sort and refill.

Auto-refill handles the rest. When a stack runs dry or a tool breaks mid-job, IPN swaps in a replacement from your inventory, and configurable thresholds stop half-worn tools from being sacrificed too early. If a modded container screen is crowded and IPN's buttons overlap something, editor mode lets you reposition its on-screen buttons per GUI.

Profiles: Save a Loadout and Restore It in One Press

Profiles are the feature that sets IPN apart from plain sorting tools. You save a complete loadout, hotbar, armor, and offhand included, then re-equip the whole set with a single key press. Each slot accepts a priority chain, so a profile can put your best Silk Touch pickaxe in hotbar slot one, fall back to a diamond pickaxe, and then to iron. If you skip the enchantment requirements, IPN picks the item with the best enchant count and durability instead.

Setup takes a few steps. Enable the save profile hotkey under the Profiles tab of the hotkey menu, fill your hotbar and equipment, open your inventory, and press it. Naming still happens in the config file, so rename each entry to something unique with no spaces, then reload the config with the default R+Y hotkey. The official wiki's profiles page documents the full slot syntax, including how potions and enchantment requirements work.

How to Install Inventory Profiles Next

1. Set up a mod loader first. Inventory Profiles Next supports Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, and Quilt, and our Fabric setup guide and NeoForge install guide walk you through the two most common picks.
2. Grab the latest file from the official project page or from the download table on this page.
3. Install the dependencies. On Fabric you need Fabric API, Fabric Language Kotlin, and libIPN, plus Mod Menu, which is optional but gives you a settings button in one place. On Forge and NeoForge you need Kotlin For Forge and libIPN.
4. Drop every jar into your mods folder and launch the game.
5. Press the default R+C combo to set your shortcuts, or rebind every key under Controls.

A note for Quilt players, IPN runs through Fabric's compatibility layer rather than natively. Because of Quilt-specific crashes and one past item duplication bug, problems that do not reproduce on Fabric get very low priority from the developer. Fabric, Forge, or NeoForge is the safer pick.

Coming from the old Inventory Profiles mod? Move your config/inventoryprofiles folder out of .minecraft, install IPN, then move it back and rename it to inventoryprofilesnext.

Inventory Profiles Next FAQ

Does Inventory Profiles Next work on servers without the mod installed?

Yes. IPN is pure client-side, so every core feature works on any server, including vanilla-compatible ones, and nothing needs installing on the server. A few integrations behave better with server-side support, but none require it, as the official project site states directly.

Is Inventory Profiles Next a drop-in replacement for Inventory Tweaks?

No, and the author says so outright. It is not possible to make IPN behave like Inventory Tweaks, so expect to learn its way of doing things. If that is a dealbreaker, the author's companion mod InvTweaks Emu for IPN emulates some of the old shortcuts.

How do I change the IPN hotkeys and settings?

The default shortcut combo is R+C, and keybinds live in your Controls menu like any other binding. Mod Menu, listed as an optional dependency, gives you a config button for the full settings screen. Editor mode moves the on-screen buttons around if a modded GUI is crowded.

Is Inventory Profiles Next still maintained?

Yes, it is actively developed. The latest files shipped on September 27, 2026, the source is public under the AGPL v3 license, and the download count sits around 42 million.

Smooth Swapping is a natural companion if you want animated item transfers on top of IPN's one-click buttons. If you are brand new to modding, start with our guide to installing Minecraft mods, then follow it up with the Smooth Swapping walkthrough.